Media genre

Romance: Split

2008-04-22T04:47:31.0012Z

The WP keys point to a disambig page; I think this topic should be split.

Drama: Migrate and delete?

2008-03-10T20:57:58.0007Z

The other topic is actually even more generic -- "drama" as opposed to dance or music, rather than "drama" as opposed to comedy, so I don't think these should be merged, either. Nor do I think any data should be migrated to it.

Drama: Migrate and delete?

2008-03-07T15:09:56.0012Z

The source of this instance is the WP page for drama - film. The other instance came from the WP page about the general topic drama. I'm in favor of moving the data over to the other instance and then deleting this instance.

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.

Blog: Brad founded LiveJournal

2007-10-31T12:32:39.0005Z

Brad is considered to be one of the big forces behind blogging's rise in popularity so I don't think the picture is misplaced (probably not the most appropriate picture possible though).

Horror: Yes

2007-10-11T23:34:42.0012Z

This is a disambiguation page from the Wiki

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction: Question about types.

2007-08-29T00:21:58.0007Z

Salut! I can't tell you why these genre types were created (since I didn't create any of them) but I see benefits having them.

First, genres or themes specific to a domain are not only useful for labeling, but are themselves useful data as well. For example, with a Film Genre type, finding out film genres is simple. This seems a no-brainer, but consider this: Without this specific type, I could possibly get the same data by cross-referencing all topics in Media Genre with genre information listed on all films, but that's a cumbersome process.

Certain genres can be applied to single or multiple domains: thriller is both a Film Genre and a Literary Genre (among other things), but as far as I know Speedrock is a Music Genre only. What genre categorization is cross-domain and what is domain-specific is important metadata that's captured by having multiple genre types, instead of a single umbrella Media Genre.

In addition, I also want to point out from a data modeling perspective that having specific genre types makes the creation of reverse properties easier. For example, knowing that "Mystery" is a literary genre allows us to add properties that ask: What books belong to this genre? But if all you know is that it's a media genre, then you can only ask vague questions like: What works of media (film, TV, book, music, etc.) belong to this genre?

Well, that's my personal take, anyway. One thing that doesn't quite belong on your list of genres is Book Subject. The correct genre type for that is Literary Genre -- to say a book is about mystery is not the same to say it is a mystery novel. It seems to be a point of confusion. If you come across incorrectly typed topics, feel free to correct them.

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction: Question about types.

2007-08-25T08:33:26.0005Z

Here, we see that Apo and post-apo fiction has many types:
* Book Subject (Publishing),
* Computer Game Genre (Computer games),
* Film genre (Film),
* Media genre (Media Common)

I would like to know why Book, Computer and Film -I added this one- are listed despite the fact that Media genre (Media common) covers all of them.

Media genre: A Blog is a Media genre

2007-08-23T03:20:50.0007Z

Even I was confused as I was thinking about this. The difference is between Blog being TYPED Media genre and Blog INCLUDING type Media genre. In the first case, you're only speaking for the Blog type itself, which, as Chris pointed, is the correct thing to do. In the second, you are speaking for all instances of the Blog type, asserting them to be Media genres.

Blog: brad...fitzpatrick?

2007-08-23T03:15:21.0012Z

I think it's safe to say that this is a misplaced image...

Media genre: A Blog is a Media genre

2007-08-23T02:04:16.0000Z

The type Blog really shouldn’t be a sub-type of (i.e., include the type) Media genre. Blogs, collectively, are a media genre; Daily Kos is a blog, not a media genre. Broadcast television is a media genre; your local NBC affiliate is a television station, not a media genre. Does that make sense?

Media genre: A Blog is a Media genre

2007-08-22T18:33:03.0007Z

If you want to create a new type "Blog", you should make it first in your private domain or on Sandbox. I'm not sure what our protocol for moving private schemas to the public domains is (if we have one), but a private domain is definitely the place to start.

In terms of property inheritance, there is none -- a schema in one of the "public" domains has no particular special properties that a published schema in a private domain lacks, AFAIK.

Media genre: A Blog is a Media genre

2007-08-22T07:05:49.0007Z

But what I mean is that the type Blog should be in type "Media genre" and inherit its properties.

Media genre: A Blog is a Media genre

2007-08-21T18:12:13.0000Z

Looks like you figured it out!

Media genre: A Blog is a Media genre

2007-08-20T22:11:06.0011Z

I am trying to figure out how to make a Blog be a Media genre; I'm very new here and it seems like to do that I should suggest it either here or on the Blog type discussion page, or in both places.

Aesthetics of music: mistakenly added

2007-07-28T21:13:42.0011Z

added this before finding the already existing topic