On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > On the other hand, if we let this go for railways, then next we will have > the fantasy, computer games, and anime fans at our doors, asking to > recognize fanfic and such as sources, and I am afraid this may be like > opening the Pandora box.
I do not see how anime fanfics is possibly analogous to railroad fans reporting the results of their investigation in non-academic form. There is no analogy: the point of fanfics is that they *aren't canon and are made up by fans*. The truer analogy would be "then next we will have anime fans asking that their translations of official Japanese materials be usable or their records of convention Q&A panels admitted as sources". And I don't think that would be a bad thing at all... -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
