The fanworks page doesn't list games, although I'm pretty sure that's just an oversight; it doesn't list conventions either. It focuses on fixed-format works rather than shared activities for its definition/examples. That part's okay; the problem is that it doesn't give any sense of the scope of by-fans-for-fans activities/works it's seeking.
For the most part, we know what's "fannish." Sort of. But are steampunk parties fannish, and the SCA not fannish? The "twists" to history allowed by the SCA are smaller and more subtle, but still present. If the SCA is fannish, are Civil War reenactments fannish?
I'm not pressing for hard and fast answers; I know it's very much a case of "PUT UR FAN INFO HERE; later we'll sort out how to deal with it." Whether Fanlore does, or does not, want to cover those parts of mainstream music fandom that might relate to Bandom, and whether that extends to other bits of music fandom, is rather irrelevant at the moment... Fanlore doesn't have 5000 teenagers putting in info on their favorite rock stars. If Elvis RPF gets a page and then Elvis impersonators get a page... shrug. Even if it's not directly within the focus of Fanlore, it's not going to hurt anything to be there. (Are Elvis impersonators a form of LARP RPF?) (Have they been slashed with the Captain Jack Sparrow impersonators, and if not, why not?)
We don't need lines as much as a sense of which areas are "fringe" vs "we don't have people to cover that yet."
Is fannish gaming -- RPGs, wargaming, MMORPGs, video games, etc. -- a "fringe" area that Fanlore would like touched on, or is it like fanfic, something Fanlore would like covered extensively & in detail, but doesn't have those editors yet?
Not asking you, specifically. Rhetorical question; am pondering.
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For the most part, we know what's "fannish." Sort of. But are steampunk parties fannish, and the SCA not fannish? The "twists" to history allowed by the SCA are smaller and more subtle, but still present. If the SCA is fannish, are Civil War reenactments fannish?
I'm not pressing for hard and fast answers; I know it's very much a case of "PUT UR FAN INFO HERE; later we'll sort out how to deal with it." Whether Fanlore does, or does not, want to cover those parts of mainstream music fandom that might relate to Bandom, and whether that extends to other bits of music fandom, is rather irrelevant at the moment... Fanlore doesn't have 5000 teenagers putting in info on their favorite rock stars. If Elvis RPF gets a page and then Elvis impersonators get a page... shrug. Even if it's not directly within the focus of Fanlore, it's not going to hurt anything to be there. (Are Elvis impersonators a form of LARP RPF?) (Have they been slashed with the Captain Jack Sparrow impersonators, and if not, why not?)
We don't need lines as much as a sense of which areas are "fringe" vs "we don't have people to cover that yet."
Is fannish gaming -- RPGs, wargaming, MMORPGs, video games, etc. -- a "fringe" area that Fanlore would like touched on, or is it like fanfic, something Fanlore would like covered extensively & in detail, but doesn't have those editors yet?
Not asking you, specifically. Rhetorical question; am pondering.