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I'm not sure on meaning of the reason either, but I'm betting the answer is "no" because one of the requirements for a Franchise page is work pages on TV Tropes in 3 or more namespaces. We only have 2 out of 3, Film.Scream, along with its sequels and Series.Scream. Everything else, as seen in Main.Scream is unrelated and going to Franchise.Scream lists what we do have and, other than Film and Series, everything is subpages.
Edited by sgamer82^ Is that still true now that we have a separate page for Scream (2022)? Do we now meet the minimum 3 or more namespaces?
No. The namespaces need to be different. It needs to be spread to three separate mediums.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallOddly Wikipedia mentions that the franchise includes games on its franchise page, but they are not specified in the article. Looking around I found an indie game at https://stefanocagnani90.itch.io/scream
but no "official" games. So there's that.
^ Closest thing to a game I know of is Ghostface being a playable killer in Dead by Daylight.
Isn't Script usually for scripts that were never produced, or were radically changed? Does Scream have that? Because if not, then it's just troping the movies again but with a lot of the details removed.
I think that's why it's called a shoehorn- since unless there are some never-filmed scripts that got leaked or something, there's nothing that troping the script will do that troping the films themselves wouldn't.
Edited by WarJay77 Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall^^ Because most script pages are for scripts that either underwent radical transformation on their way to being produced or were unproduced yet still retain notoriety for various reasons. A produced script of a movie doesn't really add anything, just the same movie once again being troped.
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose meWell, yes, but also no. We're not going to make a page for the script of a film that was already produced, because the work was already troped and that's just an arbitrary duplication. It's not about notability- the movie already includes the script. It's like making an entire separate work page for the illustrations in a picture book under Art/. Technically you could do it, but why would you?
In this case it seems to be fine, but the Notability rule really doesn't protect the case Laser and I pointed out.
Edited by WarJay77 Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallPerhaps a bad word choice on my part, I was thinking of scripts like Whedon's unproduced Wonder Woman script. I just worry that every aspiring screenwriter would put their as yet unproduced spec script up, but that's another debate.
In the case of the early scripts, the question would be is there enough of a difference from the film to warrant a separate page?
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose me

Hey, I looked it up but couldn't see anything about this...I was trying to find the franchise page for the Scream films (1, 2, 3, 4, TV series, and the upcoming 5th). It was deleted to "correct the namespace", which I don't understand.
It's now under Scream, which I think is actually more confusing now that the IP itself has produced content other than films (e.g. the TV series), and especially since the 1996 original film was also called Scream (and the 2022 film has been announced to be called Scream as well). Other movies with similar audience and reach (e.g. A Nightmare on Elm Street) have their own "franchise" pages, and I think it would be better to either pothole Scream or make it for the original (the 1996 version), and give it a general Franchise entry for all the content.
Edited by harrietvanger