Category talk:Lists of fictional things

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Maybe this category (Category:Lists of fictional) should be called Category:Lists of fictional things as the Archive of fictional things? -- User:Docu

I agree. "Lists of fictional" reads strangely, and is unclear. Lists of fictional things can be a subcategory of Fictional. MakeRocketGoNow 18:23, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm not to enthousiastic about "things" in the title, but I don't really like the old title much more. As you already moved the lists in the category, I will delete the empty cat and move this talk page along.

Does Wikipedia have an article on fictional fictional characters (and shows)? I can't find anything. (A fictional fictional character is a character in a work of fiction which itself only exists inside another fictional universe. Examples: The monster Reptar, which exists as a TV show and series of movies in the Rugrats universe. The TV game show hosted by Jon Lovitz which exists only in the Matilda movie universe. The book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guidebook which exists in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe.) Ravenswood 00:20, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, fictional novels and TV shows have a section. But a category for characters in stories and shows that don't exist? Why? What do Itchy and Scratchy need a second mention for?

Fictional Units of Measure

It would be pretty awesome if we could have a list of fictional measures of time and distance. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if it could be populated enough. The only examples I can think of is the seconds-minutes-hours-days-months system from Battlestar Galactica (original series) and Farscape, and the deck of cards month arrangement from the book "The Solitare Mystery". If that's all we've got, it's not worth making. Anybody able to think of anything else? Lotusduck 20:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Zork had the bloit. Of course, there's Stars Trek & Wars. ST:TMP had Klingon "kellicams", the Romulans had something in TNG, I think. Star Wars had the Great Resynchronization, which brings up the idea of "measures of time" as benchmark years. Zork has GUE, Star Trek has stardates, there's the whole Timeline of Arda from Lord of the Rings, ...hell, I'm just going to start the article. The Dogandpony 03:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeowks...don't know where to put it, so I'll leave it for now. I think it's a cool idea, just remembering it's calendars not story timelines -- the Timeline of Arda is also a calendar because it measures epochs, more like a fictional Geologic time scale. In Dates in Star Wars, Time Measurement belongs in this category, but the rest of it, Film Timeline does not. Hope that's clear as mud. Dig? The Dogandpony 04:07, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The measurement of time in star wars is a fictional use of real measures of time like a year. I suppose fictional uses of real measurements can be a subcategory in fictional measurements. I just found about four units in a definition of terms in a fantasy book series: http://www.sfwriter.com/concord.htm I guess I can go ahead and start creating the article the way I would like it to be structured.Lotusduck 02:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, but look again at Dates in Star Wars, they have a slightly different year-length, etc. They have different names for each month and day, just like Tolkien's Shire calendar did. I can see where this would still be a sort of subset, though. The Dogandpony 06:42, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]