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It's starting to get down to the wire on rescuing Geocities pages -- I think the purge has already started, given some pages I suddenly can't find -- and there's a staggering amount that hasn't been done yet.
So I thought maybe it would be good to have a post where people could at least leave links to Geocities pages, maybe with a very short description of what they are, so wiki editors would have a starting place. (Links to screencaps of existing pages would also be awesome, so those could be uploaded to Fanlore later, but that would be icing.)
That way, even if not everything gets done, we have a chance of being able to find these pages on the Wayback Machine later -- once we lose the links, we've lost our chance.
I'm already starting to see this:
So I thought maybe it would be good to have a post where people could at least leave links to Geocities pages, maybe with a very short description of what they are, so wiki editors would have a starting place. (Links to screencaps of existing pages would also be awesome, so those could be uploaded to Fanlore later, but that would be icing.)
That way, even if not everything gets done, we have a chance of being able to find these pages on the Wayback Machine later -- once we lose the links, we've lost our chance.
I'm already starting to see this:
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The Sentinel Slash Zine Listing
Listings of TS slash zines and publishers, along with links to zine stories as they went online. Multiple pages.
(screencap of front page)
Welcome to Sentinel Fandom
A newbie guide to TS. Gave fans an overview and orientation to TS fandom. Where to find Mailing Lists, fan clubs, tape exchanges, episode guides, transcripts, fanfic posting help...
(unfortunately the site displays wonky in my current browser so I can't make good screencaps)
Re: Welcome to Sentinel Fandom
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/8097/ts.html
Re: Welcome to Sentinel Fandom
The Sensory Overload Site (comprehensive ep by ep analysis of Jim using his senses)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/8097/sensory.html
Cascade Hospital (a resource to write medical, injury, h/c fanfic and such)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/8097/cascadehospital/index.html
And more with trivia like white sock sightings and such.
Due South
Keitayas Due South
Feb 18, 2004 ... Paul Gross pictures and personal reviews on his career.
www.geocities.com/hollywood/highrise/3940/ - Cached - Similar -
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GTL's Due South Page
Devoted to the great television show, Due South, starring Paul Gross as Canadian Mountie Benton Fraser. Site contains videos, sounds and photos.
www.geocities.com/elainedues/ - Cached - Similar -
Hide more results from www.geocities.com
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Due South Fiction by Melanie
Thought-provoking, episode-related Due South fiction. The Episode Guide ... What is an Explanation? And Why did Due South have so many of them? ...
www.geocities.com/ifirstcametochicago/ - Cached - Similar
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Highlander & Due South
Photos from several conventions focusing on the two series.
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Screen/5227/ - Cached - Similar
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Due South Transcripts
... www.geocities.com/nuckie3/tvfilm/transcripts.html - Cached - Similar
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THH's Due South Site
an excellent Due South site dedicated to David Marciano: http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3046/ another great site devoted to all things Due South! ...
www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Station/6585/index.html - Cached - Similar
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Slash Priestess' due South fic
Welcome to my webpage, home of my due South fan fic. Most of the fiction on this page is slash (depecting a romantic and/or sexual relationship between two ...
www.geocities.com/slashpriestess/ - Cached - Similar
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http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9307/
a resource site (has the sections [Cast / Crew] [Episode Guide] [Audio Files] [Articles] [Merchandise] [Sentinel Sites] [Fan Ratings Results] [Fan Birthdays] [Fan Locations] [Games] [Guestbook])
Rogue Scenarios
An Archive of Sentinel Fanfiction Featuring Lee Brackett
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Picture/1152/
Iris Wilde's Sentinel Fanfiction Page
http://www.geocities.com/iriswilde/
Techgrrl's Sentinel Fanfiction
http://www.geocities.com/techtechgrrl/sentinel/
Wnnepooh's FanFic Grotto
http://www.geocities.com/wnnepooh/
Crossover Awards
http://www.geocities.com/crossoverawards/
The Crystal Rose
From the Beauty and the Beast Tunnel webring (one of my first introductions to online fandom in the late 90s): The Crystal Rose is a Beauty and the Beast association. We have a snail-mail newsletter as well as our webpage. We bring you the latest news, short stories ,art, etc.
HL Sites on Geocities, OMG
http://community.livejournal.com/hl_flash/105703.html
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I'm listing all the links in the comments over here (http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtkQF_DFcuILdGswaXRqdkVfekNLdVNXc0o5YzFVSFE&hl=en) to keep track of what I'm doing, but I don't want to duplicate other efforts -- because man, that is a *long list*.
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mako's tank- multi-fandom personal archive
Nuns and Dynamite: Slash by Perpetual Motion- multi-fandom personal archive
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Archives
The Blue Plate Diner (Strange Luck)
(Also resources pages. This is a pretty old fandom, I doubt much/any of this is archived elsewhere.)
Archivist (I think): Azar: azarsuerte@hotmail.com
Also all archived authors' email addresses listed here: http://www.geocities.com/blueplatediner/regulars.html
http://www.geocities.com/blueplatediner/dinermain.html
Archer's Enterprise | "Enterprise" slash.
Archivist: archers_enterprise@yahoo.com
http://geocities.com/archers_enterprise/
Soldier of Death (Gundam Wing, Duo/Heero)
Archivist: reensen - reensen01@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/reen2x1/1x2x1.html
Eos' Shrine to Gundam Wing (uh. gundam wing).
Archivist: Eos: The_Eos@hotmail.com
Other authors emails appear on front page.
http://www.geocities.com/The_Eos/fanfic.html
Beautiful Emotions (Gundam Wing)
Archivist: Maaya: shinigami_heart@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/shinigami_heart89/index.htm
Buffy fanfic archive
Archivist: morbia_13@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Crater/4116/fanfiction/fanfiction.html
Karen's DeepWater Black page (fic and resource) (if I recall from my brief love affair with DWB, this is about the only site there is. Tragic loss to fandom OMG!)
Archivist: Karen - karebear@geocities.com
Front page: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/4684/
Fanfic: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/4684/d05dex.html
Authors' email (that I could find) since it hasn't been updated since 1999 so good luck getting hold of the archivist: Mission girl - MGScifi@aol.com; Chiona- yez10@dial.pipex.com; Michelle Vincenti - Lise-sq@geocities.com; Julia Webster - kiran@ozdocs.net.au;
Single Authors
Luce Red (mainly Hikaru No Go, also Saiyuki, Shaman King, Prince of Tennis etc)
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/issen4
Email: issen.llo@gmail.com (I think this is more recent, but it says redacanthus@yahoo.com on website)
http://www.geocities.com/redacanthus/
Ryoko (Gundam Wing)
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/marmalade_girl
Email: pirate_ryoko@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/pirate_ryoko/
Quatre-sama (GW, HP, Tamora Pierce, Trigun, Ranma)
Email: quatre_sama_195@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/f4_soujiro/
Justin Glasser (X Files)
Email: Julan777@aol.com
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7752/
Roseveare (FMA, One Piece, Buffy, Dr Who etc) (+ fanart + vids)
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/roseveare/
Email: t.l.green@talk21.com
http://www.geocities.com/roseveare/main.html
Maxwell's Salvage (Gundam Wing)
Email: DC Logan maxwells_salvage@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/maxwells_salvage/
Lady Dark Angel (Gundam Wing)
Email: Ladydarkangel_1@yahoo.com
Guestbook: http://us.geocities.yahoo.com/gb/sign?member=ladydarkangel_1
http://www.geocities.com/ladydarkangel_1/index.html
Ashkara's Fanfiction Vault (Gundam Wing):
Email: ashkara12@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/ashkara12/index.html
Blathersythe (Gundam Wing, Naruto, Bleach)
Email: zooie@gundamwing.net
http://www.geocities.com/gundam_cafe/blathersythe.html
Rory? (Saiyuki, Slam Dunk, etc)
Email: roryheadmav@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/roryheadmav/main.html
Julian Lee (West Wing, Sports Night, Smallville, Harry Potter, Heat of the Sun, Crossing Jordan, CSI, Keen Eddie, Law and Order, Monk, Scrubs, SG1, Without a Trace)
Email: thwarted1066@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/thwarted1066/
Perpetual Motion (Adventure Inc, Crossing Jordon, CSI,Dead like Me, The District, Due South, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Enterprise, Firefly, Harry Potter, House, Keen Eddie, Law and Order, Lotrips, Monk, Mutant X, NCIS, Numb3rs, OC, Profiler, RPS, Scrubs, Sentinel, Singing in the Rain, Sky Captain , SG1, Smallville, West Wing, Without a Trace, etc)
LJ: http://perpet-fic.livejournal.com/
Email: goodness, why would anyone want to put an email address where one could easily find it? Feedback form: http://www.geocities.com/iwannabedonna/feedback.html
http://www.geocities.com/iwannabedonna/index.html
No idea of author name (Weiss Kruez)
Email: gedojudea@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/ayafujimiya/weiss/rohirim.html
Lone Wolf (Gundam Wing – awesome!)
Email: kodoku_na_okami@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/kodoku_na_okami/fics/fics.html
Flamika (GW, Anita Blake, Yu Yu Hakusho, Fruits Basket, Death Note)
Email: Fuck if i know. Dead god, these websites are all so badly designed.
LJ: http://flamika.livejournal.com/
http://www.geocities.com/flamika27/index2.html
Robert A Black (Btvs – this is on an archive, listed above, but I think this is quite a well known story (haven't read it) and possibly should be saved if possible?)
Email: rablack@primenet.com
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Crater/4116/fanfiction/otherfic/100starspro.html
Links that are already dead
Missing Angel's Presidential Games | "West Wing" slash
http://www.geocities.com/anthrrealm/front.html
Oh, Those Guys | An archive run by Perpetual Motion and dedicated to the proposition that no pairing is too weird to slash.
http://www.geocities.com/ohthoseguys/index.html
The Staff Room | A Harry Potter archive for fics about the Hogwarts staff. Contains a lot of great femslash pieces, including several about Madam Hooch. I know we're not supposed to play favorites, but she's definitely mine.
http://www.geocities.com/thwarted1066/www.romanastardis.co.uk/staffroom/
Hercules (Ares fic): http://www.geocities.com/hergerbabe/ficindexslashxena3.html
Gundam Wing, single author? No idea:
http://www.geocities.com/siamidnight/
Harry potter archive/story?
http://www.geocities.com/michael_malfoy/archive/WelcomeToTheRealWorld/realworld.html
poilass @ lj
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Don't mind me. I'm just going out of my mind, is all. There are already so many things disappearing; for a compulsive packrat-type like me, it is very crazy-making.
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Got it in one.
Maybe we should just ask him to put the missing fics at Gossamer and be done with it.
Yeah, I tried that. Nothing.
(I dug up the link; it's here if anyone needs it.)
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Just kidding.
Kind of.
Oh. Like everyone else in the universe, he is on Live Journal. Everyone from XF fandom (except for a handful of people) is, and we just keep finding them. How did you run into this guy? Friend of a friend of a friend?
I'm not lost!
perpetfic.summer-sparrow.net
And about 99% of all my stuff is currently here:
perpetfic.googlepages.com
I'm moving off googlepages because they're getting ready to switch to googlesites, and I hate googlesites.
All I lost were a few story summaries, luckily. I'm hoping everyone else was as lucky as well.
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It sounds like you are pretty snowed under, if you need more volunteers maybe you could say exactly what needs doing? i.e. hunting down email address for authors/archivists and sending out a formletter, posting about the GRP in various places, taking screencaps of a list of websites, etc. I think a lot of people feel more comfortable volunteering to do a specific thing (by a lot of people, I mean: me). I mean, I could do that stuff, if it was stuff you needed doing, but I am not interested in figuring out fanlore atm.
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It's not that there's a ton of people behind the GRP; it's a small group of people making a resource available and trying to get the word out as far as possible. But a big part of that is counting on people to spread the word. If you could do that - post about the project with links back to the project page and things like this post, and/or send out a letter to authors/archivists, that would be fantastic! We need that really badly.
And screencaps would also be hugely useful! Post them in comments here, or hell, send them to me directly and I'll get them up into Fanlore, whatever. Someone else will totally do the work of transferring info over for you, that's no problem at all.
We want any and all sites - fic, information, link listings, awards, you name it. (For fic sites, we want screencaps of something like the front page, just something to give an idea of the feel of the site, and maybe a listing of the stories; for resource/link pages, more extensive screencaps would be awesome, so we don't lose the information.)
As for what's being done with the links here - hopefully everything! *g* I know I've written to people with fic sites on Geocities to point them to Open Doors and tell them about the beta accounts available on AO3 for fic hosted on Geocities; other people are doing the same. But I think either way, it's just as important to get a record into Fanlore and/or to collect links to find things on Wayback later; a lot of the fannish sites on geocities were fanfic, but lots were info sites, resources, links pages, screencap galleries, etc.
So at the very least, I'm hoping we can record these sites' existence before they vanish.
So yes, regarding your last paragraph, we totally need people willing to:
- post links here, with or without email addies (with would be fabulous, without is fine)
- see if a geocities site has moved somewhere else (although in a lot of cases, the "new" url is dead, and only the old Geocities version exists, I'm finding), and post that here
- write to people with fic archived on Geocities and tell them about the option to host their work on AO3
- take screencaps of Geocities sites and put them somewhere Fanlore editors can access them to upload to Fanlore (if you can't do photobucket or similar, you can email them directly to me at my gmail addy and I'll do something with them: arduinna at gmail dot com)
- spread the word about the Geocities Rescue Project as far and wide as possible, with links back to the project
If it would be easier to do screencaps off a list, I can pull together all the links that have been added at some point, and we can cross them off as they get screencapped. (That won't happen today, but I can do it later.)
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But I don't know how you're keeping track of what's already been done. I know it might be more work but a googlespreadsheet or the like with all the sites to be recorded/people to be contacted would be really useful, so the same thing isn't done twice and stuff doesn't get left out. I could start one of everything posted here so far if you want.
I thought maybe contacting the mods of fandom newsletters (these ones http://fanlore.org/wiki/Newsletter/Newsletter_Communities) and the like, and asking them to post a PSA? Do you have a standard announcement or do I just make something up?
I also have had a look at the Geocities Rescue Project page, and it is a little bare. I think if you don't want to be explaining the same thing to people over and over again, it could really use some expansion on exactly how to document a site on Fanlore, rather than just "contact open doors", and maybe more of the rescued pages and a link to here. People might be more willing to drop links than email.
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Email: the_jentayu@hotmail.com
Livejournal: http://justthefics.livejournal.com ?; http://qithathu.livejournal.com/ ??
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/4888/fiction.html
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Email: Rhipodon@home.com, rhipodon@shaw.ca
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/6381/index.html
And just in case, but I suspect you have already seen that TSficfind are collecting links for geocities Sentinel sites: http://community.livejournal.com/sentinelficfind/368931.html
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We are not who we are
http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Cliff/8873/
Look at the artwork for Sore Luck at the Luxor. Also, maybe it's just a coincidence but all of the wheels on the title page for the site have an "X" on them.
http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Cliff/8873/SoreLuck.html
All of the links are even still intact.
I am so depressed now.
Moving on.
How about an an animated gif of Mulder and Scully from 1999? 0r maybe 2000? Or?
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/2095/xfdance2.html
There has to be a way to save this stuff. This is from a site called The X-Files Finis Romantics Society, which shut down at the end of season 8, I think, in 2001. There is still a lot of stuff intact there, too, although some of the picture files are already missing. They are on wayback, though.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/2095/
Then there is The Oncology Ward Fan Fiction Archive, devoted to fic about Special Agent Dana Scully's cancer. All of the links for it are already down but here is the site on wayback. I know a person who is saving the fic from this, but as a novice XF fandom history buff, I really want this saved at Fanlore, too.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990203001708/http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/2095/oncology.html
It looks like The X-Files fandom might have had its own web address at Geocities? Area 51? Huh.
I would like to help out any way that I could, but I need more direction. I am an internet novice by comparison to most people here, I think.
I will come back with more links later.
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Here are more sites
http://www.geocities.com/charliefic/
I think the fic for this is being saved.
http://geocities.com/msebasky/slug_hymnal.html
http://www.geocities.com/doggeared/frames.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/1495/consortium.html
This site is going to be moved! (Go me!)
http://geocities.com/fanficcorner/
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/9468/fanficgs.htm
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/1976/
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Orion/5345/GreasySpoon.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/5318/entry
If IOHO goes down I will mourn forever. I don't suppose you'd like to beg the site owners to move it for me?
http://www.geocities.com/landoftheyeti/tempindex.htm
http://www.geocities.com/laxfileshome/Fanfichome.html
http://www.geocities.com/museans/museans/Impressionism.html This site is looking very wonky. Maybe it's me?
http://www.geocities.com/mulderscreek/nurseryfiles.html
This site isn't moving as it turns out, it is staying at Yahoo as it is already a paid site.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/2095/oncology.html
It would be nice to find an earlier version of this one that didn't proclaim how out of date it is, but I guess that's part of history, too. The fic is being archived elsewhere.
http://www.geocities.com/cupofrhyme/Main.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Portal/1720/
I think this one is being moved, too.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Omega/1440/raiders1.html This is one of MaybeAmanda's sites. Ask her if she is moving them, and if she isn't screencap them to death. All of them are amazing and will be a huge loss if they disappear. If she isn't moving it and moving IOHO, I will die, I swear, I will.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/7443/skinscul.html
So many of the Skinner sites are already gone. Am making a mental note to look for them on wayback.
http://www.geocities.com/txfssgfic/
http://www.geocities.com/xfjunkie/doggett.html
This site seems like inspired lunacy.
http://www.geocities.com/visionjdmr/
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/7855/
I need to find a copy of the old Muldertorture site to go with the Skinner torture site.
http://www.geocities.com/wetfic/home.html
http://www.geocities.com/wickedxwitches/
This is a priority because no one but me is going to try to document or save it. No one will admit publicly to even reading them let alone being one.
http://www.geocities.com/workingstiffsfanfic/
This is another site that is a huge priority, to screencap, to save the content in any way that we can. There is a lot of history on this site.
http://www.geocities.com/saprior/doggettfiction.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/2095/
http://www.geocities.com/xfanfic1013/
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/2959/beehive.html
http://www.geocities.com/sheswirls/afterglow.html
http://geocities.com/sablefour/
http://geocities.com/landoftheyeti/
http://www.geocities.com/isthatplop/
This site is another priority for me. One of the site's owners is a friend and I would try to save it save it for that reason alone. Also, there are just not enough funny stories in XF fandom.
The other thing I have been doing is putting the sites in the wayback machine to see if there is already a good crawl for it, if not, I put it in the queue to be redone. That is a tedious task.
So that isn't so bad, right? Then I have to look at the author sites. Next week, maybe?
After that I thought I might work on some Buffy sites. Not my fandom but I know where there are a lot of links on geocities.
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I am the webmaster of the NewsRadio FanFic Archive hosted at the Geocities Television City neighborhood (
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Lot/2701/). I have already taken liberties to preserve my page by submitting it for inclusion in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Geocities Preservation sweep, and I've copied it to Angelfire (http://newsradiofanfic.angelfire.com/) so that I may continue to update it in the future. Please feel free to document my fanfic site as you see fit, since the stories therein constitute an important part of television fanfic history, and all contributing authors deserve to have their work preserved for posterity.
Sincerely,
-Dale Dassel
NewsRadio Fanfic Archive webmaster
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"check over at the academyofbards.org for some of the missing things... they've been bringing in a lot of the xwp writers.
shay"
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This site is mine. I'm going to re-host it somewhere; I just need to decide where.
2. There is a similar, older Auron/Lulu fansite on Geocities which is no longer maintained, and is certainly going to vanish:
http://www.geocities.com/kiminy_2000/fanart.html
http://www.geocities.com/kiminy_2000/fanfic.html
I can't figure out how to screencap the whole thing. I'll submit it to the Wayback Machine, but that's liable to skip the graphics.
OOPS. ALmost got it, but not quite.
1. I'll worry about my own site tomorrow.
2. I've figured out how to screencap, I've downloaded a complete archive of the second Auron/Lulu site I mentioned above, and I've created a Fanlore page for it: http://fanlore.org/wiki/AuLu_(Geocities_Fansite)
Problem: When I created an internal wiki link to that entry from here:
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_X/Auron/Lulu
the link shows extraneous brackets, like this: [| AuLu]. I think the parentheses in the title are causing problems.
Which means I need to change AuLu_(Geocities_Fansite) to AuLu_Geocities_Fansite. Have I screwed up? I don't see a way to rename an article.
(I can't just title the Wiki entry AuLu, because there's a totally separate Livejournal Community by that name, and it makes no sense to use the Wiki entry for a dead site instead of an active one.)
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No worries on the link; it's just a formatting thing. Internal links need to have the http:/fanlore.org part left off, so it's just the name. I've just fixed it, so now the link goes to [[AuLu (Geocities Fansite)]] and works just fine. (Internal links work better with spaces than with underscores. Confusing, but true.)
(If you ever do need to rename a page, you have to leave a note for the gardeners; they're the only ones who can do that. You leave a note by using the AttentionGardeners template on the page you want moved, with a note explaining what you want done.)
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I've now transferred http://www.geocities.com/auronlu (my own fandom site) to:
http://auronlu.istad.org/aulu-shrine
I'll create a Fanlore entry for that site too, then enter both of 'em in the Big List.
Thank you for providing all these resources!