Fanlore:What Fanlore is not
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What Fanlore is not
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- Fanlore is not Wikipedia - either in methodology, policies, or scope
- Fanlore is a multi-authored site for, about and by fans and the fan communities that create and consume fanworks. As such, Fanlore represents a Plural Point of View and uses an inclusive tone, rather than a neutral one.
- Fanlore is not an encyclopedia of popular culture
- While television and other popular culture is important, the focus of the Fanlore wiki is fandom itself: fan works, fan activities, fan terminology, individual fans, and fannish-related events. So in essence, we are an encyclopedia of fannish culture, and we are interested in popular culture references that supports that.
- Fanlore is not exclusively dedicated to or reserved for X fandom
- All fandoms that create and consume fan works are welcome.
- Fanlore is not a hosted wiki for any specific fandom - for canon repositories see canon-specific websites (wikis or other)
- The focus of every page should be about the fandom. Canon details are important if they can be associated with particular fannish activity or associated with a fan community, a fan work, or fannish event. While a page is young, there may be more canon details on a page than details related to fan activities, but in the end, fandom should dominate on the majority of pages in the wiki.
- Fanlore is not an archive for all fanworks from every fan
- Fanlore will not act as an index of all of the fanworks that any individual fan may have created, though references to individual fanworks and pages for controversial and/or significant fanworks is always desired.
- Fanlore is not an archive for meta essays
- As meta is, by its nature, an individual person's point-of-view, stating a personal opinion on any particular subject, it is very infrequently inclusive in tone and tends to discourage other editors from adding in their own opinions. As such, links to external meta are fine and links to specific fan works pages are desired, particularly when the information sparked a fannish controversy or if there was significant fan activity around it.
- Fanlore is not an arbiter of relevance (develop / links)
- Fanlore is not a blog, a webspace provider or a social networking tool
- Fanlore is not censored
- Fanlore does have a strong interest in allowing fans to keep their privacy, when necessary, and articles that ‘out’ fans without their permission will be changed.
- Fanlore is not a forum for a personal autobiography
- The people pages in the main namespace should stick to fannish history & engagement. User pages (the page that a Fanlore contributor receives when they create an account) may be used for that kind of information.
