Abandoned Sandbox Cleanup

Can't see who created the page, but it seems ~mightymewtron heavily edited it.

Mew, is this your page? And if so, are you still using it?

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Feb 3rd 2023 at 7:43:29 AM

It's my page and ideally I wanted other people to edit it, but the cleanup project died. The pages still need a ton of cleanup but it's been in limbo as some of these videos I haven't seen and can't verify myself.

Is Sandbox.Commander Visor Sandbox RWBY still in use? It doesn't seem to have been used by the troper since July 2021, and the only activity since has been from wick clean-ups.

~Commander Visor

Edited to add: I've just had a look at the troper's edit history, and they haven't edited since October 2021. Does anyone know if they're still around or no longer on the site?

Edited by Wyldchyld on Feb 8th 2023 at 6:21:19 PM

I think they got banned IIRC.

I've gone through Edit Banned and ATT, and they were suspended in October 2021. Among other reasons, their use of the following sandbox was queried. While they responded to that, they didn't respond to the moderator's own response, and comments on the sandbox in question. So, they were suspended but left it hanging.

The sandbox the mods queried was this one: Sandbox.Commander Visor Sandbox Spongebob Squarepants

So, that's two sandboxes that look untouched by a suspended troper who hasn't appealed suspension since October 2021. Should they both be cut?

Edited to add: I've just looked at the sandbox namespace, and Commander Visor has 60 sandboxes. I've listed them in a folder, along with the date Commander Visor last edited the page. I have not included the date of last edit by anyone other than Commander Visor if they're wiki clean-up edits. However, I have listed the last editor where a troper edit was made (not a clean-up edit).

Should all of these be cut?

Edited by Wyldchyld on Feb 10th 2023 at 8:07:06 PM

Found Sandbox.The Chick today. Since that trope's been disambiguated, do we need it anymore?

In my opinion, it's no longer needed for the reason you stated.

Another abandoned sandbox I found while cleaning up wicks, this time it's Kingdom Hearts Party Members. The last non-wick clean-up related edit was back in 2015, so the page is probably incredibly outdated for whatever purpose it used to have. Should it be cut?

Yes. I also checked and I agree that it's outdated.

So a user who hasn't been on the site since November made the following pages: Sandbox2.Thavidux 1234 and Sandbox3.Thavidux 1234.

I was told to bring it here.

The numbered namespaces alone should make these insta-cuts. Sandboxes go in Sandbox/ and nowhere else.

Last year I was on a spree to PM the owners and ask to clone their Sandbox2/ pages elsewhere.

~Twiddler - Uh, what's the use of Sandbox.Serpentwithfeet?

Recreating a work page. It can be cut now, so I'll do that.

Sandbox.Suggestion Crowner Stats?

~Synchronicity Are you still using this?

Oh, nah. That was done to see if we should nix the "start a new thread if the image you picked in the Suggestion thread flopped" but it got nixed with the new thread cap anyway.

Sandbox.Beaks Only Come In Yellow And Orange was created by the now-bounced Amour Le Fou, and it seems to be a draft for a trope that TBH doesn't seem all that tropeworthy. What should be done?

Why does Sandbox/NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast have all those wicks?

Ask ~m-95 I think

Look at the pages that are wicked there; they're all subpages of said sandbox. I put those links there for easier navigation of the sandbox. Did I do something wrong?

Er, it's the fact that those subpages aren't in the sandbox namespaces, and sandboxes can't be linked anywhere that isn't a sandbox. You can't just say that the sandbox has subpages.

I didn't create those pages, and said pages are all linked to on the Sandbox page rather than the Main page.

Plus, there's the fact that Sandbox.Names To Run Away From Really Fast literally has them sorted under the header "Sub-pages and subtropes" there.

Yes, because that was copied from the actual trope page.

Forgive my ignorance, but why aren't they on the actual main page, then?