move to unpublished works?: Fan Fic.Earth- 3682155

Forgive me if this is the wrong place.

Several tropers have been searching for links to this supposed fanfic, but google shows nothing and the Dreamwidth community that it is supposed to be linked with has no idea about it either. Propose that if no link can be found by the TRS that it be moved to the Unpublished Works on the Darth Wiki instead.

It's got a lot of tropes for a non-existent work, and multiple editors have contributed. I guess it's just bad luck that no one can find it; maybe it was deleted?

Though if this is actually some sort of in-joke that doesn't actually exist, then yeah, cut it.

trouble is none of these editors have come up with a link, or a source or anything. All I can imagine is that it is a private roleplay, or just as you say an injoke. A lot of those tropes on the page are just the name of the trope too, with no indication of how that trope applies. That seems a little, well, a little odd, which kinda supports the injoke theory.

There are no inbounds either. You'd think that if it were an existing (or even once existing) fic there would be at least a few. No cross references either, again, you'd think if it weren't a joke page that it would appear in a few of the tropes pages too. I call it dead suspicious.

edited 18th Jun '11 8:08:13 AM by CrypticMirror

Hm, I agree.

So, anyone with any objections to the move? Or further info at all? There doesn't seem to be many people commenting here at all, and I would like some more of the regulars to weigh in with their opinion please?

So far, two people have PM'm me about this story since I did some tidying up on the page. All I know about Earth-3682155 is that I Googled it and found this link: http://milliondreams.livejournal.com/863.html . (Almost all of the other search results led back to This Very Wiki.) Since this person is apparently the author of the story, maybe you could ask her for help? Good luck finding it—assuming it's been published.

edited 20th Jun '11 12:00:01 PM by MarkLungo

I've not had a response back from the Livejournal owner either, it looks like this exists in the mind of one person.

I'm going to work on the assumption that this can be shifted to the Darth Wiki unless anyone can come up with something before the weekend.

Any objections?

Makes sense...

That sounds like a good plan.

Bumping this, just in case anyone has come up with anything.

The work page description says "The author herself states that this fic will never be done". Maybe I'm just interpreting that wrong, though. Still, I can't find anything on it, so I presume it doesn't exist/isn't published.

Then dump it into Unpublished works. If it's not available anywhere to read, never was, and probably never will be, it's not a published work by any definition. Or even cut it completely. I'm not sure how we can legitimately list the tropes in a work that is, to all intents and purposes, vaporware.

edited 23rd Jun '11 9:47:53 AM by Madrugada

If we can't get anything by the weekend I propose moving it to the Unpublished Works pages. I assume that to do that I copy the source code leaving the current page blank, and add it to the cutlist, then pasting the source into a Darth Wiki article?

ay ay!

Putting in Unpublished Works seems like the best bet. Nobody here has even tried to argue against, so I think you should just go ahead and do it. No point in waiting.

That's how you do it, CM, and I agree with Fighteer: may as well do it now so it doesn't get forgotten. If nothing has shown up in almost 2 weeks, it's unlikely to surface in the next two days.

Forgive me, I feel having said give it to the weekend, that that is what I should do. It can't hurt to give the extra couple of days, just in case (yeah, I do know nothing will change, but it's best to be sure). I hope that will be okay.

As long as it doesn't drop off the first page and get forgotten.

I shall make an actual note on a real bit of paper and pin it up next to my computer so I shan't forget.

As expected, no one stood up so it is moved. Thank you to everyone who took part in this thread.

Thank you for taking care of it.