Literary Genre

Role-playing game: Topic Merge

2008-07-29T14:31:26.0017Z

Role-playing games are called RPGs for short. It's an acronym, not sure why someone created another article to talk about the same thing.

Travel: Screwy topic listings

2007-12-12T02:21:44.0007Z

Glad you figured it out! Sometimes if a page is stopped before it completes loading all the scripts, some of the menus won't work (because thye need the scripts). Reloading the page usually solves the problem. If that's not it and you see the problem again, let me know.

Travel: Screwy topic listings

2007-12-11T18:48:02.0007Z

OK, I went in under the "View all types" page and was able to successfully delete Company as well.

Travel: Screwy topic listings

2007-12-11T18:41:12.0007Z

I managed to remove Person & Employer, but for some reason I cannot get the AJAX pull-down menu when I mouseover Company. I don't know if this is a Javascript bug or a feature ... thoughts?

Travel: Screwy topic listings

2007-12-10T20:10:42.0007Z

Hi Brian, users include yourself can remove incorrect Types from a topic. On the topic page, just mouse over a type you'd like to remove (such as Company), and click on the little triangle to the left of the type to activate the pull-down, and choose "Remove" from the list. That's it!

Travel: Screwy topic listings

2007-12-09T04:21:55.0007Z

PS -- that type is in sandbox.freebase.com as of 8 Dec 2007 ... of course, it may be deleted if you are reading this well after that date.

Travel: Screwy topic listings

2007-12-09T04:20:27.0005Z

The topic "Travel" is considered to be part of the following subjects. Entries that appear reasonable are marked with a "-", entries that look suspicious are marked with an "X".

- Book Subject (Publishing) ,
X Person (People) ,
- TV Genre (TV) ,
- Media genre (Media Common) ,
X Company (Business) ,
X Employer (Business) ,
- Broadcast Genre (cotton's types)

Recommend removing Person, Company and Employer from the topic "Travel". These appear to be nonsensical.

Discovered by frequency analysis of types that coincide with /business/company. See /user/zenkat/default_domain/test for more details.

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-07T18:10:56.0000Z

Ah... right -- this is a different sense of "future history" than I was thinking of (I was thinking of the Heinlein sense -- a series of books/stories that, taken together, constitute an exploration of the future development of civilization). But books that try to extrapolate future developments could reasonably be said to be about a future history. I haven't read The Prince, so you're probably right about it.

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-07T07:41:00.0007Z

Maybe 'The Prince' is as you say not by itself a great example of a Future History, it could be, I'll need to dig out my copy and re-read it. Here's a classic example though: The Shape of Things to Come

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-07T07:30:57.0007Z

Hmm, shall we have a genre's property for a series then?

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-07T01:53:29.0007Z

I'm not sure that "future history" is really a subject -- unless the book is about future histories, of course. I suppose it's a sort of a genre (but a weird one in that, conceptually, anyway, it describes a series rather than a single book).

Future history: Book of the New Sun is neither a book nor a future history

2007-11-07T00:22:39.0012Z

I'm removing "The Book of the New Sun" from the "books in this genre" property -- it's not actually a book (it's a book series), and it's not really a future history unless we count all books set in the future as future histories.
A future history generally shows the development of a civilization over a long period of time, and the events in The Book of the New Sun, while set in the very far future, take place over a comparatively short period of time.

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-06T23:48:52.0012Z

So I thought this topic didn't exist already...Wish we could have a button to limit autocomplete results to title-only like library systems do.

Please merge.

Aesthetics of music: mistakenly added

2007-07-28T21:13:42.0011Z

added this before finding the already existing topic

Psychology: Links point to Wikipedia

2007-04-26T23:23:06.0012Z

The links in the article currently point to Wikipedia. I don't have the time at the moment to edit these though. Maybe someone else can edit them...