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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#76: Oct 25th 2010 at 8:39:01 AM

Fair enough. The equals-bars are good. We shall learn to love the equals-bars. In all their... barry glory.

What's precedent ever done for us?
Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#77: Oct 25th 2010 at 8:42:54 AM

One thing, though - I noticed that you deleted the 'Warnings' section as well as the Comments one. Think we might want to keep that around? It's less a commentary on the fic's quality, and more a list of potential triggers for readers.

On the one hand, it's a section that doesn't crop up much on other recs pages. On the other, it seems a nice little courtesy to people browsing the page.

edited 25th Oct '10 8:46:33 AM by Iaculus

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#78: Oct 25th 2010 at 8:49:56 AM

I'd say it is more friction than necessary. The most common use I've seen for it is to remark on Ho Yay or to bloviate on the foulness of some 'ship or the other. Very much a YMMV thing.

You'll also note I zapped the 'comments:' bullet. Let's don't even get 'em started, shall we?wink

edited 25th Oct '10 8:51:35 AM by FastEddie

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Komodin TV Tropes' Sonic Wiki Curator from Windy Hill Zone Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
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#79: Oct 25th 2010 at 8:51:15 AM

I'll get started on implementing this new format on the pages for Sonic The Hedgehog and The Legend Of Zelda for now.

Also, should we change the template for the old format listed on the general Fanfic Recommendations page in lieu of the new one we aim to implement?

Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.
FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#80: Oct 25th 2010 at 8:52:29 AM

Yup. Assuming nobody has a big problem with it.

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#81: Oct 25th 2010 at 8:57:19 AM

Fair enough. It's not like I'm especially attached to that section. It's just that we already have this notice...

Do warn when a fanfic may head into homosexual or non-canon territory. Some people just don't like it, and as we all know, Shipping is Serious Business.

... which could be seen to serve as an argument for a specific warnings section, so we might want to iron out any contradictions there.

edited 25th Oct '10 8:57:45 AM by Iaculus

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#82: Oct 25th 2010 at 8:58:40 AM

Just zap that bit, I'd say. It just raises issues that can be dealt with in a review.

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#83: Oct 25th 2010 at 8:59:25 AM

Roger that.

EDIT: Message removed, and I declared open season on its incarnations on the other pages. Now to shift some more of those deleted comments into reviews, I guess.

edited 25th Oct '10 9:07:44 AM by Iaculus

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#84: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:11:48 AM

Just noticed that spoiler-coding doesn't seem to work in the Reviews section, despite me switching to the 'spoilers hidden by default' seting. Is this something that can be fixed, or something that we just need to work around?

edited 25th Oct '10 9:16:50 AM by Iaculus

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#85: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:16:50 AM

Spoiler font is turned off in reviews. Secret information is of no use at all in review.

BTW, the markup now fails more gracefully if someone forgets that [= business.

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#86: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:18:09 AM

Figured. It also does weird things to potholes, so I guess I'll just have to strip off the spoiler-coding from any further transferred reviews.

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#87: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:19:13 AM

What weirdness to potholes? That's likely a bug.

edited 25th Oct '10 9:19:22 AM by FastEddie

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#88: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:20:14 AM

Basically, they get whited out, but none of the rest of the text does.

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CuratorAccount Since: Dec, 1969
#89: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:33:22 AM

This is apparently the account we're supposed to be using for the transfers, just to make it look nice and official. If you want the password, send a PM to either Iaculus or Fast Eddie. Or me. Who is currently Iaculus, by the way.

edited 25th Oct '10 9:33:48 AM by CuratorAccount

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#90: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:42:19 AM

Well, that's the [PROTOTYPE] page all reviewed up. And it hasn't even collapsed into a stinking mass of code yet!

edited 25th Oct '10 9:43:36 AM by CuratorAccount

Komodin TV Tropes' Sonic Wiki Curator from Windy Hill Zone Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
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#91: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:47:30 AM

Took me an hour, but I'm finished implementing the new format on two aforementioned pages in my last post. How do they look?

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#92: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:49:25 AM

I must say, this makes the pages a lot easier to navigate. It'll be interesting to see what the big beasts, like the Naruto and Harry Potter recs pages, look like after this.

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#93: Oct 25th 2010 at 9:55:50 AM

[up][up]Pretty good!

I zapped those comments: bullets, as we don't really want comments.

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#94: Oct 25th 2010 at 10:25:53 AM

Should the content tags be left on the same line as the title and link, or given their own line like Cryptic Mirror suggested?

EDIT: Eddie may have already answered this earlier...I'm thinking specifically tags like Lemon, WAFF, Dark Fic, etc.

I'll handle the Eva page as soon as I can get time to work on it; the main thing I want to do is contact the people that left review-worthy comments and find out if they want their stuff preserved or not before arbitrarily zapping it. What I think I'll do is, if the comment isn't worth making into a review, I'll just put the troper's name in the Recommended by line, with the first troper's handle bolded so it's obvious that he/she made the recommendation...or should this even be messed with?

edited 25th Oct '10 10:33:14 AM by Willbyr

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#95: Oct 25th 2010 at 11:09:01 AM

I think there is a bullet for tags in the template. That should stay, I think.

Looks like a good plan on the non-review-worthy comments.

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Marioguy128 Geomancer from various galaxies Since: Jan, 2010
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#96: Oct 25th 2010 at 11:12:12 AM

Megaman and Haruhi I'll handle. What's the markup and where can we find it?

Personal link.

Edit: Got it. Thanks Fast Eddie.

Edit 2: Wait do we just add the review section, or do we move the comments there too?

edited 25th Oct '10 11:21:08 AM by Marioguy128

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#97: Oct 25th 2010 at 11:34:01 AM

People have been moving comments to Reviews if the comment amounts to a review. Elsewise, they are zapped.

The markup is [=[[reviews:TitleOfFanFic]]=].

edited 25th Oct '10 11:53:40 AM by FastEddie

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#98: Oct 25th 2010 at 11:34:26 AM

I moved the comments there. See my work on the Prototype page for how I chose to handle it.

edited 25th Oct '10 11:34:39 AM by Iaculus

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Marioguy128 Geomancer from various galaxies Since: Jan, 2010
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#99: Oct 25th 2010 at 11:43:16 AM

Right. I have no way to know who wrote the comments so I'm just going to assume whoever recommended it wrote the comments. I also titled the reviews "Review by [insert username here]"

Edit: -looks at both pages- OH MY FREAKING GOD I HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO. I think I'm going to cry.

edited 25th Oct '10 11:51:34 AM by Marioguy128

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#100: Oct 25th 2010 at 11:54:21 AM

Deep breaths. A piece at a time does the trick.wink

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