Has any progress been made on implementing this?
These are still separate pages.
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Has the title/page being used for the merged trope been decided yet? Christmas Episode has significantly more wicks and inbounds, but I feel like Christmas Special is more descriptive. I apologize if I am missing something, but I wonder if it would make sense to have another crowner for voting on what name to use since that was not included in the original crowner.
edited 21st Jan '12 12:16:45 PM by LouieW
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Actually, I think I messed up on writing the crowner (I hear "Christmas Special" getting used as a synonym for Christmas Episode but not vice versa) to the extent of possibly needing a complete revote.
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I could volunteer to do the merge. Christmas Episode is larger by a fair margin, both in terms of examples and wicks/inbounds, but is it okay as a name or do we want an entirely new trope?
Christmas Episode works for me and is consistent with our other tropes.
EDIT PS: I just realized we have no Holiday Episode
Doing a search for it led to me finding this
YKTTW which was abandoned last year. Please help me revive it.
edited 15th Feb '12 9:17:11 AM by Catbert
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Crown Description:
The terms "Christmas Episode" and "Christmas Special" get used interchangeably whether we like it or not. What do we do? We have possibly three definitions to work with:- The in-season / in-continuity episode of a series that occurs around Christmas, so it involves Christmas themes.*
- A not in-continuity episode for a series, with a focus on Christmas themes.*
- A standalone story with Christmas themes, not associated with a regular series at all.*
Halloween Special acts more like a genre index. Shows that are produced uniquely and exclusively for Halloween are very much distinct from a Halloween Episode in an ongoing series, and likewise, shows uniquely based on Christmas mythology (Santa, Rudolph, Frosty, etc.) are certainly distinct from a Christmas Episode from an ongoing series.
I'm worried that I made a mistake when phrasing the crowner's lead question to such a point of possibly invalidating the results. Can't get the right answer if you ask the wrong question...
...or is this not so big a deal to be worrying over?
Anyway, since nobody's actually done one can I do a sample of wikilinks?
Articles linking to both Christmas Special and Christmas Episode
Obviously some of these are series franchises which by definition means they cannot have a Christmas Special as currently defined. I am also seeing some pages where certain namespaces link to Christmas Special while other namespaces link to Christmas Episode.
edited 28th Oct '11 10:17:42 PM by Stratadrake
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