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          Split/Merge with Literature Subject ?

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          4 posts, latest post: gmackenz, Dec 13, 2010
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            thadguidry Freebase Experts
            Dec 13, 2010
            thadguidry says:

            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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              jeff Metaweb Current Staff
              Dec 13, 2010
              jeff says:

              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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                thadguidry Freebase Experts
                Dec 13, 2010
                thadguidry says:

                Hmm... on further thought, your right about the "fictional" types being enough signal. And for all the reasons you mentioned (simplicity wins ! YES !). I only thought perhaps that it might get confusing with additional authorities later, (Outside of LoC).

                Good points, Jeff. Let's merge them then.

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              gmackenz Metaweb Current Staff
              Dec 13, 2010
              gmackenz says:

              Made the flag, now go vote!

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