Talk:Cassandra Claire

Whoa, is there a reason this phrasing is used where it's all, "differing only in one letter from the media fan?" To the best of my knowledge Cassandra Claire is quite upfront about the fact that she's Cassandra Clare. Her old fannish journal, epicyclical, was used as her book promotion journal for some time. If there's an outing concern here, I'd love to know about it (and if there is, of course, I'll delete this comment immediately --Emma 04:45, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I put it that way because I've personally witnessed her literary agent vague-up the connection, and deny its significance. (That was in 2006, so I don't know if he's changed his mind since then.) So I'm kind of anticipating a request to unlink the two names (despite that being totally pointless and silly), and I wanted to diminish the impact on the article as a whole by making it easy to nip out the one identifying detail (the name) without requiring a rewrite of the whole shebang.

Why yes, I wrote the original Laura Hale entry too, why do you ask? ;) --Vee 04:52, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia article about Cassandra Clare says that she is Cassandra Claire; it doesn't seem to be a secret. At some point Laura owned the cassandraclaire.com domain and redirected it to the FHW entry about Cassie. I think Cassie dropped the "i" in reaction to that so that she could have her own domain for her professional career. I think we should either state explicitly that Cassandra = Cassandra or don't mention her pro novels in the article at all. The way it is now it comes across as passive aggressive. --Doro 12:55, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Why not put all of this interesting name discussion in the article as a subsection 'Clare vs Claire'? --lian 15:24, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Since we have a wikipedia reference that links the two names, I went ahead and just connected them and cited it. --rache 15:28, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Clare/Claire: it's mentioned above and here as well: http://bookshop.tumblr.com/post/57207750319 (http://archive.is/9ZTDg Archive Is cite)-- the connection between Laura Hale's purchase of a domain name/s, but it isn't mentioned on this page or on the Laura Hale page. Is this because it can't be proven? Or it isn't true? Or it doesn't matter? --Mrs. Potato Head (talk) 14:44, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Somebody definitely bought the cassandraclaire.com domain and redirected it to CC's Fandom Wank and then Fan History Wiki articles (as seen on the WBM), but I'm not sure if Laura Hale ever confirmed or denied that it was her. I do think the domain name situation should be mentioned here, since it provides some perspective on why she changed her penname and whether she was really trying to distance herself from fandom. --sparc (talk) 16:44, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

ETA: cassieclaire.com redirected to dictionary definitions for "plagiarist". cassandraclaire.net wasn't archived by the WBM so I'm not sure if that one was purchased too. redirected to FW too.

linking laptopgate here?

The We Didn't Start the Fandom filk page wikilinks LaptopGate. Should we just redirect that here and give it a section or does it need its own page? Or one together with the Charity Wank incident? I only recall the whole mess vaguely, because it was not my corner of fandom.--RatCreature 09:25, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

I think wanks should have their own pages instead of redirecting to people (also, that kind of redirecting complicates the issue of fandom categories). We don't redirect fanworks to the authors either and I don't like the practice of doing it for other fandom involvement. --Doro 09:35, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Removing latest edit

I removed the latest edit by user: Adira14 as it was neither cited nor fan-related. --MPH (talk) 13:05, 12 July 2020 (UTC)