Subject: Generally, no; sometimes, yes.
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Posted on: 2019-07-27 23:35:00 UTC

Well, we're not TVtropes, so we don't need a page for every canon--though you should head over there and edit their page if you want to add extra information to a Loud House page.

But we do have pages on some continua that don't have missions in them. I'm not entirely sure if I was the one who added it, but I know I fleshed out the page for Uncle Tom's Cabin--because, although it's not got any missions in it, it's an early example of what bad fanfiction can do (minstrel shows, namely; they're basically made of cringe and take the characters completely out of character), and an example of extreme canon damage held together only by historians studying the novel. Evangeline St. Clare, a Canon Sue of the type that was popular back then, is also mentioned on the Canon Sue/Historical page.

You can see why we might want such a page on the wiki even though we'll probably never do a mission to Uncle Tom's Cabin--handling things as horrid as those minstrel shows would make it impossible to make the mission remotely funny. But it gives context, connects the Mary-Sue phenomenon to the classics, and gives an example of a situation where OOC can actually be serious business and hurt real people. (50 Shades of Grey, IMO, is another). Usually, bad writing is silly and funny and we've all written bad things in our past... but sometimes, it's pretty serious. And the PPC can get serious once in a while. It's why we never attack authors, only their writing--we care about real people no matter how snarky we get on paper.

There are also some canons that are in there for other reasons. Sometimes it's because we borrowed tech from them, like the Men in Black neuralyzer; or because they're also metafiction, like the quarantined Thursday Next continuum (note: may no longer be quarantined, but nobody's had the guts to touch it yet). Sometimes we cover them because there's a famous 'Sue in them, like Drizz't Do'Urden.

Anyways, that was a big digression--but the point is, you have to have a reason to add that particular page. Other than "I like it", what makes The Loud House so interesting in the context of the PPC? If it's just some small element (like maybe it created a new Sue color, or had some element of metafiction that the PPC also has), you can add that thing to the page in question, and link the mention to the Wikipedia or TVTropes page for Loud House. On the other hand, if there are just so many things that connect to the PPC that you find yourself wanting to edit a dozen pages that way, then create a Loud House page instead.

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