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Categories and best practices

I'm giving myself a headache trying to understand the books/novels category divisions. Of course it will never be perfect, but what is best practice? Novels is for fiction of course, but when it comes to nesting by topic it all gets so confusing (and it messes up my petscan queries...) Are the novel categories supposed to be nested in books or should they both be nested in "works"? Or should the books categories be for both and we should have separate nonfiction book categories for nonfiction books? I have seen all of these done and the inconsistency is slowly driving me mad. PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:08, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

If anybody finds an answer, please let me know. I have yet to pick up on a consistent rule. I do not believe there is one.

In an ideal world, I think, we'd have "Non-fiction books", "Novels", and "Children's books" (+ what have you) type categories all nested together inside "Books" categories, which in turn nest inside "Works"-related categories. That way, when people inevitably put novels and nonfiction into the "Books" type, somebody just needs to move them down a level. Cons: lots of new category pages would be created and we would further formalise the inconsistency with the the scope of WP:BOOKS and the category/normal definitions of book. Advantages- easier sorting, increased consistency across categories, and this wouldn't be a difficult change to get used to. Apparently somebody thought about doing it in 2011, and received no push-back.

Actually, I might be bold and try doing this on some of the more annoyingly cluttered categories and report back if anybody raises any objections. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:57, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@GreenLipstickLesbian Probably anything is better than what we are doing now. PARAKANYAA (talk) 11:54, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Gun Control in the Third Reich (book)#Requested move 6 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gun Control in the Third Reich (book)#Requested move 6 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 18:01, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:04, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Literature about intersex#Requested move 18 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Literature about intersex#Requested move 18 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 16:51, 18 November 2024 (UTC)