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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.
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.
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