Time for categories for book authors with enough gun-using film adaptations?

[Mazryonh]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

Don't encourage him.

Huh, and I thought I was building a reputation for being one of the straight shooters on this wiki.

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

We've had kids before wanting us to start documenting the appearances of guns (or at least their descriptions) in books. Remember?

I haven't checked the rules page in a while, but I'm certain there should have been a sentence or two talking about "this is a wiki meant to categorize the real-life firearms (or representations of such) in visual motion media" added recently. Books are visual media but are textual and are therefore not motion media. Comics (from any country) are not motion media either, nor are video games composed mostly of still images (usually adventure games).

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

I have one rule: Don't expand IMFDB to anything past what we already cover, until we've 100% covered our original mission. Since there are TONS of gaps in our 'histories' I suggest we expend our energies towards making IMFDB complete, rather than ADDING more stuff we have to cover.

What precisely do you mean by gaps in our "histories"? Do you mean films we haven't covered yet (have you made a list of particular films you want others to make pages for, or something?), or incomplete pages, etc?

In any case, there already exist categories for authors whose works have been adapted into several films that qualify for inclusion on this wiki. If you're going to remove those categories, then fine. But if we're going keep them, then it would be good to have some criteria for including future author categories (i.e., they must have 3 or more works that have been adapted into films/video games/TV shows that qualify for inclusion on this wiki before such an author category can be created), since there are some of us who would like to quickly find the films based on the author's works (and I'm certain there are more authors who would qualify for such categories than just the three we've brought up here). And it would require much in the way of new material, just one category page per author worthy of inclusion, and the "Author" metacategory (like the ones we have for Director and Actor).

[funkychinaman]

If Elmore Leonard gets one, then I suppose you've proven your point. I have no objections.

As for future entries, I think we should lay down some requirements, like the minimum number of titles to qualify.