I rather liked the phraseology you used in your comment on the tentaclefic page, Tentacles in Fanworks.
If we take ratcreature's point about the Story Tropes page, could we start there, change that page to Tropes in Fanworks, use the terminology above so we'd have a directory of things like Wings in Fanworks, Elves in Fanworks, etc.
(That page has a section on story lengths that just doesn't really need to be there in my opinion.)
The benefit of this approach as I see it is it gives a place to start on dealing with the issue of all fic-centric pages. It allows fic or art or vid centric tropes to stay connected to all the others. It allows tropes that are mostly based in one type of fanwork to still have discussion about other uses of the trope (I know of a couple Highschool AU vids even though that is usually a fic trope only.) It allows the individual trope pages that cover similar territory to have sections for each sub-element of the trope (there's a conversation on the Pastfic page about whether to make a separate Backstory page or merely make it a section on what we might chose to rename Pre-Canon in Fanworks). It creates trope pages that cannot be confused with discussion of that element in canon sources (The Elves issue.) and centres the page topic firmly on fandom ground.
The main downside to this is that we'd be using some clunky names in places, but the redirects would help with that somewhat.
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(That page has a section on story lengths that just doesn't really need to be there in my opinion.)
The benefit of this approach as I see it is it gives a place to start on dealing with the issue of all fic-centric pages. It allows fic or art or vid centric tropes to stay connected to all the others. It allows tropes that are mostly based in one type of fanwork to still have discussion about other uses of the trope (I know of a couple Highschool AU vids even though that is usually a fic trope only.) It allows the individual trope pages that cover similar territory to have sections for each sub-element of the trope (there's a conversation on the Pastfic page about whether to make a separate Backstory page or merely make it a section on what we might chose to rename Pre-Canon in Fanworks). It creates trope pages that cannot be confused with discussion of that element in canon sources (The Elves issue.) and centres the page topic firmly on fandom ground.
The main downside to this is that we'd be using some clunky names in places, but the redirects would help with that somewhat.