TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Ask The Tropers

Go To

Have a question about how the TVTropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help. It's not for everything, though. For a list of all the resources for your questions, click here. You can also go to this Directory thread for ongoing cleanup projects.

Ask the Tropers:

Trope Related Question:

Make Private (For security bugs or stuff only for moderators)

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2017-07-26 02:59:27

Presumably because we don't have a policy against it. Hoaxes aren't OK but this one isn't so it's OK so as long as people don't make too many of them.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
razorrozar7 Since: Aug, 2010
2017-07-26 03:09:21

Ain't no rule, huh? Fair enough. I still don't think it's in line with the purpose of the wiki, but I guess it's not really hurting anything.

Migrated to Chloe Jessica!
StFan Since: Jan, 2001
2017-07-26 04:53:37

Note, though, that fictional works are usually lumped into Just for Fun... like Disney's Anne Frank

Edited by StFan
Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2017-07-26 04:59:18

Yes, we should reserve "serious" namespaces for real works. Articles for fake works should be in Just for Fun. Let's not confuse people unnecessarily.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2017-07-26 05:35:03

Sometimes the joke relies on the works being not immediately recognizable as nonexistent. Then they should stay in the normal namespaces.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2017-07-26 05:56:29

VideoGame.Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Special Edition is another that's a hoax video game from an LP, which strikes me as either needing to be in a different namespace or... actually that's it.

Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.
crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2017-07-26 06:45:57

I think the Sonic work has popped up before... There should be a page for the Let's Play, but without being able to directly observe the actual game, I'm not sure we should have a page for it.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2017-07-26 07:07:40

Edit war and page blanking are issues that should be addressed independently of the page's namespace, but if it happened a while ago and the tropers aren't around... (shrug).

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
bwburke94 (Y2: Electric Boogaloo)
2017-07-26 14:43:17

I was about to propose a move of the Sonic 2 Special Edition page.

I believe the proper namespace is Web Video, because Let's Play would imply the "game" actually exists. S 2 SE is a video series formatted as if it were a Let's Play, but it's not actually a Let's Play.

2025: the year it all ends?
crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2017-07-27 06:25:15

Debating where it should go is probably worth a TRS thread, rather than Ask Tropers.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Top