I don't think this problem really exists. I mean, of course in theory it does, but in practice separate pages for novels or stories are going to be created when someone is interested in writing something about that story or in cataloging it. I created pages for some online stories and not for others without following any sort of policy. Just like I did lists of most fanworks for some authors, and just listed a few examples for others. There is no consistency.
Just like there are pages for some fansite/communities others are just links in the fandom's page. Obviously we are never going to have a comprehensive all encompassing index of all fanworks ever, so the selection will always be arbitrary, especially with so few people participating in the wiki.
As cataloging approach, considering the little info that is there on some zines, it would make just as much sense to just have lists under the publisher's name or on the fandom page for the irrelevant zines nobody took much notice of in the first place, but there is interest to create lots of zine pages, and since fanlore doesn't presume to judge what is important there are a ton separate pages. I imagine if someone wants to represent the scope of their online fandom and created a page for every online fanwork in their fandom, fanlore would have that. As I understand it there are really no policies about that one way or another, so what fanworks get a page depends solely on whether someone bothers to create it.
However, well liked and popular stories are obviously more likely to have want to write about them, because they have more likely talk associated with the story (kerfuffles, spin-offs, art, shared universes, whatever) that someone will want to mention, and those stories are also more likely to exist in zine form if they were first online, because popular stories are liked for that.
And I still think there should not be separate articles for print and online editions.
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Just like there are pages for some fansite/communities others are just links in the fandom's page. Obviously we are never going to have a comprehensive all encompassing index of all fanworks ever, so the selection will always be arbitrary, especially with so few people participating in the wiki.
As cataloging approach, considering the little info that is there on some zines, it would make just as much sense to just have lists under the publisher's name or on the fandom page for the irrelevant zines nobody took much notice of in the first place, but there is interest to create lots of zine pages, and since fanlore doesn't presume to judge what is important there are a ton separate pages. I imagine if someone wants to represent the scope of their online fandom and created a page for every online fanwork in their fandom, fanlore would have that. As I understand it there are really no policies about that one way or another, so what fanworks get a page depends solely on whether someone bothers to create it.
However, well liked and popular stories are obviously more likely to have want to write about them, because they have more likely talk associated with the story (kerfuffles, spin-offs, art, shared universes, whatever) that someone will want to mention, and those stories are also more likely to exist in zine form if they were first online, because popular stories are liked for that.
And I still think there should not be separate articles for print and online editions.