Help:Fan Communities

This help page provides instructions for how to create, organize and develop articles about fan communities. For help with articles about fandom overviews, see Help:Fandoms.

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Fanlore is dedicated to documenting fan communities, which include offline groups like fan clubs (?) and online communities like mailing lists and web forums.

How do I name the page?

See also Help:Naming Conventions and Help:Disambiguation Naming Conventions.

Which templates and categories should I use?

Note: When you include an infobox template on an article, the article will automatically be included in the corresponding category.

• Web forums can use Template:Forum (includes Category:Forums)
• Livejournal-style journal communities can use Template:JournalComm (Category:Journaling Communities)
• Mailing lists can use Template:MailingList (Category:Mailing Lists)
• Tumblrs can use Template:Tumblr (Category:Microblogs)
  • We don't have a template for Twitter yet, but you can manually add Category:Microblogs to the page
• Usenet newsgroups can use Template:UsenetProfile (Category:Newsgroups)
• Websites can use Template:Site (Category:Websites)
  • Archives can use Template:ArchiveProfile
  • Rec sites can use Template:SiteRec (Category:Recommendation Sites)
  • Webrings can use Template:Webring (Category:Webrings)
• Fannish "collectives" and artistic collaborators can use Template:CollaborationCollective (Category:Collaboration)
• Miscellaneous fan communities can use Template:CommunityProfile (Category:Fan Communities)

See also Help:Templates and Help:Categories.

Examples

For any other questions, you can use the Talk page or contact the Fanlore Committee.