Fancyclopedia Guidelines

Editors: Jim Caughran, Joe Siclari
Webmaster: Jack Weaver

Science fiction fandom began in the 1930s, when readers of the pulp magazines began to write to each other. While very loose, its members identify with fandom and with each other, and know many other fans.

Fancyclopedia 3 is a collective enterprise of all of fandom. Based on the previous works by Jack Speer and Dick Eney, it is to be written by fans who want to contribute.

Unlike Wikipedia, Fancyclopedia is to be an edited encyclopedia. Your editors will impose their own iron whim on content, style and presentation. Nonetheless, like Wikipedia, fans are free to contribute and edit topics, suggest authors, and argue with the editors on matters of content, style or presentation.

Please register. Registration requires approval by the editors. If you are not known to the editors, please provide a reference to another fan who can vouch for you. After vetting, you will be free to contribute as you like, editing and adding articles.

To register, click the odd icon to the upper right of the text area. A menu will open up; click Register. Fill out the form and wait for acknowledgement.

Like most encyclopedias, Fancyclopedia will contain articles on people, events and organizations. It will also have a Fanzines category. It contains a glossary of fanspeak which will be referenced by articles using fannish terms (based on rich brown's glossary).

People: Biographies of important fans and their achievements and exploits.

Events: History as well as formal events such as conventions.

Organizations: Fan clubs, including city clubs, apas, online lists, etc.

Fanzines: Influential or focal fanzines or fannish websites.

Articles will be selected on the basis of importance and relevance. Initial articles will include the articles from Fancyclopedia 2, identified as such. We depend on your contributions; get busy and write something. Articles will be credited.

Articles should be relevant to science fiction fandom as such. While comix fandom, animé, and the Society for Creative Anachronisms (as examples) arose from science fiction fandom, they are now largely independent. Articles on other fandoms should note their relationships with science fiction fandom and provide links to sites concerned with those fandoms.