User talk:Buddy13

Organization

We need to figure out how to organize things.

Our root categories so far are Characters, Planets, Organizations, and Episodes. There are subcategories under Characters for Aliens, Robots, and Humans.

I'm not sure I understand the value of adding the Species category... If anything, we need something to differentiate an alien from an alien species. Perhaps make Species a sibling of Characters, and it includes articles on entire races (Neptunians, Slurm Worms, Etc) instead of those being sub-categories of "Aliens" as they are now, then "Aliens" would contain only the specific characters? Readers could still get a list of aliens of a given species by going to the species' page.

How about this hierarchy?<br\> Characters

 Aliens
   Slurms MacKinzie
   Elzar
   etc.
 Robots
   Bender
   Robot Devil
   etc.
 Humans
   Fry
   Leela
   etc.

Alien Species

  Neptunians
  Omicronians
  etc.

Places

 Companies       
   Planet Express
   Robot Arms
   etc  
 Bureaucracies   
   DOOP 
   The Central Bureauracy
 Planets
   Earth
   The Neutral Planet
   etc.

Technology

 Farnsworth's Inventions (There's enough of these for their own category)
   Smell-O-Scope
   etc.
 Ships
   PE Ship
   Nimbus
   etc.
 Gadgets
   Wristlojackimator
   Suicide Booths
 Products
   Slurm
   Bachelor Chow

Misc

 Brannigan's Law
 Sexlexia
 Alien Languages
 etc...

Media

 Episodes
 Comics
 Possib. Fan scripts even?

Merchandise

 DVD collections
 Action Figures
 Games
 

How's this sound? I can't think of anything that couldn't be placed logically in that hierarchy, but tell me what you think. Anything missing, or that wouldn't fit? If we don't decide on our categories now, it'll be a real pain in the butt to change them all later so we should make this decision soon.

Gopher

Buddy13 I like what you did mostly. I only disagree with "Places" as it adds unnecessary depth. I think we should stick with "Organizations" since that can cover everything, like Doop, the political parties (Tastycrats and Fingerlicans), and Planet Express, Mom Corp, etc. And planets in their own category.
Additionally, I think "Farnsworth's Inventions" shoud be "Farnsworth's Creations" since I'm not sure you can count atomic supermen and yelling albino gorillas as "inventions"
What do you think?
<later> Actually, with Robot Arms, maybe a "Places" really does need to be there, but I still think "organizations" should be separate. IMO.

[Gopher] How about this to replace the previous "Places" hierarchy

Organizations (by itself)

Places

  Planets

Things like the Robot Arms Apts could just be under Places, while Earth is a Place and a Planet. Planets definately need to be grouped, but I know there will be a lot of places that aren't planets OR organizations.

Once we nail this down we should make a page showing this hierarcy, linked to each category page, and put it on the main page.

Buddy13 I think that looks good. New New York, the Sewers, and the decaying ruins of Old New York could also be non-planet places. I think we can call that final, you?