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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.   
      
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