Not Thriving: Feel Good

Feel Good has had only five non-Administrivia wicks since 2007, meaning it's starving. Most of the examples on the page are zero-context/general. None of the wicks include it being listed as an example on a work page.

Opening.

I am good with cutting.

Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 19th 2022 at 5:32:03 AM

This is another Advertising Trope, which usually makes it hard to get anything out of it anyway, but the fact that the title also doesn't mention advertisements means that it probably won't get any use or growth in this state.

Cut. Could be merged with some other false marketing trope if we have any, but I don't really see one good example on page.

I'm in favor of cutting, but maybe we could redirect it to Very False Advertising or another false advertising trope page (if there is one) to preserve inbounds.

Oh, yeah. If I wasn't clear before, I say cut.

I wonder if this might be worth disambiguating. If not, we could cut it or redirect it to another advertising trope or something like We Care.

Edited by ImperialMajestyXO on Feb 19th 2022 at 5:50:27 AM

I would definitely prefer to redirect or disambiguate this instead of cutting it outright, for the sake of preserving inbounds. Disambiguating between We Care and Very False Advertising might be worth doing.

Disambiguating is fine if we can't cut it due to the inbounds.

Disambig

Does "possibly other pages" include Gorillaz? :P

Perhaps. Perhaps it also includes Ghostbusters as well, because bustin' (apparently Ray Parker Jr doesn't have a page).

Joking aside, I'm leaning toward just focusing on tropes.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 22nd 2022 at 5:13:00 AM

(The thought occurred to me because "Feel Good Inc" is at least a work title rather than just a well-known line, but I'm more familiar with disambiguation pages on The Other Wiki so I didn't know if TVT uses them that way or not.)

(I don't have strong feelings on it other than that I hate that such a generic name was used for such a narrow and obscure concept - I'd've thought it was a comedy subgenre or a Slice of Life trope.)

I'm aware of that song. I was just joking (because there's not much else to do in this thread until the crowner's ready to call).

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 23rd 2022 at 2:08:31 PM

We Care or Very False Advertising don't match the use on the page. It seems cynical to make those the only disambiguation targets, but I can't identify any other tropes. These sorts of ads use a technique of placing the product alongside happy people/sunny skies/etc. to get the viewer to associate the product with good stuff/happiness. The page has this complainy "too cool to fall for this" tone.

Nobody said they would be the only disambiguation targets. Even the crowner says other tropes could be included, and always has, because the list doesn't have to be static. They were only listed explicitly in the crowner because they were suggested before the crowner was hooked.

But if we need something else, I suppose we could add Music.Gorillaz (or Music.Demon Days if the album the song is from would be preferable) as previously mentioned.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 23rd 2022 at 4:40:04 AM

Since the crowner's unanimous, maybe we (i.e. discussion) can go a-hunting for more disambig targets in the meantime because the two tropes brought up so far are not ideal. They're related to Feel Good inasmuch as they share an index. I'm trying to imagine what someone following an offsite link to here would be looking for. Just some glurge or Tastes Like Diabetes applied to advertising? Actual work pages titled Feel Good? Media manipulation in general?

Music.Gorillaz, maybe Music.Demon Days, and the TV series should work as targets. It's standard to link to works.

Glurge and Tastes Like Diabetes sound good. Maybe also SugarWiki.WAFF.

And I don't think we'd need to list Music.Gorillaz if we list Music.Demon Days, since the latter is an album by the former that contains a song called "Feel Good Inc.".

Either way, listing Series.Feel Good sounds like a given, and I would have listed it on the crowner if I had bothered to see if there were pages in other namespaces with the same name.

Edit: OK, I guess this is one way we could have both Music.Gorillaz and Music.Demon Days on a disambiguation entry:

• Demon Days, an album by Gorillaz with a song called "Feel Good Inc."

TBA for the descriptors for the other pages that would go on the disambiguation page.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 24th 2022 at 5:54:53 AM

I dewicked it.

Proposed text + what the Gorillaz suggestion Gaston wrote earlier:

Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 25th 2022 at 1:01:23 PM