Book genre links in under "Books About This Topic"

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    1. May 31, 2007
      venkytv says:

      Adding "Science Fiction" as the genre for the book links the book in the "Science Fiction" topic both under "Books In This Genre" (which sounds right) and "Books About This Topic", which sounds wrong. Have a look at the "Snow Crash" entry.

      http://www.freebase.com/view?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000000035120

      2. alexander
        May 31, 2007
        alexander says:

        Actually, this happened because Science Fiction was already assigned by somebody else as a Subject of Snowcrash, which it shouldn't have been.

        2. jeff
          May 31, 2007
          jeff says:

          The subject/genre confusion happened in part because "genre" was added as a property of "book" some time after "subject", so subject was doing double-duty for awhile. Note, however, that "science fiction" is a perfectly legitimate book subject (although not for "Snow Crash"), since there have been any number of books written about the genre itself.

          2. Jun 4, 2007
            venkytv says:

            Got it. Thanks.


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