Need template:company

[elf]

I've been adding filk albums to fanlore & updating some of the ones already there, and adding filkers to the Filk Music category, and I want to start adding filk companies, and...

There's no "company" template. There's nothing kinda-sorta like a company template.

Help? What goes in a company template?
Name - Date founded - Date ended, if any - Location (address? Or just city/state/nation?) - Media - Fandom(s)? (some don't seem to label well by "fandom") - website -- other stuff?

What categories should companies have?

Companies that should (eventually) have listings at Fanlore:
Every filk production company (Off Centaur, Wail Songs, Thor Records, Dandelion Digital, Unlikely Publications, Random Factors... more),

Every RPG/wargaming company (Steve Jackson Games, White Wolf, TSR, WotC, Avalon Hill (nobody is even *thinking* of tabletop wargames at FL), Hero, Palladium, Chaosium, FGU, West End, Pacesetter... gaah, that list gets long, fast),

Comic book companies (indies like WaRP Graphics, and the mainstream like DC & Marvel 'cos they are a big part of some fannish activities),

Game-and-toy production companies (whoever made Lasertag, Ral Partha (I suppose they fall under 'gaming'), the makers of miniature terrain features, boardgame companies that produce "fannish" games),

Movie/TV/etc media companies (nobody's going to convince me that Paramount & Disney aren't part of fannish history, that Warner Brothers has no noticeable effect on HP fandom, that Lucasfilm doesn't need a listing...),

Software companies, especially gaming-focused ones, but Wordstar and other desktop publishing programs had notable effects on fanfiction...

Stop me. Stop me before I start thinking of *political groups* that are connected to fandom. (Pirate Party, anyone? The ACTA treaty?)

And now I have to go to work & won't be able to reply to anything until the evening. But I do get notifications of replies & can start putting together a template if I get suggestions.

Comments

[aethel]

Actually, there is a template for companies: OrganizationCorporation. It's been used for both fan organizations and non-fan/for-profit companies.

[elf]

Yaaaay thank you!!!

(And I'd go castigate myself for having missed it, except I decided I'm not beating myself up for having failed to find stuff in the Fanlore tangle of resources. Also, because I want to get on with adding pages.)

[mackiedockie]

OrganizationCorporation seems to cover a lot of ground, though you may need duplicate entries for source material (LucasFilms, Warner Brothers, Panzer & Davis, etc) and the transformative company (gaming, filk outfits, etc.)

[elf]

For now, I'm dealing with filk companies, which are tiny and focused. I could lose myself filling in filk details for a nice long time and never have to look at the litigious history of LucasFilms or the sprawling chaos that is DC Comics, and that would probably be a very happy thing for me.

[mrs_potatohead]

"tiny and focused"? "lose myself"? "happy thing"?

It all sounds perfectly dreamy to me. ;-)

[elf]

I even have a new subfocus: Filk albums which I own and can scan the covers of. (Next, I suppose, is "figure out what size the scans should be." Right now, they look a bit big. But smaller is always do-able; it's hard to embiggen images once they've been shrunk.