Forum:Audio play, audio drama, audio story
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Big Finish generally refer to what they do (Doctor Who etc) wise as 'audio dramas', hence Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Dramas. Yet we've got the categories called Category:Audio plays, and then we have stories disambigged as Telos (audio drama) and Zagreus (audio story).
I suggest we change the categories of 'audio plays' over to 'audio dramas' a more accurate description of what they are collectively. --Tangerineduel 08:26, May 26, 2010 (UTC)
- Agreed, it should be changed to Audio Dramas if we want a more accurate, better description of the products Mini-Mitch 14:58, May 26, 2010 (UTC)
- Does the BBC also call their stuff "audio dramas"? (I don't think there are any other major publishers of Doctor Who audio thingies, are there?) --Falcotron 00:11, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
- The BBC's early stuff was for radio and is variously called 'Radio dramas', but this Press release from the BBC Worldwide Press Office is titled "Tom Baker returns as the Fourth Doctor in new audio dramas!" (which is for the Hornets' Nest series). --Tangerineduel 16:11, May 28, 2010 (UTC)
- Though I will of course help with the bot to quickly make whatever change consensus suggests, I'm not particularly bothered one way or the other. They are audio plays. There's no difference between the two. I suppose where there's a slight bone of contention is that people have been putting Companion Chronicles and BBC Audio stuff into the "audio play" cats, and that's not really accurate. These are audiobooks or enhanced audio books. It might be simpler to just say "audios" and forget the play/drama/book distinction altogether. 21:10, May 28, 2010 (UTC)
- The BBC's early stuff was for radio and is variously called 'Radio dramas', but this Press release from the BBC Worldwide Press Office is titled "Tom Baker returns as the Fourth Doctor in new audio dramas!" (which is for the Hornets' Nest series). --Tangerineduel 16:11, May 28, 2010 (UTC)
Revisiting
I've been thinking whilst editing through a lot of real world and story articles. The rather than "audio drama" what these things are, whether they are full cast audio dramas, Companion Chronicles or BBC audio's stuff, they're audio stories.
So just as we've got TV stories we should have audio stories. I take on board CzechOut's note about calling them just audios, but that might be a little too vague with stuff like the music soundtracks.
Zagreus (audio story) would remain as it is, Telos (audio drama) would get moved to Telos (audio story) and everything in Category:Audio plays would be re-categorised into Category:Audio stories and all the other sub-categories etc would be changed from "audio play" to audio story. --Tangerineduel 13:22, December 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Re-re-visiting this. I think given the Lost Stories and everything I've changed my opinion.
- Perhaps it might be better to just have them as Story (audio).
- But I do still thing that all category names that end in audio plays should be re-categorised and changed to audio stories. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:47, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
