Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31829114-20170829155808/@comment-5754239-20170829182958

Stroovething:

Also, I would disagree with keeping "7 GRAND DAD" and "Meet the Flintstones" separate. I agree with you. They should be linked within the parent-child category hierarchy, and "Meet the Flintstones" has always been connected to 7 GRAND DAD. The question is which is the parent and which is the child. Merrygoroundoflife:

I think that the subcategories would make the most sense like this:

Meet the Flintstones <- 7 GRAND DAD title theme 7 GRAND DAD title theme 7 GRAND DAD  <- Joel's reaction to 7 GRAND DAD Grand Dad (character)

I don't think that's entirely true. "Meet the Flintstones" is always used in reference to 7 GRAND DAD, and is a sub-meme of it and Joel's reaction to GRAND DAD. The hierarchy as you describe makes a bit of sense otherwise. I'm not sure how we would do the counts, though.

A "GRAND DAD title theme" category might be useful. Stroovething:

...Is there any you could not have a rip with both MTF and Joel's reaction accidentally count as two rips Merrygoroundoflife:

Both "Meet the Flintstones" and the 7 GRAND DAD title screen theme are in the rip, but if we add the two categories to it, it will be counted as two rips instead of one.

How should we categorize the article in this case? To my knowledge, there is no way to efficiently and programmatically check whether a page has two categories. I'm thinking that there may be a way to check whether an individual page has a certain category using the MediaWiki API, but checking every page on the wiki seems super inefficient and prone to errors.

I can ask on the Dev Wiki for a Lua script or something, but I don't think it would work simply because the values have to be automatically generated by Wikia's software, which we can't access.

I think we would need to have another template called something like "GDDUP" ("Grand Dad duplicates") with a number value representing all the memes with both GD and MtF. We would have to manually update this number, and it would start to get confusing when we account for rips-with-mtf-and joels-reaction-but-not-gd and other combinations...