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troacctid "µ." from California Since: Apr, 2010
#1: Feb 10th 2011 at 5:47:20 PM

The examples on this page are listed alphabetically by character name. I don't know why. And it's not working very well. It's encouraging potholing character names to works, which I tried to clean up and got about halfway through, but it's still bad. It's not sorted by medium, so all the anime and fanfiction examples are mixed in with live-action and western animation and such, which I know some people don't like (myself included). It's led to duplicate entries, with the same work listed twice in different places because it contains two examples.

In short, we need to re-sort this by media. Anyone interested in helping out?

Rhymes with "Protracted."
FrodoGoofballCoTV from Colorado, USA Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Feb 10th 2011 at 5:55:26 PM

[up]IIRC, this was done deliberately because the actual Forbes 500 lists individuals by wealth, then alphabetically. However, for all practicul purposes all fictional uberwealthy people are infinitely wealthy so it was just done alphabetically.

But I agree, it's gotten out of control, and it is time for a cleanup discussion.

edited 10th Feb '11 5:56:21 PM by FrodoGoofballCoTV

DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
The Other Troper
#3: Feb 11th 2011 at 2:44:12 AM

I suggested this before, and I still stand by it. I would like to just list the show names, then the character, and then split by media as the usual format for tropes.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
FrodoGoofballCoTV from Colorado, USA Since: Jan, 2001
#4: Feb 11th 2011 at 7:01:19 AM

I would like to just list the show names, then the character, and then split by media as the usual format for tropes.
I'm trying to figure out what you mean.

Is the proposal to do it like the other tropes (i.e.:

Live-Action TV

Western Animation
  • From Futurama:
    • Philip J Fry ...
    • "Mom", owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Company: ...
    • The Wong Family: ...

) or something else?

edited 11th Feb '11 7:02:13 AM by FrodoGoofballCoTV

troacctid "µ." from California Since: Apr, 2010
#5: Feb 11th 2011 at 11:25:28 AM

[up] Yes, exactly like that.

Well, maybe with folders.

Rhymes with "Protracted."
Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#6: Feb 15th 2011 at 3:22:52 PM

Definitely needs to get reorganized. I know I have avoided putting a few examples on here (such as Petey, from the page quote) because I'm not sure where they'd go, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

FrodoGoofballCoTV from Colorado, USA Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Feb 16th 2011 at 8:33:55 PM

It looks like we've got a consensus with the posts so far; should we do a crowner?

troacctid "µ." from California Since: Apr, 2010
#8: Feb 16th 2011 at 10:19:49 PM

I don't think we need one; it's unanimous, and we have several votes. What we really need is volunteers to do the cleanup work.

Rhymes with "Protracted."
DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
The Other Troper
#9: Feb 16th 2011 at 10:20:50 PM

I can work on it tomorrow.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
FrodoGoofballCoTV from Colorado, USA Since: Jan, 2001
#10: Feb 28th 2011 at 1:19:09 AM

I went ahead and reorganized the example section. Let me know if it needs further tweaking.

troacctid "µ." from California Since: Apr, 2010
#11: Feb 28th 2011 at 7:57:19 AM

Wow, that looks much better. Great work.

Rhymes with "Protracted."
Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
Zzzzzzzzzz
#12: Feb 28th 2011 at 7:58:21 AM

It does look much better. Thank you. I'm going to lock this thread up.

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