User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20151119211902/@comment-24894325-20151228095901

Ah, I knew it was too late. I should clarify. In particular, clarify that I've been mostly talking about determining the correct dabbing before, not so much determining whether a released box set should have its own page or be put on the page of its range.

No objections to range. It was a rant/complaint. Range is the main designation of BF, so I agree that we should use it and that it should be the largest category. My complaint served the purpose of explaining that we don't have to agree 100% on the contents of each range as per BF website. For instance, Doctor Who is also a range that consists of many other ranges, but we don't need to have a page listing all the releases in the Doctor Who range.

Yes, I propose to use (audio box set) for dabbing most releases currently dabbed (anthology). The (anthology) dabbing would then be mostly contained to multi-story releases in ranges with a typical release being a single story.

But if a box set is essentially a season within a range/series (e.g., Dark Eyes, and especially if it a , Volume 0n or , Series 0n or  n within a range called , then it should not have its own page and, hence, requires no dabbing. On the range page, we should follow the naming practices of BF using Volume or  Series for the first two cases respectively and maybe Box Set again if no clear designation (or conflicting designations) is given by BF.

Further, within some ranges, like Eighth Doctor Adventures or Companion Chronicles or Forth Doctor Adventures the release number consists of two numbers. I think I heard BF referring to Seasons for the EDA (see also "Fourth Doctor Season Two News" here), so then releases for such a range can be divided into Seasons on the range page without necessarily giving each season a separate page. Before I go check the BF usage, I personally think of seasons as something tied to a production year with normally one season per year. This seems to be generally the case for both the 8th and 4th doctor ranges.

I sincerely hope that there are few series that are not ranges if at all, which would allow us to use series only on range pages without making it a separate page category.

Now about The Last Adventure. I think it merits discussion whether it is a story with named parts or an anthology of several stories. (The former is not unprecedented, Zagreus lists names for the discs, although I am not sure where these names are taken from.) My main point was that it does not look like a box set to me, which seemed supported by BF calling it a "story". However, I now see that it is also explicitly called a box set here. Probably, this makes things easier/more interesting by giving us a choice between story, anthology and box set designations.

Speaking of which, the Bonus Releases and Special Releases ranges seem to me to be anthological in nature. So I would think all releases in these ranges should have individual pages.