Trope Report Revival

Only the main Trope Report article was in Main; the individual issues were in the Newsletter namespace.

Edited by jandn2014 on Jul 29th 2020 at 5:29:07 AM

Oh, that's right I guess we use that namespace then

Is that namespace still 'active'? How would one go about posting there?

I just made a test page. It seems to still work, but the naming will have to change since hyphens are outdated.

Great idea! I'd be happy to contribute from time to time.

That also sounds like a great idea!

Bumping, since we are starting Adorkable cleanup. What would help get this going? A sign-up sheet on a sandbox? Can we get moderator input on how this would be sent out to everyone?

Edited by Synchronicity on Aug 21st 2020 at 12:33:39 PM

There used to be a banner that would go on the main page whenever a new issue went up.

Perhaps we could launch a forum thread to field suggestions for the Needs More Wiki Magic Love, Add More Here, and Spotlight Stealing Trope, to lessen the work for whoever does the write-up for the week.

Sorry for forgetting this.

O think starting a Trope Report Recruitment post might help or we can just use this one.

Yeah, that's a pretty good idea.

I think this one works?

Oh yeah this thread works.

So do we have to holler for mod opion to get things started officially.

Anyway some preliminary ideas for if we were to start sometime in the near future. Adding more later.

Forum Changes: - Don't really know what to put on this section besides nombretomado resigning as a mod.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Here all the TRS descisions go. (Maybe we should rename this?) - Adorkable is now a YMMV trope. Endearingly Dorky has been launched to catch examples where a character in a work finds another character's dorkiness/nerdiness endearing.

Lull Destruction is now Filling the Silence to sound less negative and to lessen complaining about extra dialog you don’t like. We still need to clean the wicks, though.

Olive Garden is now known as Spaghetti and Gondolas, because not everybody thinks of Italy when they hear the name of a restaurant chain.

Edited by ccorb on Aug 25th 2020 at 2:51:59 PM

Hey, should I make an ATT post directing interested people here?

Go for it!

Done.

Never heard of this before.

It was a newsletter maintained until 2012. We're looking for people to maintain and revive it.

Ah, I see. I only joined this site around 2013.

Yeah, it was before my time too, but it sounds fun.

I have been around seen 2009 so I do kinda remember it?

I guess it's ok to start a sandbox now

Sounds potentially interesting. It was also before my time as an active editor.

For the Needs Wiki Magic Love suggestions, I imagine we're going to bar fanfics, roleplays, and other such series that could very easily be the result of the author or a fan pimping them?

I don't see what the issue is with "fan pimped" works- isn't that the standard for every work on this site, except for the ones people hate?

I'm fine with barring Roleplays because those are a separate beast from the other mediums, but not fanfics. Maybe we can put fanfics in a separate section though, like "cool fanfic recs".

I think that'd be best. Despite the There Is No Such Thing as Notability policy, it'd be difficult to expect people to be able to populate the trope page for a fanfic that requires that already requires a good deal of knowledge of the canon works it's referencing, with the same acuity as the original works, and thus it'd be better if they were treated as a separate beast.

Yeah. We can just say "hey, here are some cool HP/Sonic/MLP/etc fanfics you guys might want to check out".