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|    Beaver Fever to Howard    |
|    Re: Fandom?    |
|    05 Jan 21 17:08:59    |
      From: Beaver_Fever@live.com              On Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 4:56:30 PM UTC-8, Howard wrote:       > Does anyone know anything in depth about fandom.com/wiki pages?       >       > From time to time I'll search for a movie or show summary and they will       > be one of the top sites that come up. I'm surprised by how many       > extremely detailed wikis there are -- for example, I went there today       > and they had a banner linking to a detailed wiki for American Gods, a       > show that I don't know anyone has watched, with 200+ pages of plot       > summaries, character pages, etc.       >       > Who writes these? I can see how there might be some dedicated fans of       > franchises like The Simpsons or the Marvel movies who take care of their       > pages, but it's hard for me to imagine anyone cares about American Gods       > or the Disney show Milo Murphy's Law enough to keep that kind of thing       > running. It's not a few pages, it's hundreds for each one.       >       > Are these run by PR companies working for networks or production       > companies? Or am I wrong and there really are dedicated fans for all of       > these movies and shows?                     I've found a few that were basically past tour date repositories and stolen       from still active fan sites (like ones I contribute to since I have a       newspapers dot com account) but now more likely to get higher search results.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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