Category talk:Speculative fiction

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[edit] "Media franchises"?

The "media franchises" category should not be applied to the broad category of speculative fiction. Only a miniscule fraction of science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc. ever makes it to any audiovisual format. Specific groups of works which are associated with media franchises should have that category applied, but not the entire genre.Avt tor (talk) 17:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I agreed with your logic but in researching the edit history for this page I learned that someone removed the reference to Category:WikiProject Fictional series at the same time they added Category:WikiProject Media franchises to this page. Further hunting finds that "Media franchises" is the result of a merge of Wikipedia:WikiProject Fictional series which now redirects to Wikipedia:WikiProject Media franchises. Apparently the newspeak for "book series" is "media franchise!" As there are many series within speculative fiction (usually in the Fantasy sub-genre) I'm re-adding the Media franchises reference. Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 19:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Update - I realized that as Category:WikiProject Fictional series still exists that this would be far more appropriate than the more general "Media franchises" category and so changed the category listing for this talk page. The main article for Fictional series is the Media franchises article but I assume by the time someone clicks that far they will understand what's happening... Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 20:07, 24 April 2008 (UTC)