Talk:Seanan McGuire

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More discussion of filk (the "Oh, Michelle" songwar, GoH gigs, songs written about Seanan).

More on her art (I dimly recall that she had done a prior Webcomic about a nonhuman call center operator, but the details elude me).

Specific references to some of her notable fanfic (if memory serves, at least one of her Whofics won an award).

Also: although there has been a good deal of cross-pollination between the two Livejournals (the Velveteen stories, for instance), I've referenced only her "professional" LJ in the entry, and made no explicit mention of her original LJ at [1]. That complicates some of the references to a degree.

I also know of a Velveteen fanfic (written for Yuletide 2008), and that October Daye fanfic was requested but not written for Yuletide 2009, but couldn't decide quite where to put that information. --djonn 05:58, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Wouldn't the Fan template be more appropriate?--RatCreature 11:28, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

A good question. I looked at both and picked "Person" because it seemed to have more subject-lines for fields I needed for her professional work. OTOH, I note that my attempt to add a "Fandoms" line to the list of fields didn't take on the page as displayed (though I think it's still there in the source code). If the Fan template will take added fields (which its Help page suggests that it might), then it probably is a better match. [I have almost no wiki-editing experience, so I cheerfully defer to more experienced hands on this sort of question.] --djonn 18:32, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

AFAIK no template will show fields that are not actually part of the template as it is defined. You can put extra stuff inside the box because you can write text in the box, like if you add a line break and then write stuff it will appear, but you can'd define extra fields.--RatCreature 19:44, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Have now done some experimenting; it looks as if you're right, that one can neither add nor subtract fields from a template. As constituted, I think "Person" fits better at present (I note it's also what's used on the Lois McMaster Bujold page, which is a somewhat parallel case). However, I'd suggest that neither the Fan nor Person templates as presently constituted are wholly satisfactory for those with significant credentials in both camps (and deploying both templates on one page is...not helpful). To whom might one suggest creating a new hybrid template for cases like this? --djonn 00:43, 15 March 2010 (UTC)