ZineWiki:Editor's Forum

ZineWiki Editor's Forum

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Navigation Boxes

Hey guys, over on Wikipedia, I've created a few Author Navigation Boxes, one for Mark Z. Danielewski and one for Stephen King (the King one took hours, you can view it here) and one for Edgar Allan Poe. Basically what this does is create a cool little navigation box at the bottom of every entry related specifically to a certain person.

I'd like to start using these on ZineWiki for some of our more prolific writers. I've created a mock one using myself (with a few fake titles thrown in for demonstration purposes). Can you take a look on my page and let me know what you think about using these? Alan Fall of Autumn 15:17, 18 September 2006 (EDT)

Categories vs Lists

I spent the morning going through the Zines A-Z lists and comparing each listing to the zines catagory tag and making sure that every zine we had in the wiki was on the hand-made lists, and vice versa. As the wiki grows, I doubt I'll be able to do this again by hand. So we need to keep up on that a little better. Each time any of you see a new zine added, please make sure it is also added to the hand-made Zines A-Z list.

Eventually I would like to move it all over to Categories, like the Zinester Directory to avoid the double work. But until more of those red links are blue, we need to keep the hand-made Zines A-Z list. Thanks for all your help. Alan Fall of Autumn 11:22, 30 September 2006 (EDT)

"Wikipedia" or "I practice my melodrama"

We're up for deletion again (right here)... this will be the third time. The first two times we sucessfully beat the nomination and have kept our page. This time around I'm too tired to once again make the case that zines are legitimate and that within the "zine scene" this is currently the largest and most complete database. I'm tired of having to defend how I spend every waking moment of my life that's not reserved for eating or watching The Simpsons. If we've somehow fooled ourselves and the thousands like us, I'd rather live the lie, that what we're doing actually means something. So if you want to make a case, awesome, if not, they can feel free to erase us this time. Alan Fall of Autumn 07:28, 21 March 2007 (EDT)

• I added my vote. I also put up notices about the deletion on the talk pages of the articles on Punk Planet, Girl Germs, Absolutely Zippo, J.D.s, Kill Your Pet Puppy and Famorama, all of which included a link to this site, so that readers interested in zines can just come here rather than searching on Wikipedia for something they won't find : ) I hate Wikipedia.InvisibleFriend 17:45, 21 March 2007 (EDT)

• Thanks InvisibleFriend, I put a keep vote on there too, as did someone else right after mine. I was having a particularly bad day yesterday after trying to defend zines to someone else, so this was like the last straw kind of stuff. I'm balanced once again though. =) Alan Fall of Autumn 08:10, 22 March 2007 (EDT)
  • That's what I'm for, when someone attacks zines and self-publishing or a project I'm involved with, I go to battle to defend it. I pretty much took away that guy's argument, and everyone else has said "keep," so it should be interesting how he responds. dan10things 14:32, 22 March 2007 (EDT)