Umbrella pages

[meg_r]

The discussion about Tropes has raised the problem of how to deal with the multiple pages about consent issues/sexual assault: we've got Rapefic, Noncon and Dub-con, all with somewhat different content. Noncon in particular is defined entirely in relation to rapefic and dubcon, and all the history of the trope is on the rapefic page. I feel that none of the pages can be comprehensive when the content is spread out this way.

My preference would be to merge the pages into one [[Sexual Assault (Trope)]] or [[Consent Issues in Fanworks]] page or the like and redirect, but I suspect that will prove an Unpopular Fannish Opinion. Alternatively, how about an umbrella page with the main content, so that the terms can be usefully compared, leaving the three pages as brief glossary terms that link to the umbrella page?

Other suggestions?

Comments

[ratcreature]

I like "Consent Issues" (I'm not sure in fanworks is needed), though perhaps that could be confused with the issues of permissions in fandom. Like the topics of which authors tolerate fanworks which don't, and the issues of playing in another fan's universe without permission, permission to remix and unauthorized sequels etc.

[facetofcathy]

And should be discussed somewhere on one of these pages. Wow this would make way more sense as a reply to the conversation about the Issues of Consent rec list.

I kind of agree that there will be resistance to combining the terms on one page only, but a discussion of the way they interrelate that links to all definitions needs a home, and hopefully only has to be written once.

[aethel]

I like "Consent Issues in Fanworks" or "Issues of Consent in Fanworks" as a fourth page to discuss, compare, and contrast the other terms. I don't think we should lose the individual glossary pages, but it makes sense to keep the majority of the discussion about the relationships between the terms in one place.

Incidentally, "Unpopular Fannish Opinion" does not yet have an entry in Fanlore. :)