Story Data

Every story requires a title, a date, and a description. Insofar as possible, a link to the relevant Wikipedia page is recommended as one of references. Most stories are unambiguously identified by their date and title. For works of literature, the authors is good information to specify as well. The description is meant merely for convenience, but may conceivably be used to distinguish between variations of a work.

• Unless there is compelling reason to distinguish between translations (or other variations) of a story, the title should be as the work is best known in English. The original title may be specified as part of the description.
• As a rule of thumb, the date should indicate the earliest time that the work is known to have been made available to a broad public. If there is a widely accepted first publication date, that should be used.
• Two variations on a story are normally considered the same story if all themes are the same. This is often the case in renditions of a Shakespeare play that largely adhere to the original script. If themes are different, on the other hand, the variations are considered different and should have different story entries. This is usually the case in remakes of films.

Every story must also be assigned a unique ID. While all text files are encoded in UTF-8, the story ID should be composed only of normal English characters and punctuation marks. Note that commas are not allowed. A number of conventions are apparent from examining the story files.