So this is a place for people who are interested in helping out, or getting help with, wick checks. Maybe you just want people to double-check your work before you submit it to the TRS, or maybe you have a big project in mind and can't tackle it on your own. Either way, you've come to the right place!
Remember to check out How to Do a Wick Check for a run down, and feel free to browse Tropes Needing TRS if you need ideas for what trope to do a wick-check for.
For the list of current and completed projects, see Wick Check Project. Once your wick check is done and ready to go to a TRS thread, see the TRS Queue.
Edited by WarJay77 on Nov 4th 2022 at 11:55:13 AM
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For my wick checks, I usually have a "Trope + additional context" folder for anything that isn't a ZCE but may fit another trope (whether it exists or not).
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Guys, when I come across an example with multiple bullet points, and one example is fleshed out and the other is a ZCE; do I make separate entries for the same page with every example put in its fitting folder in my wick check, or do I put them all together in the "other" folder?
Discarded and Feeling Blue
Depends. Sometimes I just make a folder titled "multiple categories" specifically for situations like that.
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Professional Wick Checker
For more context:
- Trope name:
- The first example is like: "X displays this trope which signifies blah blah blah."
- The second is just "X has this."
The wick check I'm doing is for usage + zce, should I just make a multiple categories folder?
Wedding Enhanced Fertility Wick Check: 50 more pages to gather and categorize, just in case anyone wants to pitch in.
I'll probably finish it tomorrow. Goodnight.
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And all wicks gathered, but not sure what a good sorting is for 40/62 or so. Help?
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The majority look like happenstance...
You could split them, one in the correct folder and the other in the ZCE folder. I don't find "multiple categories" folders helpful.
Edited by Tabs on Mar 7th 2023 at 12:19:13 PM
Professional Wick Checker
Thanks. I finished the wick check and went with another example instead, but I'll keep that in mind for future wick checks.
How sweet it is
I'll do my best to finish my Elemental Powers check in the next two days. For real this time.
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Accidental Truth Wick Check is up to 35/50 wicks, and so far 0 are correct. Sorry to ask again, but I'm not misclassifying anything, am I?
Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Mar 9th 2023 at 8:32:15 AM
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Accidental Truth Wick Check is done, with 0 correct uses. I am not writing an OP/queueing it up, however, until I can get some feedback on the wick check to make sure I did this correctly. Did I? Is anything wrong?
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Since I did not get feedback, I'll just queue Accidental Truth up.
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Do we have a (super?)trope for "someone tells a lie that actually turns out to be true through no manipulation of theirs"? (An actual lie, not sarcasm/a joke, which would be a subtrope of that, I suppose). If not, it looks like the trope should just be expanded.
Edited by Tabs on Mar 9th 2023 at 12:37:07 PM
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Funny you mention that, expansion was one of the possible suggestions I listed in my OP.
Lucas the Dreamer
I plan tomorrow to initiate a wick check for Mission-Pack Sequel since I noticed a lot of misuse on the page and it has only a few hundred wicks so it’s a better starting point. I need to do about 25.
Why waste time when you can see the last sunset last?
50. You need to do 50.
Discarded and Feeling Blue
Yep, you only do the square root if it's more than 50.
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Wick checker for hire
Going to start a wick check on Screwed by the Network. Looks to me that is used often to complain and openly insult networks for airing this or that show at bad time.
The best character is always the one-shot disguise.
Discarded and Feeling Blue
Didn't Screwed by the Network have a recent TRS? It's possible that the cleanup just wasn't finished. I think we even made a thread for it.
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Yep, here's the TRS thread
and the cleanup thread.
Edited by MacronNotes on Mar 11th 2023 at 2:39:56 PM
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...well, I didn't know that. And the cleanup thread is dead since last July.
The best character is always the one-shot disguise.
Discarded and Feeling Blue
Sure, but reviving it is a free action.
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Did some more work on the check for Kansai Regional Accent. How does it look?
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I fix my examples all the time
Started a wick check for What Measure Is a Non-Badass? to gauge misuse and complaining.
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Then what category should I put it in?
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