Fanlore thoughts
Oct. 3rd, 2008 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zelempaDo you think it's a good idea to have pairing pages in addition to character pages on the fanlore wiki?
This is an example I made.
On the one hand, you could make a theoretically pairing page for any combination of characters, so it could quickly get out of hand. On the other, I think certain pairings (the very or weirdly popular--I think we need a page to explain the Porne phenomenon) deserve their own page. Some of the information I put on the Jim/Blair page was previously on Blair's page, but it really doesn't really belong on either of the character pages. It's SHARED info.
Another problem is I don't know how to make a page with a slash in the title be a subcategory.
(Possibly there is a more specific venue to which I could be dedicating this musing.)
Anyway, hi! I've been contributing to Jim's and Blair's pages the last few days, moving over the info I had on my Sentinel Fun Facts page. I think Fanlore is a place people might start thinking to go if they need some info for a fic and they want to see if canon has an answer or if they can make it up, so it's a good idea to consolidate all that nitty-gritty detail like Jim's badge number, etc. there. I'm still undecided about moving the silly timelines. They're largely speculative, after all. Would people find that useful?
This is an example I made.
On the one hand, you could make a theoretically pairing page for any combination of characters, so it could quickly get out of hand. On the other, I think certain pairings (the very or weirdly popular--I think we need a page to explain the Porne phenomenon) deserve their own page. Some of the information I put on the Jim/Blair page was previously on Blair's page, but it really doesn't really belong on either of the character pages. It's SHARED info.
Another problem is I don't know how to make a page with a slash in the title be a subcategory.
(Possibly there is a more specific venue to which I could be dedicating this musing.)
Anyway, hi! I've been contributing to Jim's and Blair's pages the last few days, moving over the info I had on my Sentinel Fun Facts page. I think Fanlore is a place people might start thinking to go if they need some info for a fic and they want to see if canon has an answer or if they can make it up, so it's a good idea to consolidate all that nitty-gritty detail like Jim's badge number, etc. there. I'm still undecided about moving the silly timelines. They're largely speculative, after all. Would people find that useful?