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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For a list of current projects, see Outdated Administrivia Pages.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

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#76: Aug 27th 2019 at 8:15:15 PM

the Word Cruft and Square Peg Round Trope issues can be solved by just copying the pages over and cutlisting the ones in Main/. permission to do so?

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#77: Aug 27th 2019 at 8:16:45 PM

Yep. And then we'll be locking the Administrivia versions.

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#79: Aug 27th 2019 at 8:25:24 PM

Sorry, I wasn't thinking in my earlier post.

We experimented with cutting Main redirects to Administrivia pages, and found that there were some places on the website where the Main version was hardcoded, and therefore cutting them broke that part. For that reason we tend to decline redirects that we feel may fall into the same bucket. That'd be the case with Word Cruft and Square Peg Round Trope.

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#80: Aug 27th 2019 at 8:25:41 PM

the pages will also need to be added to the Administrivia index page, which is locked.

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#81: Aug 27th 2019 at 8:26:29 PM

hm. should the pages be blanked and replaced with manual redirects, then?

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#83: Aug 27th 2019 at 8:37:37 PM

roger. thanks for the help. [tup]

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razorrozar7 Migrated to Chloe Jessica! from Chloe Jessica Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
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#85: Aug 27th 2019 at 10:42:13 PM

Administrivia pages are locked by default to prevent rogue editors from changing policies. you can request edits in the locked page edit request thread in FAQ.

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#86: Aug 28th 2019 at 4:19:40 AM

What about Main.Text Formatting Rules to Administrivia.Text Formatting Rules, since the former not existing breaks the Extended Markup Help link found at the bottom of the forum post screen?

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#87: Aug 28th 2019 at 7:09:24 PM

[up]Example A of what I was talking about up-thread. I restored the Main page, because it wouldn't be a priority to fix for the admins.

Edited by nombretomado on Aug 28th 2019 at 7:09:31 AM

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#88: Aug 30th 2019 at 7:23:25 PM

bump. just wanted to check in on the status of the ZCE page. ~nombretomado, any word from the other mods?

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#89: Aug 30th 2019 at 7:35:37 PM

Willbyr took a look over and made the corrections he wanted to make. If there's no other feedback over the weekend, I'll swap it out.

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#90: Aug 31st 2019 at 3:58:23 PM

Make Administrivia.Not This Trope redirect for Administrivia.Square Peg Round Trope, yes?

To take over from Mains of both?

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#91: Aug 31st 2019 at 7:25:26 PM

[up] For your information, Redirects Are Free... although there are guidelines on that page you should read, but other than that I think you can go ahead.

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Malady (Not-So-Newbie)
#92: Aug 31st 2019 at 7:48:18 PM

[up] - Yeah, but it wasn't made while others were, so that made me wary.

Making it...

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#93: Sep 1st 2019 at 1:42:24 PM

By the way, can somebody please help me with the Wick Namespace Migration of Square Peg, Round Trope? There are a lot that are within pages that are too long for me to find without losing focus, and I feel like if it's wicked within an example, I should delete it per Repair, Don't Respond.

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Malady (Not-So-Newbie)
#94: Sep 1st 2019 at 3:10:57 PM

[up] - Ctrl-F?

How many times does SquareP appear??

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FridgeGuy2016 No-lifer from United States Since: Feb, 2016
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#95: Sep 1st 2019 at 4:25:40 PM

Sorry, I browse and edit TV Tropes on phone. And the main redirect is still in 31 articles, not counting archives.

Edited by FridgeGuy2016 on Sep 1st 2019 at 4:29:25 AM

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Malady (Not-So-Newbie)
#96: Sep 1st 2019 at 8:59:26 PM

[up] - Phone browser has no search function?

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#99: Sep 2nd 2019 at 8:32:00 PM

Apologies if I'm interrupting, but we may want to mention the problem with "apophenia" (seeing meaning/correlation in things when there are none) in the Trope page, as I think it'd be relevant. It'd probably fit in How To Make A Cool TLP, as well.

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#100: Sep 2nd 2019 at 8:48:11 PM

At the very least, it'd be relevant on the PSOC article.

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