Category:Master Categories

Master Categories[edit]

Pages must be in one of these master categories. This is done automatically if the {{person | born=????}} etc template is added.

• Admin - For internal organisation of the site, templates etc
• Award - Awards, but only apply to the key pages for award series
• Bid - A bid for a convention
• Bidding - Other kinds of material about convention bidding, including pages documenting the results of a vote
• Club - Clubs and other voluntary, non-commercial, more-or-less open associations including the sponsoring organizations for conventions
• Conrunning - The mechanics of running a convention, famous incidents
• Convention - Conventions, festivals etc. But only Fannish SF conventions -- not comicons, etc.
• Fancast - Spoken fan publications
• Fanfund - Fanfunds
• Fanhistory - Articles about what fandom is like, including reminiscence.
• Fanspeak - Fannish words and concepts. Some overlap with publishing and conrunning.
• Fiction – Terms and ideas stemming from fiction
• Group - for groups, like filk groups, small teams, fannish groups that aren’t organized clubs, writing groups, and writing workshops. Groups are not generally open to new members.
• Locale - Geographical areas where there is or has been fannish activity, typically cities.
• Penname, Nickname - Former as authors, latter as people
• Person
• Publication - A hidden category for all publications above.
• Publisher - Applies to science fiction book and prozine publishing companies, including small presses
• Publishing - The mechanics of producing books, fanzines etc.
• Show - Fannish musicals, plays, films etc
• Store - Place to buy things, bricks and mortar or online
• Venue - A building that holds cons, clubhouses or a slan shack house.
• Website - Websites
• Misc - Anything else, as all pages should have a category
• None - Pages the admins don't want to have a category, generally because we don't want to index them