What qualifies as a work?

Is Not Always Right tropable? It's just a site where real people complain about other real people.

You want the Websites cleanup. (Noting that IIRC I brought that site up there in the past.)

EDIT: I did, in 2021.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Jun 21st 2023 at 9:59:25 AM

Just discovered Shipping Forecast.

Yes, it's an institution. But it's also a weather report.

At least a couple of the tropes are misuse or questionable (Code Name, the averted Theme Tune) - which drops it to a stub. And the intro has huge chained sinkholes.

But there's no point trying to fix all of that if it's not a tropeable work... and I'm not sure it is?

No, that... does not strike me as a work. I don't see why that would merit a page. It's certainly not any form of media.

One Hundred Greatest Britons Is a documentary that lists 100 British people, voted as the greatest by the public.

The page is a list of all 100 results and then a bunch of tropes that either apply to the listed people, not the show (Ace Pilot, Brave Scot), or are generally misuse.

Examples for Non-Fiction works "must describe either the staged performance, the setting, artistic elements, or the commentary on other works. If a work has none of those, it does not belong on the wiki"

...the show is basically a list. Cut?

(Also, it's been written into the page intros for the winners, which feels like it's putting popularity/ymmv onto work and creator pages?)

Looking through it I think it's cuttable.

It's perhaps not clear how to trope works that straddle the line between fiction and non-fiction. For example, The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California was probably originally marketed as a non-fiction book, and most of it is somewhat stylized popular history, but the last chapter (which depicts a California Collapse) is obviously fictional.

I'm not certain if Miner Mikes is tropable, at least in the page's current form. The way I see it, two examples seem a bit contrived (Anachronism Stew, Good Old Ways), two are straight up misuse (All Deserts Have Cacti is meant for cacti looking to be in the part of the world it shouldn't be; You Must Be This Tall to Ride is too common IRL and therefore NRLEP), and two examples lack context.

Edited by GrafVonTirol on Sep 8th 2023 at 6:38:37 AM

You can cut list it for lacking enough examples.

Similar to Series.One Hundred Greatest Britons (which got a cut decision), the Literature.What Were They Thinking The 100 Dumbest Events In Television History book is essentially a list.

The page repeats that list and the examples are largely about the listed examples, rather than about the book itself.

Looking at the page, does it seem like a tropeable work in its own right?

The first three examples are PCE (and that's where I stopped reading), but if a Book on Trope otherwise discusses how tropes are used... still tropable.

Should random obscure app games like Fun Hospital or Monster Chef deserve a page?

There Is No Such Thing as Notability, so whether or not a game is obscure isn't relevant. If it has elements that we can trope and it doesn't break the Content Policy, it can have a page. Assuming that someone wants to create one, of course.

Post-Crisis is not about an actual comic book, but rather about the continuity changes DC had after the Crisis on Infinite Earths. It seems to want to be an era article per it's indexes, like New 52, but differently from other eras like the N52 it didn't have say, a branding, or any other clear cut criteria, with many comics continuing from before without a clear line for it to actually be turned into one.

Currently, it houses a list of continuity (and non-continuity) changes made post crisis to DC characters. Most of these are already covered by Continuity Reboot, Cosmic Retcon, Retcon, Continuity Snarl and similar tropes, and from what I can see are already listed there.

Ok to cut?

It's been 4 days and no one commented so I'll send it to the cut list.

Das Sporking seems to be RL troping fanfic authors?

I made it last year after Literature.Im Glad My Mom Died was cut and promptly forgot about it, so while it's not a stub, it's unfortunately not as long as it could be - but how does Sandbox.Im Glad My Mom Died read insofar as discussing industry stuff/avoiding NRLEP tropes?

Looking at the history, looks like part of the former Weight Woe example could be salvaged for an Establishing Series Moment example.^note The "Series" part of "Establishing Series Moment" aside, which seems unnecessarily specific on the trope page's part. (There's a lot of examples for standalone works, too. Misuse, or Tropes Are Flexible? 🤔)

Edited by Twiddler on Oct 26th 2023 at 1:41:23 AM

I know that Baffle Ball is an important part of pinball history, but it simply doesn't seem that tropable to me. Furthermore, the Early-Installment Weirdness entry reads like a general example.

If it has three tropes, it's a work. It also has a digital version.

Edited by Amonimus on Nov 27th 2023 at 10:04:25 PM

Yeah. We found three tropes for it, and it's historically significant, so there's no reason to cut the page.

If Tennis for Two can support a page, I think this is fine.

Okay, then. I just want to make sure.

Are Twitter threads considered tropable? Or rather, are Twitter threads that consist of practically nothing but gushing about a character considered tropable?

Because uh. Blog.A Thread About How Much I Love Asriel was created today and looking at the thread in question it really doesnt seem like qualifying as a work. I'd send it to the cutlist but I wanted to ask for opinions first

That doesn't seem like a work to me.