Talk:Setting
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I feel like this is just a list of potential places/situations where a story can take place, and not fannish in and of itself? You could talk about works that take a particular canon but re-imagine it in a different setting/time period (lots of AU fics are basically this), or settings that are particular common in fic, like coffeeshops or flower shops --Mokuroh (talk) 02:08, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
There's no need to make a page now to indicate every place in the world someone goes or has been. I recommend deleting this page Ellakbhesse (talk) 13:13, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hey, Ellakbhesse - it's fine to start a discussion on whether we need this page and to add the Attention Gardeners flag, but in future could you please wait for responses from other users before blanking the page and redirecting it? It's important to discuss about this type of thing first. (For now, I'm going to revert this to make it easier to see what was on the page).
- I'm not sure Fan Tourism is really the equivalent of this page, I think it might be better to go down the route that Mokuroh mentioned above and talk about reimagined settings for fanworks, although there might be too much potential for overlap with Alternate Universe? --enchantedsleeper (talk) 17:27, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry for the anticipation of things, I think there must be a way to configure this page to improve, I just think I chose the wrong way right --Ellakbhesse (talk) 17:50, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
- I think if it started talking about AUs, we do already have a page on AUs, as well as other pages about different types of AUs like Canon AU. The items listed on this page could be their own trope or AU pages, like if there was an airplane trope for example. Perhaps this page could be changed to function as one of those curated list pages? But then again the subsection for AU subtypes on the AU page already sort of fills that niche, I think. And there's also already a List of Tropes in Fanworks page that already includes a lot of settings/locations, like prisons, coffee chops, and islands. Seeing that, my vote would also be to delete the page, I have a hard time picturing it as it's own thing without significant overlap. If not deleted, I could sorta see it being changed to a Tropes in IT Fandom page though, since all the info in it is related to IT. Patchlamb (talk) 20:59, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
- I reviewed the pages that linked here and changed the wikilinks. One of them was a Beach AU, but the others seemed like generic/off-hand references to places in Derry, the fictional town Stephen King sets a lot of his books in. Fanlore could have a page about Derry, Maine, if it was the focus of fanworks/fanac/fan discussion, but the way it was mentioned on pages seemed pretty casual and didn't show whether fans are particularly interested in Derry for its own sake or make "Derry" fanworks. The "Setting" page is so broad, literally covering any setting mentioned in canon or fanfic, that there's no page we could redirect it to. If there's fan meta about evoking a sense of place or a genre of fanworks that really focus on setting, then there might be a reason to have the page, but fanfic is pretty well known for being way more character focused, with setting as an afterthought unless it's an AU (which we have a page for). "Setting" as a list of all possible settings in fanworks doesn't seem useful, and setting as a technique isn't inherently fannish, so I support deletion.--aethel (talk) 20:31, 28 August 2022 (UTC)