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I usually see them under Anime and Manga if they were adapted into an anime. I was wondering myself where a light novel illustration would go on Image Source if it was used as a page image.
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They should go in "Literature" if the example is from the light novel itself, in "Anime & Manga" if the example is from an adaptation.
There should be no "Light Novels" folder.
And to the above question, Contemptible Cover is an example of picture from a light novel, and the source is in ImageSource.Literature.
Yet Light Novel has its own namespace. So it would to reason they would have their own folder.
Namespaces and folders are nowhere strictly correlated, and never were intended to be.
Case in point:
"Anime & Manga" as folder, can contain "Anime/", "Manga/", "VisualNovel/", "LightNovel/" as namespace (and probably others).
"Films — Animation" as folder, can contain "WesternAnimation/", "Animation/", "Anime/" or "Disney/" as namespace.
"Web Animation" as folder, can contain WebAnimation/" or "Machinima/" as namespace.
Etc.
And you can see folders that correspond to no namespace, like "Sports" or "Print Media".
I think we should abolish the "tradition" of troping light novels as anime, especially when a lot of them are now being officially translated into English before the Animated Adaptation starts.
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^ And why would the translation matter?
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Why would Visual Novel go into Anime and Manga? Its more of the Video Game in the long haul.
It goes in Anime & Manga if the examples is about the anime or manga adaptation of a visual novel. The "first serve" rule mean that if the visual novel came first, the namespace is VisualNovel/, even if the work page is mostly about adaptations.
"Visual Novels" is otherwise a valid folder.
Folks, Visual Novels are a different thing. Light Novels are what's under discussion here.
For those who don't know, a light novel is basically just Japan's version of a young adult printed novel. They're really no different from regular books, except they have occasional illustrations.
No, they use a different set of characters, too. It would be like all of our books were published in illuminated manuscript
style, and then we started publishing children's books in Times New Roman.
So I've seen light novel folders be inconsistently applied on Tropes pages. Sometimes they're in literature, other times they're in their own folder. Do we have a policy for this?