Talk:Fred & George Weasley

Forgive me for being salty, but someone just added their own fic they just posted the same day to AO3 and described it as popular even though, ten days later, it only has 4 Comments, 18 Kudos, 3 bookmarks, 226 hits. this edit. Can we have a rule that you can't add your own works as "notable examples"?--aethel (talk) 03:06, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

I think adding your own work is okay, in certain circumstances, for example a rare pairing where you are one of the few main creators for the pairing. However, I do agree that with a popular franchise such as Harry Potter finding notable works should not be hard. -- Kingstoken (talk) 13:42, 25 January 2019

I agree — I think there are a lot of examples where adding your own work is fine and I don't think that popularity is the only thing that can make a fic notable, but a blanket rule would just needlessly complicate things. This particular example is definitely not popular and probably not notable, though, and should likely be removed.

...maybe another thing to bring up is that this same person has added their fic a lot. In fact, looking at their contributions, almost all of their edits have been adding their own work as examples. I have to admit that that kind of rubs me the wrong way and seems in bad faith because, well, even if they were only interested in adding examples... surely they read other fic besides their own? Since they're almost exclusively adding their own fic, it seems like they're just doing it for exposure, not to improve our wiki. :( - Hoopla (talk) 15:51, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Excellent point! It looks like this counts as Spam. I guess Fanlore assumed that the only spammers would be bots and not fic authors trying to increase their hit counts.--aethel (talk) 14:53, 9 March 2019 (UTC)