Sandbox / Namespace Map

Or "Where does this go?"

This page is intended to provide a more detailed overview of the media namespaces than the Namespace page, and to help editors decide into what namespace a work goes if the list on Namespace leaves them unsure.

These groups of works / page types have currently no namespace assigned yet. Relevant discussion added where it exists.

• Types of Fan Works — Relevant discussion and in this thread.
  • Fan Films
  • Fan Vids
  • Abridged Series
  • Gag Dub
• Characters — Relevant discussion.
  • Public Domain Characters
  • Historical Domain Characters
• Web Games
• Korean Webtoons (online manhwa)
• OEL Manga
• Audiobooks, podiobooks
• Gamebooks
• User Generated Content
• Virtual YouTubers: Currently split between Web Animation and Web Video

General discussion of media namespace issues is currently in this thread.

Please update this page if possible.

Other namespacing rules:

• Disambiguation pages stay on Main/.
• Multiple media works go to the namespace of the original medium (source), though it's always possible to split off pages for adaptations into their own namespace. Make redirects in the namespaces that don't have separate pages.

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Advertising/

• Ad campaigns

Animation/

• A catch-all for anything that doesn't fall under Anime/, WebAnimation/ or WesternAnimation/
  • Asian Animation (= Asian animation outside of Japan, Korea, and China)
  • Chinese Animation
  • Eastern European Animation
  • Hanguk Manhwa Aenimeisyeon (South Korean Animation)
  • Unclassified Animated Shows (e.g. African animation)

Anime/

• Japanese Animation (animated films, animated series)

ARG/

• Alternate Reality Game

Audio Play/

• Catch-all for Audio dramas, sketch comedy albums, Drama CDs, and the like, which don't already fit under Radio/ or Podcast/.

Blog/

• Blog

ComicBook/

• Comic Book series or individual works, in book or magazine form; including Graphic Novels
• Not: Manga, Manhwa and Manhua (to Manga/, Manhwa/ and Manhua/ respectively)

ComicStrip/

• Comic Strips (a.k.a. Newspaper Comics)

Creator/

• All categories of professionals that are listed on Creators (this includes actors and voice actors). Also companies active in any of these fields (developers, studios, publishers, etc).
• Not: Musical groups/solo careers (Music/); Wrestlers' personas (Wrestling/); Let's Play personas (the medium the let's play is in, e.g. WebVideo/)

Fanfic/

• Fanfics (this includes Script Fics)

Film/

• Live action film: cinema films, made for TV movies, short films; live action film series; puppet films; documentaries
• Not: animated film (to Anime/, WesternAnimation/, or Animation/)

Franchise/

• Hubs for multimedia franchises (see Franchise Index, Series Franchise).

Literature/

• Novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, poetry; picture books; book series; Web Serial Novels, Light Novels
• Groups of texts (not genres) (e.g. The Trojan Cycle, The Icelandic Sagas)
• Not: Magazines, Fanfics

Magazine/

• Magazines

Manga/

• Manga (Japanese comic books and print cartoons)

Manhua/

• Manhua (Chinese comics)

Manhwa/

• Manhwa (Korean comics)

Music/

• Pages for the work of a band/a musician; albums; songs
• Not: operas, ballets and musicals (to Theatre/)
• Oratorios do go under Music/ — they may have characters and plot but, unlike opera, they're simply sung, not acted out as a stage production. Some modern productions may blur the line by adding multimedia or operatic elements (costumes, props, acting) — but they still go under Music/ unless originally intended as opera.

Pinball/

• Pages for Physical Pinball Tables, pinball machines that exist in tangible form.
• Also for Disambiguation pages, when there are multiple pinball games with the same name (such as Pinball/StarWars or Pinball/StarTrek)
• Not for pinball video games or software; those go under the VideoGame/ namespace.

Podcast/

• Podcasts

Radio/

• Radio shows; radio dramas

Roleplay/

• Online RPGs
• Not: Tabletop RPGs (to TabletopGame/), video game RPGs (to VideoGame/)

Script/

• Unproduced Scripts
• Not: Script Fics (to Fanfic/)

Series/

• Live-Action TV series (includes Talk Shows, Game Shows, News Broadcasts and Puppet Shows)

TabletopGame/

• Tabletop Games (incl. tabletop RPGs)

Theatre/

• Plays; operas, musicals, ballets; puppet plays

VideoGame/

• Video Games
• Not: Visual Novels (to VisualNovel/)

VisualNovel/

• Visual Novels

WebAnimation/

• Web Animation, some Machinima
• Not: Big-budget animated shows exclusive to streaming services like Netflix (to Anime/, Animation/ or WesternAnimation/)

Webcomic/

• Webcomics

Website/

• Other Sites (includes wikis)

WebVideo/

• Live-action shows to be taken from Web Original, Vlog Series, The Abridged Series/Gag Subs/Dubs, tropable recorded or streamed Let's Play series, some Machinima
• Not: Big-budget live-action shows or films exclusive to streaming services like Netflix (to Series/ or Film/)

WesternAnimation/

• Western Animation: Animated Films, Animated Series, animated shorts

Wrestling/

• Wrestlers (the stage personas), wrestling live events (discussion).

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