I think the point is to highlight a single trope page every week that has problems so that we can get a larger number of people involved and get things done quickly.
I don't think it's a bad idea.
Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.I don't know about "at random", but...
Yes, we have a large number of still-open topics in the Trope Repair Shop. If I made a topic for every trope page that I thought needed repairing, it would be even larger.
So how about we take on of those topics and sticky it, advertise it around the site for a week. "This page has a problem. You can come to help fix it."
We can get more people into the process and get some of the slower topics moving more quickly.
^ I just got ninja'd. I should refresh more often.
edited 17th Sep '10 4:56:27 PM by Meophist
Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.I'm not sure if this is quite the idea chihuahua0 was thinking of when he made this thread, and if it's not I'm sorry for hijacking it, but I think we have a good idea here that we can make once we get some of the details sorted out.
So the idea is that, probably once a week, we find a trope page that is in need of some sort of attention. Either it needs a new name, the trope needs defining, Needs Wiki Magic Love, or something else. This page can be found in many ways, like from the aforementioned page, the threads from the Trope Repair Shop, or anything else somebody happens to find.
The page itself could probably just be determined by a mod. Finding one page a week shouldn't take too much time. If it's taken from the Trope Repair Shop, then I think a new thread should be made with a summary of the problems and possible solutions in the first post. This way, people can quickly get an idea of the situation and provide their input. Having to go through a potentially very long thread could turn many people off.
This thread should be, at the bare minimum, stickied in the Trope Repair Shop. It should probably also be in the Trope Talk and maybe the Wiki Talk as well. A link can also be provided, maybe near the top with all of the other buttons. I'm not quite sure how we can do this on the wiki pages, maybe it can be linked from the left side.
Before I go on further, is there any problems with what I posted so far?
edited 18th Sep '10 2:22:46 PM by Meophist
Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.I agree with you.
So, try to find a trope page from the following indexes (including the Repair Shop):
- Tropes Needing Examples
- Pages Needing An Entry Pimp
- Pages Needing Example Sorting
- Pages Needing Images
- Pages Needing Wicks
- Needs A Better Description
- Needs an Index
- Works Needing Tropes
edited 19th Sep '10 2:25:54 PM by chihuahua0
I bring this thread from the dead via necro! BOOM!
Sorry, but I this died and I was interested. I know that The Google Incident is still in effect, but we can't put all of our resources towards it.
Now, I looked over the Pages Needing Wicks index and one trope stood out: Red Shirt Reporter. This one needs wicks. So, get to work on it!
And please pin this, Fast Eddie.
Project One Zero: Redshirt Reporter:
- Needs A Better Description
- Needs More Examples
- Needs An Image
- Needs Wicks
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Needs Laconic Page - Needs Playing With Page
- Needs Troper Tales Page
(What other things do we need?)
edited 4th Nov '10 3:24:31 PM by chihuahua0
That thing locked me into a vicious cycle. I want to give it a better description, but because of the description that's already up, I don't know what the description is supposed to be! An expendable news reporter? Because the description doesn't say that at all.
Also, I can't begin to think about Playing With until that's fixed.
Telling by the examples, I think its a news reporter that is reporting in a dangerous life-threatening situation. And they usually die.
Oh, and it seems like it didn't went though the YKTTW.
edited 1st Nov '10 2:35:48 PM by chihuahua0
It seems they always rush into the action to get the best scoop, as well. Dying doesn't seem to be a requirement.
"A reporter that often rushes into a dangerous situation in order to get the best scoop." would be the laconic, I think. The current one is wrong, implies that the reporter dies.
EDIT: NINJA'D BLARGH
edited 1st Nov '10 2:44:51 PM by TheInferno
"The fact that your food can be made into makeshift bombs alarms the Hell out of me, Scrye." - CharlatanSuggested page images:
- Jim Cantore during Hurricane Earl
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- Jim Cantore during a different hurricane
- Jim Cantore (and his cameraman) during yet a different severe storm
edited 1st Nov '10 2:54:08 PM by Madrugada
Sorry to be a pain...where do we submit Playing With pages? On the YKTTW forum?
You don't need to YKTTW a playing with page. PlayingWith.Redshirt Reporter
Click that redlink and go.
Crown Description:
Nominations for replacement images:

I think that a few of us Tropers should start a weekly thing called Extreme Trope Makeover. From a series of trope pages without an image, lack of examples, a bad description, etc, we pick one and revise it.
What do you think?