to waftingwish: Bunches of categories like those are hard for me to decide how to deal with... categories that are sort of similar but also sort of different (they all have to do with glasses, but "Glasses" could be a theme rather than meaning just a character who wears glasses, "Meganekko" is a character that not only wears glasses but also usually has a certain type of personality, etc.), and also tags that are [adjective]+[character type] (there are tons of these; some are easy (like "Poor Boy", "Poor Girl", and "Poor Uke" can be combined into "Poor Character/s", since the difference isn't important), but for a lot of them, I haven't thought of a good solution yet). For right now, I'm leaving these for last and doing easier ones first, but I will try to organize them eventually.
Edit: List of category changes got too long, see my previous post for links to the text files online.
Note: I accidentally clicked on the wrong thing and merged "Strong Male Lead" with "Rude Protagonist". Since "Strong Male Lead" had way more entries (~350) than "Rude Protagonist" (~15), the easiest way to fix it was to rename "Rude Protagonist" to "Strong Male Lead", and then individually pick out the ones that were actually supposed to be "Rude Protagonist". So that's what I did; hopefully now everything is back where it belongs.
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Edit: Okay, I've come up with a set of rules about the problem waftingwish mentioned. Before I make changes according to these rules, I want to see what people think about them. Please look them over and tell me what you think (mainly directed toward staff but other users' comments are welcome, too).
Rules of Thumb for Managaging [adjective]+[character type] Categories
1. merge male and female into character (unless the adj is unusual for a gender)
ex, clumsy male and clumsy female -> clumsy character
feminine male, masculine female, long-haired male can stay
*long-haired female and masculine male can be deleted
2. merge uke and seme into protagonist (unless the adj is unusual for uke/seme or for gender)
ex, clumsy uke and clumsy seme -> clumsy protagonist
straight seme and straight uke can stay
long-haired seme and long-haired uke -> long-haired male
*gay uke and gay seme can be deleted
3. change personality into character
ex, childish personality -> childish character
4. merge hero and heroine into protagonist (unless the adj is unusual for a gender (in which case merge those with plain male/female) or describes a real "hero" (meaning a hero like someone who saves people rather than just protagonist))
ex, anti-social heroine and anti-social hero -> anti-social protagonist
long-haired hero -> long-haired male
legendary hero and super hero/es can stay
5. merge male lead and female lead into protagonist (unless the adj is unusual for a gender, in which case merge those with plain male/female)
ex, stubborn male lead and stubburn female lead -> stubborn protagonist
masculine female lead -> masculine female
feminine male lead -> feminine male
*long-haired female lead can be deleted
6. merge girl and woman into female and merge boy, guy, and man into male (unless the adj is unusual for a child/adult), then check with #1
ex, stubborn woman and stubborn girl -> stubborn female (-> stubborn character)
stubborn boy and stubborn man -> stubborn male (-> stubborn character)
*tags that are obvious, redundant, or otherwise not noteworthy should be deleted
NOTE: All of these rules of thumb change tags that are too specific into more general tags, but there may be times when a tag is too general and needs to be split:
Long-haired protagonist is too general because it "contains" long-haired female lead, a non-noteworthy tag. Therefore long-haired protagonist should be changed to long-haired male lead, which in turn (according to the rules above) should be changed to long-haired male (long-haired boy and long-haired man aren't different enough to be separate, so don't split it any further).
Nekomimi (or cat person) is too general because it contains cat girl/s and cat boy/s, which according to general opinion are different enough to be separate, so nekomimi should be split (however, don't change these further into cat female and cat male**).
NOTE2: These are just rules of thumb, and there may be exceptions:
Anti-hero/heroine should not be merged into anti-protagonist nor split into separate anti-hero and anti-heroine tags, because "anti-hero" is a specific term with its own established meaning.
Genki girl should not be changed to genki character nor genki female, and also a genki boy counterpart tag should not be created, because "genki girl" is a specific term.
**cat girl/s and cat boy/s should not be changed to cat female and cat male: "cat girl" and "cat boy" are accepted terms for this kind of creature (as a consequence, "cat female" and "cat male" sound weird and could even be confused with meaning a normal cat that is female/a normal cat that is male).
Last edited by lynira at 5:08 pm, Nov 12 2011________________
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