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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#1: Aug 12th 2012 at 9:49:19 PM

Funny.GSN and Awesome.GSN.

No other network that I know of even has a trope list, much less Funny and Awesome subpages. Should these exist at all?

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#2: Aug 12th 2012 at 11:04:32 PM

They have several entries, but they tend towards Zero Context Examples and aren't very entertaining. Then again, I'm not a GSN gal, so what do I know?

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spacemarine50 Since: Mar, 2012
#3: Aug 13th 2012 at 12:03:32 AM

I say move them to their works pages, if networks are not allowed to do that. All of them happened on the shows mentioned. Some of them I think are misplaced.

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#4: Aug 13th 2012 at 12:50:08 AM

If the network's works don't have pages, putting them on the network's page makes sense to me.

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Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#5: Aug 13th 2012 at 1:16:24 AM

[up]Yup, that's the primary purpose of creator pages in general. (That and serving to index the work pages). We do seem to have a rule against YMMV pages for creators, due mainly to abuse on actor pages. (Frankly, I wish we'd just ban YMMV pages for actors and not for all creators, but that's a separate issue.)

Some creators have way too many works for us to hope to have pages for all of them any time soon. Networks can have lots of shows; authors may write hundreds of short stories. Tropes on the creator pages is really the only sane way to deal with it, and I think that should apply to funny/awesome pages as well.

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AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#6: Aug 13th 2012 at 3:19:58 AM

I don't see a problem.

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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#7: Aug 13th 2012 at 12:45:45 PM

[up]None of the funny examples seem to fit as funny, more like bloopers. The Awesome page looks okay though. Should we just move the Funny examples to "Blooper" on the trivia tab since that's what they actually are?

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#8: Aug 13th 2012 at 2:41:38 PM

[up]Going by that definition, I'd remove a lot of "funny" examples.

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Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#9: Aug 13th 2012 at 3:40:11 PM

The original question was "should we have this sort of thing". My answer to that is yes. Questions about specific examples seem a little nit-picky for TRS, but if all these specific examples are bad, I have no objection to cutting these specific pages. But only as a special case, not as a general rule.

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lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#10: Oct 14th 2012 at 11:21:01 PM

Not much to do here.

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