Interim replies/Paul are you around??

severelysigune severelysigune at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Feb 14 15:08:09 UTC 2005


carolyn wrote:
> Further, there is an argument that maybe it should also be coded to 
> Snape. 

Eva:
That's what I would have done...

Carolyn:
> However, I could easily be argued out of this, because it's 
> the reason there are 1000s of hits on Snape already. 

Eva:
Yes, this is obviously a problem, not only for the Snape category; 
and reviewing my own cataloguing would definitely be a good thing as 
I'm afraid, right now, that I haven't been terribly consistent. In 
the beginning I clicked every possible category that a post might fit 
into ("oh! it *mentions* Snape! Let's code it under..."), with the 
search engine idea at the back of my head; but it is a debatable 
practice, and I find that recently I have been much less detailed - 
also in view of time pressure (*blushes scarlet at the thought of 
other cataloguers' speed and her own procrastination*).

I have to say, when I joined I didn't realise this cataloguing would 
be so complicated :-)... It's a very subjective thingy, and it seems 
really hard to sort of efficiently streamline it.

Carolyn:
> Sorting out the 
> Snape category is really a major undertaking (looks at queue which 
> immediately forms, headed by Talisman, still twirling bat shapes in 
> her hair after all these years..will the ladies duel for the 
> pleasure...??).

Eva:
Duel?! Without fail! Just warning the other contestants that I'm a 
fencer... <veg>







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