Directory (Ongoing threads you might be looking for)

This thread lists the large-scale, ongoing projects which cover multiple pages in the wiki. Don't hesitate to bump a long-disused thread. These are general use threads, so duplicates are discouraged.

Pages and Wicks

• Wick Migration: For namespace migration work, including pages moves and all types of not-supposed-to-be-in-Main/ pages and wicks.
• Cut List Queries & Challenges: For appealing a cut request, before or after the page is removed.

Wick issues

• Maintaining Cleanups: For past large-scale cleanup efforts that need their wicks checked periodically to make sure new misuse hasn't crept in.
• Pages that Need Crosswicking: For pages with wick/example number imbalances.
• Redirect Farming: For help coming up with redirects for pages.
• Disambiguation Queries: For help disambiguating pages and works with the same name.
• What index(es) should this go on?: For collaboration on finding indexes for un-indexed items.
• Rename/Transplant Wick Cleaning: For Trope Repair Shop (and other) wick cleanups which stalled out.

Page cleaning or work

General

• too-long page repair.: For splitting pages that hit the "too long" warning.
• Calling all Grammar police!: For pages which have major grammar issues.
• Cleanup help needed: For repairing vandalism and other quick fixes.
• Inbound Watch: For cleaning up (Example Indentation, Natter, etc.) pages which are getting a lot of outside traffic.
• P5 Cleanup pile and lewdness issues: Both works that need cleanup per The Content Policy and those that violate No Lewdness, No Prudishness are to be listed here.
• Real Life People Cleanup Project: For dealing with wiki pages on Real Life people.
• Removing complaining, bashing and other negativity from the wiki: For pages with negativity, complaining, or bashing problems.
• Removing Gushing from the Wiki: For pages with gushing problems.
• Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment Cleanup: For pages with potential bias (or other ROCEJ issues) in their examples or description.
• Short Subpage Thread: For deciding whether a subpage needs to be merged into another page.
• Soft Split Cleanup: For soft splits where multiple works are listed on the same page
• TLP Crash Rescue - Fixing prematurely launched TLPs and pages: For pages which were launched prematurely (primarily TLP drafts).
• General Page Quote Discussion: For maintenance of page quotes in general.

Descriptions

• Improving work descriptions: For issues with work descriptions.
• Removing Fan Myopia from Descriptions: For descriptions that suffer from Fan Myopia.
• Trope Description Improvement Drive: For issues with trope descriptions.

Examples

• Fact Checking: For requesting assistance to check that examples are factually accurate.
• Fixing zero context examples: For pages that are full of Zero Context Examples.
• NATTER ALERT!: For pages that are full of natter.
• Speculative Troping Cleanup: For examples making assumptions that aren't confirmed within the work.
• Remember: Weblinks Are Not Examples: For pages with Weblinks Are Not Examples problems.
• "TropeName: Type X" Cleanup: For Type Labels Are Not Examples issues.
• The Works Pot Hole Liberation Movement: For fixing work names which are potholed in example lists.

Other

• Navbox and Floatbox Cleanup: For cleanup and maintenance of navigation boxes and float boxes.
• Wikiword (Custom Title) Cleanup: For queries and cleanup regarding custom wikiword requests.

Specific namespaces

Namespace Wikis and the like

• The Analysis Namespace: For questions regarding or help with Analysis pages.
• Fanfiction Clean-up and Maintenance Thread: Fanfic/ and Fanfic Recs/ maintenance thread.
• Laconic Description Improvement: For maintenance of the Laconic Wiki.
• Playing With Wiki: General Cleanup and Writing Help: For maintenance of and help with the Playing With Wiki.
• Recap Cleanup: Recap/ maintenance thread.
• Roleplay Namespace Cleanup and Maintenance Roleplay clean-up thread
• Useful Notes Cleanup: A clean up thread for UsefulNotes/ pages.
• Wild Mass Cleanup: For reorganizing the WMG pages according to the guidelines.
• Laconic Description Improvement: Laconic description help thread.

Character pages

• Characters Page Cleanup: General cleanup for existing Characters pages.
• Character-Specific Page Cleanup: Creation and cleanup for character-specific pages. These pages shouldn't be created without approval from the thread.
• Inanimate 'Character' Cleanup: Cleanup for existing character pages listing inanimate objects, vehicles or locations as if they were characters.

Long-term efforts for tropes

Specific tropes

• Ass Pull Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Ass Pull examples.
• Base-Breaking Character Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Base-Breaking Character examples.
• Complete Monster Proposal Thread: Discussion regarding proposals for Complete Monster examples.
• Complete Monster Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Complete Monster examples.
• Condemned By History Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Condemned by History examples.
• Expy Cleanup Thread: Cleanup for existing Expy examples.
• Five-Man Band Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Five-Man Band examples.
• Hate Sink Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Hate Sink examples.
• Hindsight Cleanup Thread: Cleanup for existing examples of the various hindsight tropes
• Magnificent Bastard Proposal Thread: Discussion regarding proposals for Magnificent Bastard examples.
• Magnificent Bastard Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Magnificent Bastard examples.
• Nightmare Fuel Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Nightmare Fuel examples.
• Overshadowed by Controversy Cleanup: Cleanup for existing examples of Overshadowed by Controversy.
• The Scrappy Cleanup: Cleanup for existing examples of The Scrappy.
• Shout Out Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Shout-Out examples.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome Cleanup: Cleanup for existing examples of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome.

Other

• Fixing Actors/Actresses pages to remove personal tropes.: For coordinating work on removing Personal Appearance Tropes from actor, creator, etc., pages.
• Real Life section maintenance: Setting and reviewing "No Real Life Examples" (NRLEP) rules and restrictions on specific Real Life categories for tropes. Cleanup for any pages with problematic Real Life sections.
• Recent Examples Maintenance: Setting and reviewing "No Recent Examples" (NREP) and similar time-based rules for tropes. Cleanup for any examples with NREP issues.
• Reality Show Cleanup Thread: For dealing with Reality Show and Reality TV pages that cross the line into Real Life Troping.
• Real Life People Cleanup: For moving articles about Real Life people to Useful Notes and applying notability standards.
• Missing Supertropes: For finding supertropes to organize tropes into.
• The Grand Unified Appearance Trope Clean-up: Cleanup for appearance-related tropes.

Edited by Mrph1 on Jan 31st 2024 at 11:41:08 AM

Mod Note: Moved the list to the pinned OP post.

Edited by MacronNotes on May 17th 2022 at 1:19:59 PM

I already said this in Wiki Talk, but I figured it was better to say this here as well:

• First, rename to something like "Directory - Threads you might be looking for"?
• Unpin the other threads here?

Looking at the list, I feel like there should be a thread for Inbound Watch.

The only thread about it is a Wiki Talk one from over a year ago, which is just a brief question. The page itself also hasn't been edited in over a year (edit: other than the namespace move).

edited 3rd Aug '12 11:38:40 AM by Telcontar

That thread will have to be created in SE to work.

Also, guys, please don't clutter up this thread with discussions. Anyway, I've asked some questions; anyone for/against?

For both. I reckon you can go ahead and holler for the first; the second may merit a couple more agreements.

I would also be fine with both.

A few more threads I've tracked down (not sorted, yet, and there migth be duplicates):

• Transforming AudienceReactions into CharacterReactions: For converting Audience Reactions into Character Reactions.
• Removing Gushing from the wiki: For removing Gushing About Shows You Like.
• So... properly sorting tropes?: For pages with alphabetization problems.
• Works Needing Tropes cleanup: For work pages with few tropes.
• Consistent example style: For pages with disordered example lists and similar issues.
• TV Tropes - A missed Focus?: Tropes that border on People Sit On Chairs.
• Cleaning up X Meets Y entries: Misusage of X Meets Y.
• Overused caption: For page images whose captions are overused.
• Removing Fan Myopia from Descriptions: For descriptions that suffer from Fan Myopia.

edited 9th Aug '12 9:09:03 AM by SeptimusHeap

I added Properly Sorting, Consistent example style, and Removing Fan Myopia to the list. Removing Gushing was already there. Why I didn't add the others:

• Transforming Audience Reactions...: Seems like TRS territory. I don't think people should be arbitrarily changing tropes from YMMV to In-Universe only.
• Works Needing Tropes: As mentioned in that thread, the purpose was to try to get tropes for works which didn't have examples anywhere on the wiki; that purpose is better served by posting in the appropriate media subforum.
• A Missed Focus: Seems to be a Wiki Talk thread which ended up here for some reason. Any actual PSOC problems with existing tropes would need to be hashed out through TRS, and if people have questions about whether or not TRS is needed, Trope Talk is the place to go.
• Cleaning up X Meets Y: Seems to be more a discussion of what should be done with X Meets Y (which is TRS business) than any sort of actual cleanup effort.
• Overused caption: The conclusion of that thread was that it's not an issue. Also, it was about a specific caption.

edited 9th Aug '12 11:05:56 AM by Nocturna

"Transforming Audience Reactions" is one of these threads made for coordinating TRS work.

Also, found this thread on Redirect Farming. Ignoring that it's in the wrong place, would it fit in the directory?

On "Transforming", I guess I just don't see how the thread would be helpful. I mean, if you bring it up there and get support for change, then you're just going to have to go over everything again in the TRS thread. And if you're not sure about your perception of the trope, that really belongs in Trope Talk, not Special Efforts.

And as to the latter thread you mentioned, so far everything on the list is from Special Efforts. Do you think it should be expanded? I could see the redirect, indexes, and YMMV threads fitting.

I think that these threads can fit too. Plus, in the Wiki Talk thread on stickies (the one linked in my signature) we are discussing to bring several of these threads over to SE as they fit here better.

Under Specific Namespaces, "Pages that need (or don't need) banners" is now "Pages that need the YMMV banner".

Changed; thanks.

Fixing Actors/Actresses pages can be added to the "Everything else" section.

Done.

Now that Special Efforts is being split, where does this thread go? I thought of Short Term, since one of the purposes of this thread is to prevent endless duplication of threads.

edited 30th Jan '13 1:58:14 AM by SeptimusHeap

It would be more efficient to just start a new thread in Short Term, as this one deals pretty much exclusively with what would be in Perpetual/Long Term.

Hmm...do we need this thread essentially in both subfora? Because keeping two things up-to-date could be an issue.

Also, the point of the directory among others is to prevent short term threads that are withhin purview of the long term ones. It might be better off in Short Term. Never mind that it would be redundant to [1]

edited 1st Feb '13 1:46:04 PM by SeptimusHeap

Going off of what Septimus said here, do you think I should provide a second post with a strictly alphabetical listing of threads?

Maaybe. My idea was more on the forum page, though - in a "bring your problem pages/examples to thread X" forum there is a point to list threads alphabetically rather than by activity.

Do we have a thread for dealing with the issue of listing tropes on both a superindex and its subindex(es)? (e.g. Nanomachines on both Speculative Fiction Tropes and Applied Phlebotinum)

No, because we don't know already whether it's an "issue" that needs resolving.

Where would you go if you wanted to clean up a potentially gushy page (this one)?