New & horrid task - our first review

[carolynwhite2]

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<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
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> 1.6.8 Classic plot themes - Carolyn
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My section turned out to have 54 posts. Of these, about 70% were on 
what I expected - theories of archetypes like Joseph Campbell, and 
other analyses of the role of the hero, baddies etc in literature.

However, there were a fair number of posts about what the end of the 
Potter series should be about. Some maybe should be here in that they 
stayed on the theme of what classic endings should be and compared 
and contrasted with other books. Some were just predictions though, 
and should not be here.

There were also some posts which belonged under the science fiction 
or fantasy headings rather than this one.

There were one or two that did mention classic themes, but the 
mention was so small that it probably did not justify being coded 
here.

Some thoughts which occur to me:

How long would it take for us to pause and do a quick edit of what we 
have already coded? To help think about this I have uploaded a Word 
file called 'Current categories'. This lists the categories in 
descending order of number of hits. 

Alarmingly, there are currently 999 categories. The good news is that:
- 174 have no entries as yet
- 545 have under 50 entries
- 132 have between 50-100 entries
- 80 have between 100-200 entries
- 61 have between 200-1000 entries
- 7 have over 1000 entries

Once we have reviewed the categories, if we then went to correct a 
post - ie remove a code, by doing this you replace the name of the 
original reviewer with your own. Does this matter? Does anyone mind?

When you had the post up in front of you for correction, if it was 
one coded in the early days before some current categories were 
created, you might want to change its coding generally, not just the 
category you were looking at. Would this create havoc with those 
reviewing other sections?

Before starting any particular section, it is probably as well to 
review and agree what its definition is supposed to be.

Looking down the list of sections, there are categories where 
strictly speaking there should be no posts coded, but some have crept 
in. These would need to be moved.

Although this review might slow us down, would it be valuable in that 
it would reinforce in our own minds what should go where?

Thoughts??

Carolyn