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There are multiple work pages for fanfics that exhibit several problems. These issues tend to be glossed over and go unfixed for long periods of time. While this problem is also present with works pages for official works and not just fan-made content, it tends to get glossed over more with fanfics due to them appealing to a smaller niche compared to the wider audiences that official works have. Many of these issues include:

  • Zero-Context Examples
  • Grammar, ranging from spelling to punctuation
  • Namespace, which is often used as FanFic, not the more appropriate Fanfic
The purpose of this thread will be to bring these issues forth, discuss how to fix them, and clean-up the pages so that they are more in line with the policies and rules of the wiki. Just because these pages are made for, and describing, fan-made stories shouldn't mean that they get a free pass for having multiple problems.

Edited by ssjSega on Jan 25th 2020 at 10:37:37 AM

costanton11 Since: Mar, 2016
#226: Mar 30th 2024 at 6:46:31 PM

[up] I cutlisted the YMMV pages.

rasterax Since: Sep, 2023
#227: Mar 31st 2024 at 1:09:09 AM

The use of What Could Have Been on the trivia page is misuse as well, right? It's basically a meta entry about how the version would differ from the original if it was made, complete with gushing about how great it would be. That's not actual trivia on the making of the fic.

costanton11 Since: Mar, 2016
#228: Mar 31st 2024 at 6:44:30 AM

The page has been cut.

Are the Quotes and Recap pages acceptable?

Edited by costanton11 on Mar 31st 2024 at 8:46:10 AM

DancouMaryuu Wow… '*Everything* is depressing! Since: Feb, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Wow… '*Everything* is depressing!
#229: Apr 6th 2024 at 4:32:14 PM

I know it's a long time after the fact, but I noticed that Upplet put his own fanfic, When Instinct Falls on the Zootopia fanfic recs page, then added someone else's name to the rec after the fact.

I don't know if this is the place to report fanfic rec self-recommendations. If this is not the correct place, please let me know.

Edited by DancouMaryuu on Apr 6th 2024 at 5:35:59 AM

Does anyone else here actually know Fighbird beyond the "Is this a pigeon?" meme?
mightymewtron Lots of coffee from New New York Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Lots of coffee
#230: Apr 6th 2024 at 7:14:52 PM

I'm not sure if this is the correct place, but the rec should be removed either way.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
DancouMaryuu Wow… '*Everything* is depressing! Since: Feb, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Wow… '*Everything* is depressing!
#231: Apr 7th 2024 at 10:41:53 AM

Any idea what the correct place is?

Does anyone else here actually know Fighbird beyond the "Is this a pigeon?" meme?
harryhenry It's either real or it's a dream Since: Jan, 2012
It's either real or it's a dream
#232: Apr 11th 2024 at 8:27:02 PM

[up] I could've sworn there was a thread dedicated to Auto-Erotic Troping but I can't seem to find it, if it even exists.

Edited by harryhenry on Apr 12th 2024 at 3:27:11 AM

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