This thread lists the large-scale, ongoing projects which cover multiple pages in the wiki. Don't hesitate to bump a long-disused thread. These are general use threads, so duplicates are discouraged.
Pages and Wicks
- Wick Migration
: For namespace migration work, including pages moves and all types of not-supposed-to-be-in-Main/ pages and wicks.
- Cut List Queries & Challenges: For appealing a cut request, before or after the page is removed.
Wick issues
- Maintaining Cleanups: For past large-scale cleanup efforts that need their wicks checked periodically to make sure new misuse hasn't crept in.
- Pages that Need Crosswicking: For pages with wick/example number imbalances.
- Redirect Farming: For help coming up with redirects for pages.
- Disambiguation Queries: For help disambiguating pages and works with the same name.
- What index(es) should this go on?: For collaboration on finding indexes for un-indexed items.
- Rename/Transplant Wick Cleaning: For Trope Repair Shop (and other) wick cleanups which stalled out.
Page cleaning or work
General
- too-long page repair.: For splitting pages that hit the "too long" warning.
- Calling all Grammar police!: For pages which have major grammar issues.
- Cleanup help needed: For repairing vandalism and other quick fixes.
- Inbound Watch: For cleaning up (Example Indentation, Natter, etc.) pages which are getting a lot of outside traffic.
- P5 Cleanup pile and lewdness issues: Both works that need cleanup per The Content Policy and those that violate No Lewdness, No Prudishness are to be listed here.
- Real Life People Cleanup Project: For dealing with wiki pages on Real Life people.
- Removing complaining, bashing and other negativity from the wiki: For pages with negativity, complaining, or bashing problems.
- Removing Gushing from the Wiki: For pages with gushing problems.
- Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment Cleanup: For pages with potential bias (or other ROCEJ issues) in their examples or description.
- Short Subpage Thread: For deciding whether a subpage needs to be merged into another page.
- Soft Split Cleanup: For soft splits where multiple works are listed on the same page
- TLP Crash Rescue - Fixing prematurely launched TLPs and pages: For pages which were launched prematurely (primarily TLP drafts).
- General Page Quote Discussion: For maintenance of page quotes in general.
Descriptions
- Improving work descriptions: For issues with work descriptions.
- Removing Fan Myopia from Descriptions: For descriptions that suffer from Fan Myopia.
- Trope Description Improvement Drive: For issues with trope descriptions.
Examples
- Fact Checking: For requesting assistance to check that examples are factually accurate.
- Fixing zero context examples: For pages that are full of Zero Context Examples.
- NATTER ALERT!: For pages that are full of natter.
- Speculative Troping Cleanup: For examples making assumptions that aren't confirmed within the work.
- Remember: Weblinks Are Not Examples: For pages with Weblinks Are Not Examples problems.
- "TropeName: Type X" Cleanup: For Type Labels Are Not Examples issues.
- The Works Pot Hole Liberation Movement: For fixing work names which are potholed in example lists.
Other
- Navbox and Floatbox Cleanup: For cleanup and maintenance of navigation boxes and float boxes.
- Wikiword (Custom Title) Cleanup: For queries and cleanup regarding custom wikiword requests.
Specific namespaces
Namespace Wikis and the like
- The Analysis Namespace: For questions regarding or help with Analysis pages.
- Fanfiction Clean-up and Maintenance Thread: Fanfic/ and Fanfic Recs/ maintenance thread.
- Laconic Description Improvement: For maintenance of the Laconic Wiki.
- Playing With Wiki: General Cleanup and Writing Help: For maintenance of and help with the Playing With Wiki.
- Recap Cleanup: Recap/ maintenance thread.
- Roleplay Namespace Cleanup and Maintenance Roleplay clean-up thread
- Useful Notes Cleanup: A clean up thread for UsefulNotes/ pages.
- Wild Mass Cleanup: For reorganizing the WMG pages according to the guidelines.
- Laconic Description Improvement: Laconic description help thread.
Character pages
- Characters Page Cleanup: General cleanup for existing Characters pages.
- Character-Specific Page Cleanup: Creation and cleanup for character-specific pages. These pages shouldn't be created without approval from the thread.
- Inanimate 'Character' Cleanup: Cleanup for existing character pages listing inanimate objects, vehicles or locations as if they were characters.
Long-term efforts for tropes
Specific tropes
- Ass Pull Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Ass Pull examples.
- Base-Breaking Character Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Base-Breaking Character examples.
- Complete Monster Proposal Thread: Discussion regarding proposals for Complete Monster examples.
- Complete Monster Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Complete Monster examples.
- Condemned By History Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Condemned by History examples.
- Expy Cleanup Thread: Cleanup for existing Expy examples.
- Five-Man Band Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Five-Man Band examples.
- Hate Sink Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Hate Sink examples.
- Hindsight Cleanup Thread: Cleanup for existing examples of the various hindsight tropes
- Magnificent Bastard Proposal Thread: Discussion regarding proposals for Magnificent Bastard examples.
- Magnificent Bastard Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Magnificent Bastard examples.
- Nightmare Fuel Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Nightmare Fuel examples.
- Overshadowed by Controversy Cleanup: Cleanup for existing examples of Overshadowed by Controversy.
- The Scrappy Cleanup: Cleanup for existing examples of The Scrappy.
- Shout Out Cleanup: Cleanup for existing Shout-Out examples.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome Cleanup: Cleanup for existing examples of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome.
Other
- Fixing Actors/Actresses pages to remove personal tropes.: For coordinating work on removing Personal Appearance Tropes from actor, creator, etc., pages.
- Real Life section maintenance: Setting and reviewing "No Real Life Examples" (NRLEP) rules and restrictions on specific Real Life categories for tropes. Cleanup for any pages with problematic Real Life sections.
- Recent Examples Maintenance: Setting and reviewing "No Recent Examples" (NREP) and similar time-based rules for tropes. Cleanup for any examples with NREP issues.
- Reality Show Cleanup Thread: For dealing with Reality Show and Reality TV pages that cross the line into Real Life Troping.
- Real Life People Cleanup: For moving articles about Real Life people to Useful Notes and applying notability standards.
- Missing Supertropes: For finding supertropes to organize tropes into.
- The Grand Unified Appearance Trope Clean-up: Cleanup for appearance-related tropes.
Edited by Mrph1 on Jan 31st 2024 at 11:41:08 AM
Do we have a thread for discussing merging pages that are too short? Like, a work page gets split into subpages A-M and N-Z but both are too short to be their own pages.
CSP Cleanup Thread | All that I ask for ... is diamonds and dance floors
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16537518770A08137400&page=10#236
"Is this subpage too short?": Re-merging Project
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
CG for short
Where's the Laconic Clean-Up thread again?
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Thanks!
Edited by Cutegirl920fire on May 28th 2023 at 12:39:40 PM
Victor of HGS S320 | "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
(she/her)
It's also in the pinned directory post.
Macron's notes
he/him
Two unrelated questions -
- Do we have an "Is this excessive detail for an example?" thread anywhere? If not, what's the best place to raise such things when it doesn't count as Wall of Text (e.g. when a second opinion on cutting detail would be welcome)?
- I know there's a subpage merge thread, but is there a works page split/merge thread for pages that aren't just starving for tropes or too long - e.g. when a trilogy's on a single page and a split is contemplated, or when a Sequel Series is sufficently close to the original that tropers want to merge it?
Thanks!
Edited by Mrph1 on Jun 4th 2023 at 2:21:06 PM
Is there a thread for Darthwiki/Sugarwiki?
Edited by Wario on Jun 5th 2023 at 5:56:45 AM
Now a lurker. Thanks for everything. | he/him
I have an idea. Hear me out.
So, I'm noticing many different tropers having confusion finding specific threads for things—you can see several examples in this very thread.
Since the forum search function is so terrible, I'm wondering if we could semi-resurrect an old discussion and maybe put all the important or semi-important threads for wiki maintenance, cleanup, etc. in a giant Sandbox or Administrivia page. Essentially merging the current page with Sandbox.Pages With Cleanup Projects, along with links to general subforums like the Trope Repair Shop, Trope Talk, Wiki Talk, etc. and specific pages like Tropes Needing TRS, the TRS Queue, the IP-related sandboxes, maybe a link to the Monster Sandboxes and Magnificent Bastard Sandboxes, etc. It'd be stored (for now) on Sandbox.Wiki Maintenace Directory. Maybe, to help confused tropers, we could even have a broader Sandbox.Wiki Directory page to guide tropers to wherever they need to go.
Good idea, or bad idea? Is it too cluttered? Should we hash out the scope first?
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall
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I still have Project Thread Map but I don't think have the interest or the attention span to work on it right now.
Macron's notes
Now a lurker. Thanks for everything. | he/him
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I'd rather start from scratch. My idea potentially encompasses more than cleanup and maintenance threads and would include sandboxes and relevant Administrivia pages that are good to keep in mind.
I may start the sandbox myself, with permission, actually.
Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Jun 9th 2023 at 12:26:55 PM
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall
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Oh, I see. My sandbox was specifically for updating this thread's OP so I might keep it around.
I think there was another sandbox like that but I forgot the name of it. I don't think it had administrivia page links. The wiki maintenance directory idea sounds ok to me. A general wiki directory is probably not within the scope of this thread though.
Edited by MacronNotes on Jun 9th 2023 at 1:41:35 PM
Macron's notes
Now a lurker. Thanks for everything. | he/him
Wait, is it within or not within the scope? If it's the latter, could I take it to Wiki Talk?
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall
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The latter. I edited my post sorry. Wiki Talk sounds fine.
Macron's notes
Now a lurker. Thanks for everything. | he/him
One-Track Mind (he/him)
I wanna talk about how problematic I think JustForFun.Deviant Art Recommendations is, but I don't know where to go to discuss this. Where should I take this problem?
This is Idol Tap. (My Troper Wall)
One-Track Mind (he/him)
The Short-Term Projects thread has become less active in recent months. Where should I go to discuss that?
This is Idol Tap. (My Troper Wall)
(she/her)
The fact it's less active is fine. There's no need to discuss it. We are all volunteers. When people have the time to work on it, they will do that. We can't force people to do anything.
Macron's notes
One-Track Mind (he/him)
Where is the absent people thread? I can't find it.
This is Idol Tap. (My Troper Wall)
the Retromancer
he/him
Any chance we can add the NREP thread to the "Long-term efforts for tropes" section of the pinned post?
- Recent Examples Maintenance: Setting and reviewing "No Recent Examples" (NREP) and similar time-based rules for tropes. Cleanup for any examples with NREP issues.
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That's done
Macron's notes
One-Track Mind (he/him)
I found some examples of Tsundere that still use the "Type A" and "Type B" labels. Where do I go to discuss examples like that?
This is Idol Tap. (My Troper Wall)
the Retromancer
Type Labels Are Not Examples can lean to either Zero-Context Example or Word Cruft, so I'd go to either here or here depending on if it's contextualized. In either case, "Type A" in examples holdd no meaning and should be removed.
lmao
Is there a thread for discussing if a work page's examples should be folderised due to length?
I'm wick-cleaning Getting Crap Past The, and the examples for Lord Peter Wimsey take me more than 40 scrolls of my mouse to reach the bottom (not counting the "Tropes Found in Adaptations" list at the bottom).
Creepypasta cleanup got two major pages for JTK and Slender
For that I would use the is this an example
thread