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Amonimus (Sergeant)
3rd Apr, 2023 12:03:05 PM

Having more than one image on a page is improper. Having multiple work folders is also improper, but tolerable. Either remove the images or split the page (would require coming up with a description).

We don't make Franchise/ pages until there are releases in different media.

Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
homogenized Since: Oct, 2009
3rd Apr, 2023 04:47:14 PM

^ I'm pretty sure you meant, "Having multiple work folders is also improper, but tolerable", not "pages"?

Also, specifically Franchise pages require releases in at least 3 different media, and the releases need to have their own TV Tropes pages made already.

Zarina Since: Aug, 2014
3rd Apr, 2023 05:08:30 PM

^^ & ^ Got it. I'll see about coming up with descriptions for the sequels so that they can be moved to their own pages, since I think what's in the folders is more than sufficient.

RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019
3rd Apr, 2023 08:53:22 PM

There's always an issue with certain pages "lumping" media into a single page, rather than making separate pages for different works. IIRC, the previous Film.Home Alone page contains folders for all 5 films in the franchise, all in a single page until it's decided somewhere in the forums that it gets divided into sub-pages (one for the main franchise, then the individual films gets a page each).

Manga.Dororo currently has a similar problem; the folders are a mess containing tropes to the original manga, a video game whose name isn't even the same as the source, the 2007 live-action adaptation and the reboot manga (who, again, isn't the same as the source).

There might be a thread in the forums dedicated to page-splitting efforts, not really sure

Edited by RobertTYL
MyFinalEdits (Ten years in the joint)
3rd Apr, 2023 09:24:44 PM

^ There's a thread to discuss splits for critically-big articles (usually tropes and works), but that's not the same thing as the issue present here.

If a work page covers multiple installments, it's OK to make separate pages for each of them as long as they're not stubs and the guidelines and manual of style regarding work pages are kept in mind. In my experience, that's what I did with the majority of Mario Party and Etrian Odyssey pages.

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