there must be something wrong with the coding on this page, it says "Last Modified: 8 years ago" when that clearly isn't the case.
or maybe just keep it like that for fun
Bumbleby is best ship. busy spending time on r/RWBY and r/anime. Unapologetic Socialist
Here's a bit of advice to people who add examples, especially to the Fanfic section: the Examples Are Not Recent rule applies here, too.
If the story or the series is still ongoing, refrain from adding easily outdated information such as "It is currently the longest/the second-longest fanfic in its category on ff.net" or "The story is currently 50% done", especially since future editors may have problems verifying if they're still true (especially the latter—how can we quickly determine if the story's planned length is the same as it was a year ago?). They are bound to get removed sooner or later. Things like exact word and chapter counts are still — in my opinion — fine, as long as you mark them with a date ("As of December 2014..."), since they're ultimately what this page is about.
nothing makes sense to me
What if This Very Wiki was printed!? o.O ... On second thought, Archive Panic is the right trope. Sorry.
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Okay, looking at the page image: When you get to the point where your book is taller than it is wide, doesn't it become so impractical to use that you switch to volumes like every other paper encyclopedia?
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well, the "paper Wikipedia" was more of a proof-of-concept gimmick than a real book meant for daily use
I remember using a copy of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (in the 80s) that looked similar to the book in the picture, except that the library kept it mounted in a dedicated stand.
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Would it be a good idea to separate out the in-story examples from the actual works? I'd do it, but I don't want to make more work for someone else if it's a bad idea.
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I think manga examples like Hajime no Ippo and Kochikame should be removed. This isn't about long-runners but at single volumes that clock in at over 500 pages.
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Yes, it doesn't make any sense since the individual volumes are only around 200 pages long. Hajime no Ippo and Kochikame already have entries on the Long Runner page. The other manga entries are about omnibus editions and so are fine. I'll go ahead and remove them.
Couldn't decide where to put this on the main page, so I'm putting it here: the Longest Stories C2 has identified 52 stories on FanFiction.Net with more than 1,000,000 words. Of those, 7 have over 2,000,000, and one, The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest, has broken 3,000,000. (Major thanks to ncfan for her help!)
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Can't put this on the page 'cos it'd be natter:
The Codex Giygas. Are you a bad enough dude to grasp its true form?
Probably should get working on that essay now...
The Urantia Book is 2,097 pages long and could be considered a religious text. I can't find it in this article.
There are a lot of instruction manuals and computer code examples in the "Textbooks" subpage that I feel don't belong there. For one thing, we might have enough examples of both that they need their own page by now, and for another, they're not textbooks of the sort that would be used in classrooms, even if occasionally consulted there. They may be useful as a reference, but not strictly education, which I think is what textbooks are for. So I think we need to separate those examples out of that page.