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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i think young adult is important ; we already have a lot of "youth" series and it deserves its own category.
if you mean that it restricts the fiction categories from overlapping with the non-fiction categories, then as you say, if necessary we can add a (non)fiction tag, however it might be simpler *not* to restrict things. people will probably understand that a Fantasy story does not need to be specified as "non-fiction".
Could biography be used for legends? Could History be used for historical fiction?
i don't think biography and legends are quite the same thing. but what do you mean exactly by legends ? i also don't thing historical fiction should go with history ; there is no such thing as a completely objective historical account, granted, but still history at least *claims* not to be making anything up. whereas historical fiction might only have a few shreds of historical semi-fact as window-dressing, for ambiance, and then veer off into totally un-verified approximation.
that seems reasonable, unless they are actually biographical accounts which could get a *tag* of "action" (sorry, i know this may not be helpful...)
i was wondering about humor myself. maybe it can go in fiction, with a "humor" or "comedy" tag.
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thanks, Clearly young adult will need to stay. I was not suggesting that everything have a tag for fiction or nonfiction only in the case where the entry placed by the user needed clarification. I assumed single use for the genre that was defined but then wondered if I had overstepped the ideas that other people had. I though I would do a sanity check.
Legend is often an extension of a real person. For example if you were to write about King Arthur's life there are no real facts that can be verified about this likely read person from the sixth century but legends about him certainly exists. Most of what we know of Robin Hood is legend. There are also popular legendary people that are likely or possibly composites of real people. These are the kinds of things that might assume a fictional biography category if there were such a thing.
Certainly historical fiction and real history are very different things as are any of the categories I mentioned as possible overlaps. Some historical fiction borders on legends and some are about a fictitious or composite person but the facts apart from the story itself are all very accurate. The tag would define which is was. However, if anybody would get confused over this I can drop the whole idea. That is why I asked the question in the first place.
Dale