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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

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
#13276: Nov 23rd 2022 at 3:36:14 PM

The Pokédex - Extended Fanon Edition is pretty old as far as I'm aware. Also pretty dead. I should finish whatever my current entry claim is or claim a Pokémon if I haven't.

Edited by BackSet1 on Nov 23rd 2022 at 6:36:27 AM

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#13277: Nov 23rd 2022 at 3:53:15 PM

Since my thesis (And it's grip on most of my writing brain matter) is almost done I should be free to get back to writing articles soon enough.

Edited by rmctagg09 on Nov 23rd 2022 at 6:53:40 AM

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#13278: Nov 23rd 2022 at 4:00:52 PM

I guess you could argue some of the more "fun" namespaces could only have been created in the site's early days, but they're so common-place and so ingrained with the site's culture that I can hardly consider them "relics". Stuff like Analysis, Wild Mass Guessing, Fanfic Recommendations, Drinking Game and the Haiku-Wiki.

Edited by FernandoLemon on Nov 23rd 2022 at 9:01:26 AM

Piterpicher Veteran Editor IV from Poland, for real (Series 2) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Veteran Editor IV
#13279: Nov 23rd 2022 at 4:17:27 PM

Yeah, the wiki has become far more centralised over the last few years. Though it would also be pretty hard to come up with any subwikis which wouldn't be redundant, trend-chasing, or just lacking potential for growth. I mean, haiku is pretty timeless, but an emojified page is unlikely to be.

Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)
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)
#13280: Nov 23rd 2022 at 4:19:17 PM

It confuses me that that's JFF and Administrivia.Chairs Sit On People is in the "serious" namespace.

Why is that surprising that Administrivia.Chairs Sit On People is in the Administrivia/ namespace? That's what Administrivia.Too Rare To Trope actually used to be called (as opposed to a redirect that exists solely as a joke) before it was decided that it needed a clearer name that wasn't a snowclone of Administrivia.People Sit On Chairs. I think this might have happened via TRS, but I don't remember how old the thread was.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 23rd 2022 at 6:19:28 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#13281: Nov 23rd 2022 at 4:23:37 PM

[up][up] To be fair though, it came as a huge shock to me when the DerivativeWorks/ namespace was launched a month or so ago, because when was the last time we created any new namespaces outside of trope page splits? Even if we had a good idea, it's unlikely to get made.

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#13282: Nov 23rd 2022 at 4:24:18 PM

[up][up] Probably because I was expecting a joke page like what the JustForFun.People Sit On Chairs page actually is (and at the time I didn't look any deeper than "yeah, this looks like the policy page to me). I thought it would be a page about chairs sitting on people, not a redirect title.

[up] And with the reignition of people interested in maybe creating new namespaces for internet works, we may have more new ones yet.

Edited by WarJay77 on Nov 23rd 2022 at 7:25:02 AM

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#13283: Nov 23rd 2022 at 4:55:14 PM

Re: Analysis - Thinking of Analysis/ as "fun" is strange to me. Originally the existence of the namespace annoyed me because it felt like codifying "the wiki is for birdwatching, we will only begrudgingly keep any deeper consideration of birds' anatomy or ecology or phylogeny filed away in a dark corner". :P (It still kind of does, but I've come to accept that it's necessary to keep trope descriptions at manageable lengths.)

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Nov 23rd 2022 at 12:55:48 PM

ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NO
mightymewtron Word Up from New New York Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Word Up
#13284: Nov 23rd 2022 at 5:15:55 PM

Wow okay didn't expect all that discourse.

Honestly the fake media trope pages are the most valid usages of the JFF namespace to me because it's still talking about the usage of tropes in media, just not media that we know enough to trope in full.

Personally I think it's harmless if we keep that stuff off the main wiki. It's when people use JFF as a total dumping ground that it's like ehhhhh.

Edited by mightymewtron on Nov 23rd 2022 at 8:16:48 AM

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#13285: Nov 23rd 2022 at 5:16:20 PM

I've never considered Analysis as a Fun page, instead as an expanded trope description, with history and hypothetical examples.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
KaabiiFan13 Since: Apr, 2022
#13286: Nov 23rd 2022 at 5:17:34 PM

I was looking back at the Bootleg Names forum game, and found that the past three bumps (as of me writing) all came from the same troper.

Not that really relavent to the current topic, and not trying to knock anyone down, I just wanted to point something out.

Edited by KaabiiFan13 on Nov 23rd 2022 at 5:18:57 AM

FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#13287: Nov 23rd 2022 at 5:19:36 PM

[up][up] Maybe? It can also be used for works.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#13288: Nov 23rd 2022 at 7:54:19 PM

I've completely forgot that Main.FAQ exists and I should direct people to it more often. Maybe to also consider proposing more stuff that repeatedly gets asked.

Edited by Amonimus on Nov 23rd 2022 at 6:55:00 PM

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
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
#13289: Nov 23rd 2022 at 10:44:01 PM

Isn't there a JFF page for a webcomic that doesn't exist?

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)
#13290: Nov 23rd 2022 at 10:59:53 PM

[up][up]I redirected the broken link on ATT to that page (which was supposed to be a drop-down menu with links to other resources according to a post from you from around when I discovered it, but instead links to Pmwiki.Help due to a bug, with that link redirecting to Main.FAQ to keep the auto-disambig from taking people to pages unrelated to ATT) because I felt that its brevity compared to the main Administrivia index made it a better target.

(I'm pretty sure Amonimus already knows this since they said why the help link isn't working properly. Posting this for the sake of people here who didn't already know about this stopgap redirect.)

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 23rd 2022 at 1:00:58 PM

I got a rock for Halloween.
nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#13291: Nov 24th 2022 at 4:25:28 AM

[up][up]There's likely several, TBH. It's partly why I made the thread about nonexistent works despite finding the whole Goncharov thing rather off-putting - because it's entirely conceivable that it's not the only case where people treating a nonexistent work like it actually exists have effectively created a work in their own right.

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
CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#13293: Nov 24th 2022 at 6:12:13 AM

[More Awkward Coughs]

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
Libraryseraph uu~ from Canada (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You
uu~
#13294: Nov 24th 2022 at 6:16:00 AM

Sure is dusty in this thread

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOR MARIA
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#13295: Nov 24th 2022 at 6:24:02 AM

Continuing from yesterday's query: are Trope Co. and So You Want To active? When's the last time either got a new page? Do they have dedicated threads like Trope Pantheons?

Libraryseraph uu~ from Canada (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You
uu~
#13296: Nov 24th 2022 at 6:31:12 AM

TropeCo.Our Slashers Are Different was made at the beginning of this month, actually

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOR MARIA
GoldenCityBird from the UK Since: Oct, 2018
#13297: Nov 24th 2022 at 6:32:17 AM

The only recent edits to the SYWT index are just one Troper adding a ton of "page idea" redlinks.

TRS Wick Cleaning
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
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Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3

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