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Edited by Twiddler on Aug 6th 2023 at 11:53:14 AM
Oops, you're right! Never mind on that, then.
It's a quirk with the change to the inbound calculator.
The one you get on Related To... goes back to Jan 1 of this year. The one for the cutlist goes somewhat further back.
Which is why I have a question: If we are going strictly by the new inbounds, that would mean that we could just cut every ptitle now (Save the one to Brian Blessed) since ptitles were fully phased out by then and redirects don't accrue inbounds.
Is that what we're doing?
edited 29th Jun '12 11:29:29 PM by DarkConfidant
I think that was done intentionally, though. I still remember when inbound counts went back to the year 2009.
I'd rather we be rid of ptitles, entirely - but I'm playing by the rules, and leaving the ones that currently have over ten inbounds (of which there are still a few, besides the Brian Blessed one).
edited 29th Jun '12 11:32:13 PM by movie007
Looks like the cutlist shows them. ![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Restored.
Though, I'll be honest, if a ptitle has brought no people in this year, it's a good indication people no longer use it.
edited 29th Jun '12 11:32:09 PM by lu127
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
That's because "I can remember when" was five days ago.
That's not entirely correct... Even if I make an inbound link on a different site to a ptitle, the final page, not the redirect, gets the inbound incremented. At least, that's what I've gathered.
So, even if the ptitles are still being used due to older links, they will never gain inbounds again.
![[down]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_down.png "[down]"){kind=icon}
I remember differently, but that's hardly relevant to this conversation.
edited 29th Jun '12 11:34:47 PM by DarkConfidant
No, it didn't go all the way back to 2009. It only went back to January 1 of 2011, but I do remember a prior time when it did go back to 2009.
As you can probably guess, I hate the whole ptitle system with a passion! I am looking forward to the day when we can finally be rid of all evidence that the darn system ever existed.
edited 29th Jun '12 11:35:33 PM by movie007
Also, my point of bringing that up is that I believe they update the inbound thing periodically.
edited 29th Jun '12 11:40:05 PM by movie007
A cut page shows its inbounds after it stays cut for a while. When The Beautiful People was a redirect it showed no inbounds, but after it was cut we realised it had over 300.
I came in after we started using it. Managed not to suffer! 
edited 29th Jun '12 11:41:51 PM by lu127
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
I don't have a problem with watching the cut ptitles to see if any do, in fact, accrue inbounds - and, if that's the case, then they can be restored. I figure that most people who frequent this site, though, would no longer link to the ptitles.
It looks as if Dark Confidant and I have a slight conflict of interests here.
edited 29th Jun '12 11:47:24 PM by movie007
My interest is in maintaining and preserving inbounds, so it's only natural that we'd have this sort of disagreement. :(
And I guess I just want all traces of the whole ptitle system to be excised entirely. But I'm playing by the rules, and leaving the ones that have more than ten inbounds. In fact, I even just asked for one to be restored - as much as it pained me to do so.
Some edits on Works Pages Are A Free Launch:
So many, that I decided to just make a sandbox to merge in. Notably, there were some grammatical errors, and it needed to be updated to point out that yes, YKTTW's are now mandatory for new tropes. The number of corrections necessary made it easier just to request the sandbox replace the current version.
Hi
I like that...made a couple of minor tweaks. Also, in the second option, did you mean to say "official" instead of "officious"?
I just left that as that was how it was in the original page. "formal" was the better word anyway. Made a couple more tweaks as well.
Also, Yiff has a hottip to clean up.
...That was a really silly hottip. I just removed it.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
HighOctaneNightmareFuel.Metroid needs to be redirected again to NightmareFuel.Metroid.
Same with HighOctaneNightmareFuel.Mortal Kombat to NightmareFuel.Mortal Kombat
This could get repetitive. :( Would someone kindly make a note not to cut these redirects?
edited 30th Jun '12 5:06:03 PM by DarkConfidant
Okay, we need to find some way to come to an agreement on this. I really would like to, eventually, remove all ptitle pages and pages from obsolete namespaces. I don't want them to have to stay on here permanently. At least, we should plan for some time when they can be removed, for once and for all.
Like, I don't want it to be 2015, and they still not be allowed to be removed.
edited 30th Jun '12 5:41:42 PM by movie007
Hi
Done, done, and done.
edited 30th Jun '12 5:42:41 PM by Willbyr
If we can't come to some sort of agreement, then I'm leaving this Wiki! I tired of having all this work that I've done be in vain.
Chill, movie. I'm doing something in the background to remove the ptitles. They were clogging up the cutlist.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
Okay, got it! Sorry for reacting the way I did! 
edited 30th Jun '12 5:53:42 PM by movie007
No prob. Thanks for all the hard work. We are now down to 24 remaining ptitles. All the redirects with minimal inbounds are gone.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
My apologies for being so forceful, Movie. I merely show up here to point stuff out, since sometimes the cutmasters do make mistakes.
Apologies to you as well, Fast One, if I'm doing something wrong here.
edited 30th Jun '12 5:57:09 PM by DarkConfidant
# 3045 The person in charge of TV Tropes The TV Show has told me the pages are treated as archives, so I don't edit them.
Movie, are you sure about XCOM? It only gives me 7 inbounds.
edited 29th Jun '12 11:24:55 PM by lu127
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer