About Fannals

The idea

Every notable person deserves one good page about them. Not a Wikipedia stub, not a ten-tab celebrity-news site — one dedicated page, the kind a dedicated fan would build if they had infinite patience and access to primary sources.

Fannals is 5,000 of those pages, one per notable figure, each almost a standalone site for the person it's about. You come for one person, you get one page about that person, and that's it. The pages don't cross-promote each other. There's no feed. There's no algorithm. The homepage is a search box and a short explainer — nothing else.

How each page is built

1. Structured data from Wikipedia (biographical extract, categories, page views), Wikidata (dates, family, awards, places, occupations, social IDs), Wikiquote (sourced quotes only), and Wikimedia Commons (images with their existing licenses).
2. Editorial synthesis by three Claude models working independently — Opus 4.7 with extended reasoning, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 — producing the "lore in one paragraph" passages, era sliders, signature-work lists, rivalries, and everything else that gives the page its shape.
3. Cross-checking where the three models critique each other's output until they agree. Anything they can't agree on is marked as disputed on the page itself.

Nothing on a figure's page is invented. If the source doesn't support a claim, the claim isn't there.

What we won't do

• No display ads, no affiliate links, no sponsored content.
• No private-life speculation about living figures. No medical diagnoses. No location tracking.
• No deepfakes, no invented quotes, no AI-generated audio or video of real people.
• No feed, no algorithm, no engagement metrics. One page per person, standalone.

Numbers

5,000 figures indexed · 40 with full editorial synthesis to date · the rest built on open-source spine data while more synthesis ships.

Licenses & credits

Text extracts from Wikipedia and Wikiquote under CC BY-SA. Images via Wikimedia Commons with their per-file attributions intact. Structured data from Wikidata under CC0. Editorial synthesis © Fannals, reusable with attribution.