This is an attempt to make a history of the Fiction wikia. To explain why I'll quote the Stephenson County Portrait and Biographical Album (that's in Illinois, which is in the US): "We have completed our labors in writing and compiling the Portrait and Biographical Album of this county, and wish, in presenting it to our patrons, to speak briefly of the importance of local works of this nature. It is certainly the duty of the present to commemorate the past, to perpetuate the names of the pioneers, to furnish a record of their early settlement, and to relate the story of their progress. The civilization of our day, the enlightenment of the age, and this solemn duty which men of the present time owe to their ancestors, to themselves and to their posterity, demand that a record of their lives