Talk:Ghost in the Machine (Five Nights at Freddy's fanfic)
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I have moved the most recent edit made by NumberThreeNewMoonEnjoyer to below and marked for Gardeners attention so that Fanlore, its purpose, and specifics regarding this article and the edit can be discussed here instead. It did not seem appropriate for the article main page. Cookies and chaos (talk) 06:19, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
This is a Notice to All Editors of the Ghost in the Machine (GITM) fanlore page:
The Creator, venomous-qwille, has explicitly asked for fans to avoid making pages such as this. Below is a quote from the author in regards to wikis and lore docs:
A NOTE REGARDING WIKIS AND LORE DOCS Please don't create public lore docs or wikis for GITM.
"I totally understand that the story is already sprawling and there are a lot of characters to keep track of, but here is my reasoning behind this request:
GITM is still in its very early stages, there is so little that you concretely know about any of the characters/story that it is likely that any character bios people write will be fundamentally incorrect. Same goes for lore about the worldbuilding and the Sight. It's much easier to spread misinfo than fact, and certain stuff in fic is kept deliberately misleading/vague for fun story purposes. GITM is not a TV show and I am not a showrunner. I am just another DCA fan on the internet who wants to chat about their OCs, I should be allowed to do that without having my every word indexed. To be clear, as I have said many many many many times in the past: people quoting what I say in discord, analysing my casual art/magmas/drabbles, or screencapping casual convos and jokes to pull them apart to dissect details from it makes me really really uncomfortable. If people started screencapping what I say to stick it on a doc for proof of XYZ thing about a character you guys haven't even met yet... I would probably stop interacting on this server point blank. Please imagine how you would feel if people were screenshotting your desktop background to read your filenames so they could theorycraft. That has happened in this server. More than once. Please stop. Your FOMO is not more important than my boundaries. The intended reading experience for GITM is... reading GITM. Yes sometimes I share my personal headcanons and tidbits for characters, but I promise that all of this stuff will be discovered in fic. I don't want people to learn about Fool's favourite songs from a google doc. I want you to learn about it from GITM. That is why I am writing GITM: to tell you about these characters. I would like the opportunity to make a GITM wiki myself at some point in the future.
I understand this might be frustrating, I know the lore is overwhelming as it stands. As always, if you have questions about the characters, you are welcome to ask in one of the discussion channels- I don't mind people @ing me for that- I love talking about GITM! I am always happy to answer new FAQs at length." –Qwille, in a FAQ in the Misutamojis Discord server
- I do not believe the entirety of this quote should be on the page, however I believe it could still be briefly mentioned and linked to. Let's try not to do any back-and-forth adding and removal of large pieces of text before discission, though, doing so is against our policy and the page has been protected for now.
- For our new editors NumberThreeNewMoonEnjoyer and Enderiz, first welcome to Fanlore! I hope you will enjoy editing here, and here is our New Visitor Portal. On the author's policy, Fanlore is not a wiki "for" this singular fanfic and does not index every aspect of its canon or fan theories. It only has a brief synopsis and character list, which is relevant to the context of documenting this popular fanfiction, particularly given it's unique nature (fan characters of a sub-genre fandom of a FNAF game). Given that, I do not believe there is an excessive amount of canonical information on this page, but this of course is open for discussion of you believe otherwise.
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