General Media Categories Discussion

TBH I think I've only ever seen roleplay examples crosswicked once of twice; usually nobody bothers. So I frankly have no idea because seeing them in the wild is so rare to begin with.

True, true

I'm mainly asking because I'm in the middle of getting rid of those pesky Ns.Web Original subpages in trope lists and those often contain articles in the Roleplay/ namespace

Roleplay might be thought as a format and as an individual work of roleplayers?

After clicking on random trope until a sample size of 20 trope pages with a Roleplay section was reached—this took a long time—I counted 18 Roleplay and 2 Roleplays. All had multiple works in the sections so it wasn't a case of someone deciding 1 example means singular folder name.

Roleplay/ is usually either LARP or Play-by-Post Games

Personally I would have started with the Related page of a Roleplay work page. Not quite random but a better hit rate.

Edited by MorganWick on Jan 14th 2024 at 1:49:45 AM

Maybe we could just add

Roleplay

to the official Media Categories page to make it clear?

Though, what do we pothole it to?

Play by Post or LARP?

I was trying to avoid trope pages possibly crosswicked by just one person, but the pages did turn out to contain a handful of the same RPs.

"Roleplay" is fine with me. There's also Journal Roleplay. So maybe it shouldn't pothole anywhere.

Yeah I'm good with either no pothole

Or just pothole the Ass Cap to Blue Link

Anyways, I'm gonna add "Roleplay" to the media categories page.

Any objections? If not, I'll go ahead.

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Jan 14th 2024 at 6:14:40 PM

Alright, I'm adding it

I don't see the point in this.

The page has "Other" potholed to Blue Link

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Jan 15th 2024 at 1:47:22 AM

Hadn't noticed, but I don't see the point to that, either, other than aesthetics.

I'd just remove them both as Sinkholes. If I click on a blue link reading "roleplay", I expect to be taken to a page about roleplay, not TV Tropes Glossary (which Blue Link redirects to).

I've removed both sinkholes

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Jan 15th 2024 at 2:16:10 AM

Anyone good if I add

Blogs

to the media categories page?

Yes

Now that we have a Platform namespace, should we add it to the Media Categories page? Or are platforms not supposed to have trope examples?

They are subtype of Useful Notes and aren't works as far as I'm aware.

Eh, some platforms do have tropes in its design

See Roblox

But that's an exception

Which is why I wasn't sure if it's still a videogame, but we could use the logic for websites and wick to it if specific games don't have own pages, though preferably also redlinking.

Edited by Amonimus on Jan 22nd 2024 at 7:16:23 PM

I think if you're to include a trope example about a Platform

Say Roblox or a trivia trope about the NES/other game console maybe

It would be fine to put it in the video games folder because it'd related to that

If you're to include a general trope example about a platform like Broadway, put that in the Theatre folder because Broadway is related to that.

It just depends on what kind of media the platform is mostly used for

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Jan 24th 2024 at 7:10:58 PM

What about something multimedia like DeviantArt

Honestly, I'm just good with putting a trope example for that in the Website folder. The actual reason it's in the Platform/ namespace is because it's primary purpose is to host Art and Literature, but it's still a wesbite, hence the namespace redirect.

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Jan 24th 2024 at 8:50:18 PM

The crowner for Manhwa and Manhua example placement's been called in favor of putting them in their own folders.

So I've added Manhua and Manhwa to the official Media Categories page.

Would making/adding a Music Video media category to the official list be fine?

Sometimes you just want to trope that music video itself and not the song.