CFAN's Fandom Glossary

[anenko]

I've been hit by a wave of nostalgia recently, and have been tossing up stubs on Fanlore for a lot of my old haunts--especially for the X-Men comics fandom (I couldn't believe that no one had already tackled CFAN!)

On my search for screencaps, I rediscovered CFAN's fandom glossary. I was thinking about moving over the information there to Fanlore, but wondered how useful people would actually find it. A lot of the terms are obsolete (so far as I know). I don't see "egoboo," "sillyfic," "feedback fic" or "archive fic" used these days.

Beyond that, I don't feel completely right copying CFAN's content (even rephrased and cited).

Opinions?

Comments

[arduinna]

I still use "egoboo", I just use it on bookmarks I mark privately on delicious so no one can see that I'm, um, tagging egoboo. *kof* *shifty eyes*

Although I use it in conversation, as well, fwiw. (Hm - maybe LJ-based people don't use it because they're used to getting direct, public comments? So it's all just feedback? IDK. But to me, any rec of my work is egoboo.)

But also, I think a big part of Fanlore should be showing fandom as it was, as well as how it is, so I'm all for including terms even if they've fallen out of general usage.

Regarding copying the content over - it's definitions. I think it's totally fair game. If there's something that feels too much like you're taking something specifically that CFAN had come up with, rather than a general fannish term that could have been identified on a number of different sites in a similar way, you can always put a note on that you got the term/definition from CFAN with a link to Wayback.

But really, there were a lot of fannish glossaries around back in the day, so I'd be surprised if any given term wasn't on at least two or three different sites. I think it's safe to pull over, especially if it gets rephrased and/or cited.