On Fanlore, users with accounts can edit pages including user pages, can create pages, and more. Any information you publish on a page or an edit summary will be accessible by the public and to Fanlore personnel. Because Fanlore is a wiki, information published on Fanlore will be publicly available forever, even if edited later. Be mindful when sharing personal information, including your religious or political views, health, racial background, country of origin, sexual identity and/or personal relationships. To learn more, check out our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Select "dismiss" to agree to these terms.
Talk:Fan Run
If true, this sentence should go on the fancon page instead: In cases of unofficial fan run conventions, a permission from the copyright owner may be required. It deserves at least a paragraph of explanation (what kind of fandom? what kind of con? what country? have there been specific incidents of legal problems?)--aethel (talk) 00:05, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
- Done. I guess this was done preemptive to avoid any issues with FOX (who have a history of cease and desist against Fannish activities, primarily websites). Not sure if I should add this to the fancon article since I'm not 100% sure what was the reason a permit was aquired for X-CON.WhatAreFrogs? (talk) 08:33, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
- I wonder if this page could have a more descriptive title? Like "Fan Run Activities"? Or "Fan-Run." I literally thought it was a physical running race, like a marathon, for fans for a charity. But maybe that's just my brain? --MPH (talk) 18:51, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
- Personally, I'd vote for changing the title of the page to "fan-run," to more clearly indicate that this is a glossary page for an adjective. Both spellings are used throughout the article. - Fandomgeographies (talk) 12:28, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
- I agree that hyphenating the name makes sense; there's a bit of potential for confusion otherwise. -- enchantedsleeper (talk) 09:45, 08 July 2018 (UTC)
- Personally, I'd vote for changing the title of the page to "fan-run," to more clearly indicate that this is a glossary page for an adjective. Both spellings are used throughout the article. - Fandomgeographies (talk) 12:28, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
Fandom, Inc.
The Fandom, Inc. section of this page feels like a bit of a non-sequitur - there isn't enough detail to show why it's relevant to the broader topic of fan-run events and things. What is significant about this suit? It wouldn't be the first time that a more powerful entity has threatened to sue a fan, so why cite it here? I understand that you're trying to draw a comparison between the actions of a corporate "fan" site and a fan-run site, but the link feels very tenuous.
It has a bit in common with the section below about Wikia, but there the relevance is more obvious when talking about commercial websites which are nevertheless run by fans. With Fandom, Inc. I assume that Carol Burrell never came to contribute to the site, so... what's the significance? Did Fandom, Inc. eventually shut down due to lack of interest while the fan-run project, fandom.tv survived? There needs to be something more to the story to make it relevant to the page. -- enchantedsleeper (talk) 09:43, 08 July 2018 (UTC)