Fiction is a very broad term. fictions can be used for rhetorical purposes in serious discourse--fictional examples are a mainstay of philosophical argument, dating back to Plato's cave, if not earlier.
For this hypothetical animal, I do not think there will be any difficulty finding a citation that says that it is a fiction. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Surreptitiousness <[email protected]> wrote: > I freely admit I have an issue with fictional categories. I find them > somewhat in the face of what categorisation was intended to do, or at > least my thoughts on what it was intended to do, which was to classify > as unambiguously and as relevantly as possible. I'm prompted into this > steam-letting by the discovery that Schrödinger's cat is categorised as > a fictional cat. I'm half tempted to slap a citation needed on that > one. It's an interesting conundrum which for me highlights the issues > with categorising fictional elements. It's a problem I guess we at the > comics project face more than some, although not as often as others. It > has been a battle avoiding category bloat on Batman especially. The > problem is where to stop. We have characters by nationality, which to > me seems absurd since you find Mandarin (comics) nestling in > Category:English people because his mother was English. Now > sidestepping the fact that a fictional character doesn't exist, let > alone have a mother, how can we know this character identifies as > English? Gosh darn it's a tricky beast. One day I'll write an essay on > the matter. Apologies for ranting. Now, can someone set up a bot which > will add or remove Schrödinger's cat to the fictional cat category every > other day please. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
