Discuss TV Tropes itself, such as observations you've made about the site/forum/wiki.
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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 13th 2024 at 12:59:03 PM
I'll think about it if I research Radio/ pages, in my head not all radio are podcasts and not podcasts are radio, but how the works pages are used may shows something different. I wouldn't mind merging both with Audio Play/.
Edited by Amonimus on Aug 17th 2022 at 5:00:14 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupAs mentioned, the less interactive V Ns are like virtual books with/or pictures so they wouldn't belong on Video Game/ unless someone wants to argue that they should go in Literature/.
Podcast/ and Radio/ existed before the Audioplay/ catchall. I (and I think others) suggested the namespace because we needed a catchall for works that aren't podcasts or on radio like drama cds.
Macron's notesIn other news, every time a forum shows an odd timestamp with no new posts having been made I always get a little suspicious because it's like... I know I missed something but now I'll never know what. This sort of thing only happens when thread get moved/deleted, but most of them just get deleted.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI was creating and nuking threads to test if pinging tropers in the OP works on other subforums or if it's just TRS. Turns out it doesn't work anywhere.
Macron's notesWell that's not cool, but is interesting to know what would happen in certain cases.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupRE: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13646132210A95550100&page=367#comment-9171
There is apparently a wiki overhaul in the process, and if they're switching to a database for namespaces, that would make such changes much easier.
2.0? Well, it's taking a long ass time to the point it might not be made as said here
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Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Aug 17th 2022 at 7:27:45 AM
CG for shortThat wiki overhaul was suggested in like 2016 and up today has been nothing more than a suggestion.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupIt's fine if done well. It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white (fan of work or brought by a critic) as long as it catches mice (made a good work page). I've actually done that a couple of times, like with VideoGame.Raid 2020.
Edited by Piterpicher on Aug 18th 2022 at 10:51:24 AM
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)I've done it before too, though I take care to only trope the objective information, and I usually get the info from reviewers and analyzers who don't exaggerate or alter the original work (at least beyond the sake of a few very obvious gags). It's how I made pages for things like My Dads Tapes without needing to binge the pretty long series.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallDo you mean pings? Yes, they do (unless you are doing it wrong or if it's in an OP post).
Macron's notesRegarding pings not working in opening posts (as Macron previously mentioned), the admins started looking into that after I mentioned it to them, so eventually paging the creators of TRS thread drafts to threads made by others using said drafts will no longer require double posting.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 18th 2022 at 12:26:24 PM
I got a rock for Halloween.I'm surprized they're even looking into it, it's not like it's the most pressing bug at the moment.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup

But with internet radio stations (which also host podcasts) is that even an important distinction? Many of these shows are saved online now.
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