My concern was really whether RPF fits that definition. I suppose some does and some doesn't, but that might not be too helpful.
The wiki committee has just been talking about this, actually -- and we share your sense that some RPF fits this definition and some doesn't. For that matter, some fans whose activity centers around "real people" call what they're doing "RPF;" other fans don't.
The nice thing about this system is that fans can choose the categories they want to put on their pages, so fans from communities which identify with the RPF category can use that category, and fans who identify in some other way can create a category to encompass their way of self-identifying.
ut you would still find Harry Potter if you were looking in the "Fandoms by Source Text" category, right, because there would be the "Harry Potter" category in there?
Yes, definitely. The "Harry Potter" page would be listed in the "Fandoms by Source Text" category, and also in the "Media Fandom" category. Pages can have more than one category, so that's no problem.
So would Fanlore differentiate this, then, and put some book fandoms into the Media Fandom category and others not?
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The wiki committee has just been talking about this, actually -- and we share your sense that some RPF fits this definition and some doesn't. For that matter, some fans whose activity centers around "real people" call what they're doing "RPF;" other fans don't.
The nice thing about this system is that fans can choose the categories they want to put on their pages, so fans from communities which identify with the RPF category can use that category, and fans who identify in some other way can create a category to encompass their way of self-identifying.
ut you would still find Harry Potter if you were looking in the "Fandoms by Source Text" category, right, because there would be the "Harry Potter" category in there?
Yes, definitely. The "Harry Potter" page would be listed in the "Fandoms by Source Text" category, and also in the "Media Fandom" category. Pages can have more than one category, so that's no problem.
So would Fanlore differentiate this, then, and put some book fandoms into the Media Fandom category and others not?
That would be up to Fanlore users, I think.