Scarcely better than nothing: Netflix

It's four sentences of questionable objectivity and grammar. Pretty much needs to be redone from scratch.

Cut. There are no tropes here. We are not Wikipedia to have an article for everything under the sun. I think someone made it just to have a bluelink.

edited 18th Jul '11 1:58:41 PM by Fighteer

Chopped it down a little.

I have to give a cut vote as well. Until they start getting enough stock parodies that said parody becomes a trope, I don't see how this is tropable.

Does Netflix count as a work? Anyways, I think it will be very relevant in the future, just needs some work. And you could say it's streaming video options count as a medium, such as Hulu or U-Stream... I dunno, I don't see why we couldn't write a good article for this.

Technically, I think they may be crossing the line into content producer. I'm pretty sure I've seen at least one obscure...something that said "Netflix" in big letters at the beginning, and they've apparently outbid some cable networks for a new drama series (starring Kevin Spacey, IIRC).

edited 18th Jul '11 5:36:45 PM by Xtifr

I have no iron in this particular fire, but the argument for keeping it would be that we do have pages for sites like IM Db and Hulu (having Hulu but not Netflix would seem very odd to me), plus for formats like VHS, so there's a good precedent for pages about things related to, but not themselves, media.

Question: should we document Netflix commercials on the Netflix page? That seems like a fairly legitimate usage.

I vote yea.

Yes. That's trope usage.

But it would go somewhere in Advertising.

What do you mean? Advertising is an index of all our Advertising Tropes. (Although it's still inaccurately titled Commercials Tropes. I thought we changed that.)

My point, along with the other thread I started, is that a legitimate (in my view) page for a company that doesn't create "normal" media, can still get a page as a company that creates advertisements.

Now, if the page is a stub, that's a legitimate reason to cut it. But "it's a company that doesn't produce movies/other normal media" strikes me as overlooking a good way to organize advertisements. Otherwise we just get advertisement examples that point to youtube videos or something.