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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#1: Sep 10th 2023 at 4:07:34 PM

Normally when you want to trope individual books for a series, you split off the individual books to their own pages (Literature.Harry Potter, Literature.Cradle Series, Literature.The Stormlight Archive). However, I was about to do something like that for Literature.Dungeon Crawler Carl and discovered that it has a recap page, which is just a no-tags spoiler summary of each book, all on a single page.

What's the proper response here? Should I leave the recap page alone and make the literature pages as I planned? Should I split the recap page into pages for each individual book? That second option seems a little iffy to me because of the spoilers off policy; these aren't short books, so it's not like normal recap pages where we can just say "go watch the hour long episode before you edit and don't complain about getting spoiled."

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#2: Sep 11th 2023 at 12:33:16 AM

As-is I don't see a problem. If the books get own pages, the recaps would become redundant and too small compared to books' synopsises.

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#3: Sep 11th 2023 at 11:50:29 AM

There's also Recap.How A Realist Hero Rebuilt The Kingdom, which tropes the individual Light Novel volumes (which like most LN don't have individual names).

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#4: Sep 11th 2023 at 11:54:30 AM

[up] Becuase How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom is a serially-published work and not a collection of different works.

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