Looney Tunes

[Jave]

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[Jave]

I've edited the page to add more character descriptions. I plan on adding descriptions for all the listed characters in the next few days.

So far Bugs is the only one with his own page, but if the Daffy Duck section gets big enough (and it probably will), I'll create an article of his own later on.

[MonkeyFunk]

Just wondering: would series of theatrical shorts qualify for the "(insert decade here) animated series" categories, or should those be reserved for TV series?

[Jave]

I'm not sure. I suppose that you could include them but including a footnote that denotes these are shorts made for theaters and not TV series. Theatrical or not, I suppose they still count as "Animated series".

[MonkeyFunk]

Thinking about it, the same question would also apply to webcartoons and OVA series...

And another issue - if we do keep the "animated series" categories reserved for TV shows, then should we divide the feature film categories by format as well (theatrical features, direct-to-video movies and made-for-TV films)?

I'm getting a headache. Any thoughts?

[GWOtaku]

I don't know, it would make sense but is a reader being served by having things divided into so many categories? Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies was an animated series that just happened to be on the big screen instead of television.

We could add a category for theatrical shorts, but I hesitate to actually separate them out. I think that a big appeal of the decade categories is that they could serve as a near-exhaustive list of cartoons made during that time period. Note the category the decades fall into: Animation by decade. If we start making exceptions and split up all the animation types, I worry that the Wiki becomes technically accurate but less user-friendly. Animated Movies, Animated Series, Animated Shorts--those three types cover most animation.

Maybe DTV's and OVA's could be subcategories. DTV animation would also be categorized under movies, and an OVA would be tagged as a series. I don't personally see a problem with web toons having their own category. My concern is people being able to get comprehensive information without having to click through several different pages.

Does this make sense?

[Kitschensyngk]

Maybe an "animated shorts" category would be more fitting.

[MonkeyFunk]

Well, I already made an animated short category a while back. Around then I ran into the same problem when I came to categorise the Lip Synch article. It's a series of largely unrelated shorts... which happens to have been made for TV. Eventually I compromised by adding the series itself to "1980s animated series" and each individual short to "1980s animated shorts".

I'm leaning towards doing the same for Looney Tunes - classify the series itself as a series, and if we make any articles on the specific shorts, classify them as shorts.

(Something that just occured to me: most theatrical short series would come under 1930s, 40s and 50s series. Not many TV shows would qualify for those categories, so there wouldn't be that much of an overlap anyway...)

[Jave]

For the record, I want the article to be focused on the original run of shorts (1930-1969) at least for the time being. Revivals (as well as all characters introduced in those series, shorts and movies) should be kept in their own, separate articles.

A section could be created noting the several revivals and modern characters, which would link to their respective articles, yet the characters described in this article should be the ones from the original series of shorts.