Forum:New categories

I was going to put this on Davids' page but then I feel like I'm turning my back on John as it were. Said r Tomlin was recently talking about new articles such as for hairnets and the like, and new categories to put them in, and how to categorize pages like Victoria Wood. I've still got my thinking cap on for a good title, but no luck yet I'm afraid. Another category we will definitely want is Animals. Do you think we'd want sepearte categories for Cats, Dogs, Budgies and Pigeons as well? One of the reasons I am raising this is because I have noticed differing approaches to the pigeons between David and myself. I have linked to pigeons, but not Scarlet, whereas David hasn't linked to pigeons, but has to Scarlett O'Hara. I certainly think we need a 'Pigeons' article - they even had an important part to play in the 35th anniversary Coronation Street Game. Would it not be better to have details of any specific pigeons within such a page? Secondly what IS the returned pigeons' name? While I see many sources go for Davids' choice, itv.com list give it as simply Scarlet. Wuold we not be better assuming this to be the most trusted source? Have we ever heard it called anything other than Scarlet? I note that the longer version only appears on one corriepeia page at the moment, so there doesn't seem to be a history of it (well not notable enough anyway). Actually that in itself was a very weird thing - if I typed in Scarlett O'Hara into the searchbox, I got no results at all - I only got a result by copying the name directly from the episode page. I have double checked my spelling and the two URL's seem identical as well, so why would it do this? Seems rather odd!

I just think we should all be singing from the same song-sheet. At the moment we're calling the same bird by totally different names (note also itv.com only gives one 't', not two), and we're offering up different link alternatives! I personally feel that pigeons is correct, and that any notable pigeons should go on that page. What do others feel?

When I was improving the Tina O'Brien page I suddenly realised we were lacking an awards category. How do you like my BAFTA page? I have noticed that awards have started to be added to year pages, so I thought it would be a good idea to do something different to a chronological listing, and instead list them by category. I'd quite like to tackle the Soap Awards if no one minds as well. :)

Meanwhile, I have indicated that I want to reduce the time I spend here for the time being. The time has now come, I'm afraid. Indeed even the past 24 - 48 hours I have hardly done any delinking etc - partly cos I was awaiting feedback on my idea. At least putting a clean-up tag on pages lets everyone else know we aren't happy with the standard of the page. Can such a small team of regular contributors really be expected to spend so much time tidying up other people's work? I think John's 'spot the difference' comment demonstrates how utterly fed up with it all he is. I've got other things to be getting on with at the moment so *I* don't want to do it. Other than spending hours changing them all, what other option is there than to stick a clean-up tag on?

Anyway, I hope to be able to contribute regularly again within about a month, although I'm not promising anything. It may end up being more like 2 months. Feel free to message me in the meantime :) Especially replies to this and other things I've posted here and there. As a great man once said: "One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back..."

--TellyFan 02:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)