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GastonRabbit Sounds good on paper (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
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#1: Aug 20th 2023 at 6:47:12 AM

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Note: This thread was proposed by amathieu13.

Per discussion in the Works About X thread, though Shark Stories is meant to be for works "about" sharks, it is in practice a collection of works in which a shark just shows up in some (hopefully) main role. But a shark showing up in a work does not make the work "about" sharks in a meaningful or consistent way. Compare:

  • Shark! Shark! - a game in which you play as a fish trying to get bigger in which sharks show up as one of several threats
  • Jaws - a film about a Threatening Shark terrorizing a resort town
  • The Shark Puppet - a web video series in which a shark puppet does a variety of things like "trying different foods, going to the moon, celebrating holidays and meeting characters from other franchises."
  • The Suicide Squad - an ensemble superhero film in which 1 of the main heroes is a Shark Man
...which are all currently listed.

And when there is a meaningful portrayal consistent across different works, it's often synonymous with Threatening Shark.

Options:

  • Cut completely and move the majority of entries that fall under "work centered around an antagonist shark" to the draft for the Natural Horror genre page
  • redirect to These Tropes Are Fishy, which houses all of the trope pages on different portrayals of sharks in media.
  • redirect to Threatening Shark specifically since most examples are of a scary / antagonistic shark

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 22nd 2023 at 10:44:05 AM

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GastonRabbit Sounds good on paper (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
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#2: Aug 20th 2023 at 6:48:23 AM

Paging ~amathieu13 to the thread. Anyway, I'd prefer redirecting to These Tropes Are Fishy because the inbound count doesn't strike me as that bad for a two-year-old page, but correct me if I'm wrong on that.

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Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
amathieu13 Since: Aug, 2013
#4: Aug 20th 2023 at 6:57:51 AM

as the op writer, I have no preference/am cool with all 3 options [tup]

Edited by amathieu13 on Aug 20th 2023 at 9:58:10 AM

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#5: Aug 20th 2023 at 7:21:19 AM

Unlike samurai, this index is pointless so get rid of it. I prefer redirecting to Sea Stories instead These Tropes Are Fishy, because These Tropes Are Fishy is an index of tropes, so redirecting an index of works to it doesn't sound intuitive.

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GastonRabbit Sounds good on paper (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
#7: Aug 20th 2023 at 8:56:49 AM

I think redirecting to Sea Stories sounds better than redirecting to These Tropes Are Fishy, so I'll change my vote to redirecting there instead.

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#9: Aug 20th 2023 at 10:54:50 AM

[tup] Redirect > Sea Stories

Edited by Tabs on Aug 20th 2023 at 10:55:07 AM

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#10: Aug 20th 2023 at 11:07:47 AM

How about disambiguating it between Sea Stories and Threatening Shark?

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#11: Aug 20th 2023 at 11:10:12 AM

Eh, seems a little superfluous, I think just Sea Stories is fine.

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#13: Aug 20th 2023 at 6:22:59 PM

[up][tup]

Edited by randomtroper89 on Aug 20th 2023 at 8:23:12 AM

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#15: Aug 20th 2023 at 7:18:30 PM

Redirecting to Sea Stories makes sense.

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GastonRabbit MOD Sounds good on paper (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
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#17: Aug 22nd 2023 at 8:43:23 PM

Let's go ahead and redirect to Sea Stories.

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GastonRabbit Sounds good on paper (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
#18: Aug 22nd 2023 at 8:48:15 PM

Everything's done, so sending this one to Davy Jones's Locker.

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