Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan/Categories

message: I've initially created this page, and given it a "start" with my own views. These are just my own opinions. Please add suggestions on the project subpage, and we'll discuss it until a consensus emerges. Policies decided on will then migrate to the main project page. Marc Shepherd 19:52, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

message: May I suggest that the classification scheme which I spent some time devising might just be of some use here - at least as a basis for discussion. (Dixon, Geoffrey. The Gilbert & Sullivan Sorting System: a classification scheme for use with the materials of G.& S. studies. Ayr, Rhosearn Press - 2001).  Although there may be slight differences between a scheme devised for "units of information" rather than encyclopaedia articles, the basic aims are the same, namely the identification, enumeration and effective ordering of those areas of knowledge and thought that comprise a (any) field of study. Any one particular arrangement will never of course satisfy all users all the time but it is possible to arrive at a reasonable scheme. 
A classification scheme intended for the arrangement of discrete physical objects requires a notation system in order to mechanise that arrangement and this serves as a useful shorthand for referring to named categories. I have classified by the scheme referred to some of the "categories" advanced in this project and, so far, have not been defeated in "placing" any of them.
This note is too long already but may I finish by listing the basic Classes of my scheme (and their first expansion) which together cover the whole field. 
*000 - Generalia
*100 - Texts, Libretti
*200 - Scores
*300 - Critical Works 
*400 - Biography
*500 - Production and performance
*600 - Gilbert without Sullivan
*700 - Sullivan without Gilbert
*800 - Related Subjects
N.B. the following second summary omits Classes 100 & 200 since they are intended for the libretti and scores themselves (discussion of them is classed within 300 and performance within 500)
*000	Generalia
*010	Bibliographies, catalogues	
*020	Dictionaries & handbooks, reference sources
*030	Periodicals
*040	Libraries and collections
*050	Societies & Clubs
*060	Exhibitions
*070	Festivals, conferences, courses
*080	Quizzes & puzzles, Games, Quotations
*090	Electronic media, computer applications
*300	Critical Works
*310	Gilbert & libretti
*320	Sullivan & music
*340	Gilbert versus Sullivan
*350	Comparisons (between works)
*390	Individual operas
*400	Biography
*410	Gilbert
*420	Sullivan
*430	Carte family
*440	Savoyards
*470	Memorials and Inscriptions
*490	Others
*500	Production & Performance
*510	Acting & music
*520	Performers
*530	Administration
*540	Technology
*550	Production methods
*560	Audiences
*570	Professional
*580	Non-professional
*590	Individual operas
*600	Gilbert without Sullivan
*610	Poetry
*620	Plays
*630	Prose
*640	Drawings, Illustrations
*650  	Miscellaneous
*660	Collaborations
*690	Doubtful attributions
*700	Sullivan without Gilbert
*710	Instrumental music
*720	Vocal music
*730	Theatre music
*740	Music adapted, arranged posthumously
*750	Writings
*760	Collaborations
*790	Other musical works
*800	Related Subjects
*810	Persons associated
*820	Music
*830	Plays, theatre
*840	Fiction, novels
*850	Other literary works
*860	Places associated
*880	Other subjects
*890	Individual Savoy operas
172.209.111.175 14:58, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification (categorisation) of encyclopaedia articles