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shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
#1: Mar 19th 2013 at 3:53:15 PM

The Fanfiction Forum

It's a locked stub, and it seems to have minor violations of the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgement, but I may be wrong.

It also seems to be a bit full of itself, and has a useless character page that's just a list of names aside from one random guy having a Berserk Button listed.

Also, I seem to have goofed on the thread title.

edited 19th Mar '13 3:54:03 PM by shoboni

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#2: Mar 20th 2013 at 1:23:57 AM

Didn't know about this thread — thanks, Sep!

I've already made Sandbox.The Fanfiction Forum with some changes, including taking out the "large and quite complete" stuff. The forum is essentially dead, as far as I can gather. It still needs help, though, so if you can go edit it further before the modswap (or after and ask them to edit it again, of course) that'd be helpful.

My main issue is with Characters.The Fanfiction Forum. It's a list of frequent posters, nothing more. Completely useless, they're real people rather than characters, etc.. Cutlist?

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#3: Mar 20th 2013 at 1:36:07 AM

Ditch the character page.

I also pulled the Hatedom entry from the sandbox as it's flame bait.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#4: Mar 20th 2013 at 6:13:30 AM

The sandbox change has been done. I agree with killing the Characters page.

shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
#5: Mar 20th 2013 at 10:09:04 AM

Me too, it's just a pointless list of names(and the Berserk Button the one guy has listed is flame-bait in and of itself)

@Tel, according the the talk page, it's not dead, they just made it a private forum.

edited 20th Mar '13 10:11:31 AM by shoboni

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#6: Mar 20th 2013 at 11:14:34 AM

Thanks, Will.

I'll cut list the sandbox this evening if someone doesn't beat me to it.

Shoboni: I know, which is why I created a quick account to poke around. It is quite dead (though not as much as a certain parrot) and I think it must have been wiped at some point too, since the page claimed some posters had >1000 posts but now there are less than 700 total.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#9: Mar 20th 2013 at 12:36:07 PM

Cutlisted the character page. Hopefully, this is the last cut request I've issued today.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
#10: Mar 20th 2013 at 2:44:41 PM

My thing here is, why was the page written as if this place rivaled FF.net to begin with? I had never even heard of these people before I found that page(and I used to spend a lot of time browsing random fanfic when I was in High School)

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#11: Mar 21st 2013 at 4:48:59 AM

I don't know. Anyhow, as this is fixed, I'll request closure.

edited 21st Mar '13 4:49:09 AM by SeptimusHeap

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lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#12: Apr 15th 2013 at 5:13:19 AM

We had a request to unlock this. Apparently, the cut was declined.

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Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#13: Apr 15th 2013 at 5:33:35 AM

Thanks.

Ja, the cut request for Characters.The Fanfiction Forum didn't go through, although there is no indication as to why. Sep had both explained and linked this thread in his request. Shall I just resubmit it anyway?

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#14: Apr 15th 2013 at 5:49:25 AM

You'll have to write a different reason, methinks

Probably it was declined because the persons listed are like characters in a work(?)

edited 15th Apr '13 5:55:11 AM by SeptimusHeap

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#15: Apr 15th 2013 at 6:34:27 AM

Possibly so. A list of "The 100 character names mentioned most often in Harry Potter" still wouldn't be something for the wiki, though, and even less so when they are real people.

"This page is not a character sheet but a trivia list about real people from a forum that has been wiped. There aren't any tropes or descriptions listed on it. The consensus in this Projects thread is to cut the page as useless and off-mission. If this cut request is declined, please post there to explain why."

as a reason, perhaps?

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Nocturna Since: May, 2011
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
MorganWick (Elder Troper)
#18: Apr 16th 2013 at 4:33:42 AM

Reason #273147 why cut masters should be able/have to provide reasons when declining cuts.

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#19: Apr 17th 2013 at 2:43:13 AM

I've cutlisted it; let's hope it goes through this time. Having it be standard practice to explain cut declines (rather than that only being done occasionally) would be nice.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#20: Apr 18th 2013 at 2:18:11 PM

OK, this time it went through.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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