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[esorlehcar]

So in today's "Laura Hale/partly_bouncy is an asshat and the fanhistory wiki is anything but unbiased" news: Check out the discussion page for "eBandom."This entry and discussion really say everything you need to know about the wiki -- people in a fandom start referring to said fandom by a name that has not been used before, or used only very rarely. Laura

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[sunqist]

You know, I actually found an article that she'd gotten published in some peer reviewed journal, some folk lore thing out of Slovakia, I think, that listed the authors as Laura Hale and one of her other pseudonyms. I wish I could find it again, but I can't remember the other name she used.

[esorlehcar]

I really wish she hadn't deleted the big expose on Heidi and Cassie Claire she did for bad_panny. Her unbiased and scholarly work included things like sourcing anon comments on hate memes as proof of the claims she was making.

[mecurtin]

wo. Yes, here we have: LITERATURE IN CYBERSPACE
Piret Viires ("The article was written with the support of Estonian Science Foundation grant no. 5965 “The Problem of Media-Determinism and Temporal-
Spatial Relations of the Work of Art”."), says:
Quite a number of articles, mostly by Michela Ecks and Laura Hale (see Ecks, Hale 2000-2004), have been made available at Writers University
website,18

the cite gives: Ecks, Michela, Hale, Laura 2000-2004. Writers University. - http://
www.writersu.com/WU/ , last accessed on April 10, 2004.

I'm not at all sure she's had anything peer-reviewed.

[esorlehcar]

Okay, that? Is comedy fucking GOLD.

[dragovianknight]

Y'all just don't appreciate all her hard work making shit up. INGRATE!

[esorlehcar]

I AM. I like my fandom facts to be, you know, factual. I don't know what's wrong with me!

[dragovianknight]

We don't need no steenking facts.

[esorlehcar]

Here's is my favorite recently Laura moment (and that includes this essay, from the woman who rails about how OTW is boring and pretentious) is the part where she earnestly agrees wit the nutcase who just claimed, among other things, that the only kind of sexism that exists in England is against men.

[txvoodoo]

LMAO @ that discussion:

"Useage can go on in locked journal postings which are therefore troublesome to cite."

i.e. "The lurkers support me in email locked posts!"

hahahah

It's so fun to not be ANY part of this fandom and therefore able to just laugh

[esorlehcar]

Hey, I'm filled up with shiny bandom love, and I'm still laughing my ass off. She just uses her wiki in such a blatantly biased manner, deletes any changes she doesn't like whether they have anything to do with reality or not, bans anyone who says things she doesn't like, and not infrequently uses entries as her own personal grudgewank forum, and then she's furious that people do not recognize and respect her status as preeminent fandom historian! Yeah, okay.

[telesilla]

That's not just a slogan, it's their "philosophy"!

[esorlehcar]

Hey, it's HARD to completely reinvent fandom in your own image. Why should she let the plebes mess with her carefully constructed reality?

[missyjack]

9 people and 3 comms list Jensen's wonky eye as an interest on LJ.

None list ebandom ;)

[esorlehcar]

I kind of love you :-)

[missyjack]

*smooch*
I have to say I have totes failed in using my power as an admin at the Super Wiki to shape fandom into my own image. Maybe I'll rename the fandom eSupernatural, or MissyJacksSupernatural.

[way2busymom]

I have to say I have totes failed in using my power as an admin at the Super Wiki to shape fandom into my own image.

*imagines this scenario*

Approves!