making up fannish stuff, for posterity and beyond!

[sab]

All you all should be coming over to help edit fanlore.org. It's very easy to log in, and then those of us who toil over there would love some toiling help. For example, there's hardly any info on the "West Wing" page; come fill it up, and bring your favorite fics!

Also, for semantics purposes; help me with these questions below? Answer with the term you would most frequently use, or answer with the term you have most frequently heard if you don't prefer one answer over the other.

[Poll #1296784]

ETA: Comments! Keep 'em coming!

Love,
Sab

Comments

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

OK, then why isn't the femslash page called "Femslash aka saffic aka altfic aka f/f?"

Because the guideline seems to be to go with the term most people use.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

oh, that's because that page was developed early on. Aristide/Mariread Triste is similar, except that because of the slash, it developed a subpage, which would be an unfortunate side effect in this situation. We're still in beta and our naming conventions aren't perfect.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Well, do you honestly think that's going to be the best naming convention to go with? Every page where there are different terms should be "A aka B aka C aka D aka E aka F aka G" ad infinitum, as long as someone can find even a dozen uses of that term that have *ever been used, ever* on the entire internet?

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Honestly, it depends on what compromise can be worked out. I do think that some page names may end up huge and unweildy, but, eh. It's just text. If it means that people feel included, it's a win.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

I would agree, as long as (1) all claims can be cited, which so far, "multimedia = multifandom" isn't (in terms of it being a definition that's currently in use) and (2) as long as it isn't actively confusing, and at this point, "multimedia = multifandom" definitely is.