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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

JankyKong He's finally back to kick some... wait from a Secret Base on the Moon Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
He's finally back to kick some... wait
#12576: Oct 31st 2022 at 9:23:13 AM

I think I remember YMMV having a different color from Main, but it's been years since they changed it.

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000)
#12577: Oct 31st 2022 at 9:37:21 AM

I vaguely remember that, too.

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loserswithwifi (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12578: Oct 31st 2022 at 1:37:36 PM

If you click on a Grammarly suggestion while you're editing a TV Tropes page, it deletes all of the text before the word it changed.

ChloeJessica Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
#12579: Oct 31st 2022 at 1:39:27 PM

you're supposed to disable those plugins on the wiki

GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#12580: Oct 31st 2022 at 2:00:09 PM

[up]That's for fully automated plugins, such as the infamous one that changes every instance of "cloud" to "butt" without the user having to touch anything to get it to work. I haven't used any spelling/grammar checkers, but the term "suggestion" implies that you have to tell the plugin to make the change instead of it doing automatically.

...That said, blindly trusting suggested fixes isn't good since they aren't perfect and show false positives, so they can still lead to suspensions.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 31st 2022 at 4:01:01 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Irene (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#12581: Oct 31st 2022 at 2:55:45 PM

...I didn't even notice the name change till I read the header here. [lol]

Oh, and yup, still too much popcorning. I am aware of the irony of this thread when I say this.

Shadow?
GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#12582: Nov 1st 2022 at 4:23:00 AM

I feel like I've mentioned how my idea of waiving the Three-Day Rule for Not Thriving threads on TRS ended up becoming a highlight of the early months of my mod work (at least to me), but I think how it affects the process was particularly easy to see within the past few hours, as the TRS Queue happened to have two Not Thriving threads in a row, and the first was finished in a little over three hours (started at 10:42 PM CDT and closed at 1:54 AM CDT), and the second was finished a little over two hours after the first finished (started less than a minute after the first one was closed and closed itself at 4:13 AM CDT).

I'm not saying this to brag about my crazy idea, especially since I'm pretty sure I first mentioned here it not long after I started posting on Yack Fest; I'm mentioning it because I don't recall any other cases of more than one Not Thriving thread consecutively having the Three-Day Rule waived (if there have been cases of more than one consecutive Not Thriving thread at all since then), so this is probably a first when it comes to that practice.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 1st 2022 at 6:25:04 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#12583: Nov 1st 2022 at 4:42:00 AM

[up] The only side effect of that is that I was asleep when those two threads opened and closed, and thus couldn't participate.

Ah well, if it moves the queue along it moves the queue along.

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GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#12584: Nov 1st 2022 at 7:05:12 AM

[up]I was only really awake because insomnia often leaves me with an inconsistent sleep schedule. I don't know if any other mods (or at least ones who moderate TRS) were even online at the time.

I got a rock for Halloween.
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#12585: Nov 1st 2022 at 10:37:14 AM

Hey, how do y'all crosswick things. Do you just copy what was already there and paste it with a few tweaks or do you rewrite the entry?

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#12586: Nov 1st 2022 at 10:38:50 AM

I'd hate if an entry differed between two pages, but they often do (if crosswicked at all). To me they logically should be identical.

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000)
#12587: Nov 1st 2022 at 10:39:03 AM

I just copy and paste, rewriting whatever I have to but I don't just make a new entry from scratch.

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BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#12588: Nov 1st 2022 at 10:40:01 AM

Cool. I'm just asking cause I want to do some crosswicking and was wondering what was proper.

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NitroIndigo ♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves from West Midlands region, England Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves
#12589: Nov 1st 2022 at 10:54:23 AM

I don't like it when every single example on a trope page begins with "Work title:" because it looks too stiff (someone did this to Token Aquatic Race shortly after it was launched)... but I also don't like it when every entry begins with "In work," either.

CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#12590: Nov 1st 2022 at 10:59:47 AM

I'll admit I'm guilty of that. But when there is a clear spot to put the work name in, I place it there.

Example:

Trope example in work page

  • Chainsaw Good: The chainsaw has a high damage output and is the only weapon able to kill Enemy X, making it the best weapon in the game.

Trope example on the trope itself.

  • The chainsaw has a high damage output and is the only weapon able to kill Enemy X, making it the best weapon in Work X.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000)
#12591: Nov 1st 2022 at 11:08:01 AM

The concern is that if/when 2.0 rolls around, everything will be automatically crosswicked based on the first link in the example... so if there's a wick before the actual work name wick, it'll get screwed up.

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we must dissent (it/they)
#12592: Nov 1st 2022 at 11:08:52 AM

...it annoys me when I have to read through the entire example just to find out what work it's from.

(I think my habit is to start with a form something like "The chainsaw from [work title] has...")

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000)
#12593: Nov 1st 2022 at 11:09:57 AM

I usually just go "Work: Example". It may not be as stylistic, but then you limit how many words you need and you can just get right into the meat of it.

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PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#12594: Nov 1st 2022 at 11:10:19 AM

[up][up][up] Wait, really? That’ll probably be the best thing to happen to the wiki ever.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Nov 1st 2022 at 2:10:26 PM

BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#12595: Nov 1st 2022 at 11:12:06 AM

I tend to do either "In [work]" or "[Work] features" though sometimes I use it as an opportunity to make jokes.

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ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#12596: Nov 1st 2022 at 11:12:12 AM

Everything about 2.0 sounds amazing, but almost in a too-good-to-be-true way with the current admin team size.

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#12597: Nov 1st 2022 at 11:15:43 AM

Crosswicking also gives me another layer of check. If by copying an example from work/characters page to a trope page it sounds off or loses context, it must have been poorly written in the first place.

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000)
#12598: Nov 1st 2022 at 11:18:50 AM

The worst part of crosswicking is when you run into pages that are designed to be as impossible as possible. Soft-split trope pages are head-ache inducing, especially if the split is overly specific for no good reason. Meanwhile, some work pages are so split up by category that if you don't know the work you're screwed.

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FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#12599: Nov 1st 2022 at 11:57:29 AM

I'm planning on re-crosswicking Power Bomberman in the future, but there's some tropes that I'm not going to crosswick because are redundant with the canon games.

BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#12600: Nov 1st 2022 at 12:33:17 PM

Oh, I just remembered. If its a character Trope I might refer to the character as "[Work]'s character".

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