User talk:Mary Crawford

Wow -- the cover of Broken Images! Looks great. I am so thrilled that you're doing all of this work on these fabulous K/S zines!

You know, I'm having second thoughts about using people's last initial, instead of their full last name. "Beverly S_______", full name, with Broken Images, has 4 links on Google. If we used her full name, that would be five. I'm not sure what the difference between four and five is -- and I hate the idea of taking credit away from people. What do you think? Should we put this in front of more people to get their opinion?

Thanks! I'm having fun making zine pages, I can tell you.

Re credit: this is so tough. I want to credit people too, and it feels like a failure to preserve all this history but not their names. The problem is, there is just no way we can get permission from every TOS fan artist or writer to use their full name/full pseud, and I really hate the idea of outing someone by accident or alienating the K/S fandom. I've found that there's still a divide between internet and offline fandom in K/S, where offline people are worried about the public visibility of slash, and I don't want to add fuel to the fire.

Another datapoint: when the K/S press published their giant zine database on CD-Rom with the Legacy zines, they used the first name + initial system for most of the names, even though that was just for other fans, and this wiki is for all the world to see. So for the moment I'm going to stick with only using a full name when the author herself is using it publicly on the net, like Kathy Resch, for example. Unless you can think of a way to compromise! :)--Mary Crawford 14:41, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, agreed. I'd hate to compound the error, if it turned out the author didn't want her full name known, you know? Especially on something like the wiki, where people will be stumbling over the information even without specifically looking for it, just by following links around. I think first name + last initial is a good compromise. --Arduinna 17:26, 15 October 2008 (UTC)