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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#1: Aug 23rd 2011 at 7:04:45 AM

So that [=~ doesn't do anything. It's really annoying to see that, making it easy to directly link to ptitles was a mistake.

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Jeysie Diva of Virtual Death from Western Massachusetts Since: Jun, 2010
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#2: Aug 23rd 2011 at 7:22:01 AM

Well, AFAIK it already doesn't work for adding new wicks.

I'm kind of reluctant to outright break existing wicks done that way, though, as people are already really crappy about not bothering to fix broken wicks and formatting. However, either creating some kind of highly-visible indicator that the link needs de-ptitling, or at least fixing the "Related To:" bug would be nice.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind a nice wick-cleanup project in general, though. I like doing formatting and spelling cleanups whenever I edit a page, in addition to changing moved wicks and adding examples or whatever, and there's a lot of mess. Everything from ptitles and manual custom titling that's no longer necessary, to weird stuff like [[Main/TropeName Trope Name]] or even [[TropeName Trope Name]] that just makes me scratch my head. But at least a drive to fix ptitles would be nice.

edited 23rd Aug '11 7:23:11 AM by Jeysie

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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#3: Aug 23rd 2011 at 10:27:50 AM

I'd support breaking that markup because it doesn't show up on the related to page. Of course, I'd also support fixing that bug so I could actually relatively easily de-ptitle those wicks.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#4: Aug 23rd 2011 at 1:44:26 PM

I'd also prefer something that won't let you use a ptitle on a page that doesn't do indexing. Because that's never supposed to happen. Maybe make it do it like YMMV?

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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#5: Aug 23rd 2011 at 2:52:06 PM

Except in a form that gives the warning even if it isn't the first link in the bullet point.

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