Guardianofthehall/Where'd all the Fan Work Go?

Being one of the admins here at MG I feel like I should explain the recent crackdown on fan work. The first thing you have to know is that I, nor the other administrators likely, don't have anything against fan fiction. Fan films and fan stories are wonderful venues for self-enrichment and add to the richness of the franchise. I myself am working on a Tokusatsu fan film that has ranger-like themes.

The thing is fan work is often written with an in-universe feel- that is- fan work HAS to be written as if it exists within its own continuity (as absolute) and not be written as if it is fan work. Thus one would have to write 'Jason and Trini married and had kids' and not 'in this fanfiction, Jason and Trini had kids' for it to have literary weight.

The problem is, since a fan work has its own internal 'reality', once placed in a 'canon'/'official' wiki, those 'realities' clash, and being that 'canon' and 'official concepts' are the ruling element over a wiki, this renders the fan work 'false'. That is why when we say "This is not the place for fanfiction," it is not out of spite, but a reality that the 'environment' here is not condusive for fanwork. If one were to write a well-organized fanfiction here, he'd have to make pages for each ranger, zord, villain and arsenal and categorize them. The categorizations alone would 'include' the story elements in the main PR/Sentai wiki and invalidate them.

Places for fan work would be [powerrangersfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Powerrangersfanfiction_Wiki Power Rangers Fan Fiction wiki] and [rangerfiction.wikia.com/ Ranger Fiction]. These sites have the right environment condusive for fan work. I myself want to contribute to both sites in terms of helping organize their work, by supplying some much-needed templating and formatting.

Hopefully this clears up any misconceptions. In the mean-time, happy editing!