Talk:Microstories

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This gave me an idea. Let's put all the non-fiction-proper works on a single page, like this one, and then we can actually present it together. Just an idea, but one that can help clear up the junkpile trouble. If we combined them all, it'll actually become impressive, and then I won't urge for their deletion any more.    17:04, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

But Yun, the point is that things like Rachel Hears a Voice are fiction-proper, and not spam. Though, I dunno about the cheese one, since it's not even a paragraph...but hell, someone somewhere possibly'll like it. --Nonimportant 18:48, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spawn

Wow. A flying mountain that breeds offspring through landsliding...sounds more like high fantasy to me. It's like the concept of those tolkien tree-men that I never remember the name being used for mountains. Of course, with the matter of how they reproduce being explicitly resolved in a definite fashion. Landslides, of course. Duh. --Nonimportant 01:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Always great to see how texts are interpreted. Half the deep thinking we attribute to authors I think is something that just happened to work in the end. At least, that's how it works for me. The boulders was some random idea that I never got to scratching off, the creepy things were really just suppose to be wraith like ghost things. Which of course changes the story from being how mountains have kids to how mountains make themselves friends out of weird little wisps. Ya, the story was written on whim and thus I suppose interpretation can range by a fairly large margin (more so with my slightly ambiguous style)User:Serprex 02:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

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Read the first line of the text. I think I'd call this junk, though some claim the reverse....

I would suggest this page gets renamed. Obvious non-spam like that Sims story or others could go inside Training/Story starters or something. It could be offensive for newcomers to see their work treated as spam, just because it is short. No? So, I copied that story I liked in there, I do not like writing in a page with that this title... Hehe. David 15:07, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

"MS R&D Log" does not even look like spam, what the heck is that?Golden Eagle 15:27, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

You have to know a bit of Linux commands to understand that story. It is a joke on Bill Gates... David 15:56, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

None of the contents of I hasm bucket o spam is spam. It is truly offensive to have a page like this at a wiki that encourages people to collaboratively create fiction. Maybe there should be a "Training:" namespace where people could learn to edit and collaborate. --JWSchmidt 15:32, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

The whole concept of grouping the small stories in one whole page "could be" a violation of copyright. The article history is lost, I guess. Maybe we group all those very short stories into Training/ or Training:, to avoid losing their history. If we move them to a single page, the author contributions are lost. David 15:50, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree. It is violating many copyrights. But if you do not want them to be in the Mainspace, you could create a special namescape, or request a wiki for mini-stories and then export them there, thus keeping the history.Golden Eagle 16:06, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

IHBOS was my compromise to these works being labeled as spam and deleted, thus this was created to save these stories from deletion. They can be seen as spam, as a short story blipped on as an author's only edit can be interpreted as such. I dislike the name "Training", more these are small blurbs. As for copyright, there is history. Though the imports may suffer, which should be dealt withUser:Serprex 16:45, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, you did a good job saving them. I only dislike the name "spam". What I think is that we cannot judge some stories as spam only because we do not like them or they are too short. One paragraph stories could be inside Microstories or something.

History? If the story is deleted, only sysops could see the history. Anyway, Training/ is just a name, I would change it if I find something better. Microstories/ could be fine. But the fact is that I am creating several pages inside Training/. So the page name is Training/Story starters, for now. I will just copy very small stories in there, acknowledging the authors, maybe I paste the history in the talk page. David 16:48, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I suggest to write the name of the creator at the end of each "mini-story". It can be a good replacement for the historyGolden eagle 16:51, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps a "It was written by" templateGolden Eagle 16:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Anyway, I am just moving the content of the pages in a single page. But, another possibility and maybe the "solution" would be to move them all inside Microstories/, to maintain the history. My idea is to enlarge the stories, so I guess they would be stand alone some day, if contributors find the stories interesting. Else, they stay in under Microstories/ space, harming no one. I just do not understand why very small stories should be deleted/moved. Every wiki has a category for stubs, they are seldom deleted... unless they are real spam or vandalism.

For the moment, I will move some content I plan to enlarge, to Training/Story starters. David 16:48, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

The thing about "Story Starters" is that (I can at least say for my own submissions) there are complete works in this collection. But alright, so we don't like the name spam. Why not just move this page? Templates aren't needed to leave a "written by xxxx" note. I'll go over the pieces when I get home, laggy computers running IE6 aren't meant to do mass editing. Stubs need expansion, and some of these already stand aloneUser:Serprex 17:00, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

OK. I will just rename this thing to something that does not include the word "spam". You are right, some stories like yours or Rachel's are complete. I will move the ones that "look like" being incomplete. But who knows, maybe the original author thinks Sims story is complete. I just think it could be a short story and not very short. I am open to names for this page. Maybe Complete microstories, Complete very short stories, Anthology, etc. I will rename it to Microstories (smaller than very short stories) and then people can think a new name. The issue right now is just to remove the "spam" word.

David 17:06, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I did the renaming. I suggest new microstories are not copied inside Microstories but transcluded, to maintain the original history. David 17:11, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Authors might be harder, Squirrel was by an IP and Rachel is concluded by an IP after having the beginning written by QyrstUser:Serprex 21:32, 6 November 2008 (UTC)