Talk:Major Disciplines

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The point raised on the Fetish page's discussion tab is a valid one I think, can we instead of listing Types of (blank) Disiplines on the subpages of this, just link a fetish page on them, then the actual fetish page in the menu can just be an alphabetized listing of all of them in one place.

Actually, may be able to tag pages if I remember MediaWiki correctly, and then the Fetish page won't have to be maintained at all as it would be automated to list all the tagged pages. Then again, it has been a long time since I seriously contributed to a wiki before, so things easily could have changed since then.

Tersia (talk) 01:58, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

What is the difference between a discipline and a fetish? Also, why are some "disciplines" considered major? This is a totally artificial distinction.

Anonymous (talk)

On looking into the technology side of things, there are categories that we could use to auto-list something, or make use of certain extensions. See here for some suggestions others have made for a similar situation.

Tersia (talk) 03:20, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Dropping in about the major disciplines, the fetish pages is something I'm planning on restructuring but will be an alphabetized list, the major disciplines though are intended to eventually link to specific articles for major areas, for example the examples listed in fire play will each be discussed on the fire play page... the notion is that this way people can learn about kink through major concepts, not by sorting through an enormous alphabetized list they will never get through.

The reason they end in dead links right now is because I haven't created the pages yet, they are just place holders for how I was planning to organize them.

Further, not all fetishes fall reasonably under a major discipline because folks can fetishize anything, an example might be drinking breast milk, which is sort of food fetish and sort of medical play, but really not either of those things, so having a redundant fetish/kink list and having the major disciplines seems to be the best way to fascilitate new people being able to learn through seeing large concepts and narrowing their scope based on interest, which is the idea behind having the major disciplines.

Point being, each of those dead things on the list will be a page or possibly a series of pages, eventually, depending on the amount of content. --Admin (talk) 05:38, 10 March 2014 (UTC)