On the subject of Notifiers (and how to improve them)

Never mind then.

The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.

I think the zero context notifier could be expanded to make clear it also includes cases of "As shown in X above/below".

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

It's explained in-depth on the actual administrivia page, though

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ETA: never mind, these don't work with the notifier system.

Suggesting a notifier for people who edit drafts on the TLP without noting this in comments and/or make large edits such as adding examples (as it's come up several times I've seen).

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You've made an edit to a draft in the Trope Launch Pad without asking. This is considered poor TLP etiquette. Many TLP denizens are protective of their work and do not like it when other people mess with their drafts. Making major changes to a draft that doesn't belong to you — such as adding examples — is considered incredibly rude at the very best and may even be considered vandalism. It's generally okay to correct small errors, like typos or formatting errors, on another person's draft, but you should post a reply clearly stating what you were doing as common courtesy. Please see more on Minding Your Manners here at TLP Guidelines. Thanks.

Edited by Nethilia on Apr 27th 2024 at 12:57:08 PM

I know more about obscure 1990s Middle Grade Literature novels than most people.

e: nvm

Edited by Amonimus on Apr 27th 2024 at 10:52:30 PM

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You actually can on the history screen, but it's bugged. I've tried it before.

Besides, no reason to send notifiers when you can just ping people to the draft.

Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 27th 2024 at 3:51:53 PM

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I just sent one for an edit to a draft I'm working on (since someone went and stealth edited) and it offered all the drop down notifiers. But I understand.

Edited by Nethilia on Apr 27th 2024 at 12:52:27 PM

I know more about obscure 1990s Middle Grade Literature novels than most people.

Did it actually go through? And did it link to the draft correctly? I did send one before, but like I said, it didn't work as intended.

Either way, how does it beat pinging them directly?

Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 27th 2024 at 3:53:18 PM

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It did send, but I looked and the glitch is that while it sends the PM, the PM doesn't properly link to the actual draft. I didn't realize this as last time I reported a stealth edit on ATT I was told to send a notification to the offender first before posting there. I understand it's not useful to add to the drop down notifiers and pinged them in draft before I sent the PM. This all makes sense.

Edited by Nethilia on Apr 27th 2024 at 12:55:53 PM

I know more about obscure 1990s Middle Grade Literature novels than most people.

Yeah, exactly, they technically work but are kinda useless if that glitch is around since it just makes things confusing.

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Maybe the glitch needs to be addressed in Query Bugs then?

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Maybe? The issue is that unlike normal pages, TLP edits aren't individual items that can be linked to.

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You can. Not normally, which is another glitch.

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We don't appear to have a "this trope is No Real Life Examples, Please!" notifier, no?

No but I do think it was mentioned before.

Macron's notes

Should there be a notifier for unexplained removals (besides deleting YMMV)?

Thanks.

Edited by Lymantria on May 8th 2024 at 8:48:56 AM

Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!

That's covered by "Edit Reason".

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