Tagging multiple pages with banners in TRS and Projects threads

This seems like it would be a useful feature. There have been several TRS threads that have ended up having to discuss and fix multiple pages at once, or in which it would be convenient: White-Haired Pretty Boy has touched on White-Haired Pretty Girl and Mysterious Waif; cleaning up Madness Tropes directly affected This Index Has Had a Hard Life, Split Personality Tropes, and Hollywood Psychology; figuring out what to do with Expy has had to distinguish it from Captain Ersatz, Lawyer-Friendly Cameo, Suspiciously Similar Substitute, No Celebrities Were Harmed, and a ridiculous number of others as well. 'Duplicate Trope' topics in particular invariably end up discussing two or more pages by definition. Being able to add the TRS header to the other pages involved in the discussion, rather than just the first one to attract attention, could attract more contributors to discuss and implement solutions, as well as correctly label tropes that are under repair under another trope's name. The alternative, composing a new thread for each trope affected by the conversation, is seldom done because it is inconvenient for two reasons - it forces contributors to read multiple apparently-unrelated threads to keep up with a single conversation, and clutters up TRS with redundant threads and obstructs other problems from being addressed. A single problem should have a single thread, and if solving it involves more than one trope page then all of them should receive a repair banner.

Something similar has come up in the Appearance Tropes Clean-up thread in Long-Term Projects; multiple tropes are on the list to be addressed sequentially, and it would be helpful to be able to add a banner to each page as it comes under discussion.

I can think of two ways to implement this in the interface. One would be to have an 'add new page title' button in the TRS New Conversation interface, which would add a new empty text box functioning the same way as the first. The other would be to let the text parser recognise a designated separator to distinguish between multiple tropes in the same text box that need tagging (spaces would probably be easiest, since the trope titles have to be in CamelCase anyway).

edited 4th Apr '13 8:50:23 PM by Noaqiyeum

I think these are two different issues. What you want in the latter case is to flag a different page for the same thread as it goes along, depending on what's being discussed at the moment. Obviously editing the thread title doesn't necessarily work in Long-Term Projects.

Being able to tag multiple pages for the same TRS thread has come up before, however.

For the things like the The Great Appearance cleanup, my idea would to have a moderator move it into TRS, tag a page under discussion with it, then move it back to Projects. Of course, if we change the page under discussion, we'll have to repeat the process, because there is no retagging button outside of IP/TRS.

Multiple tagging has come up many times in the past. I would support it.

Moved to Wishlist, locking.