GeoCities Rescue Project!

[francescacoppa]

Just to say that I'm thrilled at arduinna's call for folks to list links to (and maybe stub? screencap? fill out? add to?) GeoCities pages. We could really use all the help we can get, here!! I'm wondering if maybe this can be the first fanlore challenge as suggested by ratcreature earlier today--maybe folks can take a look over there and see if there's a page they're invested in documenting/saving?

Examples: some fan pages that have been stubbed or preserved in Fanlore as part of GeoCities Rescue:

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Nic
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Alassenya
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Jonquil
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Sweet_Sorcery
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Unovis
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Silver_Chipmunk
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Rabidsamfan

Any help anybody wants to give here is greatly greatly appreciated! (And if you know the owner/moderator of a GeoCities fanfiction site, please tell them to contact me: we can give them a beta account for their fic!)

Comments

Re: Oh, n00b signing in!

[francescacoppa]

The resource stuff should totally go into Fanlore--its what fanlore is FOR. You could make a page for the fandom and pairing if there isn't already--or even start it, and others will help.

Meanwhile, if its true what you say that "But those are some of the best-known pieces of fanwork in my fandom. Even those who hate the ship have made reference to a couple of 'em. " then they may meet the notability requirement for Fanlore, and I'm fairly sure that you can upload screencaps there and make reference to them--basically saying this, that these works are famous and important--on the pairing's fanlore page. I had to run a case like this by our legal team not long ago, and apparently if a work IS really famous there's a different standard for us hosting screencaps of it on Fanlore.

(It's also worth doublechecking though that the work's not already in the Wayback machine at archive.org.)