[Data-modeling] Multiple Fictional Universes

[Tadhg O'Higgins]

Reaction was generally positive to my suggestion for parent and child 
universes for the Fictional Universe type, but I don't think we managed 
to solve some of the problems, particularly the issue of where the 
"Mirror, Mirror" universe would go. One of the problems arising out of 
this would be the necessity of creating a multiverse parent-universe 
topic to hold the original the "Mirror, Mirror" universe, which seems 
rather heavier than is friendly.

My revised suggestion here is to add a "Sibling Universe" property as 
well as "Parent Universe" and "Sub-universe". This would let users add 
the "Mirror, Mirror" universe as a sibling of the main line, rather than 
having to create a parent and then add it as a child. This would also 
let users see prominent alternate universes such as this one on the 
topic page for the main universe, rather than having to go to its parent.

Thoughts?

Tadhg

> How should we treat fictional universes within other fictional 
> universes? Or "alternate universes" within, e.g., the Star Trek universe?
>
> My initial thought is to have "Parent Universe" and "Sub-universes" 
> properties, but I'm not sure they cover all the cases. In addition, we 
> might run into the problem of having to use the Star Trek universe as a 
> hold-all, containing both the "main" Star Trek universe (which most 
> people will want to see data about when they arrive at the page) and 
> also the minor alternate universes (e.g. from 
> <http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000021eea5>) as 
> separate topics connected as sub-universes.
>
> Any thoughts on how these relationships should be handled?
>
> Tadhg
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