All-Purpose Namespace Icon Thread: Sandbox.Namespace Icons

Maybe something like this:

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

That'd have to be shrunk quite a bit.

Also, Wallbangers/ did have an icon - Eddie pulled it here.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Yeah, based on that I'm not seeing an icon for Wallbangers ever being approved.

Yeah it was more of a spur of the moment deal...Much like how I had the Idea for a "And the Fandom Rejoiced" button...Only to realize "What would it look like? Bisons Big Yes? Reaction guys?" Then I just stopped thinking about it.

And even then Bison and Reaction guys would suffer a quality drop once shrunk.

So I guess the question is what fit better then Bison or Reaction Guys?

A Stick Figure raising it's arms in triumph?...Ya know what disregard that I gotta stop talking here before I say or do something stupid.

edited 5th Jun '14 8:40:49 PM by Gravanatar9013

You can edit your posts, y'know, no need to quadruple post.

I don't know if And The Fandom Rejoiced necessarily warrants an icon. I dunno, it has gotten awfully big for a trope... maybe it does? If it does, I was thinking fireworks, confetti, streamers, that kind of thing.

edited 5th Jun '14 10:16:49 PM by ShadowHog

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Eddie seems to have missed our previous listing of newly approved/cleaned icons, by the way.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I think What Could Have Been should have an icon. There's multiple tv shows, video games, etc than have there's own pages for this, so I think it would be worth making an icon for it.

Blargh. This is why I'm not a fan of giving tropes icons, with the possible exception of the Moments pages (which I'm not entirely sure should exist). What Could Have Been needs to get in line behind (deep breath):

• Memetic Mutation (why doesn't this have an icon BTW?)
• Wall Banger (mentioned upthread)
• Dethroning Moment Of Suck (if Horrible/ has an icon, why doesn't this? Although I'm amazed Horrible/ has an icon...)
• Complete Monster
• And The Fandom Rejoiced
• What An Idiot
• Game-Breaker
• Narm (mentioned upthread)
• Wham Episode
• Famous Last Words
• Running Gag
• Five-Man Band
• Ear Worm
• That One Boss
• The Woobie
• Berserk Button
• Mythology Gag
• That One Level
• The Scrappy
• Fan Nickname
• Anachronism Stew
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff

All these have more pages in their respective namespaces than What Could Have Been's 29, according to this ^note Although Horrible actually only has 28!. We almost might as well give an icon to every trope on the wiki at that point, certainly all the Tropes Of Legend.

edited 15th Jun '14 11:06:20 PM by MorganWick

In my opinion, icons should be limited to these namespaces who have routinely work-specific (as opposed to medium- or franchise-specific) subpages.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

I tend to agree; trying to put icons to all these different tropes sounds like overkill, plus I have no idea how we'd encapsulate many of them in a 16x16 icon. It's bad enough trying to do page pics for some of them.

I understand what Morgan Wick is saying. However, there's still the problem of accessibility. In the old way of getting to different trope pages, it was easy to see how many trope pages a given tv show (for example) had. But now that we go to those pages through the icons, certain pages that don't have icons (like What Could Have Been)won't be viewed as much because people will have no idea that they are there if they didn't already have prior knowledge of them. And typing in the trope page name in the url is unnecessary work. Also, not all tropes need icons. Only ones that bring you to a completely new page do. Granted, that's still alot of icons that need to be made, but it's not an unreasonable amount as it would be if every single trope really did need an icon.

You have the dropdown just above the row of icons.

I looked at the row of icons for about five minutes before I found out what you were talking about, but that's probably because I'm dumb. Still, I feel like as long as there's a page devoted to a trope then it should have an icon. Maybe it's just me, but I think that the subpages bar is overshadowed by the icons anyways, so people might not notice it.

Move it to the end of the row of icons, then, labeling it "All Subpages" or "Other Subpages".

There are 20,000+ tropes. No way are we doing icons for all of them.

Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty

Even just the ones with subpages is going to be a couple hundred. It's a massive amount of time and effort for no real benefit.

By the way, when is the Playing With icon coming back?

Once Eddie gets around to install the icons listed here forward.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Methinks I'll need to bump this - I've been answering a few too many complaints on discussion pages that the icons for Playing With are missing.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Just for shiggles I did up a quick idea for both Art and Myth, two potential namespaces under discussion.

These actually look good.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Ehhhh...not really sussed on the one for Myth, if I didn't know that was what it was, I'd say it was an empty thread spool. Maybe a winged foot?