TLP Crash Rescue - Fixing prematurely launched TLPs and pages

Uck. Unlaunching. Sending a holler. They were launched by Riedling 1234

There's no account with that username. Did you misspell it?

Edit: OK, I checked and it was Reidling 1234. I suspended them.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 18th 2024 at 11:22:27 AM

Damn, it's possible that I did. :/

Edit: Oh, that was fast. Cool cool

Edited by WarJay77 on Mar 18th 2024 at 12:22:59 PM

I’ve also noticed a problem with troper R8ings Guy. They appear to rush their tropes into TLP and seem in a huge hurry to get them out. I’ve commented on their latest draft, Divorced To Be Gay, which hasn’t even been up 24 hours and already has a launch date of Friday, with no resolution on the various questions. I have already posted a complaint on the thread telling them they can’t launch until questions are answered and to slow things down in general. It’s not clear if they’re listening, though.

Link to the proposed trope in question here.

Edit: They have specifically launched four tropes in the last three days.

Edited by BoltDMC on Mar 20th 2024 at 10:09:58 AM

Sorry to have to report them again, but R8ings Guy, who was just released from suspension, went right onto one of their TLP proposals and added a “last chance for feedback” launch date of Monday — but as far as I can see, none of the myriad issues brought up were addressed. I responded saying that they need to fix the various problems and remove the launch announcement, otherwise I plan to holler the draft to have it locked. It’s one that was stealth launched earlier, titled Constantly Spells Their Name. Link here.

They have also added a “last chance for feedback” launch note to another of their proposals, Divorced To Be Gay, for next Friday. Link here. It’s in somewhat better shape than the one above, though there’s still ongoing discussion on it. However, IIRC the terms of their suspension release said they should be working on only one TLP draft at a time.

I could be wrong, but this seems like minimal improvement at best from them.

For the record, "deal with the issues or I'll holler the draft asking for a lock" feels too much like mini-modding. Threats with mod actions are not allowed. If issues are worth mod attention, do holler, but this part is not something that's decided between users.

Fair enough. I’ll leave it at the holler if needed.

Edited by BoltDMC on Mar 30th 2024 at 7:38:01 AM

Video Games of 1990–1994 seem to have been launched the moment it got enough hats. Since it's an index it probably doesn't much, but is there an issue?

I have some backlash due to how many indexes are appearing in the TLP. My main question with this one is... Why those random dates. Why just four years of videogames?

It's not random, naturally it was casued by Video Games of the 1990s getting too-long. I'm not sure if it'd be better as a subpage without involving TLP, but this isn't the right thread for this thought.

Talent Incubator seems to have recently been stealth launched. It was also not released as trivia, even though many people mentioned in the draft that it was trivia.

~Not Grant Morrison

So, it was kicked back a few hours ago. It still being up is likely a glitch.

Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 1st 2024 at 10:40:47 AM

I'm worried about Smart People Shoot. It has enough hats and technically had a launch notice, and the specific examples I brought up were technically addressed but I don't think the underlying issues leading to such poor examples were addressed.

Given this was launched with the absolute bare minimum amount of time technically allowed I didn't even have time to chime in to say "I think it's a good idea for this to gestate longer" before it launched.

Lebanese Media was just launched as a trope, even though the other pages under Works By Nationality are indices.

So? The draft even says it's an index. ~deerhornsaresopretty just needs to change the pagetype on the right to "index" and it's done.

Hey, how do I do that?

See at the bottom/right "page info", "page type", "change"

I'm concerned about Hair Substitute Feature. (TLP here). It barely skirts the hats vs bombs, and the description needs more. Did it have a launch announcement? (I've been away for several days for a family issue, so I may have missed that.)

Looks like it did have a launch notice.

A'ight, then no worries. Thank you.

Is the Launch process trimming the draft's name into the final form, a bug / issue because it makes it harder to find launch notices? Or should we leave it alone?

Is it just me, or was Burnout Babe launched despite unanswered questions from the last three contributors of posts to the draft? In general, the trope sponsor didn’t seem to engage much with the folks who left feedback. If I’m wrong, my bad, of course.

Link to the TLP proposal here.

They do seem to have addressed multiple things, but the broader issues, like "the description is too narrow for the examples" and the criticisms of the name aren't addressed.

Maybe unlaunch and PM Doctor Sleep to ask for a response in the comments.

Burnout seems to be very rare terminology for that type of teenager, so it's not Clear in the Clear, Concise, Witty.

Circa 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocks_and_Burnouts - And hasn't made it into a dictionary?

I only know what it is because it was mentioned in ''Because Internet''.

EDIT: Seems like her use of "burnout" is just a slight shift from "burnt out by drugs, given the mention of "chemicals"" in here, if you search for "chemicals".

Edited by Malady on Apr 7th 2024 at 7:23:31 AM