Discussions on Fictional Setting
Of what fictional universe?
Hi, I'd like to indicate what fictional universe a fictional setting belongs to. May I suggest adding a property to Fictional Setting for that? Thanks.
This is a bit of a problem right now -- since the "fictional setting" type can be applied to real locations as well as wholly fictional ones, we'd end up with the property "Appears in these fictional universes" (or words to that effect) on hundreds of real-world locations, which seems pretty weird. I'd love to figure out a way to handle this better, though, if you have any thoughts on it.
We had originally modeled fictional setting similar to the way we modeled fictional character, where the fictional setting and real-world setting were considered two separate entities (thus there would be a "real" London and a fictional London based on the real one), but nobody understood this or used it, so we killed it.
Fictional Location
I'd like to suggest that either you rename this type "fictional location" or at least set up an alias of that name.
The rationale for this is, all of the other "setting" types are called "location". This would keep the names consistent.
This was a deliberate choice on our part. We chose the name "fictional setting" because it's accurate for all places that appear in works of fiction -- San Francisco is the setting of many works of fiction, but it is not itself a fictional place. "Fictional location" would only be accurate for wholly imaginary places like Middle Earth or the planet Vulcan.
I agree. One problem is that not all fictional locations are settings of stories. They may just be reffered to in fiction, for example.
This is a good point; "fictional setting" should include those fictional locations that aren't actually used as a setting, assuming that they are of sufficient interest for someone to enter, despite the fact that the name is "setting" rather than "location".
