Talk:Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter

"Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" should probably be a subpage of "Laurell K. Hamilton." --Anenko 15:54, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Done, and stubbed out Hamilton while I was at it. :) --Arduinna 16:25, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

May I ask why it should be a subpage of the author page? Buffy isn't a subpage of Joss Whedon, Lord of the Rings isn't a subpage of J.R.R. Tolkien, Good Omens and Neverwhere aren't subpages of Neil Gaiman, and fanwork pages aren't subpages of the person who created them either. I don't see what's so different about this book series. Although I must admit that I don't know the books, so I might be missing something here. --Doro 19:28, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, LKH has two different series (Anita and Merry Gentry) which can both be linked through the main page. More important, to my thinking, is LKH as a fannish influence apart from her novels. Anita and Merry both have their own fandoms, but there's a lot of fannish activity around the author. So all of the LKH-specific stuff (the blogflogs, the attacks on her personal life, her clashes with her fandom) wouldn't be lumped together with the fanworks about her books. Am I making sense, or have I just confused you more? --Anenko 19:54, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, I still don't see the difference, sorry. /o\ Neil Gaiman has written The Sandman, Neverwhere, and Good Omens; Joss Whedon has Buffy, Angel, Firefly, and now Dollhouse. People are certainly fannish about the different series and the authors (at least I always hear about Neil Gaiman and his blog or Joss Whedon this or that). It makes sense that you don't want to have all the LKH-specific stuff (the blogflogs, the attacks on her personal life, her clashes with her fandom) lumped together with the fanworks about her books and I would say that's a good argument why we need an author page in addition to the separate fandom pages, but it doesn't tell me why the fandom pages in this case should be subpages of the author page when they aren't in all the other cases.--Doro 11:11, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I finally found the convo that basically started this practice at Talk:Mary Renault, although it's a little vaguer than I remember. But FWIW, I think the idea is that some people write up books (and their fandom) under the author name, because they think of it as author-more-important, and some people go for title name with author-as-secondary. (Whereas no one is going to try to write up Buffy fandom under Joss; if nothing else, even though he created it, hundreds of other people helped shape it, from network execs to actors to lighting directors.) in the Mary Renault case, there were people creating links to The Persian Boy, which was at the same time being written up on Mary Renault. Making the subpage meant the book had its own entry, but tightly connected to the author. It's not official policy or anything, just something that made sense at the time for books whose authors were also getting pages (not all authors will wind up with pages, just as not all show creators will). Hm. and now that I'm thinking more closely about this, it's also possible that I (and others?) was going by how things would be sorted out in a shop or library: books and music CDs would be sorted by author/artist, but DVDs, videotapes, comics, manga, that sort of thing would be sorted by title. So collecting an author's works in one place made sense to me. Huh. --Arduinna 14:54, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

In the Mary Renault case, one of the issues is that because several of her books share the same characters (but aren't a named series), I think the fandom tends to be thought of more as "Mary Renault fandom" than as fandom for any given book. Here, though, I think LKH's two series really qualify as fandoms on their own, so I'm not sure whether I'd make them subpages or not. Hmm.--Penknife 18:00, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Fandom Category

Shouldn't the fandom category be Category:Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter? We haven't tagged Buffy as Category:Joss Whedon either. --Doro 18:45, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

I dunno. I haven't created the category itself yet, but there would be 5 pages under Laurell K. Hamilton. There is also a Mary Renault category and a LJ Smith category. Right now there would be 3? pages under Anita Blake and one under Merry Gentry, but the Hamilton page talks about a "Laurell K. Hamilton" fandom, so I was thinking these series could become subcategories.--æthel 19:30, 18 June 2010 (UTC)