Date: 2008-11-14 04:52 am (UTC)
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I don't really understand what "qualifying as a small fandom" means in this context. We're not trying to determine whether "multimedia" is a fandom,.

In my mind, the question is this: Do enough people currently, *actively* use the term "multimedia" to mean "contains multiple fandoms," that it should be one of the term's major definitions on fanlore?

I'm pretty sure the answer is "no." Seventeen google hits, many of which are on old/dead sites, indicates to me that the term "multimedia" to mean "contains multiple fandoms" is a term that is not actively in use.

Like I've said, I'm perfectly happy to note it as an alternate usage and as a historical term, but if people want fanlore to say that it is a *widely used term* that is *currently* used by many, many people, then it's still a case of [citation needed]. Because my research, and sab's poll, seems to indicate that it "multimedia" not *currently* a term that is widely used to mean "contains many fandoms."

And like the poll indicates-- it's not even just that people don't use it, it's that they've *never heard it* used to mean that. I mean, I use "femslash" rather than "saffic," but if I put up a poll on my lj, I bet most people would have at least *heard of* "saffic." And yet the femslash entry isn't "Femslash or saffic," it's just femslash, because that's the most widely used term.
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