somniloquence

I think once you reach a certain level of crabby, everything just sucks. It doesn't matter if it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. For right now, it's a big fucking deal! Logic does not apply: that just makes it worse because now you're not allowed to feel how you feel--but you still do.

Fanlore is a wiki with all the good and bad points associated with the format. I used to edit Wikipedia a lot, so I don't have much of a reaction to this kind of wiki annoyance, but you are far from alone.

In terms of labels and categories on wikis, one thing I will say is that they're not a rigid structure. If you click on 'genderfuck', that's not giving you a list of things that are definitively, and only, genderfuck; that's giving you a list of things people came up with when free associating on the term. What a wiki is is a web of connections, and those connections take the form of labels. It's less about putting things in specific boxes and more about letting readers wander from vaguely tangetially related topic to vaguely tangentially related topic. I doubt that will make you like labels any better, but that's how I think about wiki structure anyway. (It's good for my blood pressure!) :)

I agree that lots of articles on Fanlore are not currently PPOV, but that's certainly the standard the project is going for. I think it's a lot more obvious if you've been involved in Wikipedia edit wars (where the standard is a "neutral" POV). On Fanlore, commenting that the artist hates a label and doesn't think it applies or saying "That's not how [my name] remembers it" is always on-topic; citing yourself is fine. That's the big difference, not the extant level of PPOVness.

For articles that consistently annoy me, I usually leave something on the talk page so people can see my objection long-term regardless of how the body of the article changes. (Plus, unlike on Wikipedia, on Fanlore, other editors can cite the talk page as evidence when revising an article, so...)