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ETA: I made the page. I set it to be in People -- Industry as well as Fandoms by Source Text -- Real People. Which suits the dual nature of someone like this, but I'm wondering how often we will make pages for people who are not RPF characters. My concern now is that the page reflects my very firm separation of canon and character with RPF. Not everyone rolls that way.
I am trying to expand the linked RPF pages, CWRPS and J2 and I've run into an issue I don't quite know how to handle, and I don't think this has exactly come up before.
RPF is not a nice, clean linear thing like Media Fandom. It is a big tangled mess of interconnectedness, and the biggest problem I'm having is Christian Kane. Specifically what to call the fandom page for Christian Kane/Steve Carlson fic. There are no other pages right now where the pairing is the fandom other than J2, and it's got that handy cute name. So should the page get named as if it's a pairing page, but categorized like a fandom? Will that slash in the title cause technical problems?
Why not just make it a pairing section or subpage of CWRPS you might ask? Well, because I believe, much more than J2 even, that it is definitely a separate fandom off on it's own. There are separate Kane and Chris/Steve comms on LJ and fic is only crossposted to J2 or CWRPF comms if a J is in the story. If this were to be considered a subpage of CWRPS, then J2 should absolutely be one too. I don't like at all the idea of a fandom being buried inside another one just because it's small.
Why not just make the page Christian Kane and talk about all his RPF adventures there? Well I thought of that, but as the conversation on the Billy Boyd page has just trailed off, there is no real consensus on how to handle people pages. Could I do that and categorize the page as a People page and a Fandom by source text--Real People page both?
Explanation for people who have no idea who any of these people are: Kane played a fairly small part on Angel, but definitely showed up in Angel RPF, often paired with David Boreanaz. (There is a very brief Jossverse RPF page that doesn't have much detail, so anyone who can flesh that out is welcome and encouraged to have at it.)
Mr. Kane is also a friend of Jensen Ackles which naturally drew him into the vortex that is J2/CWRPF fic. I've got brief discussion of his roles there on the CWRPS page.
Mr. Kane used to have a musical partner in Steve Carlson, and Chris/Steve is a common secondary pairing in CWRPF that also exists as it's own fandom and stories are mostly based around their canon musical career.
Just to make things more complicated, Kane is of course on Leverage, and while the Leverage newsletter lists RPF fic, I can count on one hand the number of stories that have anything at all to do with other Leverage people in a significant way. (The Leverage RPF comm on LJ has 9 entries.)
Congratulations to all who got through that--now, any suggestions?
I am trying to expand the linked RPF pages, CWRPS and J2 and I've run into an issue I don't quite know how to handle, and I don't think this has exactly come up before.
RPF is not a nice, clean linear thing like Media Fandom. It is a big tangled mess of interconnectedness, and the biggest problem I'm having is Christian Kane. Specifically what to call the fandom page for Christian Kane/Steve Carlson fic. There are no other pages right now where the pairing is the fandom other than J2, and it's got that handy cute name. So should the page get named as if it's a pairing page, but categorized like a fandom? Will that slash in the title cause technical problems?
Why not just make it a pairing section or subpage of CWRPS you might ask? Well, because I believe, much more than J2 even, that it is definitely a separate fandom off on it's own. There are separate Kane and Chris/Steve comms on LJ and fic is only crossposted to J2 or CWRPF comms if a J is in the story. If this were to be considered a subpage of CWRPS, then J2 should absolutely be one too. I don't like at all the idea of a fandom being buried inside another one just because it's small.
Why not just make the page Christian Kane and talk about all his RPF adventures there? Well I thought of that, but as the conversation on the Billy Boyd page has just trailed off, there is no real consensus on how to handle people pages. Could I do that and categorize the page as a People page and a Fandom by source text--Real People page both?
Explanation for people who have no idea who any of these people are: Kane played a fairly small part on Angel, but definitely showed up in Angel RPF, often paired with David Boreanaz. (There is a very brief Jossverse RPF page that doesn't have much detail, so anyone who can flesh that out is welcome and encouraged to have at it.)
Mr. Kane is also a friend of Jensen Ackles which naturally drew him into the vortex that is J2/CWRPF fic. I've got brief discussion of his roles there on the CWRPS page.
Mr. Kane used to have a musical partner in Steve Carlson, and Chris/Steve is a common secondary pairing in CWRPF that also exists as it's own fandom and stories are mostly based around their canon musical career.
Just to make things more complicated, Kane is of course on Leverage, and while the Leverage newsletter lists RPF fic, I can count on one hand the number of stories that have anything at all to do with other Leverage people in a significant way. (The Leverage RPF comm on LJ has 9 entries.)
Congratulations to all who got through that--now, any suggestions?