Topic on Forum:Trope Talk

In an off-wiki discussion with User:Looney Toons, we realized that we have some media pages that don't quite match what a "reasonable bystander" would think they are from their names. Okay, we've known that for a while (for example, "Power Trio" has nothing to do with what the music industry calls a power trio), but LT spotted a set of closely-related tropes like this, all related to fan-made videos.

Here's my suggestion for cleaning up what we have, with links to what we currently have:

• Animated Music Video: A music video where the visuals are made up solely of animation footage. The official video for Dire Straits's Money for Nothing would be included here.

• Fan Vid: A fan-made music video; the visuals can contain animated, live-action, or still content from any source. All those YouTube videos of people singing their favourite songs would be included here.

• AMV: A fan-made music video where the visuals are made up solely of anime footage. (The term "AMV" was popularized during the North American fad for anime of the 1990s.) A recognizable subset of both "Fan Vid" and "Animated Music Video"

• Machinima: A fan-made video where the visuals are made up solely of computer-generated animation footage (usually game footage; occasionally custom animation from Poser, 3DS MAX, or another consumer-grade 3D-graphics creation program, or works made in such software such as RWBY). Can overlap with "Fan Vid" and "Animated Music Video"

And set all of them to be Useful Notes pages - they're neither Tropes nor individual works.

Am I barking up the wrong tree? Did I miss any pages that should be included here?

I think you've summed things us neatly. If I see another related trope as I slowly work my way through the index, I'll post it here.

Having cleaner definitions is always good. I'd set AMV to disambiguation.

The links would need sorting, however.

I've just tagged all four of the pages I listed above with a notice about this proposal.

if you're here because of the notice, welcome, and please share your opinions about what I've suggested be done (or your counter-proposals).

Rob, no one seems to care either way. Go ahead and take care of these as you see fit.

It's now on my "to do" list.