This troper says it would be a wise move to sort these ideas out via medium. BTW, where would an idea for a video game fall under?

Also, how do you add a Character Sheet for your idea?

Alright, finally made the split, Some things are still unsorted.

I'm going to go down the list and start investigating to make sure that everything is A) in the right categories, and B) exists.

Regarding character sheets, I left them in for now, but I really think we could just delete them from this index, since they appear as a tab on the page for the work itself. (The exception would be for unpublished works which currently only have character sheets).

If I end up moving a work that actually exists into "unpublished" and anybody knows otherwise, move it back (and edit the article itself to indicate where it can be found)

Literature Works have all been verified for existence. Exceptions:

• The Arcadian Legends
  appears to have existed at one point on the web, but was taken down by the author. There does not appear to be any way to access the work, so it may be best to move it back to "Unpublished". It has been left alone for now. Page has been removed as per creators wishes. Work is currently unavailable to public

• Bjorn Westlander Agent Retriever
  author has a deviantart with mention of the story, but I was unable to find any actual fragments of the work itself.

• Carry On His Name
  page claims that the work exists online and on lulu, but I have been unable to find it.

• Elies Story
  page appears to have randomly disappeared. Prior to that, I had concerns, since the work was said to exist as a tvtropes forum discussion which was apparently deleted.

if anybody could offer more concrete information as to the existence (or temporary lack thereof) of these three works, it would be appreciated.

Finally Done. Except for the three works remaining above and two still in the unsorted category, everything from the original works folder has been moved to the proper category and verified for existence.

The following works were pageless and did not have any evidence of existence. They were deleted from the list.

• A Book Smugglers Tale
• The Daviesverse
• Fragile
• HARM: A Brief History of Crime
• How To Be A Furry
• The Kingdom Of Ends
• Kyleur
• The Mysterious Arizonian Death
• The Outsiders
• Robot Viking Ninja Pirates
• The Science

New Business: What about Fan Works?

My intent is to sort the fan works first by medium of the fanwork. Most of these categories can probably be merged with the equivalent original-works category (eg. we only have two video games, so there's really no need for us to have both a "Video Game" and "Fan Video Game" when we could just put a note afterwards noting that it's a fangame). The exceptions would be Literature (because that is currently our largest original-works category and will almost definitely be the largest subdivision of fanworks), and possibly webcomics (I've already separated two fan-comics from the original webcomics category, but there may not be enough fancomics to justify an entirely new category.

Each Fan work should be followed by a note indicating which work(s) it is derived from, and depending on the size of the Literature - Fanfiction folder it may be worth splitting into categories based on original series (for some series, at least, with a misc. category for the less-represented ones).

Does anybody else have thoughts on whether or not there is a better way to do the categorization?

If there's no form of media created with that superhero in it (ie. story, comic, animation), it would go in unpublished.

If there is, it would go under original works, unless the story involves characters or settings from another work (in which case it would go in fan works).

Kersey475: Well I developed my own idea for a superhero, but he is supposed to exist within the DC universe and there is no form of media created with him in it (yet). Where do I put the idea?

Unpublished works for now, fan works once a story containing with him exists

Looks like somebody accidentally deleted it. It's been restored now.

Unpublished works is for unfinished works (or, in some cases works that are just concepts). Works that are in their final form would go under Fan Works or Original works. There is no distinction between whether or not the work is commercial.

edit: In this case "Published" means "available to the public in some way", not "released to the public through certain means"

Ah, okay, thanks for the help.

Copyright law likewise defines a "published" work as one whose copies have been distributed to the public. But video games made by individuals are often distributed in an unfinished state under a Perpetual Beta model (e.g. Mine Craft or Dwarf Fortress). Are Perpetual Beta troper works "published"?

Perpetual Beta works are published to an extent. The currently available part (Demo, Beta, whatever), would be considered published, since anybody could go and play it and objectively observe the tropes in it.

If the developer has posted their intentions about what they plan on adding to the game in the future, I'd say that that should go on the same page, but split into a different section to designate that it is not currently part of the game.

I'm not an authority on this, though.

I think the wiki might be moving towards a policy where all works are in non-main namespaces or something.

From the Namespace page: In a perfect world, every work on TV Tropes would be in its corresponding namespace. But in the words of Fast Eddie: "If we had had more forethought, that's the way we would have started five years ago. Today, it is kind of a retrofitting nightmare. The job of adding a namespace qualifier to every reference to a series throughout 100+ K pages gives me the weebies."

... Not sure what point I was trying to make with that, but I'm sure the point was made pretty hard there.

All of the pages in the Troper Works/ namespace were moved out, as the namespace is being discontinued. Try Mind Tricks

Okay, that does work. Thanks!

Yeah, seriously. I still haven't been able to find out where my Legacy Of Blaze comic was moved to. :/

Apparently you're a webcomic now.

Thanks. =)

Dead Fic? Orphaned Series?

Unpublished Works?

No, it was a Troper Tales page, IIRC. But I can't remember what page it was connected to. Arg, this is frustrating! It was basically a page of Tropers talking about Fanfics they had thought of, but wouldn't publish and why.