A lot of the The Secret Life of the American Teenager headscratchers page is filled with complaining about the show instead of fridge logic. Not really surprising considering how controversial the show is.
edited 10th Jan '12 8:35:55 PM by Oreochan
"Learning without thinking is labor lost. Thinking without learning is dangerous."
I took the chainsaw at some of the entries that smelled of complaining all around.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Gritty-ish
The Fringe Headscratchers page
makes me cry...
To elaborate, many questions are simple complaints (many of which mention It Just Bugs Me by name), others are dumb questions that have no place, others yet are simple discussions that have no place. It looks like about half the material should be cut out.
edited 27th Jan '12 12:23:56 PM by agentjohnbishop
I axed several fishy entries, mostly the IQ and 3D ones - I can't describe these as anything but Complaining.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Gritty-ish
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Thanks, I'm going to go through and try to tighten up some of the more poorly written ones and hopefully get rid of any lingering JBM entries.
Gritty-ish
Question, what should be done with the entries that are not head scratchers so much as complaints about bad science. Should they be moved to Fridge or reworded as questions or what? It is a science fiction show after all and pretty much every episode qualifies for this type of thing.
Reworded as questions, methinks. Bad science Headscratchers aren't so much Complaining as they are pedantery.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Gritty-ish
Got it. I just did a pretty extensive cleanup which got rid of the JBM entries, and reworded a bunch of entries to be more concise.
I've axed most of Headscratchers.Vampires Suck with one exception - they were all Complaining or off-topic.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Can someone go over Headscratchers.My Immortal?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
OK, went over Headscratchers.My Immortal.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
But ... butbutbut .. my Headscratchers complaints are brilliant and insightful! Okay, fine: I'll get started on some.
Gritty-ish
Wow, The Truman Show is just awful. There are entries that are simply complaints, entries that repeat other ones, and last but not least, an entry that is simply a reference to another work. I honestly don't have time to clean it up tonight, but it really needs it.
Gave the main "Music" Headscratchers page a sweep-up. I'll start in on some of the sub-pages, but y'all are on your own w/r/t the Rap/Hip-Hop page—in my experience, staying out of rap-related controversies is a generally smart life strategy.
Have cleaned up several Headscratcher: Music sub-pages for individual musicians & genres, roughly L-Z. I've just finished Lady Gaga, and am headed to the bathroom to wash off the stupid.
Finished with nearly all the Music sub-headings. However, there were a few individual entries that I was hesitant to touch because they were nothing but complaints, from beginning to end*. It felt a little high-handed to delete the entire page in question.
- Adam Lambert, Bob Dylan, Disturbed, Insane Clown Posse
If it's nothing but complaining, it's nothing but complaining and needs to go. People can always add legitimate examples at a later date.
Make sure you use the cutlist, though, if you need to remove whole pages; don't just blank them.
A cutlist problem: the page doesn't appear to allow more than one sub-folder, but it's necessary to avoid confusion. For example, it won't accept "Headscratchers/Music/BobDylan," but just "BobDylan" or "Music/BobDylan" would doom the wrong page.
edited 17th Feb '12 9:35:37 AM by Jhimmibhob
Because there is no such thing as Headscratchers/Music/BobDylan. You mean Headscratchers.Bob Dylan.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Go to the page in question and look at what the URL is. Copy the namespace and the actual page title.
It's not letting you add multiple namespaces (which is what those are, not folders) because this site doesn't have nested namespaces.
Thanks, all: taken care of. Consider the Music section cleaned.
edited 17th Feb '12 9:57:14 AM by Jhimmibhob
Given that we have a dedicated complaining cleanup thread for ''all'' pages now, should this one be unpinned and closed?
Headscratchers.Seltzer And Friedberg seems to be exclusively about complaining. What is to do about it?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman