Suggesting new namespaces

I brought up Swapnote before but I was told that Video Game/ was the closest namespace. Not sure how I feel about having an App: namespace.

Useful Notes catch any non-gaming software and devices, as if it's not a game, it typically wouldn't have tropable content. Not confident on making a new namespace without many more examples, but it'd worth considering with more cases.

Edited by Amonimus on Jul 15th 2022 at 10:59:25 PM

This thread suggested a WebFiction/ namespace, to help with Web Original namespace cleanup. Thoughts?

Paging ~FernandoLemon too to see if they want to add anything.

I need to finish checking how many pages could potentially be added to it since it helps my case, but a lot of it, like you said, comes from my cleanup of the Web Original namespace.

Otherwise, I'll just repost what I said there.

A lot of [pages in the WebOriginal/ namespace] are Creepypasta, Choose Your Own Adventure-types (like the stuff from Choose Your Story), and other things like The Pixar Theory and Orions Arm. Besides, I find it odd to put stuff like Candle Cove under the Literature/ namespace.

It might work... I think something like "I Like Monkeys" (an email story) counts as WebFiction/.

Edited by Piterpicher on Jul 15th 2022 at 11:08:07 AM

Fanfic/ would, of course, be a subcategory of it.

Also, if created, what do we do about Web Serial Novels? More here of keep under Literature/?

The point of this proposal is to give web novels somewhere to go that isn't Literature/.

(As a long-time proponent of putting them in Literature/, of course I'd oppose the proposal.)

I like the idea of Web Fiction/ so far.

What about the other types of Web Fiction we discussed?

I launched Sandbox.Web Fiction Namespace to analyze how many pages could potentially fit in the suggested WebFiction/ namespace. Not counting Web Serial Novels, which were far too many for me to count, there are almost 300 pages that could go there.

Edited by FernandoLemon on Aug 3rd 2022 at 1:21:08 PM

Bumping for input; if everyone's okay with the idea, we can crowner it.

I like the idea personally.

I like that it gives things like creepy pastas a namespace to be in.

Should this question can be moved to own thread to not make a crowner here and also organize feedback on the sandbox?

Might be a good idea:

Since this stems from the Web Original cleanup because that's where a lot of these pages will be moved from, it can also be discussed there.

Edited by FernandoLemon on Aug 5th 2022 at 8:29:27 AM

I find it interesting that we're talking about adding a namespace while elsewhere we're trying to consolidate them.

Eh, this might end up causing the WebOriginal/ namespace to become redundant, so... stay tuned!

But yes, I find it curious that the recent deprecation of the LetsPlay/ and Wiki/ namespaces happened so close to each other.

Edited by FernandoLemon on Aug 6th 2022 at 10:46:21 AM

Found another potential page for an App(lication?) namespace: VideoGame.The Walt Disney World Explorer

I'll make Sandbox.App Namespace for organizational purposes.

I've not added Website.Vine until further discussion, since... it's a website, you could use it from desktop just like Twitter.

Wikipedia says it launched as an app first.

I guess? Do note that I never finished moving all the wicks from WebOriginal.Vine

If there were more pages made i would argue for a software namespace, sorta like the app namespace proposed above, but could include things like screen savers (wasn't there set with a full blown plot and conclusion). Granted, there's not that many that it would get unless we count websites that got mobile ports like Facebook and You Tube of getting it as like a redirect or something. Which i am against

Given how complex some trope—work conflicts can get, I still think a Disambig/ namespace could work, but it's a low priority.

I'd actually would really like to separate Trope/, Index/ and Disambig/ (the latter two should be easier as they're not supposed to be wicked) because people don't pay attention to pagetype and it's difficult to explain. Disambigs now being green kinda makes this argument weaker.