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I write two Webserials, would it be okay if I linked here?

- Ginja

Unless they're two of the most popular Webserials ever, don't. It will be taken as spam. You can, however, post links to my Talk page if you'd like, and I may take a look at them. :) Runa27 00:52, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Well without any actual examples of the medium the article seems a little pointless.

- Ginja.

• 1.) So find some examples that aren't your own work. If you link your own work, it'll come off as spamming, and will most likely be removed by other editors.

• 2.) The entire article seems pointless? Hardly. Just underdevoleped; there's a difference between that and "pointless", my friend. Additionally, webserials are actually more common and probably more popular than this article implies - for instance, it's one of two preferred formats (the other being a text-format "one-shot" story) for western fan fiction, and there's thousands, perhaps millions of webserial-format fan fiction stories online (I know there's millions of fan fictions online, a large segment of which is hosted on fanfiction.net; the question, however, would be how many of these were "one-shot" stories, which would by their very definition not be a serial, versus how many are serial works, since many archives that boast about the number of stories they have do not differentiate between one-shot and serial works when counting how many stories they host).

In fact, I can't help but feel that there should be mention of it being one of the preferred formats for fan fiction in the west (printed fanzine/manga format is possibly more popular or preferred in the east, especially Japan, where such works are referred to as dôjinshi). I'm going to add that in. And perhaps I'll seek out some popular webserials to add mentions of to the article. Runa27 05:02, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I originally had several webserials linked here, actually, until a user deleted them saying to keep the links 'informational'. The last draft of this page that still had the external links can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Webserial&oldid=46069226

I think I'm going to add some of them back in, to be entirely honest - whatever comes up high on the Google for webserial. --GlitchBob dbug 15:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Pat Powers 06:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC) On my now-defunct website Jolly Roper (www.jollyroper.com) I made about $16,000 over the years 1996-2000 (or so) selling mostly serialized versions of my novels Karg, Siren7, Riverbeast, Jetta 3000 and other stuff (mostly short stories) in chapter-by-chapter installments, charging users a fee to view them. Would that qualify me as a first among web serializers? And would that be useful content for this article, or self-aggrandizement? (I'm going to be actively marketing them as ebooks in a few weeks.) These were not fanfiction, but were erotic novels, though "The Kink Files" and "Just Do Me" short stories would probably qualify as fanfiction.

You can verify the content of my site through the Wayback Machine, and I can prove my income through tax records.