Fanpop Article: Fanpop is Going to Be on Wikipedia!

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posted by DoctorSpud

Big news! I, personally have sent an application for a new article for Fanpop on Wikipedia! Hopefully, within the month, Fanpop will have a Wikipedia article for you all to check out and add onto! Additionally, this may help make Fanpop more well known.

Boy, I can almost TASTE it- a big, beefy record of history about Fanpop's past, present, and future!

If you want to see proof, just click this link.
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Just scroll down to the little Internet section.

lildwaynelolz, Nice-Guy and 19 others like this

chel1395 Awesome! I hope I get my own entry... ;D

latinlover yay good thinkin hun i cant wait to c it yay goooo fanpop!!!!

germany123 hasnt this been tried before!?

DoctorSpud If it has been, I didn't know.

waichingliu81 this is great news indeed. hopefully, there will be many other people discovering this site and knowing that with fanpop there IS an alternative to the likes of facebook and myspace. this website deserves more exposure and hopefully, getting an entry into wikipedia is the first step towards fanpop's impending popularity later on.

Snerkie Go [url=http://www.fanpop.com/spots/fanpop/links/876966]here[/url] and you will see that yes it has been tried before and such.

fanfly So what if it's been tried before? I say kudos for trying again! And good luck. :D

germany123 yes..just saying...people have tried...thats not a judgment thats a piece of information. i know pkmntrainerj tried not too long ago...i dont know why it got removed exactly..but he might be able to help and tell you..

Cinders That's super, and good luck, but looking at the Wikipdia logs, it would seem it has been deleted several times: * 12:50, 11 March 2008 Kimchi.sg (Talk | contribs) deleted "Fanpop" ‎ (Speedy deleted per (CSD A7), was an article about a web site, blog, online forum, webcomic, podcast, or similar web content that didn't assert the importance or significance of its subject.) * 23:34, 28 December 2007 Accounting4Taste (Talk | contribs) deleted "Fanpop" ‎ (CSD A7: Person/group/organization/web content; doesn't indicate importance/significance: It is an article about a web site, blog, online forum, webcomic, podcast, online game, or similar web content that does not [[Wikipedia:Criteria for spe) * 21:48, 5 July 2007 Anthony Appleyard (Talk | contribs) deleted "Fanpop" ‎ (content was: '{{db-web}}Fanpop (http://www.fanpop.com/) is a website made by Dave Lu, Dave (aka Papa), Cliff and Michael. It is network of user-generated fansite...') * 07:15, 16 November 2006 Samir (Talk | contribs) deleted "Fanpop" ‎ (a1 a7) But don't be discouraged! Just keep making the Wikipedia Fanpop page until they let us stay. WE'RE HERE! WE FANPOP! GET USED TO IT! WE'RE HERE! WE FANPOP! GET USED TO IT!

DoctorSpud :D

Jonapello23 yeah, I've tried to create it several times, but it wouldn't work.

hm94991 coolio. If they go through with it, Fanpop will soar! EDIT: And about the "already been tried" issue-- So what? Lets try again. They can't really ignore us forever, can they?

harold The impression I get is that it's not that we're being ignored, but that Wikipedia is very sensitive about providing ad space for corporations. As such, they're unlikely to approve articles about companies (or company web sites) below a certain cultural awareness threshold. Thus it seems to me that the way to get Fanpop listed is to get more people using Fanpop. For instance, Wikipedia's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites]list of social networking sites[/url] uses Alexa's list of top 500 web sites as its basis for information. Thus it would seem that getting Fanpop onto that list would be a prerequisite to getting a Wikipedia entry approved. And [i]that[/i] means that we should all be using the invite and share link features more often, to get more people on the site!

hellgirl223 *Prays* They can't deny us Forever-!

richie160004 I waiting for a Fanpop on Wikipedia

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Five Years of Fanpop

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Happy Birthday Fanpop!

Five years ago today, I was sitting in my living room with link, link, and link when together we pressed a button on a keyboard and released Fanpop to the world. We had no idea what was in store for us or for the site, but we had a dream to build something really cool and we hoped others would like it. For months and months we toiled away at our computers designing and coding what you all see today. We talked endlessly about features and ideas. Papa and I mocked them up and Cliff and Michael programmed them into reality. You grow pretty tight when you spend that many days and nights together....

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Getting Fed Up with Hate Clubs!

posted by zanesaaomgfan

For you fanpoppers who has been on Fanpop for quite some time, and the ones who know the rules, you know that hate clubs are strictly against the rules.

But for you idiots who ask: Join My Hate Club, your chances of getting your club removed are 100%. Especially if it's about Rebecca Black or Justin Bieber. Look, as much as you "hate" anyone, there's no point in making a HATE club about it. It's wrong and mean.

But this one is for people who hate with passion. When you hate someone, you hate them, correct? So making a club that you "hate" them is gonna make you feel good about hating? No,...