Questions on Topicals

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• Jacques Famery

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Mark You mentionned "I want to review all the topics soon, so I'll make a note of that." I've taken several notes when on Bidstart, and I never sent them because of all the problems, and here, I guess you have your hands filled with more important things to do. But when you are ready to work on Topicals could you advise us before...so we can give you some input.
  I find European customers are very Topical oriented and Hip/Bid has a lot of "Other" topicals...
• Mark Rosenberg Staff

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Hi Jaques,
  
  Feel free to post your comments here so others can chime in. I'll bookmark this thread to review it when I'm reviewing topical categories.
• MMichael Duehr

  May 2016 1 Likes Vote Down

  Mark,
  
  Just a few that I can think of off the top of my head.
  
  Mushrooms
  Maps
  Omnibus Issues
  United Nations under organizations (Generally they would be issues by other countries for the UN itself
  IE 50th anniversary of the UN)
  
  Scientists
  Explorers.
  Farm animals.
  
• JJoe Picard

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Mark,
  Here is an example to troubleshoot when you turn your attention to topicals:
  
  Some topicals that I have tagged are showing up when the appropriate topical filter is applied while others aren't.
  * An Aircraft US Mint sheet (Item # 1992309) appropriately shows up when I apply the Transport - Aircraft sub filter to my Topical listings.
  * When I look at my Topical listings for Olympics, that sub-filter isn't an option even though I have items such as a 1980 St. Thomas & Prince Isl Souvenir sheet (item # 1996664) that I tagged as an Olympic Topic. If I look through the Olympics topics on the whole HS site, I don't even see that lot.
  * Other topic tags are similarly ignored. In fact, as I look across the examples, it looks like the topical filter is only being applied to my listings that are in the US category...
• Mark Rosenberg Staff

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Joe,
  
  Good catch! A few country categories we're being excluded from displaying under Topicals. This has now been resolved.
• Jacques Famery

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Here goes my list of improvements, I've tried to keep it to a minimum....I don't want to make it as complicated has Delcampe!
  Organisations: Salvation Army - World Exhibitions/Fairs - Unions - 4H - Political Organisations/Parties - UN/FAO - United Nations - European Union - Automobile Clubs/AAA-CAA - Postal/Telecommunications Organisations - YMCA/YWCA - Women Liberation Movement - Police
  Famous Persons: Architects - Composers/Musicians - Military Leaders - Explorers - Doctors/Physicians - Scientist - Religious Leaders - Labor Leaders - Artists - Sportsman - Astronauts - Educators - Heroes - Workers
  Art: Handicrafts - Jewellery
  Cultural Heritages: European - Indigenous (Instead or plus American Indian) also Fairy Tales if not in Cartoons
  Transport: Sailboats
  Agriculture
  Cartoons: Fairy Tales
  Children/Family
  Education
  History
  Industry
  Letter Writing
  Minerals/Precious Stones
  Olympic Games: Commonwealth Games - Handicap Games - European Games or Regional Games
  Telecommunications
  
• Jacques Famery

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Besides Topicals, here are some items (I did not check on Hipstamp if these were corrected) which need to be corrected.
  Belgian Colonies should be under Belgium like the other Colonial Powers
  Burundi
  Bermuda should not be in Great Britain...
  Gibraltar
  Cyprus
  Gilbert & Ellice
  Gold Coast
  Burma/Myanmar
  Ceylon
  Maldives
  Dubai
  Sri Lanka
  
  Maybe some of these have been corrected....these are from notes taken since 2012 which I did not send because of the "turmoil" in Bidstart/SGM
• Thomas Keesling

  May 2016 1 Likes Vote Down

  I've mentioned these two before and both are mentioned above. I want to be sure they don't get overlooked!
  
  Maps
  Explorers
• Jacques Famery

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  I forgot in the list of missing countries....
  Tristan da Cunha
  Tokelau (Australia)
  Tonga
  Tadjikistan
  Tuvalu
  Turks & Caicos (Caribean)
• MMichael Duehr

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Jacques,
  
  They aren't missing on Hipstamp
  
  Tristan is under worldwide - South Atlantic
  
  Tokelau,Tonga and Tuvalu is under Australia
  
  Tadjikistan is under Europe
  
  And Turks and Caicos is under Caribbean
  
  
• Jacques Famery

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Thanks Michael.
  Like I said, all this was based on my Bidstart experience...I'm still learning to use Hipstamp....and it looks promising.
• Thomas Keesling

  May 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Another topic I would like to see in the list is allegory.