Talk:Happy Tree Friends (TV series)

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Requested move 8 June 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (Discussion wasn't properly closed in June 2018, so I'm properly closing the discussion well after the fact.) --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:18, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Happy Tree Friends (season 1) → Happy Tree Friends (TV series) – A single-season TV series should be disambiguated by "(TV series)" rather than "(season 1)", as per WP:NCTV. Now, this situation is a little more complicated than usual, as there are apparently four "seasons" of shorts that were released on the Internet. But none of that would seem to rule out that the best title location for the article on the single-season TV series that aired on G4 (U.S. TV channel) is, in fact, Happy Tree Friends (TV series). --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:13, 8 June 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Brad  v  02:18, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The current title is wrong anyways and must change. I'm not familiar with the show but according to the Happy Tree Friends article, the TV season was the 3rd one, so just using "season 1" is disambiguated bad. So for me the question is should the title be "Happy Tree Friends (TV series) or Happy Tree Friends (TV series season 1) or Happy Tree Friends (season 3). If there were articles for the other seasons, I'd lean more towards Happy Tree Friends (TV series season 1), but as it is, I'm not sure yet. --Gonnym (talk) 19:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't get impression that this series was "storyarced" in any way, or it matters in what "order" you watch the episodes. Based on all this, and as these are the only episodes that aired on television, Happy Tree Friends (TV series) seems by far the best article title. If there is any "continuity" issue here, in regards to the episodes (order), it can easily be mentioned in the article's lede/prose. But, again, none of that seems to rule out or prevent that moving to the proposed title is the best option. Bottom line: This is the only "season" that aired on the television medium (as opposed to be streamed on the internet), so it's a "TV series". --IJBall (contribs • talk) 19:45, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Again, I haven't watched this at all and would be happy if someone that is, could answer this - is the TV series a continuation of the web series or is it more in line of a "remake"/"reboot". If it's a continuation then I would say the best title would be (without any other season having an article) "Happy Tree Friends (TV series season)" as its opposed the "Web series season". If it isn't, then your title works. WP:NCTV was written without internet series in-mind (I did try a few years back to get a web NC going) so this case isn't really in there. Regarding the medium argument, I believe there is a major difference from a TV->Film->TV shift in medium than a Web->TV->WEB one. The web one is still in the same "spirit" of a series so the shift in medium is more in production value than in story (Edit: see an example Community (season 6) which just continues without changing anything) --Gonnym (talk) 19:57, 8 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Support - This "season" seems to encompass the entirety of the TV run on G4, independent of the web releases. -- Netoholic @ 07:03, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The "TV series" is at Happy Tree Friends. The proposed disambiguation would be extraordinarily confusing.--Cúchullain t/ c 16:20, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * How so? There are internet shorts, and then a separate TV series. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 21:12, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Because the TV series is covered at Happy Tree Friends, Happy Tree Friends (TV series) could equally apply to that article. As such the proposed title is WP:INCDAB.--Cúchullain t/ c 21:32, 15 June 2018 (UTC)


 * The TV series is mentioned WP:SUMMARY-style at the Happy Tree Friends article, which is about the entire franchise; it simply needs a hatnote in that section pointing to this article.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  08:09, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support The disambiguator (season 1) is meaningless, it is listed 3d in the episode list. The main article Happy Tree Friends is about a video series that includes streaming sections and one broadcast section, the section in question here. Calling it what it is (TV series) instead of what it is not (season 1) makes sense. Geraldo Perez (talk) 21:39, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment:Having read both Happy Tree Friends (season 1) and Happy Tree Friends I'm confused and think they both need work... maybe even merge. And what's an animated flash series... is it something to do with Adobe flash or is it about dirty old men in raincoats? I don't want to seem disparaging, but we're a general encyclopedia and these articles are unintelligible to the general reader. One is rated by several projects as C class and the other is unrated as a list, which is a borderline call IMO. Andrewa (talk) 01:34, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * It means Adobe Flash animation.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  08:07, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and I've also thanked the contributor who fixed that little quibble (otherwise I'd have linked it to Adobe Flash animation, but theirs is a better fix). Andrewa (talk) 01:12, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support; the objection above has a simple solution (use to cross-reference the articles).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  08:07, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * To me, the relationship in scope of the two articles is so ill-defined that it's not quite that simple. Maybe it's just that the leads need work: Happy Tree Friends began as animated video series, created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. A single television season of Happy Tree Friends aired... and Happy Tree Friends is an animated video series created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media. The show is cited as an example of achieving a cult following. I now think I see the relationship, but it shouldn't be this hard! Andrewa (talk) 01:21, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I was hoping someone familiar with this show would help explain the relationship between the flash series and the TV show. If the TV series is independent from the flash series (more akin to a reboot) then I'm in Support, however, if the TV series is a continuation of the video series, then I Oppose the name suggested. When a TV show moves to the web such as in Community or Arrested Development we don't call it a different show. I see no difference when this moves the other way. Gonnym (talk) 16:51, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Well said. And rather than those familiar with this show just saying it here, I'd encourage these knowledgeable editors to source their explanations and having found these sources then boldly fix the two article leads... making them informative and matching the existing article scopes (which do not necessarily match their current names). Only once that is done can we make any intelligent decision on their names, perhaps also rescoping the articles for a sensible division of the content and removing duplication. An overall article on the franchise, and a separate list of the episodes of the G4 network season, seems a reasonable goal to me, and is roughly what we have now.
 * If, on the other hand, if there are no sources adequate for even this minimal exercise of writing intelligible leads suitable for a general encyclopedia, then we should go instead to AfD, or at the very least radically prune and probably merge the articles, removing the unsourced material. Personally I doubt that this is necessary, but it's a logical possibility. Andrewa (talk) 23:04, 22 June 2018 (UTC)


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