[HPFGU-Catalogue] Ship/Character coding clarification please

[Ginger]

Anne asked:

What's our policy for SHIP posts?  Do we want them coded to the
characters involved or do they belong *only* in SHIPping?

I've started the main Harry category and realise I don't know whether
to uncode 2.5.1 Harry Potter from pure shipping discussions of him or
not.  I'm sure that was discussed at some point here, but with our
flood of posts lately I must be missing it somewhere...

Ginger says:

Give me about 3 or 4 hours and some of your troubles will cease.  I am about to fire up the weekwhacker and get rid of some of your posts. (I had awaited your input on that, and then I had to go to work.)

As to the general question, to code or not to code and where;
here is the guideline I have been using in the Ship world.  Code the minimum to cover the basics.

How's that for vague?

In other words, if a post starts out saying "I like H/H" and then goes on to a character analysis of Harry, I dropped the ship. 

If the post was only about H/H, and didn't add anything about the characters except why they belonged together (or didn't) then I kept the ship, but I noticed that any posts of this nature that involved Ron or Herm had already had the character dropped.  I assume Sean was thinking along the same lines as I was and had dropped them already.

I didn't drop anything that didn't belong to me unless I was rejecting the whole post.  I figured that was up to that reviewer.  There are many posts that are still coded to ship categories that are only coded to Harry, but not to the others in the trio, and you will probably see fit to drop Harry as well.  (not that you have to, just prognosticating)

There are many posts in a variety of places where I dropped the ship even though it was in the subject line as it had veered off into another direction.

Go ahead and drop Harry on any you want that are trio ship, OBHWF or FITD.  He's already there by association, unless I have axed the ship code.

Did that make sense?  I'm trying to eat spaghetti and type at once.

Ginger, who needs 3 more hands and another set of eyeballs.


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