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Maintenance

This section contains tasks that don't require any particular fannish knowledge but are still necessary and any help would be appreciated!

  • Orphaned Pages: Orphaned Pages are pages that no one links to. Imagine how lonely they must be! But more importantly, it means that unless someone types in the exact title, they're unlikely to find the page. You can un-orphan a page by adding an internal link back to that page on a different page.
  • Uncategorized Pages and Uncategorized Files: All pages and files should belong to at least one category (or more, if there are more than one relevant categories). Subpages should have any relevant categories from their parent page.
  • Dead-end pages: Dead end pages don't have any links to other pages within them, meaning anyone who browses there is in grave danger of escaping Fanlore! Don't let this happen.
  • Categories: If the number of entries in a category = 1, check to see if there is a different version (spelling, etc) of the same category that has a larger number of members, then edit the entry and fix it if it needs to be changed.
  • Sorting: Use defaultsort to change the sort of fandoms beginning with 'The' or 'A'. Please make sure that people and characters (but not fans) are set to sort "Lastname, Firstname" if they have a last name. For more information about defaultsort, refer to the Editing Cheatsheet.

Pages that need more international focus

Use this section to add any pages that are lacking in a worldwide range of perspectives. For instance, if you know that fans in one part of the world have a specific take on a trope or genre, or that a ship is popular or controversial among fans from a particular country, and this isn't documented on Fanlore, this is the place to come for help, advice and input!

If there are gaps on a page concerning regions with a lot of fan activity about that topic, post about it here! This is also a good place to add pages containing material that needs to be translated into English. We also have Template:TranslationRequest which you are welcome to add to the page or Talk page.

Contributions from international fans are welcome and encouraged! Your additions do not need to be in perfect English, and broad information about how the subject of a page is perceived in different parts of the world does not necessarily need to have a documented source.

  • The Untamed - would be great to have much more info on Chinese fandom (as well as more info in general...)

Infrastructure-ish Page Wish

  • A general discussion page where concerns and suggestions can be discussed and questions about the site can be asked.
  • Should we have templates/standardizations not just for infoboxes, but for pages in general? Like for what kind of sections and subsections should be called

Wishes

This section contains a wish list for fannish topics that either do not have adequate coverage on Fanlore or are not yet represented here at all.

Activities

Awards

Conventions

Conventions in the UK and Australia

I've been working at making pages for UK and AUS media conventions. The STAG and IDIC newsletters, as well as Hypertension, have a great deal of information, but we need more information from fans who are more in the know than I. --Mrs. Potato Head 17:00, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Canadian Conventions

Would be great to have some Canadian Anime/Comics/Etc conventions profiled or at least created... Mokuroh (talk) 22:14, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Crafts

  • Fannish Teddies (i.e. dressing teddy bears—similar to dolls—rather than in pictures).
    • Related to action figures: Funko figurines! They can be customized so they're sort of a craft, but I think it's also interesting/important to include them, maybe as part of this new highly commercialized wave of fandom
  • fan fashions and TARDIS Cake Doctor Hoo cake based on Threadless-brand t-shirt
  • other crafts?
  • Tshirts, especially those sold online through sites like Redbubble, etsy, Teepublic
  • Buttons! I'm really interested in these, but I don't know how to best capture/catalog them here

Misc

  • More popular or influential fan theories.
  • COVID-19 A page that gives general information about both pan fandom response, as well as the pandemic's affect on fandom. People should also consider editing existing fan pages to document fandom specific effects and responses.
    • Quarantine Fic is a new stub page that needs fan reactions and examples.

Zines

Zines from https://fandomzines.tumblr.com/, https://zineapps.tumblr.com/, https://zinefeed.tumblr.com/, and from tictail.

Zine Art

A page dedicated to the history, styles, whatever of Zine Art. We've got lots of images that we can use as examples!

Additional page(s) for Cover Art or Cover Design - perhaps also comparing zine covers to other types of fanworks that might use covers - filk albums, fanmixes, podfic, ...? (Check out the Merlin podbook covers)

Fan video game development

In #yuletide, we were discussing fan video game projects like the Chrono Trigger sequel and how they routinely get shut down by video game companies.

Also worth discussing: Game mods, and how game company reactions vary. (Some accept them; some love them; some do everything they can to squelch them.)

May need a video game equivalent to the Professional Author Fanfic Policies page; however, unlike authors, game companies rarely issue clear statements on their opinion on fan game activities. Also, legal copyright status of those is much blurrier.

There's a lot of room to talk about this in the Pokemon fandom, which has a long history of ROM hacks, fangames, and a (more recent history?) of having those fan games shut down by Nintendo.

  • I also think there's a need for a fangame category, so we can distinguish from games as source text

RP

There needs to be a page not for LARPing or RPGs, but for the practice online role-playing, where you take up the roles of various characters and do dynamic storytelling with other people, usually on some sort of forum. I haven't done this in many years, though, and I know it's still a thing, but not what's happening with it/where it is.

Or, maybe a disambiguation page where Larping, RPGs and roleplaying in forums are all separate pages?

is that not what Fandom RP basically is?
that page is a good start for rps! but i still think there's some labeling, organization, and terminology to work out between this page the Role-Playing Game page
Roleplay‎ now exists, so some of the Fandom RP content should be distinguished and copied there.

Looking at the Fandom RP page: that is what I believe we were thinking of with roleplay. I think we need to delete the straight up Roleplay page and have it so that typing roleplay sends the user to a disambiguation page where Fandom RP is one of the options

Conflicts

This section is for fandom wank or imbroglios that aren't adequately covered.

Fanart

Fandoms

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Babylon 5

Most characters of Babylon 5 still need articles:

Blake's 7

Articles on characters and pairings that need expansion: Vila Restal, Servalan, Travis, Tarrant/Dayna.

Character pages:

Pairing pages:

Book Fandoms

Writers
YA fandoms

Caprica

  • need ships, meta and more general detail

Cartoons/Animation

Pages that need expansion: Gravity Falls, Makorra, The Legend of Korra, Adventure Time, SpongeBob SquarePants, Bob's Burgers,Invader Zim, She-Ra: Princess Of Power, Thundercats, Toy Story, Ben 10, Scooby-Doo, Recess, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Loud House, W.I.T.C.H., Animaniacs, Jackie Chan Adventures, The Last Unicorn

Pages that need to be created : Bee and Puppycat, Bravest Warriors, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball, As Told By Ginger, Braceface, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Code Lyoko, Darkwing Duck, Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, Xiaolin Showdown, Star vs The Forces of Evil, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Storm Hawks, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, G.I. Joe, Thomas the Tank Engine, Slugterra, Ever After High, The Boondocks, Grojband, Metalocalypse, PAW Patrol, Looney Tunes, Monster High, Secret Saturdays.

Comics

A general article on (Western) comics fandom would be useful. At the moment, it's a disambiguation which gets linked all over the place.

Something comprehensive about the clash between fanboy gatekeepers and the diversity push in the 2010s? See Carol Corps, Kamala Korps, Escher Girls, the CBR Community reboot, etc.

European comics: Valérian and Laureline, Thorgal, The Adventures of Tintin, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, Largo Winch.

US comics: Lazarus, Invincible, Prophet, Jupiter's Legacy, I Kill Giants, Pretty Deadly, Flash Gordon

Crimson Peak

Main article, pages for characters and ships.

DC Comics

Devil May Cry

  • Character pages for Dante and the other main characters.
  • Fandom and fanwork information.
  • More detail in the main article.

Disney

Doctor Who

  • pages that need expanded fandom and fanworks examples: River Song, Donna Noble
  • also need pages for old school Who companions

Farscape

  • main article more detail and pages needed for most major characters & pairings

Fate/ (franchise)

Firefly

Show page could use more sample/notable fanworks. Most character pages need more fandom, pretty please. Adding some placeholder bits of canon info and obvious stuff like Idol Reflections/Ship Manifesto essays if they exist just to have something, but no idea about other notable meta on the characters or notable fanworks. If anyone who's actually been fannish about the show can add more fandom info to balance pages out that'd be lovely.

Game of Thrones

Characters that still need pages: Tywin Lannister, Petyr Baelish, Ygritte, Ramsay Snow, Olenna Tyrell, Tormund Gaintsbane

Greek Mythology

Expand pretty much all existing pages.

Create:

Harry Potter

Heroes

More fandom information is needed - this was a fairly large fandom back in its heyday. So far there is only 2 pairing pages: Nathan/Peter and Peter/Claire, but they have barely anything to them. More pairings especially the popular ones are needed (Claire/Nathan, Peter/Nikki, Peter/Sylar, Claire/Sylar, Hiro/Charlie to name a few). There are currently no character pages, so that is needed as well.

There are some Heroes vid pages, but other fanworks are needed. Other archives, fanfiction, and websites need pages.

Highlander: The Raven

  • needs more fandom information, what are the pairings?, notable fanworks, etc.

Homestuck

See also ‘’FanloreProject:Homestuck’’

iCarly

  • main article, as well as Seddie and any other relevant ships

Inception

Pretty much all pairing and character pages but Arthur, Eames and Arthur/Eames need more content - Yusuf, Saito, Ariadne, Dom Cobb, Robert Fischer, Mal, Ariadne/Yusuf, Dom Cobb/Mal, Arthur/Dom Cobb and so on. Adding more fanworks and creators would be great too.

Kpop

There a a bunch of stubs for bands, but very little info about the fandom or fans. Needs the perspective of someone active in the fandom (are there any Kpop fans on Fanlore?) This is a longshot, but more info about the Korean fandom would be awesome.

Lord of the Rings and other Tolkien

Lovecraft

Marvel

Earth-120703, Earth-96283, Earth-807128, Earth-9992, Earth-71612, Earth-71912, Earth-19919, Earth-61610, Earth-22312, Earth-21722, Earth-138, Earth-(No I.D#/Lou Ferrigno Hulk) And many, many more. Please add to this list if you discover more. Please delete after additions are made.

Mobile Games

Musicals/Theater

  • I'm not sure if anyone is actually reading this section/is also a theater fan on here. This list is mostly for my own use at this point.

Mythology

Mythology fandom could use its own page. Greek and Norse mythology have their own categories but they're pretty barebones.

Pacific Rim

  • need pages for most of the main characters and pairings

Phantom of the Opera

Characters:

Pairings:

Canons:

Fans:

Communities:

Podcasts

The overall Podcast page exists, but is a stub.

Podcast Fandoms Actual Play

Audio Drama/Narrative fiction

Nonfiction

Fannish Podcasts List of Fannish Podcasts needs to be created. Examples noted on the Podcast page include List of Harry Potter Podcasts (which itself could use expanding), Slashcast, List of X-Files Podcasts, and Radio Free Cybertron. Also, it would be useful to have an expansion on official fannish podcasts created by the PTB (example: The Good Place The Podcast) vs. fan-created property-specific podcasts vs. overall fannish podcasts.

Popslash

  • The 'N Sync page is a stub; there are a lot of ways it could be developed--maybe an overview of the group members as characters, and their evolution in the fandom, or the impact of each cd and subsequent tour on the fandom and the fiction. Perhaps a list of the most influential media appearances.
  • Pages that need expansion: 5 Seconds of Summer, Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy
  • Pages that need to exist: A page for the Smiths and/or Morrissey. Currently there are 217 fanworks on AO3 tagged "The Smiths". Smiths/Morrissey fandom has at least a thirty year history offline (bootleg albums, fanart, fan-organized tours, fanzines, cover bands, fan compilations) and about 20 years of history online (fanfiction, fanvids, fanart, fan communities and blogs). Ideally there would be a page specifically about the Smiths fandom community on tumblr in the mid-2010s. Items of note: Marrissey tinhatting, intersection of fandom and academia, copyright takedowns, Morrissey-solo.com vs. Morrissey, interactions with band members, metafandom).
  • Duplicity, the One Direction Wattpad fanfiction that blew up in 2021 after the reveal of Harry Styles actually being an American named Sebastian.

Rick and Morty

Sherlock Holmes

Shin Megami Tensei (Series)

None of the individual games have pages, so lots of love is needed there; more information about fandom is needed as well.

Star Trek

Other than Star Trek and NASA, there's very little about the significant intersection of the fandom and the broad field of science. I think we need a Science and Star Trek page (or something along those lines).

Stranger Things

Team Fortress 2

TF2 only has a very basic main page, and only one other page. It really needs more fandom information, character information and ships (Medic/Heavy springs to mind). It could really use some love from someone familiar with the fandom!

True Crime Community

Serial Killer fandoms are pretty notorious and widely mocked, but fanlore has absolutely nothing about that controversy. It would be good to tie it in with controversy about RPF. Info about the fandom practices would be even better. There probably also interesting things to be said about the popularity Serial Killers as a trope and genre.

Twilight

The fandom is so huge, yet the fanlore page barely says anything but statistics gleaned by non-Twilight-fans, and doesn't even mention any popular fanwriters and fanartists (or specific fanworks)

Twilight RPF could also use expansion.

Webcomics

There are a lot of webcomics out there with huge and active fanbases, but very few pages in the Category:Webcomics.

Additionally, the webcomic page probably should cover more information.

YouTube

Other Fandoms

Fandoms that have Crack Van fandom overviews but no Fanlore articles: Ace Lightning, Big Time Rush, Chrono Crusade, Fairly OddParents, Gatchaman/Battle of the Planet, Gorgeous Carat, Lackadaisy, Let Dai, Lie to Me, McFly, Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman, Rómeó és Júlia, The History Boys. Also: Musical Theater, Science Fiction TV RPF

Fandoms that have Newbie Guides but no Fanlore articles: Blood+, Dante's Cove, Drive, Hairspray, Life Unexpected, Shark.

Serious anime fans usually follow the histories of animation studios as well as manga artists. Should probably have pages for Bones, Studio Trigger, Sunrise, Mappa, Madhouse, A-1 Pictures, and Kyoto Animation etc.

Pages that need expansion: Ai no Kusabi, School of Rock

Popular tabletop roleplay games like Dungeons & Dragons, Vampire: The Masquerade, Shadowrun, etc need pages too.

Misc: The Addams Family, Underworld

Taylor Swift and RPF/tinhatting (Kaylor, etc)

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

Video Games

Glossary

Anklebiters

Anyone remember the vampire hobbits fad? It even spawned an archive of sorts at one point.

The Fanfiction Glossary

The Fanfiction Glossary does have a page now, if anyone wants to add to it, or you could check the wayback versions of the Fanfiction Glossary and add missing information to the Fanlore articles about the listed glossary terms.

Genres

Articles needed for:

Canon Rewrite

Articles that need expansion:

Tropes

I'm assuming links to Angels are re: their appearance in fic?

  • POV Outsider/Outside POV: prevalent in fanworks that expand on canon


Cakeverse

The Cakeverse is a newly born fan trope which is the same vein as Hanahaki Disease or Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics in which there are three elements of people in-universe: Cakes, Forks, and Normals. Cakes are people who taste (or sometimes are made of) Cake, Forks are people with no sense of taste except for when they're making out (or even eating) people who are Cakes. Normals are the Betas of this universe. Can be silly or serious.

Rants

Rant!

Websites

Amino

A platform becoming increasingly popular with younger fans. Needs expansions and more perspectives .

Listing Sites/Articles

Many early websites have disappeared. Just as fandom shifted online from zines, so it has increasingly been shifting from personal websites to LJ/DW or FF.net. Now, people are dropping personal sites to archive on AO3. There are many fan websites still needing documentation—even just listing them (with their URLs) for each fandom would help.

Aestheticism

Aestheticism was one of the first widely-accessible sources of information on BL ("yaoi") in English. The article is a stub, but it has references that could be used to flesh it out. The owners are still around AFAIK; the site's just down. Someone could find them and ask them about the site history and their future plans.

Freedom of Speech Archive

Anyone know anything about this site?

Is that the same as Freedom of Speech Fan Fiction Archive or different?

GeoCities Rescue Project

  • Many of the pages created for this project are still stubs or don't include updated links. [2]
  • GeoCities could use more fannish perspective.

Mangafox.com

  • A page about this very successful site that offers scanlated manga to read online, but that is often hosted without the scanlator's permission. It's actually one site among many owned by the for-profit U.S.?/China?-based company NOEZWork, Inc / NOEZ.com that host fanworks like scanlations, fansubs, fanart, etc., often without fan permission, and make money off ad revenue. A sneakier, successful version of monetizing fans a la FanLib, Narutofan.com, and the like. A couple of links:

http://www.batoto.net/forums/topic/2091-mangafox-how-noez-does-business/ http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?page=1&tid=28000 http://japanzai.com/index.php?topic=1619.0 http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://noez.com (older pages with info about NOEZ's corporate plans before they were taken down)

Mediaminer

Needs fleshing out

The Sith Academy

This page needs details! The who, what, when, where and how of The Sith Academy and its community of fans. Edited to add: I added some background. --MeeDee 05:16, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Wordpress

  • Could use expansion

Xanga

Anyone ever active on Xanga?

Newgrounds

4chan

  • The main article needs expansion

Anime & Manga Fandom & Related Fandoms

If you notice anything missing from these lists that needs work, please add it!

There are many single, specific pages you can add:

If the page you want to add is not listed on a "List of" page, just add it to the appropriate category. Many of those pages are still woefully incomplete.

If you want a bigger challenge:

Specific Fandom Requests

Sports Anime

More info on trends and practices of a large umbrella fandom (see Age of Sail).

Attack on Titan

The fandom is enormous and the main page is well-covered, but there are almost no ship and character pages.

Boku no Hero Academia

Needs more examples of Fanworks / Fan events. Ship pages.

Bleach

Characters: basically everyone not named Rukia or Orihime.

Bungou Stray Dogs

Pretty large fandom; needs expansion.

D.Gray-man

Could use pages for major pairings

Free!

Ship pages for Rei/Nagisa, and possibly Sousuke/Makoto. Maybe discuss the Rin/Haru and Makoto/Haru ship war on the fandom page? Also the sharkbaitshipping wank with YGO:Zexal fandom.

Catfishing wank? (Another link)

Gundam 00

Page exists as of now, but I wasn't able to finish it and would appreciate help.

Haikyuu
Naruto

A more complete list can be found at FanloreProject:Naruto! However, the most needed pages are probably:

Rurouni Kenshin

Every major character needs a page, as does every ship that isn't Kenshin/Kaoru (and, for some reason, Saitou/Sano). Some links for ease of page creation:

Could also use coverage of significant RuroKen authors and fanfics - Nekotsuki, Terry-McElrath, Khrysalis, Scented Candles, Tanabata Jasmine, Snowblind, Ubiquitous, Kyuushutsu, Only With You...

Osomatsu-san

Page needs to be created: ships, reputation among anime fandom, etc.

One Piece

Should we have a page about the debate over the treatment of women in One Piece? I'm actually not that into the OP fandom but I've heard the edges of this discussion, particularly in this interview with Oda from this summer where Oda claims that he doesn't really care if female readers have a problem with his perverted characters.

PreCure Franchise

Page needs to be created and have spiels for every series thus far. It would be ideal because the ship of Nozomi/Coco from Yes PreCure 5 is referenced on the Bad Ships Project or whatever it was called. Fanart was done for it as part of the iniative to give problematic ships love. Also, its a long running series with shoutouts in other franchises (was parodied in one of the Alola episodes of Pokemon and is an important entry in the magical girl genre pre-dating Madoka.

The Promised Neverland

This series needs a page, at the very least. Also, there should probably be a page dedicated to the controversy surrounding the character Krone, who was a pretty racist depiction of a black woman.

Tokyo Ghoul
Toonami

A major part of 90's/00's anime fandom should have a page or notation somewhere.

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