[Data-modeling] Which universe is that human from?

[Jeff Fry]

OK, I'm revisiting this one. We have even more human topics than ever 
before, and not a one that seems to be taking advantage it by 
differentiating them semantically. I've arbitrarily chosen 
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000586847a (the 
one with the earliest creating date), gave it a hopeful description of

    "The main species topic for human beings found in fiction. There are
    a few fictional universes which need their own topic to describe
    unique human characteristics in that particular universe. For all
    the rest, please use this topic."

... and marked 4 others to be merged with it. I didn't mark it for merge 
with the topics with associated Wikipedia articles, like 
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000025e3ad (Star 
Wars) and 
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000b003f6 
(D&D), though I wonder if that might be worth doing as well.

The Mother Topic http://www.freebase.com/view/en/human has already been 
tagged for split by duck1123, which I think is a great idea, and would 
love to see the fictional properties from it moved onto luck topic 
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000586847a

Thoughts? Objections?

Jeff F.

Jeff Prucher wrote:
>
> Regardless of the outcome of this discussion (one human vs. many humans),
> there wouldn't be a separate "human" species for every fictional universe
> out there, just those in which "human" means something other than "Homo
> sapiens" -- which is probably mostly a smallish set of fantasy universes.
> Universes in which the setting is intended to be a representation of the
> real world, including those set in the future or alternate versions of this
> world, would use the bog-standard "human" topic, just as Snoopy and Lassie
> are both dogs, so Jerry Seinfeld, James T. Kirk, and Sherlock Holmes are all
> humans.
>
> I would also go so far as to say that not every work of fiction necessarily
> needs to have a fictional universe created for it -- only those which can
> usefully make use of the other types and properties that "fictional
> universe" gets you probably need to have it filled in. We could have a
> "Romeo-and-Juliet-verse" but I doubt it would be very interesting.
>
> Jeff
>
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