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So over 10 years ago or so, we used to have a newsletter called Trope Report, which covers all of the changes that happened on the wiki weekly. I have been nostalgic for it recently so I thought of it and it seemed to be a fun way to inform tropers about the changes going on around the wiki.

The sandbox for the project can be found at Sandbox.Trope Report Dummy Edition and the sandbox for ideas/plans can be found on Sandbox.Trope Report Ideas. After a new issue is published, revert the Dummy Edition back to a template using the text on Sandbox.Trope Report Template.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 8th 2023 at 1:16:11 PM

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#5051: Jun 11th 2023 at 1:07:39 PM

Looking into ideas for projects to cover, should we do The Problem with "The Problem with Licensed Games"? It's a recently made thread to clean up The Problem with Licensed Games.

themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#5052: Jun 11th 2023 at 1:09:01 PM

[up] [tup]

For Forumwatch, I'm thinking of plugging the Award shows as indexes thread. Does that sound good?

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Jun 11th 2023 at 4:10:08 AM

Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#5053: Jun 11th 2023 at 1:10:29 PM

[up][up] and [up] [tup]


How's my New Work Page Spotlight entry for Murder for the Modern Girl?

Written by Kendall Kulper, Murder for the Modern Girl tells the story of Ruby Newhouse, a 18-year-old who parades as a partying flapper to hide the fact that she's a mind-reading vigilante who murders heinous men that abuse vulnerable women, bringing justice that'll otherwise wouldn't been given. After a chance encounter with the shapeshifting morgue employee, Guy Rosewood, they work together to thwart corruption in 1920s Chicago while ending up falling in love. First plugged on the April 2023 issue under the Works Needing Pages section, it finally got a page on June 9th!

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jun 11th 2023 at 1:37:02 AM

CG for short
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)
#5054: Jun 11th 2023 at 1:12:59 PM
badtothebaritone (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Snooping as usual
#5055: Jun 11th 2023 at 1:22:53 PM

[up][up] Besides it misspelling "thwart" as "thrawt", [tup].

Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#5056: Jun 11th 2023 at 1:39:27 PM

[up] Fixed!

Now, I'd added the entry and tweaked my bio.

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jun 11th 2023 at 1:39:36 AM

CG for short
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#5057: Jun 11th 2023 at 5:03:26 PM

Okay, here's the draft so far:

Edited by Berrenta on Jun 11th 2023 at 7:06:33 AM

Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#5058: Jun 11th 2023 at 5:05:16 PM

[up] Liking it so far! [tup]

CG for short
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#5059: Jun 11th 2023 at 5:23:59 PM

[up][up][tup]

Late [tup] to CG's entry too.


Proposed rough draft for the entry for the thread I mentioned:

  • Our award show articles, such as Academy Award For Best Picture, Tony Award Winners, and so on, are currently marked as indexes—meaning you can link to them from the bottom of the page. However, there has been debate as to whether this should continue to be the case—it can lead to certain pages being listed on too many indexes, breaking the page indexing in the process, in addition to possibly being unnecessary. If you'd like to join the debate and offer your thoughts, come on over to the Award shows as indexes thread in Wiki Talk.

Anything I should change? Is it good?

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Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#5060: Jun 12th 2023 at 7:50:29 AM

Looks good to me. [tup]

Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#5061: Jun 12th 2023 at 9:54:44 AM

[up][up] Lookin' good! [tup]

CG for short
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
plakythebirb The Unwilling Cycle from The Deep South (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Unwilling Cycle
#5063: Jun 12th 2023 at 11:53:52 AM

First entry done:

  • Many people have some sort of dream- whether for wealth, happiness, or any other sort of ideal thing. Most people (hopefully), however, won't kill to achieve these desires. The 2010 film Dream Home deals with one of these outliers, determined to get a place of her own, no matter who dies in the process. The page itself, however, is nothing less than a nightmare, with low or no-context examples, excessive spoilering, and a very stubby description. Who wants to renovate this broken-down page?

Welcome To Ideals' World
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#5064: Jun 12th 2023 at 3:08:53 PM

[up] Sounds good! [tup]

EDIT: If it hasn't been done already, I'm thinking of plugging the ArtFight thread under the forum spotlight as ArtFight's competition thing starts every July. Is that cool?

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jun 12th 2023 at 3:15:45 AM

CG for short
Rmpdc Ghoulish Brain Worm from Philippines Since: May, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Ghoulish Brain Worm
#5065: Jun 12th 2023 at 3:18:16 PM

Pardon me since I'm rather new here. Can this make the cut for a featured work?

Edit: [down] Edited as per your request. Personally, I'd be fine with New Work Page Spotlight.

2nd Edit: [down] Fixed again. I guess I was being too precise here.

Edited by Rmpdc on Jun 12th 2023 at 8:17:43 PM

"We are gonna sit here and take it! You hear me!? We're gonna take it!"
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#5066: Jun 12th 2023 at 3:22:18 PM

[up] Looks fine and can be placed in either Old Work Spotlight or New Work Page Spotlight (as the page was made in May of this year) with a mention of the page's creation date in the entry.

However, I may suggest rewriting this sentence "...very first entry in the Medal of Honor series." to "...very first entry in the series of the same name." to remove redundancy?

Edit: Alright, New Work Page it is. Although, I only included the bold in my suggestion so you can see what you need to change easier. It's not supposed to be part of the rewrite.

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jun 12th 2023 at 4:58:07 AM

CG for short
Rmpdc Ghoulish Brain Worm from Philippines Since: May, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Ghoulish Brain Worm
#5067: Jun 14th 2023 at 4:51:45 PM

I've been thinking about posting this one, since I made this page not long after I did the first. If this one does get approved as well, I'd also like it to be alongside it's predecessor as a New Work Page.

Edited by Rmpdc on Jun 14th 2023 at 10:35:49 PM

"We are gonna sit here and take it! You hear me!? We're gonna take it!"
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#5068: Jun 14th 2023 at 8:14:16 PM

Finally getting back to do something.

FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#5069: Jun 14th 2023 at 9:07:24 PM

[up][up] One or the other is enough, I feel like having them both would be redundant.


I notice a lot of works listed on Trope Report Ideas were added by Piter, who hasn't been a part of the team for a while now... should we keep them? Delete them? Move them somewhere else?

Rmpdc Ghoulish Brain Worm from Philippines Since: May, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Ghoulish Brain Worm
#5070: Jun 14th 2023 at 11:39:46 PM

[up] Alright, in that case I think the first game is enough to mention.

"We are gonna sit here and take it! You hear me!? We're gonna take it!"
CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#5071: Jun 15th 2023 at 1:35:09 AM

[up][up]Keep them, they're still ideas we can use ourselves, even if he's not actively contributing anymore.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#5072: Jun 15th 2023 at 10:07:21 AM

How does my entry for the Forum Spotlight sound?

Every July, artists are able to participate in ArtFight, an annual art competition where they join teams and make drawings of each other's Original Characters to earn points, with the team that has the most points by the end of the month declared the winner. Over at TV Tropes, we have a dedicated thread for ArtFight in the obscure Visual Arts section, where you can talk about the site as a whole, what characters you will be drawing and so on!

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jun 15th 2023 at 10:08:51 AM

CG for short
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#5073: Jun 15th 2023 at 5:00:16 PM

[up] Looks good.


Trying to look for ideas for the trope section in Pages Needing Help. Should we look into Magical Guide?

In other news, Shiny Sense, which was featured there ~2 years ago, is now queued up for TRS due to duplicate concerns, so there's that...

Edited by Berrenta on Jun 15th 2023 at 7:00:40 AM

alnair20aug93 🍊orange fursona🧡 from 🐾Furrypines 🇵🇭 (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
🍊orange fursona🧡
#5074: Jun 16th 2023 at 12:44:05 AM

Mind if I add this?:

  • The 1st of July is Canada Day, and every Canadian is reveling for the celebration with Molson beer, poutine, maple syrup drizzled Tim Horton's and tuning in to ice hockey and lacrosse. With all this revelry and enjoying things without a care, expect less of Canadian politeness that they're stereotypically known about. Careful not to interact with a drunk, Crass Canuck on the way. Launched at the 16th of June, expect more of them once Canada Day rolls in.

If there's a better description for this, let me know. Please and thank you.

Edited by alnair20aug93 on Jun 16th 2023 at 4:04:36 PM

ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔|I DO COMMISSIONS|ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔
Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Time to SLEEP
#5075: Jun 16th 2023 at 12:59:23 AM

[up] I think that can be expanded to elaborate the rudeness and explain how it subverts the "nice Canadian" stereotype.

Here's my entry for Poking Dead Things with a Stick for New Tropes. Any comments before I post it?

  • Oh look, you found a dead body! What are you gonna do about it? How about investigating it? Hmm, but touching a corpse is pretty icky... Better fetch a stick and prod it from a safe distance! Poking Dead Things with a Stick is a common act people do when they encounter carcasses... hopefully it really is dead and not actually sleeping! A common gag with a surprisingly recent launch in May 11, this trope could use some more prodding to not drop dead.

SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMY

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