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Leaper Since: May, 2009
#1: Jul 21st 2014 at 2:51:59 PM

Right now, the page for The Boondocks is under Comic Strips, yet the same page is explicitly used for both the comic strip and the animated series. Is this okay? Should it be categorized differently?

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#2: Jul 21st 2014 at 4:49:01 PM

If it's originally a comic strip, and the differences are small enough to have both on the same page, there's no problem. The same's done with manga and anime all the time.

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#3: Jul 22nd 2014 at 1:21:46 AM

Yeah, a page can serve two mediums of the same work especially if they are fairly similar. In these cases, we use the original medium to determine namespace and categorization.

Also, I am not sure how that fits Trope Talk, rather than say Wiki Talk.

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rexpensive Since: Feb, 2014
#4: Jul 22nd 2014 at 9:09:48 AM

IIRC The show is actually quite different from the strip. They could easily be separated if someone want to take the time to do it.

rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#5: Jul 26th 2014 at 11:23:24 AM

I haven't seen the show, but it uses the same characters and has similar themes as the comic, right? Maybe something like a film series page, where the examples are soft split into categories of "tropes that apply to both", "tropes that apply to the comic only", and "tropes that apply to the show only"?

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#6: Jul 26th 2014 at 11:29:59 AM

Sure, I'll take a crack at it.

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#8: Jul 26th 2014 at 2:40:19 PM

I would have soft split instead of hard split, but thanks.

edited 26th Jul '14 5:40:41 PM by rodneyAnonymous

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Leaper Since: May, 2009
#9: Jul 26th 2014 at 6:27:01 PM

@5: There are characters in each that aren't used in the other (more in the animated series not in the strip, but the strip has at least one major one who doesn't appear in the cartoon).

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