Category talk:Online Service Providers
Appropriate Category?
This category doesn't seem appropriate for a wiki about fandom. (See Fanlore:What Fanlore is not). Delete?--aethel (talk) 03:27, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
- Yes I am okay with you deleting this page! --WingedWarrior (talk) 14:07, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- I also agree, I find this category on Fanlore a bit strange, supporting the exclusion decision -- User:Ellakbhesse (talk) 02:15, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- Are you planning to delete just the category or also the pages within the category? AOL and Prodigy have some discussion of Fandom on the page, but CompuServe doesn't really (though I wonder if it's a stub that someone was planning to expand w/ coverage of Fandom's usage of the site at some point) -- Quaelegit (talk) 12:27, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- I assume we'd keep the pages and put them in the Websites category? Someone could add a NeedsMoreFandom flag to CompuServe. It was before my time so I don't know how fans used it.--aethel (talk) 00:54, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
- Works for me. Funnily enough, I think I remember using Compuserve in college (in the 2010s), but for, like, professors' webpages, nothing fandom-y. -- Quaelegit (talk) 09:13, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, we just want to delete the category, the pages are fine. (I'm of the opinion that AOL also needs more fannish focus but that can be addressed on the page itself). Feel free to action, MPH! --enchantedsleeper (talk) 13:33, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
- Works for me. Funnily enough, I think I remember using Compuserve in college (in the 2010s), but for, like, professors' webpages, nothing fandom-y. -- Quaelegit (talk) 09:13, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
- I assume we'd keep the pages and put them in the Websites category? Someone could add a NeedsMoreFandom flag to CompuServe. It was before my time so I don't know how fans used it.--aethel (talk) 00:54, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
- Are you planning to delete just the category or also the pages within the category? AOL and Prodigy have some discussion of Fandom on the page, but CompuServe doesn't really (though I wonder if it's a stub that someone was planning to expand w/ coverage of Fandom's usage of the site at some point) -- Quaelegit (talk) 12:27, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
Question About a Consolidation
I've been working on the CompuServe page and its fannish use (still need to divide into sections, refine, and give some context to the quotes), but I was thinking that the info on that page wasn't so much CompuServe specific, but Online Service Provider in general: AOL, GEnie, Prodigy...
Would a page called Online Service Provider be a better title for a page, and info about specific ones be included on it? Or do you think there is enough material for specific providers to warrant separate pages?
Also, what constitute on "online service provider"? Does that include Usenet? Message Board? Yahoo? I'm pretty shaky on the definition in the first place. MPH (talk) 20:50, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
- I was assuming that online service providers were the same as ISPs - ie. early companies that offered internet access to consumers. So with that definition I wouldn't include Message boards or Yahoo groups, but now that you've asked the question, I'm not sure if that is correct? Wikipedia:Online service provider seems to imply that the definition has changed overtime. I haven't seen this term in fandom before, or if I did it was in the 2000s and I've forgotten, so not sure which definition we want to use.. --Auntags (talk) 20:16, 6 December 2022 (UTC)