Trope Repair Shop:
Trope Tropes
11th Jun '23 12:33:08 AM
Crown Description:
Trope Tropes is supposed to be about meta concepts about tropes, such as how they play out (Playing With A Trope), how they get started or fall out of usage and other concepts regarding the "lifespans" of tropes (Forgotten Trope, Dead Horse Trope, Trope Maker, etc.), and similar concepts instead of being about what happens with our pages for them, with what happens to our pages being covered by Administrivia instead. Despite this, the page lists Administrivia pages that discuss our pages instead of the concepts behind them, despite the Trope Tropes index describes trope tropes as being "about how tropes come into existence, live, mutate, evolve, and die". In addition, it was suggested to list the Playing With A Trope index as a sub-index (via a floatbox) instead of duplicating the list on the Trope Tropes page (these were determined to be actual Trope Tropes; the concern was redundancy). The following proposals were made:- What should be done about the pages whose presence on the index has been questioned?
- Should Playing With A Trope be listed as a sub-index instead of ways of playing with a trope being listed on Trope Tropes as well?
- Should the listings that are staying on Trope Tropes be sorted into separate folders? Currently, they are listed in a single folder.
Remove the Administrivia folder on Trope Tropes for being about site policies for trope pages, rather than meta concepts about the concepts our trope pages are for. If they are not already indexed on the main Administrivia index, they will be moved there.
Move Trope Decay from the Main/ namespace to the Administrivia/ namespace for being about a site policy for trope pages, not a meta concept about the concepts our trope pages are for.
List the Playing with a Trope index as as sub-index of Trope Tropes via a floatbox, similarly to how Audience Reactions is listed as a sub-index of YMMV.Home Page via a floatbox on YMMV.Home Page, and limit listings for ways of playing with a trope to the sub-index. (The main Playing with a Trope page would still be indexed on Trope Tropes.)
Move Trope Decay from the Trope Tropes index to the Administrivia index for being about a site policy for trope pages, not a meta concept about the concepts our trope pages are for.
Should the listings that are staying on Trope Tropes be sorted into separate folders (for example, listing pages like Forgotten Trope, Dead Horse Trope, Trope Maker, and related concepts in a folder for concepts related to trope life cycles, listing Pet-Peeve Trope, Favorite Trope, Older Than They Think, and related concepts in a folder about audience perceptions of tropes, listing Sister Trope, Sub-Trope, and Super-Trope, and related concepts in a folder for relationships between tropes, and, if Playing with a Trope is not reclassified as a sub-index, giving it its own folder on the page)? Currently, they are listed in a single folder.
