Cleanup help needed

The general formatting and such is fine, but what about the text that used to be at the top of the page (the guidelines for writing the recs)? Is that being reworked?

The fandoms with multiple subpages (Axis Powers Hetalia, Death Note, Harry Potter, Naruto, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Pokemon, and Star Trek) should probably either be reduced to their top-level pages (which are indexes to the subpages anyway), or at the very least have the indentation level on the subpages increased. But otherwise it looks a lot better than it did. Thank you, shima.

edited 17th Apr '12 9:14:10 AM by Dor

Escapist Character was flagged for the mods as needing a cleanup. "All the Fan Myopia; many, many character names used as Pot Holes. " Unfortunately, I don't have time to get to it right now with all the pots in the fire. Could some wonderful editor take a look?

I cleaned up all of the potholed names that weren't from eponymous works (I could add "The title character of..." a few dozen times to take those out as well, but I think that would just be word cruft.) Surprisingly, there weren't all that many of them.

That still leaves the Fan Myopia problem to take care of, but it's getting rather late here.

Lawyer-Friendly Cameo has some problems. The Laconic is wrong [1] [2] and there are some examples that are not cameo appearances, but instead not-so-original characters (i.e Captain Ersatz, No Celebrities Wereharmed).

I should remove the examples that are not cameos, but ever-so-slightly original characters that had actual roles, right?

edited 18th Apr '12 10:50:36 AM by ThatHuman

Okay, I think I got everything in Escapist Character cleaned up. A lot of the cut examples will need re-added—while I know them through Popcultural Osmosis well enough to know that they're actually Escapist Characters, the only one I knew well enough to able to explain why was James Bond.

edited 18th Apr '12 11:47:27 AM by Dor

Could you put the ones with no content on the discussion page for people to add with context? I've seen that done in the past.

Done. I probably should have fixed some of the namespace issues at the same time, but other than creating links for Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock I just did a straight copy-paste from the history.

Should I just take an ax to the real life section of General Ripper? I could probably clean it up to within acceptable limits, but I don't want to take the time to do so if its the kind of thing that will just be axed anyway.

I think that's one of those tropes which would be better off without a real life section.

I agree, it's a little too close to calling actual people evil.

It's done. And for good measure, I added a No Real Life Examples Please message, and added General Ripper to the No Real Life Examples Please page.

The Emiya Clan needs YMMV items removal.

Done.

Weaponized Landmark is full of Square Peg Round Trope and has instances of first person and Nattery Thread Mode.

I think I've finally finished cleaning up Critical Research Failure, with one exception. The Pokemon section is completely impenetrable to me, so maybe someone else can evaluate and repair that bit.

Also, of course, people should check and make sure I didn't go too far with the chainswa....

I can probably help clean up the Pokemon section after I get finished with Pokemon's Nightmare Fuel page.

Need some help here.

This troper was reported in ATT for moving YMMV articles in the YMMV/ namespace (which is only for work tabs). They've all been properly restored and the extras cutlisted, but going through the edit history, he's made some really bizarre edits, like replacing the main name of tropes with their redirects or making pages with titles like Lightisnotgood. These need to be reverted or cutlisted.

edited 1st May '12 1:20:48 PM by lu127

Lu promised to see what she could do about cleaning up Power Perversion Potential, but in case she needs some assistance, figured I might as well post it here. Whole lotta creepy entries.

NVM, others beat me to the work.

edited 1st May '12 4:49:56 PM by tdgoodrich1

Conveniently Common Kink could also probably use some de-creepification.

Okay, what's the general policy for deleting fanfic recs with the new review system? Because there's a lot of Kink Meme fills over on FanficRecs.Axis Powers Hetalia General that I'm fairly certain aren't supposed to be there, and one particular fill that needs to be killed with fire. And what do we do about the reviews?

edited 4th May '12 3:10:36 AM by TwoGunAngel

I think 5P are going through the fanfic recs to ascertain which are and aren't porn. The poor, poor sods.

Anita Blake could stand to be cleaned up a bit. Some of the examples go into way too much detail.

The Modern Minstrelsy page seems like it's just people complaining about how they don't like how their subculture is depicted.