RE: Ringlink Directory - - Catagories

["James S. Huggins \(Ringlink\)" <Ringlink at ZName.com>]

Ok. I misunderstood the system and did not realize that the two levels
listed would have third levels below. I thought that the two levels listed
would be the only levels and all rings would be in one of those.
BTW . . . one thing I DISLIKE about the Y!WR categories is that rings can
belong to a higher level category.
Consider a category of
Arts and Humanities / Literature / Fiction
On the Y!WR system you can categorize your webring as
Arts and Humanities
or
Arts and Humanities / Literature
or
Arts and Humanities / Literature / Fiction
This really bothers me. I'd rather have all webrings at the third level,
even if it is
Arts and Humanities / Misc / Misc
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>>>"Artists" but not "Art"? "Photography" but not "Photographers"? Should
the index be the art or the artist?
Ok I agree.. let's try this...
Art - as a subcategory with lower level categories to added.
Arts and Humanities/Art/
Arts and Humanities/Art/Artists
Arts and Humanities/Art/Organizations
           Very nice.
           I'm understanding better now.
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Business and Economy
· Companies · E-Commerce · Employment · International · Investments · Real
Estate · Other
>>>What is the difference between "Companies" and "Other"?
Other was for a topics that did not fit into the listed subcategories such
as
MLM Programs or anything thing else that I might have missed as being a
popular sub category.
           We may want to standardize on either "other" or "misc"
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Entertainment
Books and Magazines · Cartoons , Comics and Animation · Movies · Music ·
People · TV · Other
>>>I'd separate books and magazines. I would separate comics and animation.
I note that music appears as a subcategory in both Entertainment and in Arts
and Humanities. Not necessarily wrong, but it may be confusing. Should one
of the subcategories just be a reference to the other?<<<<<
As far as books and magazines go there did not seem to be enough rings to
warrant separate categories in either the Y! directory or the RS directory I
haven't check Bravenets Directory in a long time.  But I think that we can
use the number of rings listed in their categories to give us a guide to
work with.  As I said I would want the categories in the directory to be
coherent and useful but only as large as we need.  But then again I could be
wrong, it may be better to have to many categories in the beginning then to
have to re-categorize and move rings later.
                I hadn't consider the "quantity" as a factor.
                Good thought.
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Society and Culture
· Alternative · Charity · Civil Rights · Government · History · Holidays
and Observances · Issues · Military · Nature and the Environment ·
Organizations · Regional · Religion · Other
>>>Law? Cyberlaw? Privacy?
Wouldn't Privacy be under Issues??
Society and Culture
Society and Culture/Issues/
Society and Culture/Issues/Privacy
Could we combine Law and Cyberlaw and use it as top level category?
                         Yes. Agreed on both.
                         Again, didn't realize there would be third level
groups.
James S. Huggins