This thread lists the large-scale, ongoing projects which cover multiple pages in the wiki. Don't hesitate to bump a long-disused thread. These are general use threads, so duplicates are discouraged.
Pages and Wicks
- Wick Migration
: For namespace migration work, including pages moves and all types of not-supposed-to-be-in-Main/ pages and wicks.
- Cut List Queries & Challenges: For appealing a cut request, before or after the page is removed.
Wick issues
- Maintaining Cleanups: For past large-scale cleanup efforts that need their wicks checked periodically to make sure new misuse hasn't crept in.
- Pages that Need Crosswicking: For pages with wick/example number imbalances.
- Redirect Farming: For help coming up with redirects for pages.
- Disambiguation Queries: For help disambiguating pages and works with the same name.
- What index(es) should this go on?: For collaboration on finding indexes for un-indexed items.
- Rename/Transplant Wick Cleaning: For Trope Repair Shop (and other) wick cleanups which stalled out.
Page cleaning or work
General
- too-long page repair.: For splitting pages that hit the "too long" warning.
- Calling all Grammar police!: For pages which have major grammar issues.
- Cleanup help needed: For repairing vandalism and other quick fixes.
- Inbound Watch: For cleaning up (Example Indentation, Natter, etc.) pages which are getting a lot of outside traffic.
- P5 Cleanup pile and lewdness issues: Both works that need cleanup per The Content Policy and those that violate No Lewdness, No Prudishness are to be listed here.
- Real Life People Cleanup Project: For dealing with wiki pages on Real Life people.
- Removing complaining, bashing and other negativity from the wiki: For pages with negativity, complaining, or bashing problems.
- Removing Gushing from the Wiki: For pages with gushing problems.
- Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment Cleanup: For pages with potential bias (or other ROCEJ issues) in their examples or description.
- Short Subpage Thread: For deciding whether a subpage needs to be merged into another page.
- Soft Split Cleanup: For soft splits where multiple works are listed on the same page
- TLP Crash Rescue - Fixing prematurely launched TLPs and pages: For pages which were launched prematurely (primarily TLP drafts).
- General Page Quote Discussion: For maintenance of page quotes in general.
Descriptions
- Improving work descriptions: For issues with work descriptions.
- Removing Fan Myopia from Descriptions: For descriptions that suffer from Fan Myopia.
- Trope Description Improvement Drive: For issues with trope descriptions.
Examples
- Fact Checking: For requesting assistance to check that examples are factually accurate.
- Fixing zero context examples: For pages that are full of Zero Context Examples.
- NATTER ALERT!: For pages that are full of natter.
- Speculative Troping Cleanup: For examples making assumptions that aren't confirmed within the work.
- Remember: Weblinks Are Not Examples: For pages with Weblinks Are Not Examples problems.
- "TropeName: Type X" Cleanup: For Type Labels Are Not Examples issues.
- The Works Pot Hole Liberation Movement: For fixing work names which are potholed in example lists.
Other
- Navbox and Floatbox Cleanup: For cleanup and maintenance of navigation boxes and float boxes.
- Wikiword (Custom Title) Cleanup: For queries and cleanup regarding custom wikiword requests.
Specific namespaces
Namespace Wikis and the like
- The Analysis Namespace: For questions regarding or help with Analysis pages.
- Fanfiction Clean-up and Maintenance Thread: Fanfic/ and Fanfic Recs/ maintenance thread.
- Laconic Description Improvement: For maintenance of the Laconic Wiki.
- Playing With Wiki: General Cleanup and Writing Help: For maintenance of and help with the Playing With Wiki.
- Recap Cleanup: Recap/ maintenance thread.
- Roleplay Namespace Cleanup and Maintenance Roleplay clean-up thread
- Useful Notes Cleanup: A clean up thread for UsefulNotes/ pages.
- Wild Mass Cleanup: For reorganizing the WMG pages according to the guidelines.
- Laconic Description Improvement: Laconic description help thread.
Character pages
- Characters Page Cleanup: General cleanup for existing Characters pages.
- Character-Specific Page Cleanup: Creation and cleanup for character-specific pages. These pages shouldn't be created without approval from the thread.
- Inanimate 'Character' Cleanup: Cleanup for existing character pages listing inanimate objects, vehicles or locations as if they were characters.
Long-term efforts for tropes
Specific tropes
- Ass Pull Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Ass Pull examples.
- Base-Breaking Character Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Base-Breaking Character examples.
- Complete Monster Proposal Thread: Discussion regarding proposals for Complete Monster examples.
- Complete Monster Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Complete Monster examples.
- Condemned By History Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Condemned by History examples.
- Expy Cleanup Thread: Cleanup for existing Expy examples.
- Five-Man Band Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Five-Man Band examples.
- Hate Sink Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Hate Sink examples.
- Hindsight Cleanup Thread: Cleanup for existing examples of the various hindsight tropes
- Magnificent Bastard Proposal Thread: Discussion regarding proposals for Magnificent Bastard examples.
- Magnificent Bastard Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Magnificent Bastard examples.
- Nightmare Fuel Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Nightmare Fuel examples.
- Overshadowed by Controversy Cleanup: Cleanup for existing examples of Overshadowed by Controversy.
- The Scrappy Cleanup: Cleanup for existing examples of The Scrappy.
- Shout Out Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Shout-Out examples.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome Cleanup: Cleanup for existing examples of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome.
Other
- Fixing Actors/Actresses pages to remove personal tropes.: For coordinating work on removing Personal Appearance Tropes from actor, creator, etc., pages.
- Real Life section maintenance: Setting and reviewing "No Real Life Examples" (NRLEP) rules and restrictions on specific Real Life categories for tropes. Cleanup for any pages with problematic Real Life sections.
- Recent Examples Maintenance: Setting and reviewing "No Recent Examples" (NREP) and similar time-based rules for tropes. Cleanup for any examples with NREP issues.
- Reality Show Cleanup Thread: For dealing with Reality Show and Reality TV pages that cross the line into Real Life Troping.
- Real Life People Cleanup: For moving articles about Real Life people to Useful Notes and applying notability standards.
- Missing Supertropes: For finding supertropes to organize tropes into.
- The Grand Unified Appearance Trope Clean-up: Cleanup for appearance-related tropes.
Edited by Mrph1 on Jan 31st 2024 at 11:41:08 AM
Do we have a thread for pages that are not tropes (i.e. character pages) that are not thriving and/or bare to discuss potential removal/cleanup?
Edited by Hello83433 on Feb 7th 2022 at 8:48:40 AM
CSP Cleanup Thread | All that I ask for ... is diamonds and dance floors
(she/her)
Maybe the character page cleanup thread? Also, the Moments clean up thread for moments pages.
Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 7th 2022 at 8:57:37 AM
Macron's notes
Where would I go to talk about what is and isn't a bannable offense?
The Edit banned/Suspended - would like to edit again. thread?
Or somewhere else?
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the Retromancer
I'd PM a mod or use ATT ("for question like how the wiki works") for it. That one or Discussion on moderators threads could also work, but wouldn't be my first choice.
Edited by Amonimus on Feb 16th 2022 at 3:36:49 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Discarded and Feeling Blue
You can't discuss anything at EB unless you're banned and it's related to said ban. The discussion thread seems more appropriate.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Malady is currently suspended from TLP but a general discussion on what is a bannable offence would be better suited for the discussion thread, yes.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Discarded and Feeling Blue
That's why I also specified "relates to said ban".
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Do we have a thread for determining if a page should be spoilers off similar to the RLE/NRLP thread?
CSP Cleanup Thread | All that I ask for ... is diamonds and dance floors
Discarded and Feeling Blue
Where would I go to talk about Walkthrough Mode? Maybe if I just want to only discuss one example?
Is there a thread? Or since I only want to discuss one example, ATT, perhaps?
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Anywhere to talk about Rule of Cool tropes? And / or potholes? My draft I had for the Real Life Section Discussion thread...
Is it okay to wick it from Cool Horse? Or is there not an implicit requirement that tropes have to be acknowledged In-Universe to count? Then there's how G4 Rainbow Dash is a member of Sub-Trope, Pegasus...
- My Little Pony is perhaps the best example for toys, being an entire line of miniature multicoloured horses, often with accessories and magical powers, all aimed entirely at preteen girls.
- And once G4 Rainbow Dash came around, they weren't really limited to girls or preteens.
Actually, would the whole Toys folder not count because we're not In-Universe?
EDIT: Oh, right, YMMV Cleanup thread exists too.
Edited by Malady on Mar 5th 2022 at 4:04:37 AM
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Do we have a cleanup thread for That One Level? I have an example list that is a lot more than one or even a few levels, and I don't know if that's okay or if some of the examples should be chopped.
CSP Cleanup Thread | All that I ask for ... is diamonds and dance floors
We do, though it's 30 pages long, so it might take a while to make sure it's not a new example to note, etc. It's also the That One Boss cleanup thread.
I'm not sure if this thread is where I'm supposed to go, but I'd like to argue against the policy of removing spoilers on recap pages, if nothing else for Mystery of the Week shows where episode can be watched independently and in no order and people might be interested in learning about the tropes in one episode without knowing who the villains are and stuff like that.
the Retromancer
You may want this thread, but to answer ahead, per Spoilers Off, "Recap pages are designed to give detailed information about the plot of a work. It is impossible to know all of the details without knowing the spoilers." Conversely, if people want to "learn about the tropes in one episode" without being spoiled, they just should reconsider learning about these tropes or episodes before watching.
Where do we go to talk about recaps, or discuss large cutting projects?
Such as the multiple "Magical Index" recaps that are wicked from nowhere and low on tropes?
Which thread would I go to if I found a questionable example of Spiritual Adaptation?
(she/her)
The stickied directory post is really outdated and could use some updating (and maybe some re-organizing). I am willing to work on re-arranging it but not sure if people actually read it or not.
Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 11th 2022 at 4:16:07 AM
Macron's notes
the Retromancer
I follow about 150 threads that are mostly maintenance and FAQ (character cleanup, is this an example, crosswicking, duplicate trope cleanup, analysis cleanup...). I don't expect inexperienced users to be able to find where all the main things are discussed at all without a guide.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
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I think it'd be a good idea. The search function in the forums isn't very good and there are so many threads it can be hard to find them all.
Should we include Short-Term threads as well?
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Back again, I can't find the thread to discuss custom titles and I'm sure we have one
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