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If there nothing more, to be forthright, attention-grabbing? I don't want news of it to be buried as just another post in a 700 page topic.
We don't want advertising for the sake of advertising. Otherwise everyone starts shilling their stuff and the wiki stops being a reference source. The best way to garner awareness of a work is to make an article on it. We don't have pages for individual Let's Plays, but we do have them for Let's Players.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Well, there is talk of doing other L Ps in the future if this is a success, but I guess until that happens a page is out of the question. Thanks.
There Is No Such Thing As Notability. Any creator or work can have an article, no matter how obscure. Just be wary of the temptation to Entry Pimp.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
About the "any creator or work can have an article", does that mean that it wasn't a horrible error on my part to create a page for Roundhay Garden Scene, which while admittedly too short to have a plot or tropes, is "only" the oldest surviving film, thus theoretically of at least as much historical interest as character pages for every anime in existence?
But every anime in existence has tropes... Maybe you could get together an effort to find tropes in the garden scene? There's got to be some tropes in it.
Right. The name and description of a work is not enough. The wiki is about tropes, not the history of cinema. Other than tangentially.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
Three tropes is a good unofficial rule-of-thumb minimum for a works page.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
So it's "any work", as long as that work is popular with the in-crowd? Noted.
^ I am completely baffled as to how you came to that conclusion. This wiki isn't for advertising a Let's Play. It's to identify the tropes that happen in a Let's Play. There isn't an issue with them creating a page for the person/group that's doing the Let's Play and listing the tropes there, same as the ones for LetsPlay.Pew Die Pie or LetsPlay.The Runaway Guys. They're just saying that the point of a works page isn't to advertise the work, the same as the Wikipedia page for soups isn't for advertising kinds of soups.
" I don't want news of it to be buried as just another post in a 700 page topic." - sadly my fears have been realized :/
I'm sorry, but this is a wiki for troping media, not advertising it. Surely there is a venue out there for you.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
The Final Fantasy Wiki is looking to advertise a LP of Final Fantasy VI we're doing. Is there an appropriate forum to post about this, or would something of this nature warrant a page?