Fandom needs an FAQ

[veronica_rich]

I was trying to find something for "Star Wars" online this morning because I am not a fan and know little about it. Here's a fun exercise: Pop a bucket of corn and get a Coke, then Google "Darth Vader army" to try to find the name. Settle in and get comfortable.

This prompted me to think, we really need an FAQ that can be Googled for POTC for those poor clueless souls who know nothing about our franchise. I don't mean recommendations or anything - I mean facts about the movies, names of characters and places and things that can be taken directly from the screen, that any uninformed idiot who wanted to spend 9 hours watching could find out on their own.

Comments

[poetic-self.livejournal.com]

Well, there is the wiki...

http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Have you read the Jack entry lately? Or the Will entry? They are SO very biased in favor of sparrabeth that it's not funny. I'm talking about just a factual "this is what happened" without someone's snide horseshit agenda.

:-)

[poetic-self.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't ;) Are they EVERYWHERE? (No, don't answer that!)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are. I don't ever want to hear another one EVER again bitch about how much slash there was in the fandom prior to DMC - at least we didn't go around trying to change essential facts and canon interpretations.

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

Wiki's set up so that anyone can edit something, and therefore give it their own POV. Makes me think of the line: "My mind's already made up. Don't confuse me with facts."