Topic on Talk:Pokémon Dawn and Dusk

Salvageable at all?

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Derivative (talkcontribs)

This seems to be a TVT tropers pet fanfic project with no real substance and under "development". Any path forward?

Umbire the Phantom (talkcontribs)

https://www.deviantart.com/shonenking69/ This was the troper's dA, and the project itself seems like it was pretty well abandoned even before they moved accounts. From all indications, the TVT page this was carried over from during the fork got canned long ago as well, so everything points to canning it.

Robkelk (talkcontribs)

All The Tropes:Works Page Guidelines has the best advice that I can find on cases like this.

Don't create a page for a work that no longer exists anywhere. (Books that are no longer in print can often be found in libraries or used-book shops; the books still exist somewhere. Websites that have disappeared and were never captured in the Wayback Machine are gone; the sites don't exist anywhere.) You can't document a work that can't be consulted and studied, and other editors can't go and check it out. Besides, it's rude to get somebody's hopes up and then tell them they can't read, hear, or watch the work. Don't do it.

Emphasis added.

If we're sure the work never existed, then, yeah, I'd say get rid of the page for it.

@Labster @GethN7 @Looney Toons @QuestionableSanity @LulzKiller @SelfCloak

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Agreed.

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

Burn it and salt the ashes from where I'm sitting.

Umbire the Phantom (talkcontribs)

The dA account I linked shows it at least definitely existed, but has been long been sent to the eternal backburner. It got as far as two chapters (and a planned OST because why not) before being colonized by virtual dust bunnies. Iunno if that's enough to warrant a 'proper' preservation.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

If it exists and the interested reader/viewer/listener can actually consume it, then it's not a missing or non-existent work. There may not be much of it, but we have at least one work page which contains the entire work as part of its main article (A Trekkie's Tale), so quantity is not a metric we use to judge the right to a page. Mark it as a Dead Fic, warn the reader they are doomed to eternal disappointment if they liked what they saw, and let it be.

Umbire the Phantom (talkcontribs)

That solution very much works.