This has been bothering me for few months now, and I had finally posted a thread on the discussion page. I was advised to post it here instead. Taken from the discussion page:

Now I know it's rare we cut Troper Tales page, but there's one problem— this is a troper tales for a work. It's been around for several months, and was originally something of a joke.

From what I can tell, there's been some resistance to cutting it because "there's no rule against it."  ^*

^{Even though there's no rules at all on this wiki, only guidelines.}

So, I figured I'd ask here, where it would get more attention than the discussion page.

Link here.

edited 15th Jun '10 9:36:49 AM by KrisMahai

Mass Effect has a Troper Tales page as well. Should we cut that as well?

I can't say, considering I don't frequent the Mass Effect page. I don't see a point to either of them, quite frankly. Do you have any arguments against it?

Edit: Let me expand. From what I can tell, everything that is on either Troper Tales page is something that would better placed on the forum. We have one for a reason, after all. It's just wasting server space.

edited 15th Jun '10 9:22:36 AM by KrisMahai

No, not really. Just wanted to point that out. But honestly, we cut one, might as well cut all, know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I know what you mean. Honestly, I think we probably should cut them all, but I can't do it without support. Should I mention this in the Mass Effect discussion page?

The Troper Tales Mass Effect discussion, yes.

edited 15th Jun '10 9:27:07 AM by rallyfan9000

The one major difference between Troper Tales on the main wiki and the forums is that you can edit Troper Tales without getting known; the fora require a handle.

I have no basic problem with restricting Troper Tales for works other than this.

rallyfan: The Troper Tales Mass Effect page doesn't have discussion. Even so, I'll still mention it on the main page discussion. It'll probably get more attention there.

Fighteer: ...Not to seem callous, but it's not particularly hard to get a handle. A majority of tropers already have them for simply editing pages. In addition, there are several tropers who use the Troper Tales page that I know are on the forums.

Also, I added a link to the page in the first post.

edited 15th Jun '10 9:37:17 AM by KrisMahai

The main purpose of the Troper Tales pages, from the admin's point of view, is to keep This Troper Natter off the main page by making a place to corral it. If works inspire such Natter, whether it's about cosplaying the characters; convention stories; regarding a character as a role model; simply having a strong identification or association with, or powerful reaction to a character or situation within the work; or anything else, then a Troper Tales page serves its purpose.

Such a page came onto the cut list and its salvation was such reasoning. I am not surprised this occurs with video games being that it is the medium of That One Level and That One Boss.

I understand, though it's frustrating that we even need something like that. I guess it'll stay, then. Better than having natter on the main page.

There's also a Troper Tales/Scribblenauts.

Too be honest, I can see some reasoning why people would prefer to discuss things on a Wiki page then a forum, so I have no objection to the Troper Tales....

I was just looking at that page, in fact. To be fair, the cool thing about Scribblenauts gameplay is almost entirely based around the crazy stuff random people can make it do.

Aren't personal achievements and anecdotes relating to specific works supposed to go on the Discussion page?

Really? Whenever I look at a discussion page, almost universally it's a discussion about the work page, not the work itself.

Actually they really should go on the forums, since they're more conducive to that kind of discussion.

I don't know about this page specifically, but there's a huge difference, in both mechanics and feel, between the forum pages and the wiki pages. If tropers around here are getting good use out of the Troper Tales wiki pages, there may be a reason they haven't transfered the discussion to the forum.

At a bare minimum: It's time-consuming to navigate the forum entries, basically because they're linear and a thread can balloon up into hugeness; the wiki pages, because they're editable, can be more concise and keep different topics in their own sections without becoming unmanageable.

I'm not chiming in on either side of the "cut" debate, so much as pointing out that there are reasons to prefer the wiki model to the forum model, even if technically certain discussion "ought" to be more of a forum thing.

Well, if you're using Troper Tales to brag about your game accomplishments, that's really a forum thing, isn't it? I mean, I have no real interest in reading about how Random Troper X fifteen years ago scored eleventy billion points in Pac-Man.

There's a lot of non-crossover between the forums and the wiki.

Tropers tales are "I did this", "This happened to me", and things like that, related to the main page its attached to. Lot's of people who will put something like that on a tropers tales page if it's there aren't interested in joining the forums, because that's all they really want to say. Take away the troper Tales and page, and they won't come to the forum, they'll put it on the main page instead.

If you don't want to read about someone scoring eleventy billion points in Troper tales, why do you think having it in the forums is any better?

edited 17th Jun '10 8:56:51 AM by Madrugada

Still, I'd say there's quite a bit of difference between a Troper Tales page for a trope, and a work. For a trope, it fits, describing when you met someone with an Awesome McCoolname, or their own Analogy Backfires. When using it on a work... Well, it's a work. Just doesn't fit at all. It's not describing "This situation is when a trope happened in my life, " It's "Here's me talking about this cool and awesome thing." Just doesn't fit.

Still, if consensus is that having it there is a nice dumping ground, I won't protest.

I also recall a move to get rid of some of the more self-indulgent Troper Tales. Brilliant, but Lazy is a big one. "Oh, I could be SO AWESOME if I tried, but I just don't apply myself." Okay, not a move, but some support. But that is a topic for another time.

All that means is that Troper Tales is used for two different purposes - one for tropes, one for works. There's no reason it can't be used for those two purposes. They don't overlap.

Why are we even having this discussion? People are obviously having fun with the Troper Tales for Mass Effect and TWEWY, and it's not interfering with anything, so why put a stop to it? TV Tropes is about having fun! So let the fandoms of these games have fun with it! Read the story about the trope examples on Fast Eddie's page and apply it here.

edited 19th Jun '10 12:33:44 PM by SpaceParanoid42

Reiko-chan agrees with the above troper. TV Tropes is about having fun, so why should we cut the TT pages for works like TWEWY and ME? Leave them be, you "Stop Having Fun" Guys! Leave them be and shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!

Way to resurrect a 4 month old thread. Now look at it, lurching about and trying to eat people's brains.

Yeah, if we're not doing anything with this, let's take it out back and shoot it (read: lock the thread).