Not Thriving: Website.They Shoot Pictures Dont They

This is a "work" page, but all it does is index 25 other works, has only three wicks, and zero tropes (there's a YMMV page with two Audience Reactions indented on the same line that I'm not counting).

It has been pretty much unchanged since 2013, which is when it was moved from the Main namespace, so the original creator is probably lost to history.

Edited by crazysamaritan on May 22nd 2019 at 12:41:26 PM

The page as it looked upon creation.

Thanks for confirming that it has been pretty much unchanged since it was created in Main/. Unless we have a volunteer to expand the page, I think we ought to cut it.

I see no compelling reason to cut.

Cut. There's just not enough content to be worth keeping.

1. This is a works page for a website, and there is no trope list.
2. The description is a stub. It is a stub page.
3. Nobody cares about this page. In other words, it is an abandoned stub.
4. The page has only accrued three wicks in its lifetime.
5. Among its three wicks, there is only one trope.
6. Additionally to the last point: there's no crosswicking. This also adds credit to the point about nobody caring about this page.
7. The page is primarily a "list page," meaning a troper just wanted a superfluous index to clump favorite movies together. In this case, the list is good films.

Cut. There is nothing to trope here.

+1 to cut this for pointlessness.

Cut as useless.

Chop chop.

It's been two years since I was last on the forums and I'm back because crazysamaritan asked for my opinion on an article that no one cares about enough to rewrite, for a website that is still being updated. *sigh* Is the inbound links count still a factor?

The website in question doesn't seem like it produces tropable content, and I don't see good prospects in rehabbing it to be a more typical works page. As the page is now, it seems equivalent to many other Critic X's best movies lists such as the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, AFIS 100 Years 100 Movies 10 TH Anniversary Edition, or really everything else on the Awards Index. These are in a hodgpodge of namespaces, both Main and various media namespaces, with no consistent standard as far as I can see.

I do not have a strong opinion about whether these lists of good movies are within our mission or not. However, I do think that if this page is a problem, so are all these other pages, and this should be dealt with in a more systematic fashion.

Cut.

IIRC those pages are typically cut more often than kept. We just haven't devoted a single clean-up thread to it.

After a week's worth of discussion, we have the following votes: Leave as-is

1. ~rjd1922

Unclear

1. ~justanid
2. ~naturalironist
3. ~Lymantria

Cut

1. crazysamaritan
2. bitemytail
3. WaterBlap
4. Tabs
5. Willbyr
6. Brainulator9
7. WarJay77
8. GastonRabbit

Even assuming the unclear posters would vote against the cut, we have 8:4 in favour of eliminating this page. Any additional votes/arguments?

I am against a cut, for the record.

Cut.

I don't see a good reason not to cut.

I don't care.

What I do care is that I missed that all of the AFI's 100 Years... series pages are somehow still in the Main namespace.

I don't mind a cut.

Cut it

Three days later and four more votes in favour of a cut, no new votes against the cut (I said I was counting "unclear" as against). Taking action now.

Cut has been processed. Calling it done.