The following is a candidate to become an official policy on the Lost Media Archive. It will be need to be approved by the members of the wiki. Until it is approved, members of the wiki are encouraged to follow it, but it may not be enforced.
Pages about lost media are often created with the status of the media in the page name. Example: Bing (Lost 2013 Pilot). When the status of the page changes, the page is renamed to have include the new status. If the status changes more than once, multiple redirects can be left behind, as what happened with the example page:
- Bing (Lost 2013 Pilot) > Bing (Lost 2012 Pilot) > Bing (Lost 2007 pilot) >
Bing (Lost 2012 pilot) > Bing (Lost 2007 Pilot)
Pages are case-sensitive, so "Pilot" is different than "pilot".
Due to how article comments used to be structured, redirects are also created for article comments created before the new Discussions platform was released.
To remove the need to rename pages when the status changes and reduce the number of redirects that are created, page names should not include the status. Other qualifiers or disambiguation should be avoided or kept limited whenever possible to avoid similar renaming. The name for the Bing (Lost 2013 Pilot) was changed to Bing (series pilot) due to both the status and the year changing with each rename.
A template called "Status" can instead be placed on the page itself, using this format: {{Status|type}}
| Type | Displays | Type | Displays | |
| found | Found | canceled | Cancelled | |
| mostlyfound | Mostly Found | nonexist | Non-existent | |
| partlyfound | Partially Found | unconfirmed | Unconfirmed | |
| partlylost | Partially Lost | unreleased | Unreleased | |
| mostlylost | Mostly Lost | |||
| lost | Lost |