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I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they genuinely didn't know about our policy regarding leaked content. Obviously anything uncited needs to be re-hidden until the official release, but I don't think it needs to be deleted. We don't control when a massive leak happens, so I don't think those tropers were acting maliciously.
Edited by MurlocAggroB
As some context, if it means anything, IIRC the film was one of several direct-to-video/streaming animated projects that Warner Bros cancelled after they were completed without ever announcing them, for tax writeoff reasons, which prompted a disgruntled employee to leak it. It was uncancelled earlier this year partially due to backlash caused by said leak.
Again, not sure if this context changes anything, but worth noting nonetheless.
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Bringing this over from the Unreleased Work Page Cleanup Thread
, as that's gone quiet.
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! is scheduled for release on September 26th. A trailer's been released, but the entire film has also, reportedly, been leaked.
The works page currently tropes the whole film and is clearly written by someone who either knows exactly what happens (via leak or inside information), or is inventing examples. The former seems more likely.
Most of these examples seem to have been added by Court Dogs, who originally created the page. None of the examples cite pre-release sources, so they're not in line with Creating a Work Page for an Upcoming Work.
Ariel Lightning has already commented out a bunch of tropes that clearly aren't from the trailer (ending tropes, "halfway through the movie" x happens etc.), only for Readerbug 819 to delete the markup and reinstate them all
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Unreleased notifier sent to CourtDogs, Ignored Comment notifier sent to Readerbug819.
At this point I'm inclined to comment out every example without a source - so probably all of them (with the usual stub/cutlist consequences if sources aren't added) - but for things that are clearly written from leaks (ending tropes etc.), should we just cut them entirely?
We can always add new versions once it's released but (a bit like the ban evader rules) it feels wrong to me to 'reward' this sort of content leak troping by letting those examples remain on the site as currently written.
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