Category talk:News
Poorly defined
Greetings. This category seems poorly-defined, and it is unclear when to use it vs. when to exclude it. Furthermore, it does not seem useful for navigation or classification of comics based on the inclusion criteria. Lastly, there are already comics mis-classified according to the explanation given by the creator, such as 3095, if we assume that a "bad news" sentence is equivalent to a "good news" sentence. I would propose that the inclusion criteria be changed to something concrete, such as "the comic is structured as a news report" of some kind, such as newspaper clipping or newscast, and I propose that we steer away from relying on literal wording in the title or comic. Thank you. Elizium23 (talk) 17:40, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
- My thinking is:
- Intended for this category (and why I redescribed it as "<Subject> News"):
- as title: 1062: Budget News
- as title: 1280: Mystery News (but arguable)
- as title: 1699: Local News (arguable)
- as title: 1996: Morning News (arguable)
- Huge Space News: 2717: L6 Lagrange Point
- Physics News: 2775: Siphon
- Big Math News: 2861: X Value
- as title: 2984: Asteroid News
- Astronomy News: 2991: Beamsplitters
- Geopolitical News: 2996: CIDABM
- Cosmoogy News: 3066: Cosmic Distance Calibration
- Maritime News: 3119: Flettner Rotor
- Space News: 3203: Binary Star
- There is room for a "Category:Newspapers" or perhaps "Category:Headines" that may or may not overlap with this category, and give anyone still with ambiguity a different place to put that sort of thing.
- If, as apparenty suggested (but not implemented), "Good News" isn't supposed to be here, then consider something for those. "Announcing a change of fortune", but needs a better description than "Category:Good News" (which needs to encompass Bad News examples) or something perhaps too simple like "Category:Fortune". These are (and therefore should not be bere, as described)...
- 2624: Voyager Wires (Sad News)
- 2755: Effect Size (Bad News)
- 3011: Europa Clipper (Good News)
- 3027: Exclusion Principle (Big News - only here because it isn't "Big <Foo> News", and so arguably more like Good News than Subject News)
- 3049: Incoming Asteroid (various levels of Good/Bad news)
- 3078: Anchor Bolts (Good News)
- 3137: Cursed Number (Good News)
- 3145: Piercing (Good News)
- Prescriptions (Good and Bad News)
- ...it might actually be easier to just allow "Good/Bad/etc News"es into this category, after all, in which case widen my description to something like "<Type> News" to include them properly. I am still confused between stated intent (before and after corrections were maded) and actual implementation, so... not de'News'ing any more of those added by Kynde, until we've had a good discussion about this. (Honestly, could have been worth a brief discussion about it before creating the new pages, but that's water already under the bridge.) 81.179.199.253 20:16, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
