Talk:Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)

The franchise and video game pages for "Five Nights at Freddy's" have been disambiguated.

So I would like to make a page about the "Five Nights at Freddy's" franchise as a whole by using my own edits from Tropedia, but I think that would require this page being renamed something like "Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)" to disambiguate the two pages.

Let me take care of that for you.

And done. I've left a redirect at Five Nights at Freddy's so as not to break any links before you create the franchise page.

I apologize for the late response, but thank you! I'll go ahead and make the franchise page now!

It's barely been 24 hours. You weren't late. Don't worry about it.

Umbire the Phantom reverted my Category:Crime_Fiction for Five Nights at Freddy's, saying it was a hard stretch, when series centers around finding out about multiple fictional murders, which is a crime, and trying to survive murderous animatronics made by a necromancer trying to make sure they always come back. Are you disputing the historicity of it, claiming that the games and books are non-fictional or are you disputing that murder is a crime in the series? If neither, the only correct thing is to categorize it as crime fiction again.

First, the category is for Literature, not video games. Second, Five Nights at Freddy's is explicitly a Survival Horror game, not a crime game. The fact that murders are in its Backstory makes it no more crime fiction than the murders in the back story of The Amityville Horror make it crime fiction. Umbire's reversion is, in my opinion, appropriate.

Calling in other mods for their opinions.

-- Looney Toons, admin

CC: @Labster, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @Derivative, @SelfCloak, @GethN7

I agree with the idea that the crime has to be the focus of the story, and not something in the backstory. Crime fiction is a genre of its own, not a checkbox that might or might not be ticked in a work of a different genre.

I'm not too worried about the medium that the story is told in, mainly because I'm not wild about the idea of having a dozen different categories for crime stories on TV, crime stories in anime and manga, crime stories in tabletop games, and so on.

So... I agree and disagree, with the important part being "agree".

Looney Toons and Robkelk have the essence of my reasoning down. If that element was far more at the forefront rather than the whole "survive murderous robots" thing - especially considering the "who" part of this hypothetical "whodunit" has been solved for a while now - then I'd probably have left it.

I know this is really selfish of me to ask, and I apologize in advance for that. But is there ANY way that this page's data before orain's death can be recovered? I did a TON of work after the "cutoff date" that this site could be restored up to, and I would hate for it all to be undone because some asshole (My theory is a TV Tropes user) decided to develop a super petty grudge against this site.

You can search Google for the exact page URL (i.e. at Orain); the Google cache may still be available. The formatting will not be preserved, but he text will probably be up-to-date.

(FYI, I read GethN7 say somewhere that the attacker was someone with a grudge against Orain, not ATT specifically.)

Cache doesn't work, or at least I don't understand how to make it work. Oh well, it was worth a try anyway.

Yeah, just tried it myself (and searching for other pages that I know were cached, because I grabbed them already) - looks like Google's started clearing out the cache. Yahoo (and thus Bing) still has the Tear Jerker and Nightmare Fuel subpages, but no other search engine I know of seems to keep cached copies. Unless someone else grabbed a copy in the first couple of weeks after Orain's loss, we may be too late, and it's up to whatever any of us remember. Sorry.

Oh well, at the very least I was able to snatch up the Nightmare Fuel page and thus restored some of my work. Thanks for letting me know about the cached page!