Looking over the page: I agree.
It's really just a broader version of Dead Fic that includes OC content. Just re-direct it to Orphaned Series for for the sake of posterity and cut it.
edited 12th Mar '18 12:17:13 AM by shoboni
Make Stillborn Serial a redirect to Orphaned Series and cut the former.
Stillborn Serial seems to be about online works that were cancelled very early and abruptly. Dead Fic can be a slow and painful death of a work which may have been around for some time. Is this a distinction worthwhile to keep?
I am more concerned about Dead Fic and Orphaned Series describing the same thing for different types of media. Don't we have media sections to cover that?
I think it's because Deadfic is a very spefitic and pre-existing term we didn't invent.
So merging the tropes would violate rules about abiding by common outside usage and cause confusion. .
Clock is ticking.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I stand by my previous suggestion to make Stillborn Serial a redirect to Orphaned Series.
Edited by ADrago on Aug 19th 2018 at 4:45:05 AM
I'd be good with just cutting it and fixing the wicks to point to a more appropriate trope.
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I read the page and to me it seems that it is a subtrope to Orphaned Series / Dead Fic when the fic dies in a very early stage. It still seems unnecessary though.
Edited by QuantumMelody29 on Aug 20th 2018 at 3:45:46 PM
I used to plug my deviantart here but turns out the link was too long.
Agree with cutting. All the examples would just go under Orphaned Series.
Edited by TheMountainKing on Aug 20th 2018 at 2:24:52 PM
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I don't see a significant difference between Stillborn Serial and Orphaned Series. I support converting the former into a redirect to the latter and moving the wicks.
Dead Fic, on the other hand, seems like a specific phenomenon, a significantly different subtrope.
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Resetting clock.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Merge with Orphaned Series
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
Merge with/redirect to Orphaned Series.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 20th 2018 at 3:08:49 AM
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Resetting clock again.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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I think that's 8 in favour of merging and... 1 against?
I'll add my consensus to merging, so 9:1 in favour. Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Consensus is in favour of merging into Orphaned Series.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Is there anything worth salvaging from the content of Stillborn Serial (page quote?) or should it be cut as is?
Edited by eroock on Dec 1st 2018 at 2:46:06 PM
Blapper of Water
I've made a sandbox (here) because the description itself could use some work anyways. By the fourth paragraph, the description reads like someone is holding a grudge or something. The voice totally changes. This problem returns in the last paragraph about Wikipedia's entry on this phenomenon, so I took it out.
I merged some of the rhetoric from Stillborn Serial, but the two pages said mostly the same thing. I don't think there's much else to merge on that front.
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How sweet it is
Checking in, since it has been several months. Is the sandbox ready, or does it need some more tweaks?
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It's been several more months. I think the sandbox is fine.
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How sweet it is
I guess it's time to swap it in, then.
ETA: Done. Now we can go finish the merge.
Edited by Berrenta on Jan 19th 2020 at 6:05:52 AM
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How sweet it is
Wicks are done, so we can finally wrap this up.
Cutting and closing.
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Stillborn Serial has been around since at least 2011 with three paragraphs, a quote, no examples, and 36 wicks.
The thing is, it's just a The Same But More Specific version of Dead Fic. Which itself is just "Orphaned Series, but for fanfiction."
Not seeing anything worth saving here. I was all set to bring it to the YKTTW Crash Rescue thread, assuming that it must be some ill-conceived recent launch, until I saw how old it was.