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
Hey, can someone please update the directory? There appear to be some long-term, large-scale threads that aren't covered here. The Ban Evader Reversion Thread
comes to mind.
Edited by Bomber-Boi on Mar 12th 2025 at 12:19:02 PM
I just took a look for pothole and sinkhole-related stuff as part of a query on Wiki Talk
, and I noticed that the Sinkhole cleanup thread
isn't here for some reason. That's strange… sinkholes are one of the more common problems IIRC. (There is the general cleanup thread
, but that's… well, general.)
Edited by Bomber-Boi on Dec 10th 2024 at 10:23:15 AM
Is there any thread where I can bring up entries that seem like they're trying to make the Big Bad seem more sympathetic than in reality?
I don't want the world, I just want your half.
I guess you could try the Big "Big Bad" cleanup project
.
Is there any kind of project thread for Character Shilling misuse? Came across an example that I want to discuss but I'm not sure where the best place would be.
I guess you could start a thread for Character Shilling cleanup if it’s misused enough.
Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!By the way, maybe there should be a thread for cleaning up misplaced YMMV (and maybe Trivia) entries. Sometimes moving them is straightforward, but other times I’m unsure what to do.
Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!We have Administrivia.Pages Needing Example Sorting, but is there are thread dedicated to it?
Is there a thread for cleaning up badly foldered pages? Literature.The Boxcar Children is separated out by book.
I focus on obscure 1990s or graphic Middle Grade Literature novels and dolls. (She or zie, not they.)The Finicky One was created in 2012. I can only assume that the standards were different back then, because it's literally 2 sentences long and would get bombed as TLP first draft today.
I'm not prepared to fix it myself at the moment (to walk it through TRS, or to write a proper page from nearly-scratch). Is there any, like... list of "crappy pages that need to be reviewed when someone has time" that I could put it on?
Edited by Eievie on Jun 26th 2025 at 11:02:14 AM
It's already on Tropes Needing TRS. If you want a thread to talk about it, you could start a Trope Talk thread or bring it up at the Trope Repair Shop meta thread.
i would like to ask a question: where do i propose lumping certain tropes into one? i have a list of certain tropes that i feel are way too similar for any differences between the two to matter (eg. Tae Kwon Door vs. The Door Slams You, Absurdly Sharp Blade vs. Sharpened to a Single Atom).
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That would be the Trope Repair Shop. Make sure to follow the Trope Repairing Guidelines or your thread will probably be declined.
Edited by FSharp on Jun 27th 2025 at 8:09:44 AM
I don't just Wiki Talk the talk. I Wiki Walk the walk.Is there a general long-term project for Adaptation Tropes, specifically types of Adaptation Deviation? I think something like that could be useful, since people can debate the extent of changes in an adaptation. Is an Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole actually a plothole? Is a case of Adaptational Ugliness actually in effect? Has a character gone through Adaptational Villainy, or Adaptational Heroism? Maybe a Short-Term project instead?
Should the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads still be linked in the header? I mean, both tropes are indefinitely locked for new examples, and the threads were locked accordingly.
Edited by DarkJediPrincess on Jul 21st 2025 at 4:02:39 AM
she/her/hers | Troper WallBumping this
. I’d add that misplaced YMMV/Trivia entries may need to be reworded if moved, and occasionally YMMV potholes come up on main work pages that I’m unsure what to do with (What Goes Where on the Wiki says Trivia potholes on main work pages are okay).
Edited by Lymantria on Jul 23rd 2025 at 12:49:10 PM
Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!

Is there somewhere I can go for Informed Wrongness? There's an entry I found that I'm debating on deleting because it misses an important detail that, as far as I'm concerned, undeniably proves the "informed" wrongness with little to no room for doubt. The last sentence also starts with "Unfortunately", which makes me think it's stealth complaining, but my concern is the "objective incorrectness" and I don't know where to go for that.