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Just like any other work with pre-release material, anything not from the released work needs to be cited.
The correct solution is to comment out everything that doesn't have a citation today, uncommenting what's actually in the work once it comes out.
Thing is, the leak is one released work—Meyer made it officially available.
It serves the same purpose as officially-released preview chapters. (I'm not going to split hairs.)
So let's say that I do comment them out, and add a disclaimer saying something like "please only add examples that apply to the finished novel." Would that work?
Section off draft-exclusive tropes into another folder?
Once published, if anything from the book differs from the manuscript, the entry can say, "In the preview manuscript, [explanation of trope]", like we do for previews/trailers/demos in other works.
Honestly depending on how big the page is I'd just move it to /Script and call it a day.
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Isn't /Script for movie scripts and play scripts, not pre-release novels?
^The Script/ namespace is flexible; most namespaces are, by force. Close enough is good enough.
This is assuming there are a lot of changes from preview to book.
^*^ Is it flexible enough to cover something that is not a script in any sense?
Personally, I would keep the manuscript in Literature/ and just disambiguate it by year, or with a (Manuscript) if it was released this year.
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I would folderize it for now, that will make it easy to split it off later if need be, and relatively easy to merge if that's called for. There's only 10 examples anyway, plus 2 commented out zces.
There's also the unrelated Series.Midnight Sun (only 1 non-ZCE example, nobody has added anything to it since 2016), Film.Midnight Sun, and VideoGame.Midnight Sun, so the subpages that aren't already a mess might become so very soon.
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It looks like the way to disambiguate/move is:
- Series.Midnight Sun -> Series.Midnight Sun 2016
- VideoGame.Midnight Sun -> VideoGame.Midnight Sun Fire Emblem
- Film.Midnight Sun -> split between Film.A Song To The Sun (original) and Film.Midnight Sun 2018 (remake)
And then we make Main.Midnight Sun as a disambig, right?
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I think it would be easier to split it the same way we split trailers/promotional material vs. full movies (into different folders, but the same page). Both the trailers and manuscript are "official" releases, but there may or may not be large differences between the "pre-release" materials and the final product (due to things like Missing Trailer Scene and Trailers Always Lie)
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^ Makes sense.
Finished moving the other work pages. Now, two questions:
- Should Literature.Midnight Sun be disambiguated as well? I could see it being moved to either Midnight Sun Twilight or Midnight Sun Meyer
- Film.Midnight Sun is now a disambig between A Song to the Sun and Midnight Sun (2018). Should it instead be redirected to Main.Midnight Sun after creating a disambig there?
I'm leaning towards moving Literature.Midnight Sun to Literature.Midnight Sun Twilight, anyone else have thoughts on this?
Thank you for taking care of the other ones!
That would fit with VideoGame.Midnight Sun Fire Emblem being named after the Franchise rather than the creator, but IDK what's usual for these situations.
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^ I thought it's more common to use creator's names for title disambig, and franchise names are used for fanfics with the same name.
VideoGame.Midnight Sun Fire Emblem is a fanwork.
For the book, the reason I'm leaning toward the series name is because it's more known than the creator's name.
The cover surprisingly emphasizes her name, then smaller that she's the author of the Twilight novels, rather than a big ol' A TWILIGHT NOVEL. I wonder if publishing-wise it's considered a spinoff or standalone or something rather than part of the series.
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I haven't been able to find an image of the back cover.
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Her name isn't enormous compared to the novel title, but it is more prominent than that marketing... line... thing. A different version of the cover didn't even mention Twilight, just "international bestselling author".
I'm now leaning Literature.Midnight Sun Meyer since it's a "companion" to the Twilight series rather than one of the novels within that series.
I have Bile Fascination so I can help with moving tropes to the novel folder that do occur there— never read the manuscript, though.
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There's captures of it on Wayback Machine.
On second (or third or more) thought— since there's only one (... for now) one literature page called Midnight Sun, now the remaining subpages are all relevant to it instead of the other media types, and it has a few dozen wicks... Eh!
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The new Twilight novel will be released tomorrow, Tuesday. The page for it currently is about the first-draft manuscript that got leaked and Meyer subsequently released for free. Obviously, once the book hits shelves people will start troping the actual novel.
What do we do to differentiate the tropes for the manuscript and the tropes for the final novel?
We could delete all the tropes on the page right now, so that people will only return them if they turn out to be in the actual novel (though that solution is drastic).
We could have separate pages for the novel and the manuscript.
We could add the words "in the manuscript" to every current entry.
What do we do?