Fandom as a Category v2 Posted

[meri_oddities]

We have posted the revised version of the Fandom as Category policy change Here to the Fanlore wiki. We invite discussion on it. Please post your comments here on Dreamwidth. If there are no problems or issues that require a change, the policy will become final in seven days after posting (4/28/2010).

At that time, we'll start adding the fandom categories and we'll put out a call for help with moving and changing the pages the need it.

Comments

[msilverstar]

exactly -- that's why I'm hoping things can go in multiple categories. I mean, what do you do with Johnny Depp/Dominic Monaghan?

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

what do you do with Johnny Depp/Dominic Monaghan?

I hope the same thing we would do with a SGA/SPN crossover novel. Johnny Depp/Dominic Monaghan both belong to an established RPF fandom so the fandom categories for Lotrips and POTC RPF would apply. I think what confused me was the idea to make each real person a fandom category as well.

The way I remember it, most RPS used to be rareslash, meaning you had two well known actors who had maybe a few stories written about them but no fandom of their own. These stories were usually only referred to as actorslash. When actors also had a fandom, the fandom had a name, like for example DamonAffleck which also included many of the people who surrounded the main pairing.

I would go with actor RPF (or maybe "Rare Actor RPF"?) for all fanworks that don't have an established fandom, music RPF for all musicians who don't have an established fandom, etc. That seems more practicable than creating categories based on just one person and also more practicable than including established RPF fandoms in the same category as rare actor RPF.

[msilverstar]

Actor RPF seems like a useful category, maybe more a tag and self-creating navigation.

But if there's a top level Severus Snape page, and Uhura page, and Peter Petrelli page, it seems weird not to have a top level Viggo Mortensen page...

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

But if there's a top level Severus Snape page, and Uhura page, and Peter Petrelli page, it seems weird not to have a top level Viggo Mortensen page...

Huh? But real people are top level pages. *is even more confused* I thought we were talking about categories and not pages?? Having a top level page is not the same as being a category. Callum Keith Rennie (http://fanlore.org/wiki/Callum_Keith_Rennie) is a top level page, Category:Fiction Writing (http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Fiction_Writing) is a category.