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Before making or posting in a thread, read the Trope Repairing Guidelines to see whether a thread you're considering making actually should be made, as well as what is and isn't allowed in an open thread.

This thread is a metathread for Trope Repair Shop discussion. Things like TRS policy, what is needed in a TRS opening post, questions about whether a certain topic is TRS-worthy and questions about why a thread wasn't opened go here.

Some guidelines for when/whether to use TRS:

  • If the trope is fine, but has some bad examples, feel free to clean them up or to start a cleanup project at Projects: Short-Term. Trope Repair Shop is for when cleaning isn't sufficient.
  • If you think there's something wrong with the trope that systematically attracts improper examples, start a discussion at Trope Talk. Use a Wick Check to see whether there's an issue present (and if there is, what the issue is). The following methods are two possible ways to do a wick check (though not necessarily the only ways):
    • You can go ahead with the Wick Check without a discussion if you know what you're looking for. While it's not mandatory, feel free to ask someone for help confirming that you got the issue and the numbers correct.
    • Consult the Wick Check Project thread to collect evidence if you need help.
  • Depending on a trope (or non-trope) in question, a wick check may be determined to not be required, such as for tropes that are not thriving (per the standards for trope health listed on the Wick page). However, there is no problem if you want to do one anyway.

For a more detailed introduction to this forum, click here.

For related projects, see Wick Cleaning Projects and the Wick Check Project.

For a list of wiki pages related to thread outcomes, see the following:

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 12th 2025 at 11:35:13 AM

Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
#351: May 10th 2019 at 6:43:16 PM

It just seems like giving every single one a project is too much. I'm fine with being wrong, however.

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crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
#352: May 10th 2019 at 6:47:35 PM

It already is. An orange star is an indication that the problem has been identified and a course of action agreed upon. "Final Action" means the course of action must be carried out.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
#354: May 10th 2019 at 7:13:47 PM

Then why call it "too much"?

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
#355: May 10th 2019 at 7:21:56 PM

I dunno, it just seems like an unusually large amount of new projects.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#356: May 11th 2019 at 1:22:45 AM

The reason why we don't move things over is because there is - or was - no indication that moving things makes the thread any more likely to be resolved. It's just out-of-sight-out-of-mind for some people.

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crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
#357: May 11th 2019 at 5:25:12 AM

[up][up] They're not "new projects". It already is a project thread. An orange star is an indication that the problem has been identified and a course of action agreed upon. "Final Action" means the course of action must be carried out.

Edited by crazysamaritan on May 11th 2019 at 12:13:23 PM

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Drope Since: Oct, 2012
RamenChef Since: Dec, 2017 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#359: May 12th 2019 at 5:57:24 PM

[up]I don't see anything wrong with it.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#360: May 12th 2019 at 6:02:46 PM

It IS misspelled, the correct spelling is "acknowledgement".

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Brainulator9 Short-Term Projects herald from US Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
Short-Term Projects herald
#361: May 12th 2019 at 6:03:14 PM

Suddenly Sexuality strikes me as worse in that regard, since it's using an adverb to directly modify a noun.

As for acknowledgement... Either works. It's a American/Commonwealth difference thing.

Edited by Brainulator9 on May 12th 2019 at 9:04:14 AM

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razorrozar7 Migrated to Chloe Jessica! from Chloe Jessica Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
Migrated to Chloe Jessica!
#362: May 12th 2019 at 8:51:10 PM

[up]i think Suddenly Sexuality is that way because the original trope name was most likely going to be Suddenly Gay, and when it was changed to be more inclusive they didn't change the adverb.

Sudden Sexuality is grammatically correct. Sudden Gay sounds like Hard Gay's brother or something.

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#363: May 13th 2019 at 4:16:16 AM

Sudden Gay sounds like the sexier variation of Sudden Death. grin

I agree that Sudden Sexuality is better.

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Malady (X-Troper)
#364: Jun 8th 2019 at 4:03:55 AM

What's allowed in signal-boosting a TRS?

Could I make an ATT just to plug my TRS, or plug it in a "Is this an example" question?

Mention it on other sites?

'Cause my "Animorphism" and "Randomized Damage Attack" TRSes are clocked right now...

Edited by Malady on Jun 8th 2019 at 4:05:07 AM

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#365: Jun 11th 2019 at 6:37:07 AM

~MaLady

Just asked the staff. If it's a neutral statement and you're not posting every TRS thread in ATT, you should be fine.

Unfortunately, Animorphism expired; Randomized Damage Attack is on its last day before it too expires.

Edit: RDA may still stick around; there's a new post that may be able to keep the thread going.

Edited by Berrenta on Jun 11th 2019 at 8:59:26 AM

naturalironist from The Information Superhighway Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
#366: Jun 12th 2019 at 6:25:55 AM

Is it ok to just add pages to TRS Wick Cleaning? It hasn't been updated for about a year, and Fragile Flower, Foreign Fanservice, and Bury Your Gays are at that stage and could use some help.

Edited by naturalironist on Jun 12th 2019 at 10:34:56 AM

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RamenChef Since: Dec, 2017 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#367: Jun 23rd 2019 at 9:08:07 AM

Would I be able to make an "expired clock remembrance" thread? There seem to be a lot of clocked-out threads where there was very little opposition to the primary motion, and they could have used a crowner to gather consensus.

naturalironist from The Information Superhighway Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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)
#369: Jul 2nd 2019 at 3:42:38 PM
Brainulator9 Short-Term Projects herald from US Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
Short-Term Projects herald
#370: Jul 2nd 2019 at 3:48:23 PM

Sure. Count me in.

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TalesofUnder Not Sherlock Holmes from 1900s England Since: May, 2017 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Not Sherlock Holmes
#371: Jul 8th 2019 at 7:30:27 PM

Would Wave of Babies qualify for a Not Thriving thread? It’s been around since 2010, yet only has 33 examples and 45 wicks. As far as I can tell, no thread has been made about it yet.

“Now! Let us engage in the art of deduction!”
RamenChef Since: Dec, 2017 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
bitemytail Since: Dec, 2011
#373: Jul 9th 2019 at 7:51:47 AM

[up] Not doubting you, but source on that?

RamenChef Since: Dec, 2017 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#374: Jul 9th 2019 at 8:04:17 AM

[up]…you saw the pothole there, right?

Anyway, 13 or less is the "starving" category on Main.Wick.

bitemytail Since: Dec, 2011
#375: Jul 9th 2019 at 8:22:46 AM

[up] I did not see the wick. I'm blind today, apparently.


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