Snape and IT Developments

[Debbie]

The proto-catalogue website looks lovely, and much better than I had 
pictured it.  Kudos to Tim & Paul.

I guess that means I should be busy whipping Snape into shape.  So 
far I've done the first 100 (um, that's not quite accurate; I've 
*read* the first 100 posts) and in the interest of developing a 
consistent approach to the categorization, I'm going to ask some 
questions before I go further:

1.  Is the goal to remove every post from 2.4.1, the main Snape 
category?  There are a few posts, such as the etymology ones, that 
I'd be fine with leaving there (or we could move them to 
categorization, which is the best match)?

2.  2.4.1.4 Good!Snape, 2.4.1.3 ESE!Snape.  I assume these are the 
places to implement Talisman's idea.  I had thought that these 
categories would be in addition to other relevant categories.  
However, it seems to be a separate topic in and of itself.  In 
addition, there are *lots* of acronyms under these categories, 
especially the ones that address the question "why did Snape leave 
the DEs?" which *assume* based on the then-existing canon that Snape 
was at that time on DD's side.  So the first question is whether 
this section should be for posts that argue one or the other?  
Should the "why did Snape leave the DEs" posts (and there are *lots* 
of posts on this topic) be buried here or go someplace else? Coding 
acronym'd theories only to the acronyms would help but if so, I 
wonder about burying the pre-acronym discussion in the general Good!
Snape category.   

3.  A couple of big issues back then concerned Snape's task at the 
end of GoF and, if he was returning to spying, how he was going to 
explain away his dealings with Quirrell.  There isn't really a good 
place for these (except maybe Good!Snape which will already be big 
enough) unless there's a general Spy!Snape cateogry.  We could 
broaden 2.4.1.5 Who is Snape working for? (which is essentially a 
spying question) to a Spy!Snape category to include this.

4.  I have included in 2.4.1.9 Snape and Teaching Style all of the 
posts about Snape's relationship with students other than Harry, on 
the theory that his interaction with them, in or out of class, is in 
his capacity as a teacher.  We also have all those "why did he want 
the DADA position" posts which might go here as well.  Perhaps this 
should be called simply Teacher!Snape.

Ideas, anyone?  I will forge ahead with the second batch of 100 and 
skip over the problematic posts until I hear a consensus.

Thanks,

Debbie