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Fanfics @ Archive of Our Own (AO3) & Wattpad requests
Wattpad: Лише одна крапляhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Or should this one go to the Ukrainian language thread?
Emmy wrote: "Or should this one go to the Ukrainian language thread?"No need for that, the language is not important in Wattpad stories as we can get the details accurately from the page.
Both stories are not yet complete, so they weren't added.
Bruno, perhaps you could include self-published books from lulu service in this thread? Lulu is considered a publisher, so these books are very easy to add.EDIT: Deleted the links
All done except #41 and #50Olga wrote: "Bruno, perhaps you could include self-published books from lulu service in this thread? Lulu is considered a publisher, so these books are very easy to add."
I really don't think it would be a good idea to mix those here.
Online fanfiction is not considered a book by many librarians.
Others are't very confident adding those, because of the specific rules for fanfiction, and the problems with length/duration/pagecount/wordcount.
Others just don't want to spend their volunteering time handling sometimes rude and insultuous fanfic authors.
Those are the reasons why I help here, most of the times fanfic requests end up at the end of the Section because nobody addresses them.
Those Lulu books, according to your example, are physical books, english language, perfectly laid out details at the Publisher.
Those are the role-model of the books no librarian should have any difficulty adding to GR.
So please don't mix those here.
If you wish you can open a thread for those, and I'll help there, but IMO they shouldn't be in this thread, as they are very different from Wattpad and AO3 stories.
Are AO3 records actually allowed? I just went through several of the ones that have been added recently and most are being pulled down by Goodreads a couple days later.A few examples:
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Rachel wrote: "Are AO3 records actually allowed? I just went through several of the ones that have been added recently and most are being pulled down by Goodreads a couple days later.."
Thank you for pointing this out.
These four editions were added by me. If I did anything wrong adding these, I haven't received any warning about this, which can be a good or bad sign...
I asked about this in the Questions section:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Until I get an answer, I won't be adding fanfic to GR.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...Question - Is Patreon a valid site for adding books and is it fanfic?
I would think it wouldn’t be allowed as the work is behind a paywall and would fall under this bullet point from the non-book items list in the manual:Stories or books (both ebook and print editions) only available via subscription to a newsletter, or via a website that requires registration.
Curious to hear what others think.
Bruno I found this wattpad that is originally from January:Lágrima de Plata
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Tawnya wrote: "Bruno I found this wattpad that is originally from JanuaryThere are so many Wattpad and AO3 requests in the add books folder now, I probably skipped over 10 requests today.
Anyway, see Bruno's message #70. He isn't adding them at this time.
I thought he was talking about the Potter books specifically. I don't them as the subject matter in many isn't my cup of tea.
Wattpadhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Bruno, even if you don't add them maybe you can check if they are eligible to be added and close if they are not.
Just a thought.
I added 84. I warned them support might take it down. If Rowling has an issue with the book then I have a feeling all of the fan-fic of her work needs to go. There doesn't seem to be anything salacious in it.Now Ryan Murphy might have an issue. He doesn't seem to care about fan-fic, hence all of the Glee stories out there. But having his creation attached to Rowling might be problematic.
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