Talk:Fiction Articles

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)

Will there be an opposite note that CCP Story staff can add? For example the Souro Foiritan article presumably doesn't contain stuff you 'made up', but rather information you have collected from various CCP published/approved sources. Does it then get locked after they check it? Making it impossible to update when the character develops more? --Dex Nederland 05:33, 28 June 2009 (GMT)

As of this comment, the article hasn't been touched by any CCP folks, but finding that stuff out is the point of the exercise. Faraelle Brightman 23:25, 13 July 2009 (GMT)