Possibly misleading title: Bizarre Alien Biology

Please, stop switching your vote if you don't actually think one is better. How much they're separated by is really irrelevant. When the votes stop changing is important. especially when they're close enough that one person changing both of his votes can completely flip the numbers.

edited 23rd Aug '11 7:02:18 PM by Madrugada

I've only done it twice, and only when the lead actually changed, which means that the voting hadn't settled down, pretty much by definition. :)

Daily bump. Only one new vote on each option, but more vote switching. (Not me this time, I swear. I've only done it when the lead has actually changed.) However, Human Outside, Alien Inside is still on top, which it has been every day except one.

Standings: +8 (yeas:15 nays:7) 2.14 : 1 (22 votes, one more than yesterday) for Human Outside, Alien Inside; +6 (yeas:14 nays:8) 1.75 : 1 (22 votes, one more than yesterday) for Alien On The Inside.

I think it's time to either declare HOAI the winner or try another approach to settle the matter. It's obvious people don't care all that strongly, or we wouldn't be seeing all the vote switching. (If any of the switchers disagree, let them speak up now or forever hold their peace.)

edited 24th Aug '11 12:05:08 PM by Xtifr

Bump. No change at all since yesterday. Not even any vote flipping (I'm stunned). Is it time to call this and do the transplant? Sandbox.Bizarre Alien Biology is ready to go, and an utter lack of criticism after several calls for comments suggests that it's adequate for the task.

Go ahead.

I've locked the crowner.

edited 25th Aug '11 12:21:56 PM by Madrugada

Ok, I did the main transplant (still need to go through at least some of the wicks and point them to the new name; probably starting with the ones that are currently examples), but the new Bizarre Alien Biology doesn't seem to be working as an index, even though it now says the page type is "trope+index". Did Shima give me the right markup? ([[index]] and [[/index]].) What's another trope+index page I can check?

Meanwhile, I'll go inform the image picking thread that they can restart their discussion.

I did, but a page can't list itself as an index because it confuses itself so I moved the tag and now it works.

Aha, that makes perfect sense, thanks.

Any unresolved issues left?

I've picked all low-hanging fruit. We could still do a walk through all the Bizarre Alien Biology wicks, though, to see which ones can be fixed to point to Human Outside, Alien Inside. (Call for volunteers.) Don't know if the discussion needs to be kept open for that, though. HOAI has over 30 wicks already, which might be enough for wiki magic to take over. If not, I'm hoping others can help, because I'm starting to feel just a little burnt-out.