Talk:Clark Kent/Lois Lane

"Needs Less Canon" needs to be removed. Despite what it says, the pair's canon history is required to understand the fandom, and how it became so popular.

I understand that the canon is intricate and has a lot of history, but I disagree that the template needs to be removed. At this point, there is too much of it on this page. "Fanlore is not a repository for plot summaries, character biographies, or other canon information. The focus of every page should be about the fandom. Canon details are important if they can be associated with particular fannish activity or associated with a fan community, a fan work, or fannish event. While a page is young, there may be more canon details on a page than details related to fan activities, but in the end, fandom should dominate on the majority of pages in the wiki." -- from Fanlore:What Fanlore is not.

The canon summary needs to be very brief. It can include links to other places that focus on canon for fans who want to know more about it. --MPH (talk) 14:01, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

I agree that there's currently too much canon — specifically because it focuses too much on the canon development and not at all on what fans were doing, thinking, saying, or creating in response to the canon developments. The only part that really comes close is the sentence "This stifled their relationship for decades because Clark/Superman could not tell Lois about his true nature." (which I honestly took to mean the ship's expression in canon was stifled) and later the news that fans were disappointed by the ship no longer being married in New 52.

I think this page should lean on Wikipedia:Superman and Lois Lane to direct people to more information about canon and that a good rewrite of the canon section would either be much shorter or include a great deal more reference links and quotes from fans. Focus on canon will only help a reader understand the canon and why the ship is popular if it brings in information about the fans and their fan activity. Currently all I know about the Lois/Clark fandom from this page is that they ship a canon het ship that had a long will they/won't they period. Did they make zines? Did they write in to Marvel asking for Lois and Superman to get together? When the canon section says they were "disappointed" about New 52 are we talking a drop in comic sales, twitter wank, letter-writing campaigns, or all/none of the above? The ship manifestos and old websites and such linked on this page might be a good place to source more information. - Hoopla (talk) 14:40, 23 March 2021 (UTC)