Talk:Shipping

The current definition excludes liking a ship and not wanting it to be canon.--æþel (talk) 01:19, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Agreed, it could use some tweaking in the "They assert that" section. Also, "poly" comes right before "pairing" - I think the term "pairing" needs to be replaced with "ship" or other number-neutral term. -the old briar pipe (talk) 23:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

I guess that could also be a definition fence-sitter? WhatAreFrogs? (talk) 11:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

A decade later I was passing by and noticed the problem in the intro again. "supporting or wishing for" seemed an especially problematic way of describing shipping to me, given what happened in one direction fandom where people were using the word shipping to mean thinking that a relationship was real. Does my solution work? --aethel (talk) 01:01, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

conflicting etymology information

The etymology section states upfront that X-Files is the origin of the term, but the "Shipping and The X-Files" section has a paragraph that starts with Some claim that the phrase "shipper" came from X-Files fandom, which implies that this theory is not universally accepted and even rather suspect.--aethel (talk) 12:33, 4 July 2015 (UTC)