User talk:Mrs. Potato Head
Editing Question
Mrs. Potato Head: Quick question. I went to update the KiScon (Star Trek zine) page to include the 2012 edition, only to find I don't have editing rights. I spent well over an hour getting it all formatted - is there someone I can send it to, to insert for me? amandawarrington (talk) 13:23, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
- Have you been able to edit other things? If so, you should be able to edit this. If not, I wonder what the problem is? Hmmmm. In any case, you can send it to me, and I'll add it. My email is on my userpage. If you have trouble, let me know! --Mrs. Potato Head (talk) 19:00, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
new K/S fanfiction template
So I looked at the K/S fanfiction category, and lo, it was enormous. It occurred to me that at some point down the line we might want to move Star Trek fanfiction pages out of the main fanfiction category, since they now represent half the pages in the category. With that in mind, I created a K/S template: Template:FanfictionStarTrekTOSKS. Let me know if it suits your needs. I didn't rename any of the fields, but I prepopulated the fandom field so you wouldn't have to type in the same thing over and over. Let me know if there's any other standard text you'd find useful. If the template looks okay, I'll start updating the existing pages. That should keep me out of trouble for a while.--æþel (talk) 22:44, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, quite enormous. I passed 1000 about an hour ago. It's put me in disambiguation hell, which I hope I'm handling okay. It's a weak spot of mine...
- A field that I was thinking MIGHT be useful is "medium." One can put in print or online. But that hasn't been too onerous to add in the body of the article. (Plus, I'm not about to go back and edit all 1000, one at a time, at this point.) I also think the fanfiction templates should be as similar as possible, and there frankly, just aren't going to be as many comments for other non-K/S single fanworks in print zines, not like this anyway. The K/Sers are uniquely prolific with their comments and have been for decades. I'm conflicted on whether a "medium" field is a good idea or not.
- Thank you, Aethel, for helping with this project. --Mrs. Potato Head (talk) 23:00, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
- Since this is a zine-related project, do you want a "First printed in X zine" type field? I think the "medium" of fanfiction is "text"--it can be printed in a zine and then distributed online, so a field for print vs online doesn't seem very useful. --æþel (talk) 23:09, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
- I don't want that "first printed in" field as, while it would be useful for me right now as that's what I'm working on, it isn't necessarily the default for others. I think, let's just leave the template fields as they are. It's been working fine so far. --Mrs. Potato Head (talk) 23:14, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
- Since this is a zine-related project, do you want a "First printed in X zine" type field? I think the "medium" of fanfiction is "text"--it can be printed in a zine and then distributed online, so a field for print vs online doesn't seem very useful. --æþel (talk) 23:09, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Fan fiction labeling
The first place I ever saw any stories labeled was online in the mid-1990s. Even the sort of pre- or quasi-slash I've spoken to you about before from the early 80s, I can't remember any labeling. Maybe they had it by that time and that one zine I saw just never used it? Who started it and when? --KTJ (talk) 06:08, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
