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 also figure that people don't want to confess to actual legit stuff so they're just left with "I don't like this moderately popular work".
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI honestly thought about making an ATT query about that before. I've seen posts in that thread that are just rants about why they think a work is bad that don't even qualify as confessions.
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I'd be on board with that.
Edited by GenericGuy2000 on Jan 4th 2023 at 4:57:43 AM
I’m gonna put some Gloom in your eye.
It would be better to holler if you're reporting something on the forums. You can still link to or mention posts other than the one the holler was sent for if it's not specific to one post.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 4th 2023 at 3:43:53 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.Maybe a sticky could be made that notes that the Odd Confessions thread isn't for "Unpopular opinion/I hate this work" venting?
Welcome To Ideals' WorldIn my defense, I'm usually met with scandalized gasps when I say I Don't like South Park so you can see why I'd think it counts as an odd confession.
Read Pokemon Ultimate EmeraldDoing cleanup of Names The Same wicks is getting more helpful than expected. Not only I discovered the existence of ghost wicks (thanks for the folks on ATT for that), but I also ended up removing examples that had other issues (like snark, complaints and first person writing - seriously I found at least 10 examples written like "Jeez I wonder where I already heard those names") and blanked a few ZCE that were around.
I checked the Cut List and saw you found several more Trivia pages that listed nothing else, which is something I've seen often over the course of this cleanup effort (and didn't hesitate to approve the cut requests for if I was the one handling them due to how easy the cleanup job is even for pages that don't need to be cut).
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 5th 2023 at 10:57:12 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.
I'm cleaning up Trivia subpages because Names The Same was a Trivia item before becoming a disambig so obviously most of the wicks were there. And a lot of Trivia pages had only a Names The Same example and nothing else.
Reminds me of how I found a lot of stubs while dewicking Seldom Seen Species and looking for examples to add to Secondary Sexual Characteristics' page.
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I'm aware. I'm the one who approved the decision to disambiguate it. (Unless you meant to post that for everyone else here, since they might not know; wasn't sure because of the arrow.)
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 5th 2023 at 11:43:02 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.Bulletins have quite an efficiency on dewicking. Unless it's a coincidence.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
I'm pretty sure it's not, since cleanup projects that have bulletins tend to get done faster than ones that have similar wick counts, but don't have bulletins (and sometimes, advertised projects get done faster than projects that have lower wick counts).
Edit: Wow, the cut requests keep coming. This'll probably be done today or tomorrow. (Left the Cut List tab open just in case.)
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 5th 2023 at 12:58:44 PM
I got a rock for Halloween.I checked when Names The Same's thread was made after I closed it when it was done, and I saw it was made on November 29, so that went pretty quickly for something with that many wicks.
I got a rock for Halloween.Bulletins work pretty well sometimes.
The magic hasn't worked on The Chick yet though.
Macron's notesI think that's because it's more complex (due to most wicks having to be moved instead of deleted), which is why I wasn't in favor of it.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 6th 2023 at 9:21:18 AM
I got a rock for Halloween.The trope had roughly the same wick count it does now give or take before it was put up.
Macron's notesI've tried to look at some of the The Chick wicks, but I haven't been keeping up with what's been happening with Five-Man Band and its subtropes, which tends to get referenced on the various wicks, so I tend to find myself at a loss on how to handle them. The Names The Same wicks eventually got easy enough to delete after a while.
Your melody still remains in this room and it ringsThe Chick has a lot of wicks on trope pages, if that helps.
I'm removing wicks and geez there are examples where The Chick is literally used instead of the name of a female character.
EDIT: Yeah, in fact there are a lot of very old examples that use archetype tropes instead of character names. Like "The Hero discusses about The Chick with The Lancer" and so on.
Edited by PhantomDusclops92 on Jan 6th 2023 at 8:20:18 PM
So, the thing about Five-Man Band is that it has no subtropes anymore. The role format has been excised from the trope. If you come across something like:
- Five-Man Band:
- The Hero: Alice
- The Lancer: Bob
- The Smart Guy: Charlie
- The Big Guy: Dan
- The Chick: Emily
Then just delete it. It's ZCE and it uses the deprecated format (and was probably misuse of it anyway).
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall

The most recent post there literally opens with "Unpopular opinion."
Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald