So, it's been a trend for soft-split tropes to be split into multiple sections even when it's not needed and makes the page a hassle to navigate. In some cases, the trope in question is so large that hard-splitting some (or all) of the internal subtropes into their pages is more beneficial than letting them take over the page.
EDIT: Here’s the sandbox for this effort—Sandbox.Soft Split Cleanup
Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 4th 2022 at 10:16:08 AM
Horror Comedy is currently organized by horror to comedy ratio (with a large Unsorted folder). Since the criteria is very subjective, it should be reorganized either by alphabetical order or released date.
The pages for Super Sentai and Power Rangers seasons are all split between "recurring franchise tropes" and "other tropes", which someone brought up as an issue
on the former's cleanup thread. Should they go?
I would think recurrent franchise tropes would go on the parent franchise.
Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 27th 2022 at 11:47:21 AM
Macron's notesTo clarify, every season in Super Sentai, Power Rangers and Kamen Rider franchises have "Recurring franchise tropes:" sections before the example list. I'd like to burn them and move the examples to the example lists properly.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupInexplicably Tailless is a mess. For starters, it for some reason has an entire section for animals that have tails when they shouldn't... but half of those examples lack tails anyway, because organization is hard, I guess?
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IMO they can all be merged together, although I could be wrong so requesting more opinions.
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Yeah.
That description is also a mess, and what is with Justified? That's no longer "Inexplicable" - maybe we have a non-indicative name here?
YMMV.Young Justice 2010 is softsplit by "general" + season, resulting in tropes like Continuity Lock-Out being duplicated across folders. I would guess this is due to seasons 3 and 4 being hardsplit away on WesternAnimation.Young Justice Revival Series (a sorting I'm not sure is really appropriate but that's not for this thread). So either:
- Re-sort into one
- Split away folders for s3 and s4 to YMMV.Young Justice Revival Series
Edited by Synchronicity on May 7th 2022 at 11:32:57 AM
Any thoughts on Role Swap AU? It's started as an almost entirely fanfic trope, but now it's gathering more canon examples, there's a question as to whether all the fanfic folders should be on their own page, allowing it to keep the media folders (rather than just putting them all under "Fan works") without causing any confusion.
Thanks!
Don't know if you read my response in the ATT query, but reposting just in case:
While not too rare in officially licensed works, this type of plot is more commonly done in fanfic, because obviously the original source material's creator don't have the time to retell the story over and over with various permutations of the switched roles or alignments.
Also I disagree with removing the source grouping from the Fan work section, especially since this is a common Fandom-Specific Plot. Rather than list "X/Y/Z, a fanfic of work T, switches the roles of A and B" multiple times, it'd be better to just make a more general statement that "Work Y has multiple fanfics that switches the roles of A and B" and the individual fic titles can have more space to describe how the swapped roles impact the story.
Basically, I'd prefer to keep them separate. Although another alternative is splitting of the Fan Works section into its own subpage, such as what is done in Fix Fic, so that we can have the Canon examples upfront without having a really bloated Fanfic/Fan Works folder.
Edited by Adept on May 30th 2022 at 9:57:30 PM
I don't think that Role Swap AU merits a separate subpage for Fanfiction yet. The entire page (wiki source format) is only around 43k characters - 33k of which are fanfic examples. Fix Fic is definitely in a different class there, as it's fanfic page alone is 250k characters in source form.
Is there a narrative difference between RoleSwapAUs that happen to be fanfiction vs. those that are in-cannon?
I guess it's to stop the examples from looking cluttered.
Also, Master, Pokémon? has its examples split between the actual fic and a spin-off set in a different continuity. Should the spinoff get its own page?
Okay possibly technically not a soft split but Music.Pendulum Band is split into "song tropes" and "misc tropes". Should it be this way? And if not, how should it be fixed?
Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallNo, that's still a soft split. And we're not aware of any reason this would be preferred, so go ahead and merge it.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.Series.Only Murders In The Building is softsplit by season. It's not an anthology or anything; the second season picks up directly from the first one, so I don't see a reason for it. Permission to unsoftsplit?
Series.Scream Queens 2015 is too but I don't know enough about that show to comment.
I think it would be ok to unsoftsplit OMITB.
Anyway, while I'm looking for a thread to ask if it's okay to hard split the anime/manga section of Little Bit Beastly, would it be ok to turn the soft split within that folder into actual folders once the subpage is made? The anime/manga folder has multiple sections referring to characters with specific animal traits.
Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jul 9th 2022 at 8:43:21 AM
CG for short^^ I am fine with removing the soft split or that page.
^ I don't think separating every form of animal ears and tails is necessary so fine with removing the soft split
Macron's notesWe Do Not Know Each Other is soft-split into two types. Thoughts?
Mix them. The "two obvious reasons" aren't the only cases why this would happen.
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