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TheNerfGuy Since: Mar, 2011
2017-03-08 09:10:02

As long as it's notable enough to be its own work, then I don't see why not. Work Pages Are A Free Launch. However, one thing to keep in mind is that it has to be notable and involve a long-running series. A single piece of art isn't enough. If it has a written story connected with it (either in the description or as a separate entry), then I think it can have its own page.

Troping the specific artworks directly on Deviant Art is, I think, a no-go.

Edited by TheNerfGuy
Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2017-03-08 09:50:02

DeviantArt is not tropable in and of itself. This is important. We have work pages for discrete works (or bodies of work). A drawing on DA, just like a single video on You Tube or a single review on Reddit, is insufficiently distinct to earn its own article. We do not collect trope examples that are not attached to a discrete work (or creator, in some cases).

To do otherwise would invite the wiki to be flooded with articles like Art.Piece 25 By John Doe, which is insanity. Reciprocally, we should not have Creator pages for individual DA (or YT) users unless they have created discrete works that are themselves tropable. See Auto Erotic Troping for more on this.

This also means that one should not create a Website article and use it to collect miscellaneous tropes for things found on that site. We specifically tell people not to do that.

Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Malady (X-Troper)
2017-03-08 09:51:28

How about individual pieces, that are troped on the Trope pages but don't get their own Work page?

Like this from All Webbed Up:

Edited by Fighteer Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2017-03-08 09:54:21

For one thing, those are all violations of Weblinks Are Not Examples. The parent bullet is a violation of "Examples are not general".

We do allow troping of works that don't have distinct articles in some categories, like Mythology, Jokes, and Advertising. Not sure how this could apply to any of those. Our troping of art in general is rather weak.

Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
lu127 MOD Since: Sep, 2011
2017-03-08 10:49:20

We could potentially trope artists like we do video reviewers. That would require them to have a sizable body of work and recurring art themes. Someone drawing a lot of parody one-shots would indeed qualify as Affectionate Parody, let's say.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Malady (X-Troper)
2017-03-08 11:38:18

Well, I commented those out, (removal / uncommenting) pending a statement of okay-ness or not for things like that.

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2017-03-08 12:21:14

There are comic strips and text stories on DA that are tropable, but most works are just pictures.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2017-03-08 13:22:27

Unfortunately, this seems to be a case where our notability policy (that we don't have one, specifically) falls a bit flat. Some obscure book written in 1975 that only three people have read is tropable because it's a published work, full stop. But someone's Deviant Art page? Makes little sense to consider that any kind of discrete or distinct work unless they have established a coherent narrative/branding framework for it and it has some degree of recognition. "Joe's DA Page" is not tropable, but if Joe has a popular art series that is a recognizable brand identity, it could be.

The point is that there must be a work article, or the potential to make one. "Joe's stencil about a webbed elf" does not merit a work article.

Edited to add: The Three Rules Of Three indicate that if you can't identify at least three clear tropes about a work, it doesn't merit an article. That's the standard I'm thinking of rather than notability.

Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
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