Topic on User talk:Looney Toons

Umbire the Phantom (talkcontribs)

I went poking around, and it seems it does exist as a magazine/show of some short at a casual glance (albeit more than likely not in the form it was being described in those examples you removed). Would you like me to start on that work page to make it easier to head this sort of "people adding examples from a non-existent work" thing off in the future?

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Okay, but you're going to have to give us a fair amount of evidence that it actually existed and matches the description we've gleaned from the examples -- both Rob Kelk and I did some thorough searching with two different engines and found no evidence it existed (and at least one discussion on a board from 2009 complaining about its nonexistence). It is, based on the details from the deleted examples both a print-only work and an anime with no less than three seasons plus supplementary specials, as well as a big enough fanbase to have a community to respond vocally to plot developments, but which left absolutely no traces anywhere Google or DuckDuckGo can find them. And Wikipedia -- where you can find even the most obscure anime or manga documented -- knows nothing about it.

Do keep in mind that Viz Media published a magazine called Animerica for something like 20 years, but it was not a manga, but a "news and developments in manga and anime" thing. For most of a decade it did have a companion magazine called Animerica Extra which published shojo manga, but it didn't carry original stories but translations of some of the then-big titles in Japan, like Revolutionary Girl Utena, Maison Ikkoku and Fushigi Yuugi.

But since you have an account on my board, you probably have seen all this already.

Regardless, you've got your work cut out for you. Because this is a special case, please present your evidence for its existence before you create a page for it here, okay?

Thanks.

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

Umbire the Phantom (talkcontribs)

...yeah, I think you misunderstood. I'm not disputing its nonexistence at all, couldn't find anything either - rather, I was thinking of actually creating the page for the magazine and web show (there's a web show with that title btw), so as to ward off future cases of people apparently inventing shows wholesale for the sake of populating trope pages with nonexistent examples or what have you.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Oh. Yeah. Major misunderstanding. Yes, we need an article for the magazine, and thank you.

Umbire the Phantom (talkcontribs)

On that note, the examples you removed from here are still on the Wikia fork and also TVT itself, so I'm thinking at bare minimum Geth'll wanna see this as well so we can coordinate.