Subject: Re: DoI and minis
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Posted on: 2012-08-31 04:19:00 UTC
Okay, awesome. I thought anyone could post badfics, but I wasn't too sure - being a shiny newbie and all. Well, less shiny, since it's been...a week? Two?
Good to know that about the minis - I haven't thought of any good ones for the miniless fandoms, but I figure you can never know too much and wanted to ask in case the urge to spawn names attacks me.
Thankies as usual for all your help!
I've spent about five hours creating a new canon location page (Azeroth) and doing some touch-up grammar, spelling, and punctuation edits to a lot of pages on the wiki, and so far no one's really said anything, but I can't help feeling as though some people may see my edits as showing off or being too eager to impress people.
(Why yes, I do have a confidence issue, how'd you know?)
So, to anyone who's been watching the PPC Wiki, am I being too hard-working? Should I only make really big edits? Why is the sky blue during the day and sheet white when there's fire?
Is there a time limit for how long one must be a Boarder before one can create agents?
I've been planning to wait until I've been around for about four months, and probably will come close to that goal either way, but I was curious as to whether there's any set time limit. It's a little hard to tell.
Creating Agents falls under several categories.
If you just want to do RPs, you are co-writing a mission with another PPCer who already got permission, or youre writing something that isn't a mission (an interlude, for example. I'm not 100% sure on this one, though.) you can do it rather freely. Just be sure they aren't Sues or cardboard cut-outs. (Altought a literal, sentient cardboard cut-out could be rather funny)
If you want to use them for writing missions, you have to get Permission first.
If you don't have it, you can apply for it after about a month of being active on the Board (so you should be fine).
For more information about what you need to do, see here:
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Permission
If you already have Permission, you can create as many Agents as you want... provided that you don't flood us with them, that is!
That's about what I thought - though I probably still wait until I'm very sure of what it is to be a PPC agent.
Thankies for the link! I shall read it now! :)
You might on occasion see or hear about someone being told off or even blocked for edit-spam, that is, making a lot of edits in a very short time.
To my knowledge, that only ever happens to people who haven't introduced themselves on the board, haven't participated in the community and nobody knows who they are. Naturally, having someone like that making a lot of edits on our wiki, makes people a little edgy.
But that has nothing to do with what you're doing. Like the others have said, you're in the clear. So keep up the good work!
Minor detail: If you want to make a page for a notable Sue, s/he has to be nominated on the Board.
Meanie head. -throws plastic cup at you-
But I'm glad to hear I should be in the clear. Phew.
The Sue rule...actually makes sense.
Also, I'm going to use the opportunity to ask if people outside of the Department of Intelligence. And can Boarders suggest minis for fandoms currently without minis, or do they have to be written in a mission log first?
Can people outside of the DoI suggest badfics to be investigated for sporking potential?
The Department of Intelligence is just a fictional construct within the in-universe PPC. Anyone here, in the real world PPC, can add new badfics to a badfic thread, or start a new badfic thread if there currently isn't one on the front page.
Minis are one of the things that do have pretty structured rules, partly because they're sort of shared characters between us and the Official Fanfiction Universities. For any given fandom, the OFU's director gets first dibs on deciding what they are. If there is no OFU for that fandom (which is very often the case), then the first writer who writes a PPC mission into that fandom that produces minis gets to discover/name them.
Occasionally, the aforesaid writer of the first mini-spawning mission for a given fandom will start a discussion on the Board to get feedback about what folks think should be the mini. This usually only happens for a fandom that doesn't have an obvious giant monster that could serve as the mini. (Try to imagine To Kill A Mockingbird or Matlock minis.) This last paragraph was just observation, not any official guidelines.
One more point, since I've taken an infodump everywhere anyway: it's been decided as a group that mini-Nazis or similar will never be acceptable. Something to keep in mind. :)
Okay, awesome. I thought anyone could post badfics, but I wasn't too sure - being a shiny newbie and all. Well, less shiny, since it's been...a week? Two?
Good to know that about the minis - I haven't thought of any good ones for the miniless fandoms, but I figure you can never know too much and wanted to ask in case the urge to spawn names attacks me.
Thankies as usual for all your help!
That's how I started out. I added a lot of PPC stories to their continuuum pages, created pages for agents that were written before the wiki was created, that kind of thing. Nobody seemed to hate me for it, and I'm still around, sooo...! If you see a need for something on the Wiki, add it!
Glad to see I'm not a special case (well...in that sense, anyway...)! Thankies for the encouragement!
Obviously, any and all SPaG-style mistakes you find are totally good to fix. We want our wiki to have just as good grammar as our other writings. The one caveat here is that some users prefer not to have their agents' pages edited, so unless you're just going in for a really simple misspelling fix, it's generally best to leave those alone.
As to making new location and characters pages . . . we really don't have any official rules there. Folks have always just made pages as they saw fit. Personally, I think a canon character should appear in several missions, and be a frequent victim of badfic trends, before getting a page on the wiki. Does anyone else have thoughts, there?
Back to loactions, I like the idea behind your Azeroth page. It keeps all the World of Warcraft locations' info to a single page (rather than the ninety-dozen Middle-earth location pages that currently flood the wiki) without stretching out the actual WoW page. I don't know that every canon needs a page describing its locations; that goes back to how well the canon is represented in the PPC's writings. I think we've certainly had enough WoW missions and Azeroth-born agents for this one to qualify.
So, to stop rambling, no, you aren't being overly industrious on the wiki. A wiki is a group effort by definition, and your help there is appreciated. Just use your common sense when wanting to make a new page, and think about how it relates to the PPC (the subject of our wiki, after all).
And that's not the sky that turns white in the presence of fire. That's my face going pale as my pyrophobia is triggered.
If someone happens to stumble over something on one of my agent pages that just sounds stupid/wrong, feel free to fix it. I'm far from perfect, so I appreciate it.
If I see anything in my rabid attempts to aid the Wiki (cough-andearnbadges-cough) I shall do what I can while keeping true to what you are trying to say about your agents!
-salutes again, hits self in the eye and hand goes tumbling off again-
Aw, dang it...
my grammar on my agent pages.
When I tape my fingers back onto my hands.
For more than just your response - thankies for the help you've already given and offered on the Wiki, as well! -throws cookies through the Internet at you-
As to agent pages, pretty much all I've done is reword a sentence here (while maintaining its meaning) or fixing the spelling or punctuation there. Really, if you look at the pages I touched on, I think it'll be pretty hard to find the actual edit...
I agree with you about character and location pages - I think four or five missions featuring a particular continuum/location/character - or just mentioning them because they've been effected - is a pretty decent number before a page should be made. Otherwise, there's a chance too few PPCers and Boarders will understand why the page is actually there.
I'm so happy you like my Azeroth page! It took forever... -hands fall off- GAH! I need to find some super glue!
While I dash off to put my hands back on, I leave you with another thanks and my promise to use good common sense. Bye!
-destroys the kitchen looking for gorilla glue-
Some of the touch-up edits are rearrangements of words so that sentences flow better or the addition of parenthesis to reduce the number of commas in an otherwise very comma-full sentence.