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The other Organized Crime topic that is a Literature Subject should ideally include the Ontology reference from this one Organized crime
I think the Fictional Organization type should be its only type and all others moved to the Literature Subject and general concept.
I think generally that all the "Fictional" types themselves should remain only in the Fictional realm and perhaps have a single property that allows linking back to the real Topic / Type Equivalent ?
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I'd totally merge these two Organized Crime topics. I wouldn't support creating a new topic for "Organized Crime in Fiction"; if you're looking for fictional organized crime organizations, it would be counter-intuitive to have to look, not at the main Organized Crime topic, but at some other topic that represents the same concept, just only in fictional settings. The "fictional" types should be enough signal to tell you that the data in that type is fictional. Another consequence of splitting them would be that it would be difficult to know what the subject of The Godfather was; currently the book has the Wikipedia-sourced "Organized Crime" topic as a subject, but is The Godfather really about actual organized crime or about fictional organized crime? I think that this is not a useful question to have to ask in this context, and would only lead to confusing data.
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Made the flag, now go vote!
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Adding "Science Fiction" as the genre for the book links the book in the "Science Fiction" topic both under "Books In This Genre" (which sounds right) and "Books About This Topic", which sounds wrong. Have a look at the "Snow Crash" entry.
http://www.freebase.com/view?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000000035120-
Actually, this happened because Science Fiction was already assigned by somebody else as a Subject of Snowcrash, which it shouldn't have been.
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The subject/genre confusion happened in part because "genre" was added as a property of "book" some time after "subject", so subject was doing double-duty for awhile. Note, however, that "science fiction" is a perfectly legitimate book subject (although not for "Snow Crash"), since there have been any number of books written about the genre itself.
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