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Malady (X-Troper)
2022-01-21 13:12:57

There Is No Such Thing as Notability

My rule is "If a creator has more than one work, in more than one series, they can get a page."

Also, The Fic May Be Yours, but the Trope Page Is Ours.


Ah, yes, only one work. No reason for a page then.

Edited by Malady Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
2022-01-21 13:13:11

Agreed with LeFou. This is Auto-Erotic Troping that can go on the Tropers/ page.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2022-01-21 13:14:34

There's no such thing as something being "popular enough" to "deserve" a page on the wiki. If there are enough works then a creators page could be justified.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-01-21 13:14:48

Tropers can and do have Creator/ pages, but for objectivity they would better be written by not-themselves, who've read their works. [e: tropes can still make pages about themselves, but this one is cut-worthy]

Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2022-01-21 13:15:57

^ IDK if that's really true. AET disallows adding subjective information and gushing about your own works. That creators/ page reads entirely objectively and is a borderline stub.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
wingedcatgirl MOD (Holding A Herring)
2022-01-21 14:38:33

We could imagine using the page to trope the creator's pageless works, but at a glance, he doesn't have any of those.

We've never been super clear on what exactly creator pages are meant for other than that.

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
BoltDMC Since: May, 2020
2022-01-21 15:38:36

Hiya!

It would have been nice to be contacted directly before an ATT thread was made. I'm approachable enough — promise.

Given that There Is No Such Thing as Notability, I don't understand why this creator page or the works page for The Bolt Chronicles is a problem, whether I created them or not (the latter is a series title and contains 32 short stories and 3 poems so far, so there are indeed multiple parts in the series). Maybe I'm missing something? As War Jay 77 pointed out, it's objectively written with no gushing.

BoltDMC Since: May, 2020
2022-01-21 15:58:55

There Is No Such Thing as Notability, but FWIW, the various stories and poems in the fanfic series have a significant number of hits, reviews, and kudos — specifically for the 35 works in question: as of today, 19059 hits, 946 comment threads, 2016 kudos, 78 bookmarks, 34 subscriptions.

For a small and dead fandom especially, those are pretty decent stats.

Edited by BoltDMC
BoltDMC Since: May, 2020
2022-01-21 16:57:01

If there's anything that needs to be done, please let me know. I know I've been here a while, but I'm still running into new things periodically at this site. I'm keen to work with others on issues that come up.

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