Editing Baka-Tsuki talk:Categories revamp project (section)

==Project Status Terminology==
To get this discussion going, too: IMO, it'd be best to name projects, which still have regularly contributions "active projects". Why? Because a series that has still more volumes to come is already called "on-going". "Active", however, is pretty clear in its meaning. Consequently the opposite to those projects would be "inactive projects". Then, of course, "completed projects" and maybe "licensed projects" for the stuff, that got licensed by U.S. companies. Though "licensed" might imply that Baka-Tsuki did license something. So the last term isn't very satisfying. Suggestions in that regard are highly welcomed. [[User:Cautr|-cautr]] ([[User talk:Cautr|talk]]) 06:41, 7 February 2014 (CST)

<div style="border:1px dotted orange;padding:10px;">IMO, the following '''superclasses''' logically describe every Baka-Tsuki '''<span style="color:red;"><big>Project</big></span>''' at a root level. Assuming we use '''primary categories''' (and take intersections of those primary categories), here's what we'd have. Each of these superclasses need to be able to describe ''every'' project, and each attribute shouldn't overlap. If you wanted '''French, Active, Romance novels''', you could take [[Baka-Tsuki_talk:Categories_revamp_project#Using_Category_Intersections_to_simplify_categories|the intersection of the categories]].
# '''Project Media Type''' { Light Novel, Visual Novel, Original Light Novel }
# '''Language of Translation''' { English, French, etc }
# '''Project Approval Status''' { Pending, Teaser, Approved, Abandoned (Licensed) }
# '''Project Activity Status''' { Active, Inactive, Complete } -----> <small>''it'd be amazing if this activity tracking could be assisted with a bot''</small>
# '''Author''' -----> <small>''IMO, I don't think any is ever going to search through these categories, so I think they're kind of useless....... but if you really want them(?)''</small>
# '''Publisher''' -----> <small>''IMO, I don't think any is ever going to search through these categories, so I think they're kind of useless....... but if you really want them(?)''</small>
Every Project Page should have a exactly one tag for each one of these above superclasses (exactly 6 tags total). 

The following tags are useful, but they're optional and each project page could get more than one tag from each category:
# '''External Contributors''' { Nanodesu, Heretic, etc } <small>---> ''(imo: hosted tag should be replaced with these categories)''</small>
# '''Genre''' { You get it <3 }

In other words, every project would have a minimum of 6 tags, but there could easily be more. --[[User:Cloudii|Cloudii]] ([[User talk:Cloudii|talk]]) 00:06, 8 February 2014 (CST)
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  Author -----> IMO, I don't think any is ever going to search through these categories, 
  so I think they're kind of useless....... but if you really want them(?)

If you ask me, the author tag is quite useless because the majority of authors only have a single series. For those who have written more, you can easily list the author's other works in the introduction section of the project page. I second Larethian's motion ([http://www.baka-tsuki.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=8810&p=229104#p229104 on the forum]) to get rid of author tags. After all, categories containing mostly one or two members are kind of pointless. --[[User:Zzhk|Zzhk]] ([[User talk:Zzhk|talk]]) 03:43, 13 April 2014 (CDT)