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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#251: Feb 20th 2013 at 7:03:28 AM

Ctrl+F says the Character Alignment is gone.

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lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#252: Feb 21st 2013 at 3:24:36 AM

Ok, here's the course of action:

How we will do this:

  • Purge all Zero Context Examples. That includes Type I-V labels.
  • If the label has context, replace it with the appropriate tropes that were split off. The correspondence can be found below.

TypeSplit Trope
Type IClassical Anti-Hero
Type IIKnight in Sour Armour
Type IIIPragmatic Hero
Type IVUnscrupulous Hero
Type VNominal Hero

Start with what series you already know.

edited 21st Feb '13 3:26:34 AM by lu127

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#253: Feb 21st 2013 at 3:26:57 AM

I'll help as soon as I get back from uni.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#254: Feb 21st 2013 at 6:58:14 AM

Does "purge" mean outright deletion, or "comment it out and put a warning to not remove comment markup without fleshing out the example entry"?

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#255: Feb 21st 2013 at 7:12:48 AM

Purge means delete. Comment out only when there is already commenting-out on that page.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#256: Feb 21st 2013 at 10:28:21 AM

Did A-B. Also, what do we do with the boldfaced note on Anti-Hero? I think of simply deleting it.

Also did C-D.

Now E-F.

edited 21st Feb '13 11:51:57 AM by SeptimusHeap

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#257: Feb 21st 2013 at 3:44:07 PM

So we delete the whole Anti-Hero entry if it has a Sliding Scale Of Antiheroes pothole and is a Zero Context Example otherwise, instead of commenting it out? Or are you just talking about the pothole alone?

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#258: Feb 21st 2013 at 3:49:45 PM

Yes. Let's keep in mind that most of these wicks are from potholes from Anti-Hero entries - entries that, I notice, are usually some form of wankery about whether the character is Type X here and Type Y there and have no useful information on the Anti-Hero example.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#259: Feb 21st 2013 at 3:53:32 PM

If that's the case, then I retract all of my reservations. I guess I was confused by how the Negima pages recently had several instances of Zero Context Example entries being only commented-out instead of being outright deleted, by what I assume to be a wider-scale drive to get rid of Zero Context Examples (apparently there's too many of them).

edited 21st Feb '13 3:55:48 PM by MarqFJA

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#260: Feb 22nd 2013 at 12:43:16 AM

Did G

Now H-K.

This time, L-M.

N-R.

S.

Did T without The to Z.

The is done as well now.

edited 22nd Feb '13 12:08:41 PM by SeptimusHeap

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#261: Feb 22nd 2013 at 12:32:35 PM

OK, got all wicks (except for a few). Can I get cookies for this?tongue

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#262: Feb 22nd 2013 at 12:42:29 PM

Here are some Dragon Age cookies, but unfortunately, we still need to check Anti-Hero wicks for references to the scale. tongue

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#263: Feb 22nd 2013 at 12:46:49 PM

With over 5000 wicks, we'll need more hands here. I will be busy with Dead Little Sister and uni stuff in the next time so I won't be able to help much (and I've seen enough "Type X" chaff to last me for the next millenium)

Good cookies, by the way.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Ironeye Cutmaster-san from SoCal Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
Cutmaster-san
#264: Mar 4th 2013 at 8:43:00 PM

I got Z, not that there were that many. Most were ZCEs.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#265: Mar 6th 2013 at 12:21:16 PM

Had to dewick Sliding Scale Of Anti Heroes again - I'll bring it up in the cleanup maintenance topic.

I cleaned the hyphenated redirect Anti-Hero. Has anyone objections to cutlisting it?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
KingZeal Since: Oct, 2009
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#267: Jun 4th 2013 at 3:32:45 PM

I assume this is done, and therefore it should be locked.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#268: Jun 5th 2013 at 12:18:48 AM

Nah, they want all the Anti-Hero wicks to be checked against "Type X" things.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
randomtroper89 from The Fire Nation Since: Nov, 2010
#269: Jun 18th 2013 at 8:40:05 PM

Can we do the same to the Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains.

EDIT: Here is the sandbox, it still needs more work.

edited 19th Jun '13 8:15:20 AM by randomtroper89

DamianYerrick Since: Jan, 2001
#270: Jul 10th 2013 at 1:27:23 PM

Now how is this typically done? Does someone feed all 5736 links on the "related" page into a bot that downloads all pages, looks for all entries containing Anti-Hero, and looks for the type labels on those pages?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#271: Aug 23rd 2013 at 12:36:25 AM

Bumping this. I assume there was no progress, aye?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Leaper Since: May, 2009
#272: Sep 22nd 2013 at 5:00:57 PM

Another bump. Probably not. Should it go into a Projects forum now?

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#273: Sep 23rd 2013 at 5:55:18 AM

I'll move it to Short Term Projects.

theAdeptRogue iRidescence Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
iRidescence
#274: Sep 27th 2013 at 10:36:11 PM

Hmm, if the label only says Anti-Hero without referring to type labels, should it be removed as well?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#275: Sep 28th 2013 at 1:59:37 AM

An example like:

can always be axed or commented out.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

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The Pragmatic Hero YKTTW is suffering from a problematic description. Here are some options to consider.

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