User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1272640-20170104044813

This is a proposal that might be controversial.

I know we simplified prefixes a few years ago. I'm not asking to undo that, at all.

What I'm suggesting is that short stories be given their own prefix. SHORT or something. PROSE would be restricted to novels, novelizations, and novellas. There's just so many short stories, and it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between a short story and a book. With the other prefixes, it's quite clear what they mean - TV is television. WC is webcast. AUDIO is an audio story. COMIC is a comic story. HOMEVID is home video. GAME is a video game. But PROSE is a catch-all for everything text-based. It doesn't tell you much, and you have to mouse over the title to see whether it's a novel or a short story. So I'm proposing we move short stories to a separate prefix - SHORT, maybe.