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Have you checked those wicks to be sure that they're wrong?
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I have. Nearly all of them are from works, so it's obvious that they're wrong, but just to be sure, the first 20 or so I checked were all wrong.
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Ok, then. I'm going to move this thread to the Special Projects area, so that the folks who like working on big projects can find it.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
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Fixed the T thru Z range. 75% misuse/misspelled.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
It sure would be nice if there were a way to watchlist "related to" pages.
132 is the rudest number.
Still needs a lot of work people.
Dragon Writer
Fixed the L thru S range — 23 of 40 (57%) misspelled.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
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Don't forget the links to ptitles and the like...
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
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All fixed now (except of course for locked pages), less than 50 correct wikilinks to Chekovs Gun.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
Gentleman Troper!
...why do we even have this page? It's a plausible typo and should be a redirect to the correctly-spelled trope name. And indeed, it attracts incorrect wicks like honey attracts flies. Yeah, I'm all in favor of on-wiki meta-humor, but this is so bland it's not even a joke.
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
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Two reasons. First, we don't make redirects on misspellings. Second, this page has the Blessings of Eddie. There was one troper that must have put it on the cutlist five times.
It's a harmless, funny joke. No need to get upset over it.
Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary situation.
Does this thread also cover non-ptitle links? - those directly to Chekovs Gun, I mean?. If so, I've just cleaned them up. See here
. There are a few issues that I will look into in the targeted pages.
Avatars may be subject to change without notice.
Harmless? It's literally one letter away from the name of another trope. A slight typo could misdirect links there.
edited 5th Jan '12 4:36:27 PM by HiddenFacedMatt
"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart
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What about moving it to the Just for Fun namespace, and making Main.Chekovs Gun a disambiguation saying "You may have meant Chekhov's Gun" or something?
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
I like that idea.
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If all the wicks have been fixed, then this thread has served its purpose. We aren't going to turn it into a general "Does the page need to be changed and if so, how?" thread
edited 12th Jan '12 7:48:07 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I would argue that a thread of that nature should be created, however, though it would be more appropriate for the Trope Repair Shop. I actually like this page compared to a lot of our other Just for Fun things, but something that attracts this level of misuse by its very nature is not 'harmless' by a long shot.
That stuff - page repairs or fixes - goes indeed in TRS.
About: No, this thread hasn't served it's purpose until people stop mis-wicking to Chekovs Gun. And I can't see anything like this happening soon.
EDIT To Add: And sure enough, I just had to clean up more mis-wicking.
edited 22nd Jan '12 4:41:48 AM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
What I mean is that to prevent mis-wicking, we're going to have to change the page somehow. And that's a matter for Trope Repair Shop.
Restarting the Chekovs Gun discussion. I don't want the trope cut this time, so please don't re-lock this. I wasn't aware that it'd previously tried to get cut and failed.
However, there are currently 155 wicks to it that should be linking to Chekhov's Gun, with two H's. I'm asking for help in cleaning that up.