Why are people going on so much about this? It works in the forums like so, and most every where else was just people people being too lazy to use the backspace key.
^That. Really, quotes are the only legitimate, unreplaceable use of strikethrough in the wiki and there weren't many.
Infinite Tree: an experimental storyThough I think in that case the Home Page should say "encyclopedia" rather than "catalogue."
The child is father to the man —OedipusClearly you missed where I said out of ~60 uses, only 2 were misuses of the type you describe.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.Presumably the blink markup would make the text flash on the screen like the hazard lights on a car. If you've been around the internet long enough, you may remember that there used to be such a thing as a <blink> tag in HTML. There's a reason that it was soon phased out.
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This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...The blink tag is a standard element of HTML that causes the contained text to blink off and on. It is among the standard elements of HTML we don't support in the markup. There are a whole lot of such unsupported tags.
A balance has to be struck between what tags are made available and the amount of effort it takes to repair just plain poor formatting decisions made by editors.
Admin (me, Janitor) will choose formatting tags very conservatively. Since the wiki stays far away from academic/formal style, we'll need to be careful not to let it slip over into My Space style.
edited 3rd Apr '11 11:35:55 AM by FastEddie
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Yeah, I got it. I'm not a super computer geek (although a lot of people I know treat me like one, including some people who work as programmers for a living).
My main issue isn't with the strikeout being removed (which doesn't bother me terribly), it's how you handled removing it (which, from my view, ends up creating more work than actually fixing the problem via other methods).
That's (maybe) more of a reflection of the outside perception of TV Tropes, which (as I've seen it) doesn't really align with our actual mission. That's a topic for another thread though.
edited 3rd Apr '11 10:18:19 AM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
I think what Totemic Hero meant is that by suddenly coding it in, there are a lot of holes that need to be fixed (with ^H, for example, when that would make it funny).
edited 3rd Apr '11 12:00:42 PM by HersheleOstropoler
The child is father to the man —Oedipus↑↑Why there couldn't be what, two weeks of discussion until people who didn't have the power to remove the markup proposed or decided to go on their own curating, correcting and warning other tropers on the use of the thing? We have already the Tips For Editing, the natter-fy buttons, all of those good things; I just don't see how would they not have been usable to help fix the issue.
And OH GODS you guys made me remember blink... Thank god it was never a standard tag.
Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?Glad to see it back on the Fora. I was it in a post and was like WTF did I enter a time loop is this another April fools joke. (Which was annoying as hell btw please never do that again.)
It is going to be weird for those things where the actually given text was actually Striked through. Especially given the amount of alternative works we catalog which may not follow professionalism rules do to our no such thing as notability.
But it is what it is, I suppose. we can only hope this is the last major change, or at least well be given far warning in the future.
Rarely active, try DA/Tumblr Avatar by pippanaffie.deviantart.comWell, now there are none. But much as I see the utility of strikethrough for jokes, I'm not sure what "legitimate" uses you have in mind. The way to delete something is to delete it.
The child is father to the man —OedipusI was thinking about Hold Your Hippogriffs, where it is actually used to explain the example. Sure it could work without it but noone seems to say it's a misuse, so I gather it's a legitimate use.
EDIT: Well, now there are none, but where were these misuses that were so common? I've yet to see any.
edited 3rd Apr '11 2:28:38 PM by ading
@ Hershele: Exactly my thoughts. Now people get to hunt down all the markup, and fix it...if for no other reason, then that people will try to emulate what exists on the wiki. That's a proven fact.
I'm not specifically accusing you, Eddie, of being entirely to blame. The fact that this thread exists indicates that Wiki Magic failed to work on every level, from the most casual troper up to the Eddie who is Fast himself. I can think of half a dozen points at which this could have been averted, but it wasn't.
It's a black mark on the whole of TV Tropes as a wiki.
What we should be doing, instead of back-and-forth debate over the matter (it's over, done, kaput, finished), is pinpointing exactly where this went wrong...so that this never happens again.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Check out the page history of Final Fantasy VI for a legit example of use of the strikethrough, which used it for Spell My Name With An S type names since the game has gotten multiple localizations.
Or Okamiden, which used it for an instance of Insistent Terminology.
I'm not going to say that these uses were essential in any way, shape, or form, but they weren't misuse, either, and in my experience they represent the vast majority of uses of the strike tag.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.

Ssh, no arguing with Eddie.
At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...