Prematurely launched pages and pages that weren't fully fleshed out at the point of launching, are a big problem. Since these usually share several problems at once, this thread is aimed at re-running them through the TLP for fixing - the usual fix - or cutting them if they are too bad.
Problems this thread deals with include bad names, not enough/bad examples, unclear description, etc.
For the interested, here's a list of recently created pages
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Edited by MacronNotes on Jun 24th 2023 at 12:24:55 PM
I know I've discussed it somewhere, because while it's a stub to end all stubs, it's definitely a notable trope.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.
Twisted Tropes is a badly written marketing blurb with no examples and a badly shrunken entire comic for an image with illegible text.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Syrup is a work page stub.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
I just launched Impossible Smile Of Doom yesterday, but I can't shake the feeling that it's just The Same But More for Cheshire Cat Grin and Slasher Smile.
I haven't played the particular game that Tango is from, but still... robo kitty. :D
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We argued a bit about this on the Webcomics side. Probably, at the least, we could start adding a list of tropes that the author has covered, although I personally don't see it as necessarily being worthwhile.
I'd personally say Cheshire Cat Grin definitely covers it.
Secret Girlfriend is a work page stub with only about 2 examples with sufficient context.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Bondi Band is almost nothing but zero context examples or other examples lacking sufficient context.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Also unindexed and a stub.
The only one even resembling sufficient context is The Faceless.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.
Upstart Crow was created on the 17th by Last_Hussar and apart from maybe the work page description, they appear to have got nothing right about how to format a work page.
I've submitted the stubs I brought up on the last three pages to the cutlist, as they weren't improved in that time.
I've added Hindenburg Incendiary Principle and Breeding Slave to the list of Pages Needing Wicks since it looks like we're keeping those.
Agree that Impossible Smile Of Doom is The Same But More Specific of Cheshire Cat Grin.
We still need to decide what to do with Fade To Gray and It Was There the Whole Time.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Crappy Vamps Vs Werewolves Epic has major issues. Nearly the entire page is zero context, it hasn't been improved by its creators since at least 2011 (basically every edit in the history is of some other contributor cleaning up misuse), and I'm not sure if the work even exists, or at least if it is still publicly accessible.
edited 21st May '16 4:24:55 AM by Morgenthaler
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"New complaining tropes are not permitted, right? The Karmic Misfire trope is ready to be launched but, if this is the case, their sixth paragraph can be problematic:
"The Karmic Misfire trope can be the unintentional result of careless plotting. Other times, it can be due to Values Dissonance between the era and/or culture that produced the work and the present day. "
The link in "careless plotting" is to the Bad Writing Index.
edited 21st May '16 6:24:15 PM by MagBas
How sweet it is
Correct. We do not need more complaining tropes. That paragraph can be rewritten or removed.
Okay, thanks.
LPS: Popular is so badly made and has so few valid entries that I think we're better off cutting it.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Private High Musical is a very poorly written work page with virtually no valid examples to speak of and no wicks. I doubt it would be missed.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
cut, it looks like some of those "humourous" things made by supposed "fratboys" (who wouldn't know what studying was if you paid them to do it.)
But that isn't my reason (because being offensive is not a reason to cut something, except for very offensive and specific criteria), my reason is a lot of the trope list is Trope X: Character X or Trope X: Scene X. And it's so old, Hollywood Nerd has TYPES listed. No youtube link to the series, either.
edited 23rd May '16 4:08:39 PM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
Tip Of The Iceberg has very few examples and none with enough context.
This Life is almost nothing but zces. The few exceptions are still lacking in context, except for a single "aversion".
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
The Path was recently created with no examples and not indexed; I've notified the creator.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Zoo Academy, created 5 days ago by akiyamatherooster, contains a one-sentence work page description, all of the Examples are formatted incorrectly and are Zero Context Examples, with some of the Examples actually being Indexes rather than tropes. The page itself is un-indexed and all of the works subpages (characters, quotes and fridge), created by the same troper, are stubs containing the letters "tba".
Monstress, created 2 days ago by lampshadeortriangle is un-indexed, contains an overlong work page description that includes spoilers above the line, and all the examples are missing their bulletpoints and are not in alphabetical order.
Psshhh...
GleeWeAreFamily.Glee We Are Family was a recently created work page that's in the wrong namespace, is not indexed, has no listed tropes, and the description is a Wall of Text. I'm tempted to just place this in the Cut List.
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Thank you.
edited 31st May '16 11:17:16 AM by Josef5678
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
I've put it on, because stub works in the wrong namespace are not things we want here.
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies is another stubby work page with only 1 valid example.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Everyone Gets Their Turn has only 1 example and 9 wicks.
The page has been around for a long time though, so I have no idea if it ever went through YKTTW (or if YKTTW existed when the page was created)
Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.