User talk:Vee

[duplicating this from the talk page on Dana Scully - feel free to continue the conversation here, or delete this upon reading if you like]

Hi Vee,

Thanks for coming on over to edit :)

Re: your Dana Scully & Fox Mulder pages, unfortunately, character pages don't really have a place on Fanlore - we're for documenting the fan aspect, not the details of the shows/texts/etc themselves. That's what wikipedia, imdb and show wikis are for!

I'm going to redirect this page, and the Fox Mulder one, to the X-Files page. That should have a brief overview of what the X-Files is, but the rest of it ought to be taken up with information about the X-Files fandom rather than the show itself.

Please let me know if you need any further clarification.

Cheers, --Hope 02:37, 29 September 2008 (UTC) [Wiki Committee Chair]

I'm not sure I get it; I can see why canon arcana would be boring and unnecessary but details people have argued over or laughed over

(e.g. the high heels) might need a home. I think of my own fannish experience, and "that was the line where I stopped watching" or "suddenly I understood slash for the first time," and certain details of canon will be necessary to expositing that fannish moment. Will these sorts of details all end up in the main fandom entry?

I'm just having this conversation with someone else simultaneously, actually :) And I'm seeing the point re: fannish engagement with characters. I think the solution would be to have sub-pages for characters on fandom pages. Subpages are - well, subpages of ordinary articles. So instead of a page at Dana Scully, it would be at The X-Files/Dana Scully - thus perpetually associated/linked to the main X-Files page.

Would this be a suitable solution, do you think?

ETA: see for eg. The X-Files/Fox Mulder

Thanks, --Hope 02:52, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I think that would work nicely. Elegant solution! -- Vee