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
Is there a general indentation in example lists cleanup? Sometimes I note work pages with amounts of unrelated examples at different bullet levels / nested tropes / slashed examples / Audience Reactions notifications that are "too many to fix myself right away".
Edited by Amonimus on Nov 17th 2021 at 4:30:56 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupIs there any thread that directly addresses the Dethroning Moment Of Suck pages? I know there's one about general negativity but this is something I want to discuss in particular.
Edited by zendle on Dec 14th 2021 at 8:01:39 AM
There's not; I'm not sure what we'd actually clean up there since the entire point of that section is for people to rant.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI’ve had to remove at least one instance of Creator Bashing on DMOS.
Well, okay. I should rephrase.
There are rules about DMOS that do get broken. But I don't think a DMOS-specific thread would be a good idea. It's a slippery slope from just enforcing the rules to people trying to tone-police Darth Wiki, or bringing up entries out of personal disagreement. We can clean up rule-breaking issues without a fullscale cleanup effort for that part of the site.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall![]()
But we have a Horrible cleanup thread. Isn't that thread already doing that?
Not advocating for a DMOS cleanup BTW, just saying that there is a Horrible cleanup.
Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Dec 16th 2021 at 10:35:02 AM
Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallBy tone policing, I didn't mean what we're doing at the Horrible cleanup (which is just curating things to make sure examples fit the restrictions). I meant that a DMOS cleanup would potentially and easily slide into trying to cleanup examples that are "too complainy" or that express views people disagree with- policing the tone of the examples in the one part of the site we're allowed to complain.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI can't seem to find the thread for disambig trope wick clean up. Someone said they were going to make one
and I wanted to see how that was going.

That's it, thanks.
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.