Stub September - Fandoms

[fanloremod]

For this year's Stub September, we have chosen weekly themes to focus on specific types of stubs. However, you are always welcome to work on any stub (or any other article!) at any time.

The first week's theme is fandoms!

There are a number of pages about individual fandoms that need more information. Some of the current stubs include:

• Assassin's Creed
  
• Backstreet Boys
  
• Breaking Bad
  
• The Incredible Hulk
  
• Pandora Hearts
  
• Professor Layton
  
• Saint Seiya
  
• Sports RPF

and many more! Feel free to browse the stubs, pages that need expansion, and examples wanted categories.


New editor? See the Intro to Fanlore FAQ, Help:Editing pages, and the formatting cheatsheet for the basics of wiki editing.

Please keep in mind that Fanlore is a wiki about fandom, not canon. A very brief overview of the canon is often helpful to give the article some context, but the article should be about how fans engage with or react to the canon. Some ideas to get you started:

• Where does the fandom hang out? What are popular communities, websites, forums, etc.?
  
• What kinds of fanworks does the fandom produce?
  
• Are there any topics, themes, or tropes that frequently appear in fanworks?
  
• What other kinds of fan activities are common (online and offline)?
  
• What are the most popular characters and 'ships?
  
• Are there any notable events, controversies, or wanks?
  
• How has the fandom changed over time?

See What content should I include in a fandom page? For RPF fandoms, see Help:RPF pages.

For lists of all fandom articles on Fanlore, see Fandoms by Source Text, Category:Fandoms by Canon Type, and Category:Fandoms by Community.


Check back next week for a new theme! If you have any questions, feel free to comment on this post or to email the Fanlore Gardeners.

You are also totally welcome and encouraged to leave comments letting us know about your contributions to the challenge. Happy editing!

Comments

[espresso_addict]

Having just crawled through the list of stubs without finding a single fandom I could significantly improve, I'm concluding fandom stubs might be the least easy to expand if one doesn't know anything about the subject :(

[jsparc]

I agree, it's definitely hard to write more than a stub if you're not familiar with the fandom! I hope you'll be able to find articles to work on with the future Stub September themes, but don't feel like you have to stick to the theme--all contributions are awesome :)

[espresso_addict]

I did manage to find out a little about Red Dwarf pre-livejournal fandom between Google & the WBM, but characters are waaay easier!

[aralias]

hi all. i've fleshed out the red dwarf fanlore stub - and i've released it to the reddwarfslash comm on LJ to hopefully help improve it a bit. next stop - sapphire and steel.

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

Looks great! (I just discovered that after all these years, I can still spontaneously sing the theme song. Ha!)

[jsparc]

Wow, that looks awesome! Major kudos to you and the others who worked on it. Way to go above and beyond destubification :)

[heartturnsblue]

Added a very tiny bit of info to the Backstreet Boys page. It hasn't been my fandom since 2000, so I couldn't remember a lot of it, and what I did add was mostly focused on the early het side of the fandom. Also, I'm seriously lacking references. But maybe it'll spark some memories or something for others to expand upon it?

Signed, the girl who added all the Hanson info and apparently has a thing for late 1990s boy bands.

[jsparc]

I'm so glad you edited the Backsteet Boys page, I was surprised at how empty it was before! I'm sure others will be by to add references and their own experiences, that's the beauty of wikis. But what you have so far is certainly interesting on its own!

I also enjoyed your Hanson edits -- it wasn't ever my fandom but I saw a bit around when I first discovered fandom and it makes me nostalgic :)

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you :D I wish I could do for BSB what I've done for the Hanson section!

But yeah, I hope what I've posted triggers some memories for anyone else who was in the early het fandom, and maybe encourages some of the later popslash fans to make sure their side is represented.

[heartturnsblue]

...and that anon comment was from me. I don't use DW much, and apparently I haven't set it to stay logged in.