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I wondered the same thing too...
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Typically the "adapted from" sorting only happens for fanfic tropes, because otherwise the Fan Works folder would be massive. Not sure why it happened here.
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Truer to the Text and Adaptation Dye-Job are the same name. It makes it easier to find examples when they're not spread out.
Those pages do spread out the examples. I'm not understanding what you mean to say.
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^ All examples are in one section instead of in multiple sections.
There are three subpages and thirteen folders, for a total of sixteen sections. Examples are spread across sections by medium of the original work rather than by medium of the example.
Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
It seems to me that, unless there's a strong reason otherwise, examples should always be sorted by the medium adapted to. That's how they're placed on work pages, after all: you wouldn't put an Adapted Out example for a book-only character on Literature.A Song Of Ice And Fire, you'd put it on Series.Game Of Thrones, because that's the work where the trope actually happens.
(And indeed, there are so many examples that it has its own page under the Game of Thrones namespace.)
Edited by HighCrate
So should the examples on Adapted Out (and subsequently Adaptation Dye-Job and Truer to the Text) be re-organised?
Every media adaptation trope I've seen has had the examples listed under the medium the work is adapted to (e.g. an example from a live-action film adapted from a comic would go under Live-Action Film), and yet Adapted Out is the opposite - with works listed under the medium the work is adapted from.
There is no reason for this listed on the page, and the page's history
and YKTTW draft
doesn't provide any. So why is this the case?