This thread is for combing through the sandbox namespace
and cutting pages that are no longer serving a purpose. Some criteria on what we will and will not cut:
- Okay to cut:
- Sandboxes for abandoned and/or completed projects
- Personal sandboxes only if the troper is confirmed gone, or if they otherwise consent to a cut
- Not okay to cut:
- Sandboxes for ongoing projects (page drafts, project threads, pantheon work)
- Personal sandboxes currently in-use, or belonging to tropers who don't consent to a cut
Why do this? Well, mostly to clear up space on the wiki and clear out some unnecessary bloat, as well as to clear up sandbox titles or create pages out of long-in-stasis drafts.
Edited by WarJay77 on Feb 11th 2021 at 7:28:39 AM
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
No TRS effort happened, actually. It was another one of those "get the wicks and then hope something happens with them" scenarios.
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So, should we cut, or keep it?
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
I don't really have a preference, TBH
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One-Track Mind (he/him)
Got no response last page, so I decided to cut the sandbox for being unused, with only 3 edits since its creation.
This is Idol Tap. (My Troper Wall)
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OK, maybe not abandoned, per se, but — ~MaLady are we still using Sandbox.Windows Games for something?
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- Storing pages which haven't been indexed on UsefulNotes.Windows Games, because otherwise they're hard to find?
We do want to index them by Operating System, right?
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I was more asking "is this still being used", but it seems the answer is yes, so my question is answered.
Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Jun 19th 2023 at 9:39:54 AM
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Sandbox.Watchmen Ozymandias hasn’t had any non clean up edits in two years.
Edited by costanton11 on Jul 8th 2023 at 10:17:49 AM
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~General Gigan Are you still using this?
Godzilla
No.
SKREEEEEEEONK!
He/Him
Not sure who this belongs to but Recap.Wiki Sandbox barely has had any non-cleanup edits in the past two years (probably just the addition of the My Friends And Zoiberg link) and I'm pretty sure it should be in the sandbox namespace instead of the recap namespace, if someone wants to keep it around.
My troper wall
the Retromancer
Every Wiki Sandbox subpage is effecticely a sandbox though.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
How sweet it is
~Synchronicity, do we still need Sandbox.Yuri Genre? The only edits it got since creation in 2021 are from TRS efforts, and the image on the page proper got a change in Image Pickin'.
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Uhh. I had to backtrack into the TRS to remember why I even made it. It was made purely as a hypothetical so it can go.
How sweet it is
Alright, it'll be cut. Thanks for the quick reply.
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Sandbox.Actor Allusion Wick Check has only had name spacing edits in the last two years.
I'm helping!
Stumbled our way onto Sandbox.Gardenscapes, today, a stub last edited over a year ago. ~Tropers/Bojan is the only contributor and hasn't edited or posted in over a month.
Anyone have a compelling reason to keep any of this?
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
I say cut.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
I'm Sad Frogerson.
Is MCUSHIELD still being used? The last non-wick clean-up related edit was back in June 2022, and the current page is way more stripped back.
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The Formatter
I think it’s good to cut. At lot has happened since I last worked on that page and I don’t fully remember what I was doing with it. So yeah cut it.
It's gonna be fun on the bun!
Sandbox.Characters Final Fantasy VII Playable Characters??
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~Septimus Heap created the page via a Locked Pages request, and ~RT 1986 was the main editor.
Do either of you have any interest in saving the page?
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Depends on whether it has been swapped. I remember that they were asking for a lot of edits and I told them to sandbox these edits.
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That TRS didn't get made, actually. IIRC there wasn't a proven problem—before you cut, pinging ~War Jay 77 just to be safe. Jay—was my assessment accurate?
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