History Administrivia / SignalToNoiseTrainwreck

* '''Move {{Character|Tropes}}s to a character sheet.''' Character tropes can rapidly clutter a page, especially if there are many characters and most of them aren't the focus of the work. A single character could easily have a dozen tropes apply to them, so a cast of just 8 characters could already be responsible for 96 tropes, each of which describes nothing more than one aspect of one character. If you do this, make sure to put a note on the page saying that character tropes go in the character sheet.

* '''[[Administrivia/ClearConciseWitty Choose clarity over wittiness and excessive detail.]]''' It doesn't matter how funny the joke is or how cool the ExampleAsThesis is, or that the {{Infodump}} covers a huge amount of honestly interesting information. If it makes the article unclear or turns it into a ten screen long WallOfText, get out the hedge trimmers.

* '''Move {{Character|Tropes}}s to a character sheet.''' Character tropes can rapidly clutter a page, especially if there are LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and most of them aren't the focus of the work. A single character could easily have a dozen tropes apply to them, so a cast of just 8 characters could already be responsible for 96 tropes, each of which describes nothing more than one aspect of one character. If you do this, make sure to put a note on the page saying that character tropes go in the character sheet.

** If the page is a Trope, and many examples are a specific variant of that trope, create a YKTTW for what is clearly a {{Subtrope}}. If there are many only tangentially related examples, its a sure sign of Administrivia/MissingSupertropeSyndrome. Most OverdosedTropes are supertropes, and spread their tens of thousands of examples among their many subtropes.

* '''[[Administrivia/ClearConciseWitty Choose clarity over wittyness and excessive detail.]]''' It doesn't matter how funny the joke is or how cool the ExampleAsThesis is, or that the {{Infodump}} covers a huge amount of honestly interesting information. If it makes the article unclear or turns it into a ten screen long WallOfText, get out the hedge trimmers.

* '''Move lengthy quotes to the quotes namespace''' if they aren't mindblowing standalone examples.

** If the page is a Trope, and many examples are a specific variant of that trope, create a YKTTW for what is clearly a {{Subtrope}}. If there are many only tangentially related examples, its a sure sign of MissingSupertropeSyndrome. Most OverdosedTropes are supertropes, and spread their tens of thousands of examples among their many subtropes.

* '''Ax Administrivia/{{Natter}}, cap SugarWiki/{{Gushing}}, cut Administrivia/ThreadMode, and delete Administrivia/WordCruft.''' Trim examples to get to the point and be done when they're through with the point. If context must be established, do it quickly and in general terms (and if you find that too difficult, there's no shame in just saying ItMakesSenseInContext). Do away with all afterthoughts to the effect of "[[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotArguable Your Mileage May Vary]]".

The work's core tropes, the ones which drive its plot and characterization, are hidden somewhere between a paragraph-long well-informed speculation on the NoodleIncident mentioned once in episode 15 and an eloquent dissertation on why the MauveShirt who showed up on a four-episode-long arc is subject to an AlternateCharacterInterpretation. OmnipresentTropes obstruct the page, complete with huge bullet point checklists that detail every trivial invocation of theirs in the work. To get to the point of an example you find yourself reading through a verbal EstablishingShot and when you're done there's a huge disclaimer about all the other subtly different ways the event described could have been interpreted. 70% of the page is blanked out in spoiler font and your wrist gets a not-so-nifty workout from highlighting and de-highlighting everything constantly.

* '''Ax Administrivia/{{Natter}}, cap SugarWiki/{{Gushing}}, cut ThreadMode, and delete Administrivia/WordCruft.''' Trim examples to get to the point and be done when they're through with the point. If context must be established, do it quickly and in general terms (and if you find that too difficult, there's no shame in just saying ItMakesSenseInContext). Do away with all afterthoughts to the effect of "[[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotArguable Your Mileage May Vary]]".

* '''Ax Administrivia/{{Natter}}, cap SugarWiki/{{Gushing}}, cut ThreadMode, and delete WordCruft.''' Trim examples to get to the point and be done when they're through with the point. If context must be established, do it quickly and in general terms (and if you find that too difficult, there's no shame in just saying ItMakesSenseInContext). Do away with all afterthoughts to the effect of "[[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotArguable Your Mileage May Vary]]".

** If its more-or-less continuous [[TheVerse Verse]] covering a manga, an anime, a live action series, multiple {{Spin Off}}s, a series of novels, and has an OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo, make a hub in the {{Franchise|Index}} namespace and replant all the noteworthy ones in their own pages. Nobody said everything has to be covered on one page.

** If its more-or-less continuous [[TheVerse Verse]] covering a manga, an anime, a live action series, multiple {{Spin Off}}s, a series of novels, and has an OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo, make a hub in the {{Franchise}} namespace and replant all the noteworthy ones in their own pages. Nobody said everything has to be covered on one page.

The work's core tropes, the ones which drive its plot and characterization, are hidden somewhere between a paragraph-long well-informed speculation on the NoodleIncident mentioned once in episode 15 and an eloquent dissertation on why the MauveShirt who showed up on a four-episode-long arc is subject to an AlternateCharacterInterpretation. OmnipresentTropes obstruct the page, complete with huge bullet point checklists that detail every trivial invocation of theirs in the work. To get to the point of an example you find yourself reading through a verbal EstablishingShot and when you're done there's a huge disclaimer about all the other subtly different ways the event described could have been interpreted. 70% of the page is whited out in spoiler font and your wrist gets a not-so-nifty workout from highlighting and de-highlighting everything constantly.

Sometimes, the whole is less than the sum of its parts. The work page contains every single [[{{Characters}} Character Trope]] displayed by every single character. All the latest plot points are noted and elaborated upon. Every single scene is described in great detail, every single possible trope that comes to play at some point is noted along with all its instances, every mentioning of a trope comes complete with a few sentences to establish the context and conclude the gist of it, and every spoiler is duly [[spoiler:whited out]].

* '''Ax {{Natter}}, cap {{Gushing}}, cut ThreadMode, and delete WordCruft.''' Trim examples to get to the point and be done when they're through with the point. If context must be established, do it quickly and in general terms (and if you find that too difficult, there's no shame in just saying ItMakesSenseInContext). Do away with all afterthoughts to the effect of "[[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotArguable Your Mileage May Vary]]".