This is a thread to discuss those Administrivia pages in need of a little updating- you know the ones. The ones that still cite rules we've long since changed, or the ones that don't properly cite our current standards. Some of them are even scattered in Main/!
So, this is the place to take those pages and fix them up with the help of the community.
For a list of current projects, see Outdated Administrivia Pages.
Note: This thread is not for asking mods to make one-off edits to Locked Pages, Administrivia-related or otherwise, such as requesting additions to an Example Sectionectomy index. Please use this thread
for that.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 21st 2023 at 9:12:02 AM
Unofficial co-Wiki Curator for Magnificent Bastard
Looks good.
MB Pending | MB Drafts | MB Dates
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Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster
Works for me.
CM Dates; CM Pending; CM Drafts
One-Track Mind (he/him)
Sounds good to me.
This is Idol Tap. (My Troper Wall)
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
Looks fine to me.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
he/him
As this was the second time it was proposed and there seem to be no objections to this version, I've made the edit. Thanks!
Useful Note
This might not be the right thread, but this post made me realize I know next to nothing about hollering. I know that it's a way to contact a moderator, but that's about it. I don't know how it differs from sending a PM through this page. There should really be an Administrivia page about hollering: what it is, when to use it, and when not to use it. It should also explain the one-holler-a-week limit that Amonimus alluded to.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
There's no such limit; they were just saying that they already tried to holler.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
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That makes sense. Yet, I still feel that an Administrivia page about hollering would be helpful.
The policy page that discusses hollering is Know the Staff, since hollering is about contacting the staff.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
the Retromancer
It's also at TV Tropes Glossary
Edited by Amonimus on Apr 22nd 2024 at 1:24:05 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Useful Note
I suppose there's enough information out there about hollering. However, I would also like to draw your attention to the Administrivia.Trope Repair Shop page. In the "Making a TRS Thread About a Broken Page" section, the page implies that the first post in this thread is required reading for anyone who might want to bring a trope to the Trope Repair Shop. Yet, the first advice given by this post is to "include the action you're proposing in the thread title. For example, if you want to rename This Troper, the thread title should be 'Rename' and the text in page name field should be 'This Troper'." This is a relic of a bygone era when the Trope Repair Shop didn't have a list of predefined reasons. It's no longer possible to follow this advice, so it should be replaced.
And that was just the first advice! You could probably find a lot more outdated advice in there if you were actually looking for it.
Edited by FSharp on Apr 23rd 2024 at 6:54:02 AM
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the Retromancer
This post was made in 2009 hasn't been edited since 2016. Either the link at Administrivia.Trope Repair Shop should point here instead, or the entire post needs to be rewritten.
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
That thread has been dormant since 2012 and is currently in the FAQs Morgue, so I'm not sure that updating it is necessary unless it gets moved back to the FAQ forum.
Edit: Apparently it was last updated in 2016 (just without any new posts being made), but I'm not sure if we need it when we have Administrivia pages covering how to use TRS.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 23rd 2024 at 8:47:58 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
I don't think it is, especially with this line in that post already directing people to the Administrivia page:
Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 24th 2024 at 1:49:53 PM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Proposed wording for that How Crowners Work update, replacing the current "Usage outside of TRS and IP" section:
Usage outside of TRS and IP
Moderators can hook crowners on any thread, including those outside of IP or TRS. Sometimes crowners are used in other subforums, normally so that votes don't have to be counted manually.Depending upon the purpose of these crowners, they may have different requirements to the generic Workshop crowners. Crowners in other subforums are typically accompanied by an Ask The Tropers post to draw attention to the vote.
However, there are also some scenarios where we actively avoid crowners. These are often cases where we prefer to avoid anonymous voting. Crowners are not used for:
How's that look?
Edited by Mrph1 on Apr 21st 2024 at 9:57:42 AM