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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For a list of current projects, see Outdated Administrivia Pages.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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#1001: Nov 19th 2020 at 5:44:05 AM

I thought it was there so that people can keep track of what they suggested to see if someone created it yet but yeah it doesn’t have that much of a purpose

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#1002: Nov 19th 2020 at 5:50:58 AM

Apparently the Deleted Wicks Checker from Itty Bitty Wiki Tools doesn't exist any more.

Should we remove it, or leave it in case it gets restored, or strikeout over it for historical reasons?

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#1003: Nov 19th 2020 at 5:57:01 AM

I think it should be commented out, in case it comes back someday.

Edited by Piterpicher on Nov 19th 2020 at 2:57:42 PM

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#1004: Nov 19th 2020 at 8:13:56 AM

Is the entry on Locked Pages for This Troper outdated now that This Troper redirects to First-Person Writing, which is not locked? (Unlike other renamed pages like It Got Worse, it's not in past tense either.)

On another note, I think What Goes Where on the Wiki should mention under Trivia how Trivia items go on Creator/ pages, not on a separate Trivia subpage - that is mentioned under Creator Page Guidelines but gets overlooked a lot.

Edited by mightymewtron on Nov 19th 2020 at 4:54:21 AM

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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
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#1005: Nov 19th 2020 at 2:39:48 PM

This ATT query discusses the lack of a policy page on gushing, and as I said in that thread, I think it would be useful to split policy information on gushing into Administrivia.Gushing About Shows You Like while keeping the actual gushing on SugarWiki.Gushing About Shows You Like (since gushing is allowed on Sugar Wiki).

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#1006: Nov 20th 2020 at 7:54:33 PM

Are we good to swap the sandbox into Administrivia.Popcorn Posting?

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#1007: Nov 21st 2020 at 1:27:03 AM

I admit, I am not particularly convinced that it is necessary or useful. Based on the well-known problems that TLP has, it certainly seems in order to ask whether any policy page there would help. It's also a rather niche issue with a side order of recentism.

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#1008: Nov 21st 2020 at 1:28:12 AM

It's not TLP specific, though?

And I wouldn't call it a niche issue, it happens all the time, on ATT and the forums just as much as it does TLP.

Edit: You may have been reading the wrong sandbox. We'd be using Sandbox.Popcorn Posting 2, not Sandbox.No Popcorn Posting.

Edited by WarJay77 on Nov 21st 2020 at 4:30:58 AM

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#1009: Nov 21st 2020 at 1:34:05 AM

It's not common in the forums (and forum issues are normally documented in the forum rules thread, not on the wiki) and I am not convinced it'd help much elsewhere. Also, not for the first time I am questioning whether these proposals should be put in a thread titled "Outdated Pages".

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#1010: Nov 21st 2020 at 1:37:03 AM

This thread's title might be itself outdated; it's become a drafting space just as much as an updating space. I wouldn't mind a new thread for drafting, but it's the best place we have right now to discuss administrivia stuff.

And while it may be less common in the forums, it still happens, and "popcorning" is already against the rules- this would just give us a page we can cite.

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#1011: Nov 21st 2020 at 8:01:49 AM

I've seen at least one case of a mod telling people to cut out popcorn posting on ATT while calling it by that name (I don't remember which thread, but the mod who said that was nombretomado, who hadn't resigned yet).

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 21st 2020 at 10:02:30 AM

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#1012: Nov 21st 2020 at 8:17:20 AM

We don't need an article for every term we use to describe wiki behavior. We can add them to the TV Tropes Glossary. And done.

Edited by Fighteer on Nov 21st 2020 at 11:20:44 AM

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#1013: Nov 21st 2020 at 10:56:49 AM

[up]Should Gushing be added there as well, rather than having the policy information moved to a separate page? (I just saw that SugarWiki.Gushing already exists as a redirect to mirror Administrivia.Complaining redirecting to Administrivia.Complaining About Shows You Dont Like, so we already have a one-word wick to link to.)

Since Complaining About Shows You Don't Like is on Predefined Messages, should Gushing About Shows You Like be on there as well?

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#1014: Nov 21st 2020 at 11:02:31 AM

Eh, I liked the writeup I did for the Popcorn Posting page too much to be fully satisfied, but this works too.

I think now we should try and get back to actual page-updating, and maybe make a new thread for the page drafting.

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#1015: Nov 21st 2020 at 11:35:17 AM

Is "Grave Dancing" a term that can be added to TV Tropes Glossary, or is it not wiki-specific enough?

Edited by Miss_Desperado on Nov 21st 2020 at 11:35:35 AM

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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
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#1016: Nov 21st 2020 at 11:48:43 AM

[up]I feel like I've seen that term used more often than popcorn posting, so I think it should be added.

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#1018: Nov 21st 2020 at 12:05:36 PM

[up]I'm aware, but it's still used often here. If stuff on the Glossary needs to be TV Tropes-specific, then never mind.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 21st 2020 at 2:06:17 PM

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#1019: Nov 21st 2020 at 4:45:38 PM

There's no reason it can't, except that I don't want to waste people's time defining terms they already know. If there's a specific TV Tropes aspect to it, then sure.

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#1020: Nov 21st 2020 at 5:03:40 PM

There are a couple of pages that came up a while back whose discussion is a better fit for a thread titled Outdated Pages than discussion about new Administrivia pages. I think I may have already brought them up in this thread (I'm incredibly tired at the moment, so I'm not entirely sure), but I don't think discussion went very far (if it went anywhere at all).

Do we need Examples Searching For A Trope when Trope Finder serves the same purpose with better organization, and what's the point of Quotes.Quotes Looking For An Article?

Edit: I might Ctrl+F on previous pages at some point to see what I previously said (because it was probably more articulate), but I don't currently feel up to it.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 21st 2020 at 7:08:20 AM

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#1021: Nov 21st 2020 at 5:05:57 PM

[up] Quotes Looking For An Article is where you can put interesting quotes that could be used in an article, but currently aren't.

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#1022: Nov 21st 2020 at 5:07:10 PM

[up]In that case, adding a description saying that would help (since there currently isn't any description at all).

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 21st 2020 at 7:07:33 AM

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#1023: Nov 21st 2020 at 5:07:42 PM

Wondering if we want to make a sandbox to keep track of everything we need to do here.

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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
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#1025: Nov 21st 2020 at 5:09:06 PM

[up][up]Sandbox.Outdated Pages already exists. Adding it to the opening post and pinning the opening post would help.

Edit: Ninja'd with the first sentence of this post.

Edit: Also, an alternative to cutting or archiving Examples Searching For A Trope would be to turn it into a redirect for the Trope Finder page (which is a wiki page, unlike Main.Ask The Tropers).

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 21st 2020 at 7:13:02 AM

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