Subject: Wiki pages for Sues with multiple names?
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Posted on: 2010-06-12 13:35:00 UTC
If a Sue goes by multiple names over the course of the fic, what name do we put them under on the Wiki? The one used most often? I ask because I want to make a page for my first mission, which featured a Blaise Zabini Sue (set before HBP) who turned out to really be an elf and renamed Elessario.
Maybe it's just me, but aside from the most infamous, Legendary-Badfic-Type 'Sues around, what is the point in giving them their own wiki pages? A list noting which Sues have been killed, sure, but I would think the wiki should be more for PPC-specific information, not an account of every Sue out there in fandom.
That said, I more or less agree with the others: The 'real' name would be best, but if it's very similar to other names, take the more unique version - Elessario, in this case, certainly. The only down side to this is that people who started reading the badfic and didn't get as far as that name's first mention might not connect the two. But, eh.
I ask because I've seen one mission by Technical Errors and written one myself in which there are multiple OCs who might as well be completely interchangeable, and don't really have enough personality to require their own pages. On the other hand, putting them all on one page could be unwieldy.
and then have one redirect to the other. At the top of that one you make it clear that the Sue is known under two names.
It's not a bad thing to start two new wiki pages. It makes the wiki grow faster. ;-)
I think the best thing to do is to use the most "official" name avaible. If the sue is called X, but then is discovered that her true/complete name is Y, then is to be called Y. If all names are at the same level of importance, use the one found in the fiction description.
If it is found out that the character's true name is Elessario, then that is the Sue's name. It further proves that they are not the real Blaise Zabini, so it should be the name on the wiki with Blaise Zabini as an alias.
Posting here to avoid double-posting. Recently I agreed to co-mod an LJ community with someone I didn't really know - it sort of got spawned out of a joke I made which started up a conversation. Since then, that person has been involved in a lot of nasty flamewars on LJ's Fanficrants community. I don't really want to be associated with them anymore because of this. However, we haven't actually talked since we set the comm in question up, the comm hasn't got much traffic, and we're not on each other's friendslists. Does anyone think it necessary for me to drop the community and leave them to it, or carry on and just ignore them since the comm doesn't actually require us to interact?
If you don't want to be associated with them, then I'd say leaving is the best move for you. If you still want to be part of the community, then hang around, if not, then leave.
There may be some redundancy or things that don't work together in the above statement.