Games

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.

Strategy: strategy as a game genre

2008-06-26T11:22:01.0005Z

The games links should possibly be split off to http://freebase.com/view/en/strategy_game

Civilization: Split series from game

2008-03-28T23:45:50.0000Z

Agreed and done

Civilization: Split series from game

2008-03-27T02:34:18.0012Z

The Civilization game series should be split from the specific first game.

Civilization: greatest game of all time

2008-03-26T18:06:38.0012Z

Start the irrigation, more roads!!!

Playing card deck type: Make into an enumerated list?

2008-01-30T22:59:08.0005Z

Since there are a fairly small number of possible options here, and many of them have names that are otherwise ambiguous ("German", "Anglo-American"), I wonder if this type shouldn't be an enumeration.

Playing card deck type: Should this type be an enumerated list?

2008-01-30T22:56:10.0012Z

There are presumably a fairly small number of choices here (Wikipedia lists only a few more than are here, anyway), so I wonder if this wouldn't make more sense as an enum list, especially since the names for the deck types have many other meanings.

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.

President (card game): Temporary title change

2007-04-29T03:24:36.0012Z

I noticed that this topic, under its original title of "President", with six different people listed as having the role. I've untyped it and fixed the associations. Until we have a type for game or card game, I've changed the title to "President (card game)".