Re: STAGE TWO – the subject categories

[arrowsmithbt]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" <carolynwhite2 at a...>=
 wrote:
> Um, the heart of the matter in my opinion. My questions are:
> 
> Do the seven sections make sense to you ? Should there be more or 
> less ?
> 
> Were the sub-topics the right ones within the sections ? Would you be 
> able to use them easily to label posts ?
> 
> Looking at the problem from a different angle, if you were presented 
> with these seven sections as a menu on the main HPfGU website, would 
> you find them adequate as a starting point for searching for a post 
> or a topic ?
>

However it's split up there are probably going to be anomalies. But we
have a choice to make at the start of whether to go for fairly well
defined categories or to be looser and possibly more flexible.

As an instance - 
Section One. 
I'd be happy calling it Textual Analysis and including within this section
the chapter by chapter discussions -  they don't  seem to produce
an enormous number of posts. Anyway, there are posts that cover
exactly the same ground posted at other times and the only difference
is that they don't have the chapter heading as the subject line. Sometimes
there is so much overlap that it almost amounts to duplication.

Shipping. What can I  say. You're probably aware of my animus towards
SHIPs. Oh, I know that a lot of folk get a lot of fun from them, and good
luck to them, but to classify them as analysis? Really, I suppose, they're
a form of TBAY. Why not lump TBAY, SHIPs and FILKS into a separate 
section? All of them are closer to Fanfic than mainstream analysis.

Section Two - Individual Characters.
Seems OK. 
As you say, some characters will sprout up all over the place, but that
can't be helped.
One thing that did occur to me - it might be an idea to combine this
section with the Beasts bit what with occasional outbreaks of animagitis
flooding the site. There are possibilities that more characters may show
this ability, or even to become ghosts or Dementors. Lump all the 
livestock in one place.
The Historical characters would probably fit best in Section 5 IMO.

Section Four - Sources and Influences  (I assume)

 
> SECTION FIVE – THE WIZARDING WORLD
> 
> Can you think of any more sections ?
> 
> 
> SECTION SEVEN – FUTURE PREDICTIONS
> 
> This is all Barry's fault. It was his original silly suggestion on 
> the main list that we document these that started me off on the whole 
> project, so blame him for this one..  Do the sections work ?
> 

I don't mind being blamed, I'm used to it.

Overall, I'd suggest that the categories could be

1. Textual Analysis
2. Characters, Beasts, etc.
3. SHIPs, TBAY, FILKS
4. Sources and Influences
5. The wizarding world
6. Predictions

Any good?

I'll give some more thought to the sub-sections; I've got a nagging
feeling that I've missed something.

Barry