Talk:We're Not Gay, We Just Love Each Other
placeholder link: http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9334258.html --Anenko 00:14, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Fan Name Issue
I want to make a page for the red-linked name in cite #4. This person is an academic. If I do, several zines with stories attributed to this name will get linked. This name is not on the exceptions to the pre '95 usage page. I can't find any place where she says she used to write fic, and the article linked here is only a bit coy on the topic. (I haven't actually read her book on the subject of fanfic.) But it is obviously common knowledge, talked about by other fans who wouldn't normally out someone. Can I go ahead? Do I need to find an internet cite of her talking about being a fic author? Do the names on the zines need to be changed? --facetofcathy 19:20, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
- I think Catherine was OK with the connections being made - she did allow herself to be quoted in the post-1995 Generic Slash Defense letter. One thing that I have done to lower profiles is to abbreviate the author name for fan fic (ex: Catherine S. with a soft redirect to the bio page. Ex: Catherine S.|Catherine Salmon - it keeps linkages intact while lowering the google profile. In the meantime, let me keep poking around for morre info. --Morgandawn 19:41, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
- More linkages here and the interview she gave in 2001 on the Blake's 7 fan fiction website run by Judith here. All of her B7 fan fiction is listed under her full name on Judith's site. So I think we're ok - you can always try contacting her direct if you feel the need to confirm. --Morgandawn 19:49, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, cool. I had that second link and didn't realize that was an interview given to the site, I thought it was a transcript of some sort of radio interview. I think she is fairly clearly leaving this stuff out there attached to her legal name, so I'm inclined to leave her name in full in all locations. --facetofcathy 20:15, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
- The cite itself is a bit strange, though. It's a footnote with a footnote which makes me think it should probably be structured differently. --Doro 20:49, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I see what they were doing there, trying to cite the statement with the quote, and then recognize that that source is controversial and mention that, but it seems like the quote should move up to the main text and the controversy should be mentioned and then cited there too. I am not an academic at all and I find I tend to not want to see a lot of information in the notes and have them be like footnotes that you have to read to get the full picture, rather, I prefer them to be citations only.--facetofcathy 22:18, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Issues caused by semi-colon in page title
Here's the discussion from the featured article page:
- I think this page could use some more fic examples, but otherwise its a very good page. I clicked into related articles, to see if there were any fics linked to this trope, and it returned no related links. But it looks like an error as the whole page name is not displayed. I think it's a technical problem caused by the semicolon in the title. Can we fix this, without renaming the page? --Auntags (talk) 12:15, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
- it seems to be trying to encode characters in the url it's not meant to and doing it wrong so i don't really know if there's a good non-rename fix beside hard-coding the infobox - flyingthesky (talk) 00:46, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
- Hmmm. I tried to fix this by replacing the semi-colon with its html code and moving the page, but it didn't work because those aren't allowed characters in a Fanlore page title (ironically). It occurs to me that we could just swap it out for a comma? It's not as correct, punctuation-wise, but given that a number of the examples of this phrase in action use a comma I think we have a good argument for it (besides "it won't break the page title").
- I'm gonna move this discussion over to the article Talk page so we can continue it there and also have a record of it somewhere more permanent than the nominations archive. -- enchantedsleeper (talk) 11:25, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
- it seems to be trying to encode characters in the url it's not meant to and doing it wrong so i don't really know if there's a good non-rename fix beside hard-coding the infobox - flyingthesky (talk) 00:46, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi guys, now that the page has been approved as a featured article, I wanted to move this discussion here for the same reasons enchantedsleeper mentioned. Also, I'd be in favour of using a comma instead of a semicolon. The page We're Not Gay, We Just Love Each Other already redirects to this one, and there's a few different redirects (that use a comma) with different captialization. So it seems to make most sense. --Auntags (talk) 19:04, 2 March 2020 (UTC)