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Having just discovered this comm I thought I'd use it to ask about the two main questions which stop me editing.
When I can't find information on a subject and have to look it up myself I like to create a resource listing what I've found to help anyone else in the same boat. Fanlore should be a perfect place for this, but I find myself unsure as to whether or not my particular approach would be welcome.
First: How much information about canon should there be on pages about a fandom? I tend to know much more about canon than fandom for the stuff I like, and SOME info about canon is necessary to understand discussions of fandom, but I never know how much is too much. Are there examples of pages which get it right to work from?
Second: I'm a maths major. I like writing lists, in this cases lists of cool/relevant stuff I've found. But the Fanlore pages I've read seem more to be walls of text scattered with references rather than resources.
EDIT: Lists seem to be ok, sweet!
For example: For a long time I couldn't find any collected info about fancomics.
I made a page at Comixpedia with all the ones I could find (this is the old version).
Someone deleted the list. I was annoyed, but eventually inspired to create my own community to post them into, and then made a less list-y entry for this wiki which just links the community and some other places to get started.
Would my original list-y type of entry be unwelcome? Or would it be ok if I made it's own page "List of Fancomics"? (There's no point making a Category since none of them have their own page)
Specifically, would it be ok if I created a list of fanart gift exchanges and challenges? It took me ages to find any, and I'm sure other people would be interested, but I'm not sure Fanlore is the place to post such a list.
Are there any places on the wiki that would benefit from some of my link-collecting list-making tendencies? I make no guarantee that I'll be inspired to work on them but you never know :)
When I can't find information on a subject and have to look it up myself I like to create a resource listing what I've found to help anyone else in the same boat. Fanlore should be a perfect place for this, but I find myself unsure as to whether or not my particular approach would be welcome.
First: How much information about canon should there be on pages about a fandom? I tend to know much more about canon than fandom for the stuff I like, and SOME info about canon is necessary to understand discussions of fandom, but I never know how much is too much. Are there examples of pages which get it right to work from?
Second: I'm a maths major. I like writing lists, in this cases lists of cool/relevant stuff I've found. But the Fanlore pages I've read seem more to be walls of text scattered with references rather than resources.
EDIT: Lists seem to be ok, sweet!
For example: For a long time I couldn't find any collected info about fancomics.
I made a page at Comixpedia with all the ones I could find (this is the old version).
Someone deleted the list. I was annoyed, but eventually inspired to create my own community to post them into, and then made a less list-y entry for this wiki which just links the community and some other places to get started.
Would my original list-y type of entry be unwelcome? Or would it be ok if I made it's own page "List of Fancomics"? (There's no point making a Category since none of them have their own page)
Specifically, would it be ok if I created a list of fanart gift exchanges and challenges? It took me ages to find any, and I'm sure other people would be interested, but I'm not sure Fanlore is the place to post such a list.
Are there any places on the wiki that would benefit from some of my link-collecting list-making tendencies? I make no guarantee that I'll be inspired to work on them but you never know :)
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