And coming from California, I think that "Franchise" would manage to be less precise and even more ambiguous. I hadn't thought about the use of "series" in other countries. But any serial work, be it a set of novels or baseball game finals, can be a series. So I guess the original name is out.
Series is currently representing: "a serial, live-action work made for the television box". I feel like "Live-Action Television" would be most correct and precise (though it would include made-for-TV movies, oh well). But people would definitely screw up the hyphen. It's 22 characters, and probably the most common namespace out there. Things that are common should be short. I guess what I'm really asking is: Is something like "TV" or "TV Show" going to cause people to complain? Or is there some awesome, short descriptor I haven't thought of yet?
"Western Animation" is also long at 18 characters, while it's not nearly as common. I'm not sure why we shouldn't just use "Animation" there -- the current "Animation" namespace seems to be a mix of Russian, South Asian, and African animated works -- with only 68 entries that could simply be folded in.
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robkelk Wrote:Can you nest namespaces, creating a hierarchy? If you can, then youI think you just came up with the major argument against your own idea. I don't think that noting something is in a series of novels makes much sense in a page link... though maybe people could link to "Literature/Harry Potter/And the Order of the Phoenix" if they want to be cute.
could have Series/TV/, Series/Novel/, Series/Movie/, and so on. Of
course, then you'd have to worry about duplication when people use
different hierarchy schemes (e.g. Series/Novel/HarryPotter,
Novel/Series/HarryPotter, and Series/HarryPotter/Novel)...
Series is currently representing: "a serial, live-action work made for the television box". I feel like "Live-Action Television" would be most correct and precise (though it would include made-for-TV movies, oh well). But people would definitely screw up the hyphen. It's 22 characters, and probably the most common namespace out there. Things that are common should be short. I guess what I'm really asking is: Is something like "TV" or "TV Show" going to cause people to complain? Or is there some awesome, short descriptor I haven't thought of yet?
"Western Animation" is also long at 18 characters, while it's not nearly as common. I'm not sure why we shouldn't just use "Animation" there -- the current "Animation" namespace seems to be a mix of Russian, South Asian, and African animated works -- with only 68 entries that could simply be folded in.
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