Forum:Forum:"OC", "original character", "character", "fan-character"
Forgive me if I'm speaking a bit awkwardly, It's 10pm where I am, I'm tired, and I'm not sure what to do.
Before today: OC redirects to Original character. A previous version of this page was deleted for "Mainstream, little/non-furry related".
Among other meanings, OC also stands for w:openCanvas, although I'm not sure if it's still popular in the fandom.
Original character redirects to character (thus creating a double redirect). It originally redirected to fan character.
fan character was a stub article that was changed into an redirect to character.
character does not have any mention of "OC", "original character", or "fan character" (in the sense of a character created by a fan based on an established fictional universe).
I chose to fix the OC double redirect by treating it as a dictionary entry, like TLKIAWOL. I did this because I think there's likely enough people who wish to look this up.
Later, Dokatamaru expanded OC with information about fan characters and standalone original characters.
I'm not sure if any of the options here make sense:
- remove contents of OC, redirect to character. This is the "standard" way of dealing with a double redirect, although removing usable content seems... rude.
- leave contents of OC in place, redirect original character back to OC. Abbreviations should point to their full form, not the other way around, right?
- manually move contents of OC to original character.
- merge OC into character, expanding with information about fan character. This seems the best right now, as it has the potential to create a high-quality article; but we lose interwiki parity with Russian WikiFur, which has separate articles for character, fan character, "author character" and a disambiguation for "original character" that includes the two and also a sense of (established fictional character behaving) "out of character".
Kakurady (talk) 22:45, 27 January 2017 (EST)
- Don't worry about interwiki parity with Russian WikiFur, we'll adapt our links. In Russian, these terms are borrowed, after all. We also have a template for disparate interwiki cases. EvilCat (talk) 09:04, 28 January 2017 (EST)