Talk:The Sugar Quill
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Secret number 87: http://i29.tinypic.com/2m8376p.png . Can some one edit that link and info in to the page? --Laura 18:05, 9 March 2008 (CDT)
[edit] Article clean up
I have heavily edited the timeline in order to clean it up. --Principessa 15:04, 30 April 2008 (EDT)
- Can you explain why you removed what you removed? Mostly because I don't know all of it. (Though yeah. Stalker gate should go.) Some of the date removals are not so logical for me. If the forum threads aren't big enough for the main sugar quill page, perhaps create an article called Sugar Quill forums and put that information back in? Unless there is a real justification for giving it the axe? --Laura 15:06, 30 April 2008 (EDT)
- Having looked through the edits, I'm inclined to agree with them. A lot of the information added no real value to this particular article, and only served to clutter up an already large page. Consideration for another page isn't a bad idea, but generally speaking, the who-uploaded-what-story-when emphasizes fanfic too much in an archive-information article. SLWatson 15:34, 30 April 2008 (EDT)
- Can you explain why you removed what you removed? Mostly because I don't know all of it. (Though yeah. Stalker gate should go.) Some of the date removals are not so logical for me. If the forum threads aren't big enough for the main sugar quill page, perhaps create an article called Sugar Quill forums and put that information back in? Unless there is a real justification for giving it the axe? --Laura 15:06, 30 April 2008 (EDT)
- Knowing Sugar Quill some, there are a few BNFs who were writing on the site who were influential. The stories they wrote and when they uploaded can be good in get an idea for stories they inspired. I just don't know those stories and authors well enough to know that. So maybe create pages about those stories with when they were published and why they matter? As opposed to just axing that information? Or say creating an article called "Publishing history on Sugar Quill"? And then tossing that in as a "See also" at the bottom? (And yeah, in general I would agree that when stories are published doesn't matter and might not be relevant to the archive page. It certainly isn't really on any page other than FanFiction.Net.) Just trying to think of a solution other than information axing. --Laura 15:52, 30 April 2008 (EDT)
- One of the things I removed was references to when people began debating on other sites: I simply don't think it's relevant at all to know when a Quiller started debating ship on HP4GU, unless they're Arabella or Zsenya. I used the SQ for years and years, so some of what I deleted was due to (sorry) the feeling that it wasn't actually important to the site. I don't see how knowing when various threads opened is relevant to anything - even in their own page - and I'd be interested as to why you think they ought to be present, and while some of the fics are famous to people who use the site, they're complete blanks to anyone else (Job Hazards, Magical Hair Police, A Muggle Summer, that one by B Bennett about Star Wars) and I don't think they were influential - I did leave After the End, because it was such a big thing. --Principessa 05:31, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
