Subject: Opinions? Not really.
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Posted on: 2015-01-05 21:06:00 UTC
If by 'maintain' you mean go in as a vigilante and start deleting things the fandom in question has put in, I'd advise against it - people like to sort out their own messes (or don't see them as messes). If you mean something else... then I don't know what it is. ;)
hS
Not sure if I got the acronym right, but"Rise of the Brave Tangled Twisted Dragons"would not fit in the title line. Anyway,I noticed there is a ROTBTD wiki located at http://rise-of-the-brave-tangled-dragons.wikia.com/ and it is currently unmaintained. Recently there has been quite a bit of flaming and everyone posting profanity etc. Should I attempt to maintain this wiki? I an not sure if fanfiction in this continuum is badfic or not but fanfics are not currently posted here, only information. Suggestions anyone? I will need someone to help out with the tangled part of the wiki as I have never seen that movie.
Just looking at their Recent Activity... how does a page like Jackunzel (the Jack Frost/Rapunzel pairing, it turns out) end up with 500 comments, and 42 attached pictures, and 20 linked fanfics? The wiki itself only has 500 pages - how on earth is there that much activity on just one random page?
No, seriously. Honest question. I understand the PPC Wiki being large - we have a unified fandom which may well be unique, come to think of it - but this is... surely nothing more than a list of popular crossovers? How do people even find it, let alone decide to post endless comments?
hS is a baffled hS
I had no idea out was so popular, do you have an opinion on if I should maintain it or not? I still can't find anything on tumblr. :l
If by 'maintain' you mean go in as a vigilante and start deleting things the fandom in question has put in, I'd advise against it - people like to sort out their own messes (or don't see them as messes). If you mean something else... then I don't know what it is. ;)
hS
I was thinking more along the lines of cleaning up all the profanity and vandalism, then blocking all of the sock puppets.
As hS has already pointed out, it's hard to know where to draw the line. On the other hand, maybe the wiki could benefit from having someone neutral who isn't invested in a lot of ships, so I'm not opposed to you trying to clean up. Then again, I could imagine it is a thankless job, so you could maybe consider digging up a neglected wiki for a small fandom that you love and instead contributing there with content?
Anyway, if this is something your heart is really set on, we're not here to stop you. As long as you don't claim to be cleaning up the wiki on behalf of PPC, it's simply something you're doing in your free time.
One piece of advice, however: Start slowly and get to to know some of the other users. No-one likes it when somebody comes out of nowhere and starts editing with a hatchet, no matter how well-intentioned and how much it might be needed.
Profanity I guess, though you could argue that on a shipping wiki, there's certain words that might be accepted by the readers as descriptive. Vandalism? Maybe the obvious stuff, but where do you draw the line? Serious edits could look like vandalism if you don't know what they're about.
And 'sock puppets' -- eesh, I'd just leave that one well alone. Let them edit however they like; the very notion of a sock puppet implies a one-account-only rule, which they may not have or want to enforce.
hS
That should say it not out. :l
Seems to me this is a question for people who are fans of this crossover universe. There might be some here, you never know, but someone else's fanon wiki isn't really the concern of the PPC at large. According to the RotBTD wiki, it's big on Tumblr. Maybe look there for support?
(And by the way, hi! Nice to see you here. ^_^ Sorry I didn't greet you in your intro thread; I was busy when you posted it and I never quite got back around to it.)
~Neshomeh
Yeah, I only posted this here because I thought if there was a lot of badfics in this continuum I could help push it in the right direction. Where did you see anything about tumblr? I looked around and could not find anything.
It's mentioned here, in the History of the Fandom section.
Like firemagic said, it's not really a continuum in the sense of warranting PPC protection in and of itself, since it's not an officially licensed publication. The individual films involved, sure, but PPCing a crossover with their "Big Four" wouldn't be any different from PPCing any other bad crossover from the PPC's perspective. The popularity of crossing these particular films might warrant mention, but not more than the popularity of crossing everything under the sun with Harry Potter, IMO. *shrug*
~Neshomeh
You can't really mission this as a continuum. There is no Word of God on the ROTwhatever verse, just a lot of people's headcanons and fics (frankly I'm not sure why a wiki would even be a useful tool for this in the first place.)
And Nesh very clearly brought up the topic of Tumblr, and did not mention it because of your posts. And she brought it up because that megacrossover seems to have been bred and raised on Tumblr blogs, and therefore, the people who talk a lot about it on Tumblr would likely be the closest thing to authorities on the subject.