There is, the mods make a page, then cut it. Phantom wiks occur when a page gets blanked in a nonstandard way. Personally, I think a better habit to get into would be to blank a page before cutting it.
Fight smart, not fair.Actually, Fast Eddie has to go in an clean the old JBM and Crowning moments wicks from the database end, due to the way those pages were unmade.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Old userpages are no problem, but IJBM's and Crowning Moments are a bitch to work around when it comes to phantom wicks.
I now go by Graf von Tirol.
Do we have permission to edit the ones we can and put them on the cutlist, or should we leave that to the mods? I was told off for it by Camacan because it fills up untyped pages with empty pages, although we could set them all as subpages to get away from that problem.
edited 21st Oct '11 8:24:48 AM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial FlameEdit the ones you can find and cutlist them. Camacan wasn't aware of what was going on when he scolded you. Now he is. It wouldn't hurt to drop him a PM if you do a whole raft of them at once, though.
^^ And thank you so much, Eddie. That will make the big wick clean-ups much easier.
edited 21st Oct '11 8:38:21 AM by Madrugada
What about the suggestion to set them as subpages? (a sort of catch-all for something that isn't anything else.) Which would get round the thing he scolded me for (it wasn't for Cut Listing them, it was for the problem with untyped pages.)
Keeper of The Celestial FlameNo, just cutlist them with a reason for cutting along the lines of "Previously-cut page in Main left phantom wick to [tropename]. Null edit to kill the wick remade the page."
There's no need to set a page type for a page that the cutmasters are going to burn immediately, and when they cut it, it disappears from the "Pages needing page type" list.
He scolded you because he didn't know that the wick clean-ups were generating new pages with null edits on cut pages. That's all been cleared up out now.
edited 21st Oct '11 9:18:15 AM by Madrugada
Yeah, it's pretty much:
TroperWorks/
Contributors/
Subjectives/
IAmNotMakingThisUp/
HeartwarmingMoment/
I've seen that I can think of off-hand.
edited 22nd Oct '11 8:28:16 AM by Jeysie
Apparently I am adorable, but my GF is my #1 Groupie. (Avatar by Dreki-K)Adaptation Decay and Title Bin are two other ones. I'll manually delete them now.
edited 22nd Oct '11 6:50:14 PM by nuclearneo577
Please always set the page type when recreating a page to get rid of a ghost wick. Between the time the page is recreated and it gets cut it clutters up the untyped pages list
: without someone setting all those pages we can't see and fix the other pages that are unset and need to sorted out.
Since the pages are going to be cut at some point, I've just been setting them to "Just to for fun" rather than bother to work out the proper type.
edited 3rd Nov '11 9:46:10 PM by Camacan
@Jeysie: Yeah, TroperWorks in particular, seeing a way that it has been undone to a degree that I can't edit it or place it on the cutlist, even as it's still causing stubborn phantoms.
I now go by Graf von Tirol.I got a phantom title search hit on TroperTales.Two Eyes Good Four Eyes Bad, which can't be re-created because it's Troper Tales. What should I do?
Edit: Also, it seems phantom deleted redirects (like Twenty Five Year Old Woman) still contain the redirect text when you try to null-edit them. Is that normal?
edited 20th Dec '12 5:18:02 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Particularly when phantom wicks had originated through It Just Bugs Me and any Crowning Moment section. I wonder if there is any way to address the issue with phantom wicks resulting through that (I've observed that while cleaning up wicks for the Deus Ex entries).
edited 19th Oct '11 1:07:11 PM by EarlOfSandvich
I now go by Graf von Tirol.