User:Elf
| Name/s: | Elf, formerly elfwreck |
| Fandom/s: | Harry Potter, Star Trek (TOS, mostly), Vorkosigan saga, Darkover, Mercedes Lackey's works, Heinlein's works, Filk, Sci-fi conventions, Metafandom, anything really weird. |
| You can find me at: | http://elf.dreamwidth.org |
| On Fanlore: | My contributions / email me |
Bio
I have been a Fanlore gardener since very early in Fanlore's existence. While I'm not a wiki expert, I know a reasonable amount about how to format and edit pages, and I never mind questions or comments.
I'm a gamer, filker, and sci-fi fan. I started playing Dungeons and Dragons in 1978, and started collecting Elfquest graphic novels in 1983. I attended my first science fiction convention in 1986, where I was introduced to filk in the form of "Banned from Argo." I've played and collected many other tabletop role-playing games, including Champions, GURPS, Paranoia, Tunnels and Trolls, Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, and Runequest. GURPS and Fate are currently my favorite RPGs; and I have a collection of over 75 sourcebooks for GURPS and dozens of PDFs for Fate. In late 2022, I started getting into solo TTRPGs, including writing some of my own.
I worked as a volunteer for several large SF Bay Area conventions in the 1980s: BayCon, TimeCon, and Silicon. I regret missing the Rule Six year of TimeCon. I volunteered for ConFrancisco, Worldcon in 1993, and helped arrange accessibility resources. I've also attended several other conventions. I started attending Escapade for the Snarry meetup after Deathly Hallows, and have only missed one year since. I attended Worldcon in San Jose, bought a supporting membership for Dublin and converted supporting to full membership for ConZealand when it was announced it would be online. In 2022, I joined FAPA.
I joined LiveJournal in 2003 because of a post by my favorite RPG author, John Wick. (No connection whatsoever to the movie character who showed up years later.) I stopped updating my journal almost exactly 5 years later, in response to Strikethrough and the SUP buyout; I was active in communities and others' journals for a few years after that but eventually stopped checking in at all. I later moved my main activity to Dreamwidth, but as that slowed, I became more active at Tumblr. These days, I mostly split my fannish attention between Tumblr and Discord. I am not active on Twitter, and do not have a Facebook or Instagram account.
I'm a long-term supporter of the OTW. In 2008, I converted the first issue of Transformative Works and Cultures to a printable PDF and made it available for download.
I have a habit of joining new social media platforms and watching them collapse a few years later. I joined InkScape (an LJ clone inspired by Strikethrough), WritScrib, Imzy, Pillowfort, Fanexus, and BobaBoard, along with not-specifically-fannish platforms like WT.social.
Fanlore Event Participation
Stub September 2024
| 🎫 STUB SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE 🎫 | ||||
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| Create a new Stub [ ✔ ] |
Add to a Stub [ ✔ ] |
Add section headers to a Stub [ ✔ ] |
Add an internal link to a Stub [ ✔ ] |
Add content to 5 stubs in total [ ✔ ] |
Stub September 2023
| 🎫 STUB SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE 🎫 | ||||
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| Create a new Stub [ ✔ ] |
Add to a Stub [ ✔ ] |
Add section headers to a Stub [ ✔ ] |
Add an internal link to a Stub [ ✔ ] |
Add enough to a stub to remove the Stub tag [ ✔ ] |
2023 Bingo
| BEGINNER EDITOR BINGO | |||||
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| Add to a bullet point list [ done! ] |
Add an extra line to a stub page [ done! ] |
Add an internal link [ done! ] | |||
| Add missing information to an infobox on any page [ done! ] |
Add to your user page [ done! ] |
Thank someone for an edit [ done! ] | |||
| Add an external link [ done! ] |
Leave your thoughts on a Talk page and sign your comment with ~~~~ [ done! ] |
Add alt text to any image [ done! ] | |||
| EXPERT EDITOR BINGO | |||||
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| Add an example fanwork to any page [ done! ] |
Add five internal links to any page [ done! ] |
Add a new section to a page [ done! ] | |||
| Say hello on a new user's talk page [ done! ] |
Vote on a Featured Article nomination [ done! ] |
Add a quotation to a page and reference it [ done! ] | |||
| Add content to a section marked 'needs expansion' [ done! ] |
Make a new character page (check out our dedicated page outline if you need a guide)! [ done! ] |
Create a redirect to a page from an alternate name, spelling or capitalization [ done! ] | |||
2022 Bingo
| BEGINNER EDITOR BINGO | |||||
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| Add to a bullet point list [ done! ] |
Add an extra line to a stub page [ done! ] |
Add an internal link [ done! ] | |||
| Add missing information to an infobox on any page [ done! ] |
Add to your user page [ done! ] |
Add a new section to a page [ done! ] | |||
| Add an external link [ done! ] |
Leave your thoughts on a Talk page and sign your comment with ~~~~ [ done! ] |
Add alt text to any image [ done! ] | |||
| EXPERT EDITOR BINGO | |||||
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| Add an example fanwork to any page [ done! ] |
Add five internal links to any page [ done! ] |
Add a category to a page or image [ done! ] | |||
| Say hello on a user's talk page [ done! ] |
Vote on a Featured Article nomination [ done! ] |
Add a quotation to a page and reference it [ done! ] | |||
| Add content to a section marked 'needs expansion' [ done! ] |
Create a Wanted page [ done! ] |
Create a redirect to a page from an alternate name, spelling or capitalization [ done! ] | |||
2019 Stub September
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Participation - Removed Stub tag from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Edited DeadJournal
2020 Fanlore Bingo
| BEGINNER EDITOR BINGO | |||||
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| Add an internal link [ done! ] |
Add missing information to an infobox on any page [ done! ] |
Add to your user page [ done! ] | |||
| Add a new section to a page [ done! ] |
Fix a broken link [ done! ] |
Fix a typo [ done! ] | |||
| Add an extra line to a stub page [ done! ] |
Leave your thoughts on a Talk page and sign your comment with ~~~~ [ done! ] |
Add an image to a page [ done! ] | |||
| EXPERT EDITOR BINGO | |||||
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| Contribute to any FanloreProject page [ done! ] |
Add references to a page that doesn't have any [ done! ] |
Create a wanted page [ done! ] | |||
| Archive a link and reference it [ done! ] |
Create a redirect to a page from an alternate name, spelling or capitalization [ done! ] |
Add an link to an orphaned page [ done! ] | |||
| Vote on a Featured Article nomination [ done! ] |
Say hello on a user's talk page [ done! ] |
Add a category to a page or image [ done! ] | |||
2020 Stub September
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- Phineas and Ferb - add internal links, description of the fandom, a few fanworks
- AO3 Census: Masterpost - should not have been a stub; also needed internal links & some formatting
- Robin (DC Comics) - added canon & fanon details for the 5 main Robins, a few other links. Got a bonus badge for this one!
- fanpol - expand definition, add eaxmples of use
- Add Stub category to small swarm of doujinshi by Keisuke (fan) that don't have any details beyond fandom, creator, and cover image
- N.K. Jemisin - add mention of Hugo Awards. Still a stub.
- Booker (TV) - add a link to The Old Guard's "Booker" character, and a few other notes.
- Biker Mice from Mars - this had a ton of group links but no description. Added description; remove stub tag, but it's still pretty sparse
- Ko-fi needed a mention of AO3's not allowing it
- Block needed a page
- Koriand'r needed a mention of DC Comics: Bad at Math
- The Flying Nun got a little more detail, and some fanart
- Five Nights at Freddy's could still use some love
- Rose Lalonde was a bad idea to edit - the page had like 50 words and I still got hit with spoilers I didn't want to see, dammit.
2021 Fanlore Bingo
| BEGINNER EDITOR BINGO | |||||
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| Add missing information to an infobox on any page [ done! ] |
Add an internal link [ done! ] |
Add to your user page [ done! ] | |||
| Add a new section to a page [ done! ] |
Add an extra line to a stub page [ done! ] |
Leave your thoughts on a Talk page and sign your comment with ~~~~ [ done! ] | |||
| Add alt text to any image [ done! ] |
Add to a bullet point list [ done! ] |
Add an external link [ done! ] | |||
| EXPERT EDITOR BINGO | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create a redirect to a page from an alternate name, spelling or capitalization [ done! ] |
Add an link to an orphaned page [ done! ] |
Vote on a Featured Article nomination [ done! ] | |||
| Say hello on a user's talk page [ done! ] |
Add a category to a page or image [ done! ] |
Add a reference to a page that is missing citations [ done! ] | |||
| Add an image gallery [ done! ] |
Add a quotation to a page and reference it [ done! ] |
Add content to a section marked 'needs expansion' [ done! ] | |||