Lost in Space
Already noting some bad eggs in random sampling:
edited 8th Dec '15 6:32:51 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Yeah, Fighteer-sensei (can I call you that? 
) this is a big problem with the website pages. Like Sega Forums, which actually describes the personalities of the people who post on the site. I'm willing to help out on this front.
Sampled at random:
- The Comment Section - not a work of fiction; needs to go
- Becoming a better writer - uhhhh....maybe? not really sure
- absurd.org - given that's it down now, probably no.
- Snopes - not a work of fiction, so probably should go
edited 8th Dec '15 6:52:13 PM by YasminPerry
- The Dead Horse Interchange - Seems to be mostly about insulting the people posting content.
- The Bookie Monster - Troping the staff, not their content.
- The Facebook Community - Weird ranting about people on Facebook
- Myspace - Not about fiction or media
- Concept Art Dot Org - Stub and not about the content.
The Unknown
Smogon has some issues troping competitive play, but is salvageable due to having entertainment articles. I can work on it when I have time and am not being distracted.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Fighteer: My quick samplings.
Alternian Science Theater 300000000 is a stub with just two examples and barely much of anything for the write up.
PPR pretty much up front is about the users and the trope examples seem to reflect this.
Wrong Planet is just barely a step away from being a stub and the website isn't about creative content in general.
Urban Dictionary seems to be sort of a grey area. Partly because of the nature of the site. Some of the examples on the page seem to be more about the contributors to the site then the content.
I saw one page that looked like it was ok.
edited 8th Dec '15 7:30:33 PM by TuefelHundenIV
Who watches the watchmen?
Lost in Space
Smogon also gets a lot of people using it as a source for examples about the Pokemon metagame, which is really not kosher.
Snopes can stay; it publishes media content, even if it is not fictional.
edited 8th Dec '15 9:57:04 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
There are some that should clearly stay. Cracked and CollegeHumor both produce a lot of narrative content and their pages are focused on that. That said, some real clean up is needed and there are a lot of stubbies in there.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
I've developed some concerns about the Website namespace due to the large volume of cuts we've had to make in it. It seems that it's being used as an excuse to create articles that are about, well, web sites, regardless of whether those have anything to do with creative media.
Note that being a fansite is not enough to merit a wiki article; the site must host and/or publish creative content under its own name, and its article should serve as an index to that content, not as a place to trope it — especially not the people who create it!
As one example, I just nuked The Cave Of Dragonflies because its trope list was about its users, not about any hypothetical creative content that its users make. This issue also pertains, perhaps even more, to any Characters subpages attached to a Website article.
What I'd like to do, then, is recruit folks to sample some articles in that namespace (list here
) to see if my concerns are merited.
If we decide that the issue is worth acting on, we can move this to Short Term Projects to organize a cleanup.
edited 8th Dec '15 6:30:42 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"