Bulbapedia talk:Project Fandom

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Summary of Discussion from Bulbagarden Discord, 2026/05/21

A summary of a discussion held yesterday in the #wiki-discussion channel on the Bulbagarden Discord.

• @JohtoTimes raised the point about wanting to see our coverage of fansites expanded, and suggested their interviews with various fansite staff as a good source to help in building those up
• The question of notability came up
  • @Landfish7 noted that we may be able to combine less notable sites into single articles, rather than having lots of stubby pages. Examples were old defunct sites that don't have any apparent notability, or where there is no substantial information that can be found
• I highlighted two points we would want to keep in mind, namely that we should:
  • Avoid including lists of staff (current or former) that might need constant updating for an active site
  • Ensure pages are not just written like an advertisement, stick to factual coverage
• @JohtoTimes noted we may need to tighten up how we define fansite
• @GimoTB raised the question of if we might expand the project to cover individual fandom personalities, such as prominent YouTubers
  • @RotomAmiti noted that an article along the lines of "online video in the pokemon fandom" could be good to outline trends and maybe have a list of notable people
  • @RotomAmiti also suggested that it might make more sense to merge personalities with the websites they run, rather than having separate pages for them
  • @JohtoTimes suggested ProjectFandom is really about the traditional fansites and forums, and that individual personalities might be more appropriate for a separate project.
  • @SatoMew highlighted the PIRN: Pokémon Radio article they originally created in 2009 as a fandom article that doesn't quite fit into that box of "fansites and forums".
• @Galarian Guy raised the possibility of covering information about Speedruns and world records as part of the project. This was positively received by several people.

Archaic (talk) 16:52, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I think "fandom" can cover both fansites and individual personalities, but they should be clearly defined and likely have their own sections. Perhaps "Project Fandom Websites" and Project Fandom Personalities" as an example.

We should define what we consider to be 'notable', as I believe this could cause us to miss out on a lot of great websites. For example, a website that was online for just one year with a few hundred users in the late 90s and early 2000s, may not have been archived in the Wayback Machine, and so may be forgotten.

Its possible that younger fans who came into the series later may not consider a website to be notable if they didn't grow up with it, and if the community was less popular than it used to be. JohtoTimes (talk) 17:17, 7 June 2026 (UTC)