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Albert3105 Since: Jun, 2013
2019-04-01 08:47:49

To get a franchise page, the games, the stage plays, the movie, their discography etc. must have separate works pages created for them first, and then the franchise page can be created afterwards.

Edited by Albert3105
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
2019-04-01 09:13:43

In other words, it doesn't matter how many media a franchise actually has until three or more of them have pages on the wiki itself.

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2019-04-01 09:39:00

Reminders: The namespace is short for Multimedia Franchise. If a work only has one page for the entire franchise, it should be in the original medium.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
lavendermintrose (Long Runner)
2019-04-02 09:20:29

So... I was actually thinking about separating out the pages, because the main page is getting crowded, so I might as well do that. Because there... isn't really an original medium.

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2019-04-02 11:24:02

You can make a medium-specific page for all the works of the franchise in that medium, as long as said page isn't a stub (paragraph of description, three or more trope examples with complete context). Each work in the franchise can get a page, so long as said work page isn't a stub. The first work released for the franchise is the original work, and the story may continue in another medium. Buffy went from film to television to comicbooks.

I used "original medium" to mean the medium that they released the first work in. For our purposes, it doesn't really matter which one is more prevalent.

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lavendermintrose (Long Runner)
2019-04-02 23:33:02

Again, should story tropes go on the page for "music", which is what's currently being used as the original medium, or should it redirect to "audio play"? (There really isn't an ending to any of the works, all of them are ongoing series...)

Also, how do I make the redirects, or does a moderator or something have to do them?

Edited by lavendermintrose
2019-04-02 23:44:00

^ See Creating New Redirects.

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lavendermintrose (Long Runner)
2019-04-03 02:17:16

Thanks so much~ Seems to have fixed everything.

.... trying to get the fandom on twitter to help me fill these out but it doesn't seem anyone's coming...

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2019-04-03 04:54:24

A casual check over the pages shows me you did a great job on the descriptions. I'm not as impressed with your example context. How to Write an Example says that "Examples are not General" and "Be Specific". Lines like 'is this', 'are this', or 'becomes this' don't explain how the trope is used in the work. Details are important.

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