I seached my name at Fanlore this week. With the exception of a Star Trek Voyager filk to the tune of the theme from Gilligan’s Island having won an annual alt.startrek.creative award during the heyday of Usenet, I seem to have disappeared with the print fanzine era. That’s what comes of hosting your work yourself to the exclusion of FF.net and AO3, I guess. Of course if it really mattered to me I would have looked before now.
heroofthreefaces also wrote:
“Perhaps that’s how smaller wikis work - and yours isn’t the first comment I’ve got suggesting it - but 1) it’s against the TOS at WIkipedia and that forms an impression 2) perhaps I’m spoiled but I didn’t have to do it for myself at TVTropes (Or, for that matter, at Wikipedia. There was an entry there for Arthur, King of Time and Space before notability became a thing.). “
It is not against Fanlore’s TOS to write about yourself or what you know about fandom. We use Plural Point of View instead of demanding notability. We realize that fandom is participatory, and that a fandom “wiki” (lower case) is not an academic or journalistic publication. Because fandom rarely meets the mundane world’s notability requirement …there is a reason most fandom activities won’t be recorded on Wikipedia. They delete fan run conventions labeling them as “just a bunch of school kids getting together”
But back to Fanlore….. if the article is too one sided or unbalanced, someone can always label it “Needs More PPOV” and another someone will see if they can add more info (aka..it’s a wiki and it takes many hands to create.)
I find it sad when the voices that measure fandom and finding it wanting and lacking “notability” come from within the community. Fandom may be participatory…but we do not have to participate in our own marginalization.