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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#1: Mar 9th 2013 at 11:38:58 AM

This series was split by books, but somebody went and merged them back together. Has anybody read this recently enough to help split it again?

edited 9th Mar '13 11:39:41 AM by Discar

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#2: Mar 9th 2013 at 6:28:31 PM

Why bother?

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#3: Mar 9th 2013 at 6:42:10 PM

For the same reason it was split in the first place? Spoilers, plot details, all that?

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#4: Mar 9th 2013 at 7:16:49 PM

Those would be present in either. Going back and forth doesn't make much sense. Any idea why they were merged?

edited 9th Mar '13 7:17:59 PM by FastEddie

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#5: Mar 9th 2013 at 7:22:17 PM

No idea. I sent a PM to the guy who seems to be responsible, but it was in October, so I don't know if he's around.

Edit: Sent the PM today. The merge was in October.

edited 9th Mar '13 7:23:06 PM by Discar

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#6: Mar 10th 2013 at 1:34:45 PM

...and I just noticed that while history page on the main Literature.The Kingkiller Chronicle is too clogged to easily revert, the pages for Literature.The Name Of The Wind and Literature.The Wise Mans Fear are clear enough to fix easily. This has turned into one of those Ask The Tropers "can I do this without getting banned?" topics, but I've already got the thread up, so may as well ask here.

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#7: Mar 10th 2013 at 3:33:54 PM

Hmm, I just stumbled across one of these pages by accident earlier today, and then discovered this discussion. I was seriously tempted to merge them myself. The whole "please list tropes on the main series page thing" is a good reason for not having separate pages. The only reason we have work pages is to list tropes. The wiki is about tropes.

I can't tell you how many literature-series pages we have that don't have separate pages for each individual work. I see no particular reason why this particular series should be treated differently unless there are tropes about the specific books on the individual pages.

The only downside I see to having those pages be turned into redirects (just as, e.g., the multiple-award-winning Red Mars Trilogy has redirects from Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) is that some people don't know how to edit redirects, but I don't think that's a serious problem—people can and do learn.

So, unless someone wants to add tropes for the individual pages (at least three on each page), I'd suggest that making them into redirects is the right thing to do.

eta: re-reading the thread, I may have misunderstood what was being asked for, but I think the comment still has some relevance.

edited 10th Mar '13 3:35:25 PM by Xtifr

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#8: Mar 10th 2013 at 4:31:50 PM

They were originally split. When the first book (The Name of the Wind) came out, it got a page with examples. When the second book (The Wise Man's Fear) came out, it got a page with examples. A few months after that, a page for tropes general to the series (The Kingkiller Chronicle) was made. Then last October, someone pulled all the examples off The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear and tossed them onto The King Killer Chronicle.

Does that clarify things?

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#9: Mar 10th 2013 at 10:44:27 PM

[up]Yeah, that's what I got from my second reading. And there is definitely nothing wrong with doing that way. I'm just saying that if there isn't an easy way to revert what happened, then making those pages into redirects to the main article is not a bad solution. It is, at the very least, better than the status quo, where the pages have no tropes, and instructions not to add tropes!

I don't have a preference for either solution, but it may be useful to know that there's more than one.

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