Which namespace does this work belong in?

Quick update Injustice (2021) is now a thing so Injustice now has 4 so I don't really care what happens with Injustice: Year Zero as I know some had a problem with the namespace I placed it in.

I would assume Web Animation, but please be careful to make sure that these videos employ narrative tropes. This causes a lot of confusion for some tropers and the lack of narrative tropes frequently leads to troping the creators of the work.

Not sure this is the right place to ask, but I noticed on, to give an example, VisualNovel.Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, on the header that has the bubbles for the various namespaces, the Visual Novel namespace is a "low priority" one, as in it gets relegated to the "More..." drop-down list. As a work namespace, shouldn't Visual Novel always be prioritised as one of the visible bubbles?

It doesn't have an icon, which is part of the problem.

Theatre also still has no icon.

I feel like it did at some point, the comedy/drama masks? Maybe it was on the wrong one, on Theater/ ?

Yes, the namespace uses the Commonwealth spelling, but the icon still hasn’t been moved.

Yes, there's a drama masks icon on Theater/. And it actually used to be a stage curtain, so they changed the icon, but not the namespace it's attached to.

Edited by Twiddler on Aug 5th 2021 at 2:06:54 AM

Why was it never changed that is weird.

Where should Bill Cosby: Himself go? It's a stand-up routine that was released both theatrically and as an album.

The only other Cosby album to have its own page is in the Audio Play namespace. I'm thinking it should be in the Film namespace since the theatrical release first, but maybe with the Audio Play as a redirect?

That sounds right, but include a comment on the page that crosswicking should be done to Stand-up Comedy folders, since that's the original medium that the routine comes from.

Speaking of the Visual Novel namespace, Chicken Police is in the video game namespace. However, as someone who is currently playing it, it plays, looks, and feels a lot like a standard visual novel like the ones in the Danganronpa franchise and Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. I'd like to hear some more opinions on this (if it hasn't been brought up already).

Hi, I believe I'm in the correct discussion to ask this:

I think the work Yamara is in the wrong namespace; considering it started as a print comic in a magazine, it should be in ComicStrip/ just like Nodwick.

I'd say move it to the comic strip namespace and keep the webcomic page as a redirect.

Film.Pokemon seems misplaced, as most of these are anime movies, not live-action films. Maybe it could just be sent to a folder on Franchise.Pokemon or something?

I am guessing that someone wanted an index page for all the Pokémon Anime films but couldn't find a better place, If someone wants to keep it around we could do something like Anime.Pokemon Films

Edited by Ordeaux26 on Oct 5th 2021 at 10:32:10 AM

I also think it fits better under the Franchise/ page. Those are usually indexed anyway, aren't they?

Looking at how the franchise page is set up adding them there might clutter the list quite a bit and probably force a fourth bullet point so I am not sure if that can be done. The franchise page is already indexed though.

I think we can still fit them. We can probably make animation its own folder at this point to reduce the indentation.

I've been meaning to change the namespace for one to several work pages that focus on Virtual YouTuber type of content, as the current namespace for hololive, Nijisanji, and Kizuna Ai (Web Animation) don't seem to fit. It feels like they hardly qualify as animation (aside from Holo No Graffiti, but that isn't the main focus of hololive), with content ranging from Lets Plays, group skits, singing, and 3D motion capture, all streamed live.

Here's some separate posts discussing this, since I'm bad at discussions in general.

• My post in the hololive discussion
• Ask The Tropers post by Freecom

Edit: I should also mention that Web Video, despite it's rather neutral namespace to seemingly describe videos on the web in general, is describe by its main page and Laconic page as Live Action videos on the web, not exactly fitting for Virtual YouTubers. The only other alternative is Web Original, as broad as you could get with web content.

Edited by GalaxyLight777 on Nov 6th 2021 at 3:05:05 PM

I think they all belong to Web Video/ more, yes.

Real-time animation is still animation. Hell of a strain on the animators, though.

While motion capture / Live2D is consider an animation, to exclusively call it as such feels... surface level, I guess? Like, sure they use a Digital Avatar, but they also do the above games, singing, etc. And calling it all Web Animation just personally feels unfitting.

That feels like calling a Gaming Discussion channel a Let's Play because they use gameplay footage for 70% of their videos despite not outright playing a video game.

Worse case scenario, I'm just having a dumb opinion... On another topic, we already have other Virtual YouTuber pages that were created later on which use the Web Video namespace (VShojo), itself a problem as I stated above.

Should Pokémon Black 2 and White 2: Introduction Movie and Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire Animated Trailer be in the Advertising namespace?

Given the last time people tried to move Pokémon-related stuff to Advertising/... I'd say no.