Topic on Forum:Wiki Talk

Some series such as Star Wars have a separate page for each entry in the franchise. Others, such as Anne of Green Gables have one page for the entire series. Likewise, some series have the original and the adaption on separate pages (e.g. Sailor Moon ) whereas others have them on the same page, for example A Certain Scientific Railgun.

I believe it would be best to split work pages into multiple entries as it would allow tropers to add examples for a work without fear of seeing spoilers for other works in the same series.

Or they could just use spoiler tags.

I guess I mean I want to see more arguments here.

Usually this has just happened on a case-by-case basis. You mentioned Sailor Moon, but the anime and manga happened more or less simultaneously, and they're both on the same page. Sailor Moon Crystal has its own page though, because User:Looney Toons felt like making one.

Ultimately, it's going to be some kind of of balance between duplication of work, and desire to organize. I'm lazy, but if you feel like organizing more works, go ahead.

Spoiler tags don't hide anything when the user is editing a page. Though, I suppose simply having separate sections for different adaptations and entries in a series would also accomplish spoiler protection and be much easier to implement.

Regarding Sailor Moon while the original anime and manga technically share a summary page . They have separate trope lists. As well as a page listing tropes used in both works. Every other version has itsown entry.

Would it be alright to rename Sailor Moon/Tropes Two to "Sailor Moon (Anime)" and Sailor Moon/Tropes Three to "Sailor Moon (Manga)" and include summaries of the anime and manga in the appropriate page? I'm aware that Sailor Moon (manga) currently redirects to Sailor Moon, but that page is really about the franchise as a whole rather then just the manga.

Likewise, would it be acceptable to rename Sailor Moon/Tropes One to "Sailor Moon/Tropes" and use it for tropes common to the franchise as whole (as opposed to using it for tropes common to only the anime and manga)?

I think that breaking out the various incarnations of a franchise into separate pages is a good and proper thing to do. That is at least one reason why we have disambiguation pages, after all. I just did this very thing for Starship Troopers yesterday and The Tick (animation) a couple days ago; both were horrendous messes, with tropes for three or more (often highly-variant) versions of the story side-by-side. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy desperately needs exactly this kind of cleanup, too.