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I'll start it off: could someone please unlock Hootie And The Blowfish so I can make a new page on it? The last page was cut for being copypasta from Wikipedia.

edited 18th Nov '14 1:26:41 AM by SeptimusHeap

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#576: Apr 18th 2012 at 12:00:49 PM

We are not bringing back the Windows article, because it is not relevant to the wiki. You can list PC games on the appropriate indexes. We gain nothing by having articles on operating systems.

edited 18th Apr '12 12:01:12 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#577: Apr 19th 2012 at 9:09:59 AM

I agree that most of the "Horrible" material is cross-grained to this wiki's purposes; one couldn't fault the mods for discontinuing it. And I'm not trying to justify or excuse its presence when I observe that lots of it can be uncommonly entertaining (and not just to the baser types among us).

However, its raw entertainment value does make one hope that the content doesn't utterly evaporate from the Web. If the mods decide to put the kibosh on it, is there some form or location in which the wiki owners would be okay with its survival?

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#578: Apr 19th 2012 at 9:19:38 AM

Our only concern with the material being used off-site is the Creative Commons licensing. Within that limitation you can do whatever you want with it. When we cut Troper Tales, Fetish Fuel, and the It Just Bugs Me forum, some enterprising tropers started their own sites for the material. Nightmare Fuel and the Horrible pages (which have not been cut, mind you) are no different.

We specifically disclaim any affiliation with those sites, though.

edited 19th Apr '12 9:19:56 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
DamianYerrick Since: Jan, 2001
#579: Apr 19th 2012 at 9:55:41 AM

How far removed is the wiki software from mainline PmWiki? Is setting up a fork as easy as adding published Pm Wiki extensions (aka "Recipes")? Or would you recommend making a script to translate TV Tropes markup into MediaWiki markup instead?

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#580: Apr 19th 2012 at 10:01:03 AM

We are now 99.99% divergent from pmwiki. Any script to translate the wiki to another format would be custom. Anyway, this is off topic. Please start a different thread if you want to discuss it.

edited 19th Apr '12 12:59:53 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Redfishbluefish Since: May, 2011
#581: Apr 19th 2012 at 4:59:10 PM

Can you bring back the examples for Accidental Nightmare Fuel but put them on a separate page? I know that the original page was misused but many of the examples had subpages that were well liked. There could be a page called Scary Moments like Awesome Moments and Funny Moments. If there is an issue over High Octane Nightmare Fuel then could there be a vote over possibly merging the two to make a Scary Moments page?

edited 19th Apr '12 5:00:14 PM by Redfishbluefish

ummm hi
EarlOfSandvich Since: Jun, 2011
#582: Apr 19th 2012 at 5:01:42 PM

[up] AFAIK, we're gonna merge HONF with Nightmare Fuel, rename it to the latter, and give the whole thing the same treatment as the "Moments" tabs. Keeping my ears to the ground for more details.

I now go by Graf von Tirol.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#583: Apr 19th 2012 at 5:52:23 PM

We are not going to bring back Accidental Nightmare Fuel in any way, shape, or form. Fun is not the issue. The complete unmanageability of the pages is the issue.

edited 19th Apr '12 5:52:50 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
movie007 Since: Jan, 2001
#584: Apr 19th 2012 at 5:54:20 PM

Come to think of, I think the new NightmareFuel/ (or Scary/, or whatever else we end up calling it) - along with TearJerker/ - should have a greyed-out icon on the top, when the page is set to "work" or "creator".

Bookyangel2438 from New York City Since: Jul, 2011
movie007 Since: Jan, 2001
#586: Apr 19th 2012 at 6:07:34 PM

Yeah, the problem with Accidental Nightmare Fuel is that it's really not in the same spirit as Awesome/, Funny/, Heartwarming/, and TearJerker/. They're more like mildly-scary-but-not-too-scary moments. In that case, we might as well have a Meh Moments subpage.

edited 19th Apr '12 6:08:30 PM by movie007

EarlOfSandvich Since: Jun, 2011
#587: Apr 19th 2012 at 6:11:03 PM

[up] We have the Crowning Moment of Indifference...

[down] I know, it's entirely a joke page.

edited 19th Apr '12 6:27:50 PM by EarlOfSandvich

I now go by Graf von Tirol.
movie007 Since: Jan, 2001
#588: Apr 19th 2012 at 6:13:20 PM

Oh, I didn't know that. evil grin We probably shouldn't have it as a subpage for work pages, though. Too much potential for Flame Bait.

movie007 Since: Jan, 2001
#589: Apr 20th 2012 at 4:31:17 AM

Could you unlock WebVideo.Four Blokes Without Telly? Apparently, I had accidentally put that page on the cutlist. That is, of course, if it's not objectionable.

lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#590: Apr 20th 2012 at 4:38:04 AM

Unlocked.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
OldManHoOh It's super effective. from England Since: Jul, 2010
It's super effective.
#592: Apr 21st 2012 at 8:48:44 AM

This is really tentative, given that That Guy With The Glasses is also locked, but am I right in reading that the person who edit warred and diluted examples the most on DethroningMoment.Zero Punctuation has been banned? If so, would that allow an unlock?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#593: Apr 21st 2012 at 8:51:05 AM

[up]For reference, I am capable of watchlisting both of them and to keep them under control.

edited 21st Apr '12 8:52:13 AM by SeptimusHeap

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
thomwim from Toronto Since: Oct, 2011
#594: Apr 21st 2012 at 9:41:37 AM

I would like to redirect "Main : Speed" to "Film : Speed", please. The main page is locked up.

Magic people, voodoo people!
EarlOfSandvich Since: Jun, 2011
#595: Apr 21st 2012 at 6:38:24 PM

Still going to bring this up as long as the animated film is still in the wrong namespace.

I now go by Graf von Tirol.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#596: Apr 21st 2012 at 6:53:26 PM

Septimus, if you're willing to curate those articles, I can consider unlocking them, but they have a very large hatedom and it's going to be a big job for you. You sure about this?

[up] Unlocked that one.

[up][up] We want to encourage people to use the proper namespace when they construct links. Main.Speed has 14 inbounds, which makes it eligible for a redirect, however, so I'll go ahead and do that.

edited 21st Apr '12 6:56:26 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#597: Apr 22nd 2012 at 1:51:07 AM

[up]Given that there is a hefty amount of RL life work waiting for me in the future (and not enought ime left for curating such pages), it's probably better to keep it closed. I'll rescind the request.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
seraphoem Since: Jan, 2012
#598: Apr 22nd 2012 at 8:57:27 AM

Good day to you sirs. I was hoping to just ask why the Fate Stay Night page suddenly getting emptied and locked; and if the proposal be reasonable, that said page be unlocked. The discussions and trope edits in the page don't really seem to be harmful.

Hoping for your consideration, thanks!

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#599: Apr 22nd 2012 at 9:04:12 AM

[up]it was cut as part of the new policy about porn and similar things. It was already appealed for restoration, but it's not discussed here - it's in the new subforum.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
seraphoem Since: Jan, 2012
#600: Apr 23rd 2012 at 6:15:06 AM

Noted sir, thanks.

Just found out about the Google Incident (first and second) from that other board.

It's quite disappointing, this whole thing. So many potentially good stories have to be expunged for having just a smidget of pornographic content in one or two adaptations of it.

As a suggestion (I can't post this there since the board has been locked), maybe the committee should also consider the "cleanliness"/"chasteness" of certain Bleached Underpants adaptations of works with unsafe content as an additional criterion for allowing its page to stay. I have seen certain pages for works with a separate page for its adaptation - maybe the committee can look further into this.

That aside, as a noob to this wiki, I appreciate the effort you are all putting towards sustaining this web-community. Hopefully, compliance is achieved where it is due without having to sacrifice troper education.

edited 23rd Apr '12 7:06:41 AM by seraphoem


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