Should we have a workstation equivalent to TLP to help editors who have trouble writing work pages?

So lately, I have been thinking about work pages and how it could be useful for new tropers that arent confident in their writing skills, or people who have trouble finding tropes to p because let's face it; some people including me struggle when it comes to making good work pages sometimes. I know that How to Create a Work's Page has guidelines for work pages and all but a space where you can get collaborative help will be nice. It might also help cut down on having badly written work pages, works with copy-paste decriptions or ZCE ridden pages being released in the wild.

And yeah, while TLP allows work pages to be put up there, the culture/environment is still pretty unwelcoming to the idea even though Work Pages Are a Free Launch (that page might need a revamp but thats for the outdated pages thread) states that its not allowed to dismiss drafts by using that page (and that work pages are allowed in TLP). 9 times out of 10 you are still going have several people tell you can just launch the page and some might be a little rude about it. That makes it a bit intimidating for people that want help with their work pages/trope gathering. And since TLP is obviously for tropes and indexes primarily, it might be best to give work pages their own thing.

Making a workstation thread for works in the forums might help. But not everyone on the wiki uses the forums. There are a lot of frequent contributors on TLP and such that don't.

Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 29th 2020 at 5:55:39 AM

So when I saw this I was at work and then forgot to respond.

I think the better solution honestly would be to make the TLP more friendly toward work-page drafts; because it's the best drafting station we currently have. The issue though is that unlike with tropes, that just need people to have seen a work with that trope in it at least once, work pages require knowing the work itself, so there's no perfect way to help draft work pages in general.