On this site, I've often ran into the problem of not being able to find anything from a giant list of examples on a trope page because it wasn't alphabetically ordered (this is a bigger problem with example pages because they are so large). This can also cause the problem of duplicate works on the same example section, because a work couldn't easily be found.
Even though I'm a rather disorganized person by nature (my parents told me this all the time), I'm still bothered by the lack of A-Z ordering. I have been ordering some example pages A-Z and I've wondering, has this been a problem for anyone else? Is anyone else bothered by a lack of alphabetization on some pages?
If so, please link me some of those pages so I can reorder them when I feel like doing so.
UPDATE 2/28/22- Check Out Sandbox- Alphabetically Ordering Examples Clean Up
Alphabetizing special cases:
- El Goonish Shive: Place in "E".
- .hack and related articles: Ignore the dot, place in "H".
- ×××HOLiC: Place in "X".
Once examples on a page have been alphabetized, this tag can be added to the top:
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Edited by Twiddler on Nov 24th 2023 at 6:00:44 AM
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okay sure, I'll see if i can get them tomorrow
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Still planning to get to the DMOS pages, btw. Just haven't had the motivation to tackle them yet.
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I have re-sorted the folders by moving "Roleplay" to its proper position.
Sailor Earth needs most of its sections alphabetized.
It seems like that in the midst of wanting to drive home that Harry Potter didn't invent the Wizarding School, someone reorganized only it Literature examples by date. I was told on this ATT thread I could put it back in alphabetical order as long as I put a post here. The examples for all other media are already alphabetized.
EDIT: I've made it to Harry Potter itself and a few things from early 2000's. Anyone coming with a bunch of free time on their hands passing by before I'm done feel free to help.
EDIT 2: Done.
Edited by Nazetrime on Apr 24th 2021 at 9:02:52 PM
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So we can just post pages here that aren't properly organized, right? Cuz I got a lot of those to place here.
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Edited by IkeaHan on Jun 7th 2021 at 2:38:18 AM
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I'll put that one on my to-do list
I just did PlayingWithFire.Video Games and AnIcePerson.Video Games. Commented out a bunch of ZCEs for both while I was at it. I know this isn't the forum for that, but just saying.
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I noticed that the RPG folder on Underground Monkey was a mess. As well as having some zero-context examples and general examples (I removed the latter), it's so unalphabetised that I gave up halfway through trying to alphabetise it. Anyone want to help me finish it off?
k, I'll see what I can do today
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I would really like to join this cleanup, and the first page I just alphabetised is All Asians Know Martial Arts note . Going through trope pages by index/when I see it needs fixing because some trope pages in This Index Knows Kung-Fu weren't alphabetised. (along with several other pages I've seen but let's deal with these one at a time)
Other things to note (for this page):
- One Comic Book example (the one for Fin Fang Foom) is not attributed to any work page, I alphabetised it as F but should something be done about it?
- Commented out a ZCE for Transformers: Age of Extinction
- For work titles that start with "The", I alphabetised according to the word right after it. There is however one exception in the last example of the Western Animation folder, because I'm unsure if it's a ZCE or not.
Let me know if there are other things I should consider when cleaning up. If I come across more issues I'll address them here.
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Edited by BlackFaithStar on Jun 20th 2021 at 7:53:33 PM
That's correct, see How to Alphabetize Things
It is a ZCE. I alphabetized it and then commented it out.
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Did a few in the Anime Manga folder, but it's still a huge mess in there, including a lot of hidden examples with no elaboration or context.
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While you are at it, Side Scrollers are technically platformers. It would be best to merge Side Scrollers to Platformers.
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Why are there so many of these pages!?
Edited by IkeaHan on Jun 26th 2021 at 11:41:39 AM
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I merged the side scrollers folder on Promoted to Playable into platformers and alphabetised it.
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I've alphabetized most of the subpages for Paranoia Fuel, but I found the Literature subpage a bit hard to alphabetize since there are some stories lumped together.
For every low there is a high.
Let me know once Hard Mode Filler and Clandestine Cover are alphabetized and folderized.
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