Weblinks Are Not Examples

Ahhhhh. Question: Is the Image Links cleanup thread covered by another?

Wake The Sleepers

EVERY link that isn't a ZCE relies on a weblink to demonstrate the trope. Not very illustrative

Strawberry Death Cake is arguably worse. Tons of ZCE accompanied by weblinks... only problem being the hosting site sourcing the webcomic is DEAD.

Edited by RobertTYL on Jul 12th 2021 at 1:37:35 AM

I made a discussion post on the work page as well about this but realized this might be a better way to bring attention to it. Perry Bible Fellowship has a lot of commented-out ZCEs that are just weblinks. There are other issues that necessitate the replacement of links on the page with new non-borked ones, but it appears that a fair few of the linked strips have been removed from the site the comic is hosted on.

Should those be left commented-out, or should the ZCE entries for them be removed from the page entirely, since without a working link or the name of the strip given there's not much way to find and add context?

I think this thread is useful and I have plenty of examples to prove it.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/CyanideAndHappiness

It is not AS bad as I thought but still pretty bad.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TearJerker/CyanideAndHappiness

This one is just awful though.

Aaaaand... another Weblink hell.

The KAMics — worth saving?

and Yup, I see what you mean. Every trope appears to be a ZCE or relies on a link for context. Unless someone wants to do the heavy lifting (and I mean heavy, as there are a lot of tropes), I’m fine with these being cutlisted or whatever else seems appropriate.

Edit: Looked at the edit history for these. One contributor (Nombretomado) is responsible for The KAMics. Maybe a message should be sent saying clean it up within a week or it goes? The other two pages had multiple contributors, unfortunately.

Edited by BoltDMC on Aug 3rd 2021 at 11:43:58 AM

Agreed about Wake the Sleepers. It's all ZCEs and links. The person who created the page did so almost 10 years ago, so no idea if they're still around.

Looks like you were able to salvage the Strawberry Death Cake page with four decent tropes. I was able to find the comic at another site, so I replaced the link to the work.

I took a crack at commenting out the ZCEs from The Kamics. There were over 100 of them that I commented out, and that still may not be all of them.

Edited by Shadow8411 on Aug 3rd 2021 at 1:40:56 AM

Bravo — great work! You’ve got more patience than me.

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls has some on Sunsets folder. I will add that we should have a clean up for ship propaganda.

Edmund Finneys Quest To Find The Meaning Of Life

... anyone else want to make themselves suffer and clean this mess?

It should look much better now.

Rare Candy Treatment

Weblink abuse and ZCE problems aside, are all the links on the page dead (or it's just my internet being crap as usual)?

Edited by RobertTYL on Aug 14th 2021 at 3:20:29 AM

Another one that's dead: Out at Home

Angband Tales From The Pit consists almost entirely of weblinks with little to no context, with some "examples" being just "Trope Name: Here" (with "here" linked to the strip in question). The edits go as far back as 2011, yet almost every edit since then has been formatting fixes, Wick Namespace Migration, removing/replacing defunct tropes, etc.

Edited by Shadow8411 on Aug 19th 2021 at 9:52:11 AM

Seijuu Sentai Gingaman

The Awesome Music examples are all dead links. Including one that makes comparisons between two of them and is basically a ZCE.

The Brawl in the Family example over in MundaneUtility.Web Comics has a weblink that is not working properly.

I did test another weblink to the webcomic to see if the site is still around, and it is. So, all we need is to swap in a working link...and add context to the example.

Another day, another few webcomic pages last updated years ago, infested with ZCE relying on weblinks: Two Gamerz, In Wily's Defense and Five Color Control

Also, either my internet is being shitty as usual, or all the links all three pages are DED

Edited by RobertTYL on Sep 23rd 2021 at 12:24:26 AM

You're right, all links are dead. But after a little bit of googling, I actually found this video for In Wily's Defense that has a link to a google drive with seemingly every strip in it. I couldn't find anything on the other two comics, though. Just long dead twitter accounts.

Edit: Actually, what's our policy on troping works that are unavailable?

Edited by NervousShark on Sep 24th 2021 at 11:12:53 AM

Bump, the above question still needs to be answered.

And on the other hand... Crossover Wars. Granted, the source comic isn't dead this time, but every single trope relies on a weblink. And its from 2 years ago, so...

Musical Pastiche haves a bunch of broken links and stuff. Expecially in the anime folder.

With the loss of Adobe Flash, many web-based games became unplayable, and not may people want to go to the trouble of downloading a flash emulator, meaning that pages like Virtual Paper Doll have a lot of links that are technically "dead" despite the fact that the host website still works due to the fact that the relevant program is inoperable. As such, the affected pages should be updated to either purge flash-based links from the page, or move them to a dedicated sub-folder that die-hards can utilize.

Anime And Manga is filled with broken links and ZC Es.

... hello, 2021!

Anyway, Slimy Swamp Ghost has dead link problems. All of them

Planet B has four on-page examples and two related pages. Of those, half have weblinks in their examples. One is a ZCE weblink, and one is a ZCE weblink with quote. The problem is that the site has changed domains, and the new site shut down, so I can't add the context. What do I do?