I'll take a stab at the (very few) cases I know, but this page is definitely in need of an expert.
Edit: What should we do with all the Mondegreens? Keep? Move to the Mondegreen page?
Edit 2: Some cases won't fit the format, since they are related to a band or more general (the "country or rap" thing for example). What should be done with them?
Edit 3: Following the example of other meme pages, should we folderize according to bands? For example, The Beatles have a number of memes that might benefit from that.
edited 10th Jun '12 1:22:43 PM by jkbeta
This page seems to have a big issue with Zero Context Examples. We need a way to deal with them.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanOk, to get this started, some proposals: We could...
- Folderize according to creators, were appropriate.
- Move zero-context examples to their own page, and zap that page in, say, 3 months. If someone can say something about one of the examples, they can always move them to the main page.
- Split Mondegreens into youtube mondegreen videos and give those their own folder, and troper tales, which are zapped on sight.
- See how much remains, and deal with the rest as appropriate.
edited 28th Jun '12 2:16:55 AM by jkbeta
Memes are supposed to be viral and internet phenomenons, nah ? I suggest massive clean-up and the removal of unfitting cases. Seriously, this page is the biggest mess of crap I've seen in Tv Tropes, hugger than the still huge Anime page.
This has been around far too long. It is very much still a mess, and it won't start to keep itself clean until everything there is properly done. Can all examples formatted incorrectly and without context for rewriting be pulled to the discussion page? That'd preserve them for future addition by people willing to enter them properly (I doubt any one person has the knowledge to get everything done) and clean the actual page.
edited 5th Dec '12 10:16:56 AM by Telcontar
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.This fix is going slowly because most examples don't have the context required for the new format.
Unless we want to comment out all the contextless stuff - now SOP for zero context example filled pages, I notice - and close this.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanDid a trial page on Music Memes. Any comments on replacing the main Memes.Music with it?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

A while back, it was proposed that we clean up all the meme pages by providing an explanation of each meme instead of just posting, say, quotes or song lyrics.
The Music page of "Memes" ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Memes/Music
) still doesn't follow the proposed format, for the most part.
(Proposed format explained here: Memetic Mutation )
Time for a cleaning?
edited 21st Jun '11 4:17:53 PM by EmilyG