Cleanup help needed

Multiple issues with this one example over at Characters.Dot Hack First Generation. Sub-bulleted trope? Check. Misuse of capitals and italics? Check. Just a mess in general? Yep...

• Head-in-the-Sand Management: What else do you call replacing Yata, who was making slow but significant progress in solving the AIDA crisis, and who they SPECIFICALLY got BECAUSE was a former .hacker and a literal hacker and information broker, as leader of Project G.U. with an obviously AIDA-infected and completely megalomanaical Sakaki because they weren't seeing eye-to-eye with him and they'd given up trying to solve the crisis and just fob off all responsibility to a ten-year-old who claims to control it!?. That's just ONE example. This is on top of covering up numerous comatose patients and making scapegoats out of individuals to deflect blame from themselves like Kazushi Watarai (Albireo), Jun Bansyoya, and Masato Indou (Ovan). Plus, they seem to be hellbent on covering up the role and existence of the .hackers, specifically Kite and BlackRose, simply because of the former's illegal nature.
  • Didn't Think This Through: One consequence of the above trope. Best example probably has to be specific example above, as it becomes clear to them that Sakaki's methods, such as the PK Tournament, are not doing any more good, but they have no one else other than themselves to blame for giving him the power to do so, as he effectively has them by the balls. Future installments, however, show they didn't learn from this at all.

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VideoGame.Battle Gear needs a thorough scrub. Too many example writing violations to list!

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Afterglow has only ever been edited by the work's author, Web Quail, and hasn't had substantial edits since 2015, both of which definitely show. Additionally, the work itself is no longer properly available, deleted presumably in 2017 when the author removed its wick from Troper Works; while three chapters have been preserved by the Wayback Machine, there are eight more that seem to be completely inaccessible.

Do we even have enough to keep this page at all? It's only got three wicks on top of everything else.

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.

That was supposed to be a ping so ~Web Quail (though we doubt they'll show up as they haven't edited since removing that wick in 2017 and the majority of their edits until then were Afterglow-related anyway)

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Some of it is accessible, and it has well above the three valid examples we need. This is no different from any other partially-lost troper work.

I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.

Reminder primarily to myself that Mitadake High needs a lot of troping-player-actions and other stuff-acceptable-in-2009 cleanup.

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Outsiders has spoiler tag and indentation/natter violations.

Also, since the comic has been deleted, I'll see if I can fish it up from the Wayback Machine. If I can't, should it be Darthed after the issues are fixed?

Update: It is archived, but images are broken. We may have to Darth it after fixing the page.

Edited by Berrenta on Jan 11th 2023 at 9:12:00 AM

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Webcomic.Ls Empire

ZCE's, sinkholes, and other example-writing violations. Yikes.

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Film.Bitch Slap

ZCE's, indentation/natter and other violations, maybe some one-handed writing in the description. I'd be tackling that if it wasn't late.

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Quotes.Exaggerated Trope

Some (read: a vast majority of) quotes don't really fit the article; instead being remnants of when we had Up To Eleven.

There has to be a better place for them...

Edited by Berrenta on Apr 29th 2023 at 4:08:16 AM

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Ok so first off, let me know if there's anywhere else to put this, as it's not an issue with the page content but just the page markup (possible bug?)

In Noire's folder here, the "Black Heart" imagebox is broken, despite the markup being similar to the other boxes. Putting the whole image section in a post here or in a different sandbox works as it should, so not sure what's up with that page? It seems to affect the box directly under Noire's main image, as when removing Black Heart's box and previewing just to check, suddenly NEXT Black's box was broken in the same way. Anyone know what's up here? I've looked over the code a bunch of times and feel like there's something obvious I'm missing here

Edited by Zanreo on Jul 7th 2023 at 8:47:24 PM

"Leftover items still have value!"

Labelnote issue. I fixed.

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Alright, thanks!

"Leftover items still have value!"

DarthWiki.The Continued Adventures Of RC And Input

Code needs cleaning, plus none of the tropes are in alphabetical order.

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Which Witch The Musical, ahaha holy stubs batman

I don't know if this is even salvageable but start with merging the character page and hiding ZCEs?

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Go for it.

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Wickwise, For Massive Damage is still seeing use. Had to send a notifier.

Wicks to purge

Edited by Berrenta on Aug 20th 2023 at 8:02:21 AM

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Bubble Bobble has several issues, including ZCEs, multiple tropes on the same bullet, potholing trope names, entries that are just "see [other entry] above/below"... Will try to fix what I can myself but it could probably use a look-through

Edited by Zanreo on Aug 21st 2023 at 2:35:00 PM

"Leftover items still have value!"

One Hundred Greatest Britons has now been cut, as it's not considered a tropeable work - a TV series listing 100 people voted for by the British public.

(The page was just a list of the 100 people, plus tropes about them rather than the show)

We've still got 60 redlinks leading to it that may need deleting. Many of them are links from creator and work page intros identifying the 'winners' etc (which probably fall foul of the rule against discussing popularity / critical reception outside of YMMV anyway).

I'll start working through them, but will be largely offline this weekend - any support's much appreciated.

Was going through every video game, trying to find a good AlliterativeTitle.Video Games title.

Found this month-old thing: VideoGame.Chaotic Bean Simulator.

And VideoGame.Cookie Cats

Edited by Malady on Oct 2nd 2023 at 7:01:38 AM

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DarthWiki.Zamsara Dissonance

ZCE's, cruft, and I am sure I saw First-Person Writing mixed in there...

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ComicStrip.Luann needs a look. There are indentation problems alongside the occasional ZCE.

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Fanfic.Spider-Ninja has now been moved to Fanfic.SpiderNinja and now 50+ wicks need to be moved.

Goodnight. PM me if you want a Javascript Bookmarklet to maybe help you out. Will hand those out tomorrow in ~8hrs?

EDIT: I use this while on Related Pages:

javascript: document.querySelectorAll('.no-bullets').forEach((link) => link.outerHTML = link.innerHTML.replaceAll('">', '?action=edit" target=_blank>'))

Edited by Malady on Nov 10th 2023 at 11:09:11 AM

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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Series/Castle cleanup / move to Series/Castle2009

<777 wicks left.

Gonna leave for about 2 weeks from tomorrow, so if anyone wants to clean that, or tell me that I don't need to?

Edited by Malady on Nov 30th 2023 at 2:17:26 AM

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Many of YMMV.Super Smash Bros Ultimate's Memetic Badass, Memetic Loser, Memetic Psychopath, and Memetic Troll entries start with Word Cruft along the lines of "X is this," and I'm unsure how to word them better.

he/him

Help me move the Literature.Storm Front wicks to Literature.Storm Front Dresden Files, since I'm gonna get vaccinated?

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