Difference between revisions of "Talk:Fiction Articles"

Revision as of 11:47, 27 June 2009

Page Formating

Please add the following around {{Fiction}}
<nowiki>{{Fiction}} </nowiki>

--Dex Nederland 14:45, 12 June 2009 (GMT)

Fan Fiction/Opinion

This very much depends on the policy of CCP/ISD in regards to "mixed" pages. At the moment some pages can contain both CCP content (NPC corporate entries) and player generated content. A basic template saying, "The following information is conjecture, opinion, or player-produced." may work. I think we should shy away from the term "Fan Fiction", the Caldari langauge fx is not Fan Fiction per se, but rather player-produced content.

I don't think the template should add a category. --Dex Nederland 14:51, 12 June 2009 (GMT)

Then how does a player know this portion of a page is offiical fiction and this portion of a page is just player conjecture. I think the two need to be clearly seperated or we muddy the waters alot?

--CCP Ginger 15:04, 12 June 2009 (GMT)

I don't think I presented what I was suggesting well. I don't think the template should be like Stub, Fiction, RODLC, Cleanup, etc. The template should be more like Warning, Note, or FYI. The template seperates the "official" information from the non-official information, it does not add a category of "Mixed Content" to the page. Over categorization could be a bad thing. --Dex Nederland 15:25, 12 June 2009 (GMT)

Personally, I think the idea of a category sounds great. What would the category be for player-created fiction? "{{Player Fiction Content}}"? I can respect your desire to not 'muddy the waters', so would Player Fiction be allowed its own portal, perhaps organized similarly to Prime Fiction? Or I suppose it might be natural to add it to a general portal for all categories starting with 'Player'...

--Blake Rathen 02:06, 13 June 2009 (GMT)

I just thought of putting it off the main fiction portal "Player Fiction" or something tbh. --CCP Ginger 16:40, 13 June 2009 (GMT)

Sounds good to me! --Blake Rathen 13:48, 19 June 2009 (GMT)

I've been lax in anything to do with EVE lately but my standing position is this: Player fiction and conjecture should be kept strictly seperated from the articles that deal directly with cannon topics: I.e., Caldari and Intaki language do not go in the main Caldari and Intaki articles. Aurora events are the exception; they're cannon because CCP says so. BUT: A player writing content about cannon using only the canon is not writing fan fiction, they're writing an encyclopedia article, and that goes through the verification process Ginger outlined. I just want to over-stress that because I will probably tag some of the stuff I've written as a test case.

I think "Player Fiction" is a fine descriptor, I think it should be a category to most easily seperate it from the rules process placed on the official fiction articles. Optionaly you could have "Player Chronicles" as a sub-category for formal fan-fiction pieces, however I've doubts that Evelopedia is really the best place to showcase them, other than a page or two with external links. Faraelle Brightman 17:47, 27 June 2009 (GMT)