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Yeah, that one is so much The Artifact, it went past the big namespace migration effort untouched.
Problem is, for a work it should have tropes, and those are currently only in potholes.
Besides, if it's a work then it has its full content here, which violate a bit the wiki rules.
It would need a full dedicated repair project just to move it to a namespace. WebOriginal/ would be my guess.
Edited by StFan
^Since WebOriginal/ is deprecated, Website/ would probably be a better option.
I'll also note that the page is locked (clearly intentionally and not because of a glitch, because all edits in the history were made by mods), so mod assistance may be needed to help with the move if the page is moved.
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
It is a written work published on the internet; literature. That said, it's technically copying the entire work, which we've been forbidding in (relatively) recent years.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
We explicitly obtained a license to reproduce the entire content of the work on our wiki, so long as we did not modify it other than to pothole to tropes. While it would seem appropriate to move it to a namespace, it's clear that there is not a lot of agreement as to which one to use, and lack of consensus defaults to no action.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
WebOriginal/ is still a valid namespace, but only for things that don't fit somewhere else better.
Another thing important to note is that we aren't hosting that list as a work, but as a piece of trope-ology. That makes the namespace question doubly difficult as work namespaces are meant to be about works.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Maybe Just for Fun would be more appropriate then? JustForFun.TV Tropes Additional Evil Overlord Vows is already in Just for Fun, so it'd be a logical move.
In no way is Just for Fun a valid namespace for an analysis page, let alone for a trope-ology page on a website dedicated to trope cataloguing.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Work pages are an analysis of the work in question. Each analysis is a trope-ology page. What we've done here is reproduce a work that satires tropes and added hyperlinks to relevant statements. It isn't an analysis any more than Discworld is. If we want to keep the entire reproduction, then we could always give it a personalized namespace. EvilOverlordList.Evil Overlord List or ReproducedWorks.Evil Overlord List could be made.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Should this query be locked? We already have Word of Mod statements for why the page exists and why it's staying where it is, and the namespace discussion still isn't going anywhere.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Evil Overlord List isn't a trope; it's a work. Should it be moved to a different namespace? It is currently in Main.