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NEW GENRES

doc-watson42:
Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS! erm... maybe not? ;-)

As it is the count stands at 17. I could add a few but I don't want too many.

trebors:
I am not touching age demographics (seinen, shounen, josei, shoujo, kodomo) with a 10-foot pole. First of all it is highly subjective. Second, people get insulted if you classify their favorite title in a category they don't want to be associated with, i.e. "Pokemon is not for kids, it has deep and mature themes!" Thirdly it puts artificial limits on experimentation. A guy might not try a certain title that he would've enjoyed just because it was labeled "shoujo".

Dan42 wrote:

trebors: I am not touching age demographics (seinen, shounen, josei, shoujo, kodomo) with a 10-foot pole. First of all it is highly subjective. Second, people get insulted if you classify their favorite title in a category they don't want to be associated with, i.e. "Pokemon is not for kids, it has deep and mature themes!" Thirdly it puts artificial limits on experimentation. A guy might not try a certain title that he would've enjoyed just because it was labeled "shoujo".

The themes are "free-input text" correct? Well, I'm 100% sure people are going to be adding these as themes now. So aren't we going to have to deal with them anyway?

So, how will the clean up of the current genres be handled, especially shounen and shoujo?

doc-watson42 wrote:

So, how will the clean up of the current genres be handled, especially shounen and shoujo?

I have the conversions pretty much figured out. Shounen will be converted to tournament for anime that also contain Sports, and converted to action for all others. Fantasy will be converted to magic for anime that also contain Magical girl, and remain as fantasy for all others. Except for shoujo, the other genres can be directly converted to a theme or a genre.

So this leaves me with the tricky question of what to do with Shoujo. I could convert it to a theme but I've already said I want to keep demographics out of the encyclopedia. I could convert it to drama but I'm not at all sure this conversion would hold true for most shoujo titles, let alone all of them (excluding slice of life titles). Another possibility is to just remove it all. I would appreciate suggestions on this matter.

The best idea is to remove the idea of having a free input text-box from themes. Let it be a long drop-down list or series of drop-down lists and then add another box where users can submit suggestions for themes which are either voted on by others or approved by editors (or both) as valid themes others can use. This way you don't have 4309583409584 people submitting Shounen or Shojo as a theme for anime and aids in the classifacation.

You're just going to literally have to go over everything all over again, review it for a second, and decide what genre to fit it in. There's no way you can just do a search/replace in the database for genres/themes without running into some errors.

Seconded. There are a few users who would get trigger-happy if the theme field becomes free input. A pull-down list would discourage most of them -- unless you'd like to use the free input box as a bait to lure those potential spammers and ban them once they start a theme-spree.

Well, there are over 8,000 titles, and even if each of them has been reviewed by editors there must be some people disagreeing. While it might sound being lazy, I'd say it would be more efficient to wait for error reports coming in.

Don't you (all Encyclopedia editors/workers) have enough error reports to go through? Wouldn't this add to your workload?

Well, there are over 8,000 titles, and even if each of them has been reviewed by editors there must be some people disagreeing. While it might sound being lazy, I'd say it would be more efficient to wait for error reports coming in.