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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2021-05-10 00:59:31

That page is on Tropes Needing TRS, probably in part for this sort of thing.

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Kuruni (Long Runner)
2021-07-15 21:24:59

Late bump since my issue here is not relate to the point listed in Tropes Needing TRS. It's that the page has very long external links list. Folderized per request, but note that it isn't in the original article.

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As you might have noticed already, many are links to individual stories within same website (plus a link to Encyclopedia Dramatica) which smell like spam/advertisement to me. Also, keep in mind that this list come before our tropes list.

Again, I think most of them should be removed and keep only collection sites afterward.

Edited by Kuruni
Afterword (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2021-07-15 21:48:14

Can you please folderize that?

Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2021-07-15 23:11:15

Those external links feel like advertising and off-mission. We do tropes, and we want people to stay on TV Tropes.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2021-07-15 23:15:53

Frankly, I'm surprised at how few of them have pages here. We could probably fix this in part just by pumping out pasta pages.

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Kuruni (Long Runner)
2021-07-16 07:09:55

Folderized per request.

^ It actually has even longer list for pasta with articles here on that page. Neither is in folder.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2021-07-16 10:39:00

Well, still; we could still convert those into proper pages and erase that list almost entirely.

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Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2021-07-16 13:00:13

I have no issue with a list of work pages.

Someone has to be willing.

BlackFaithStar (Less Newbie)
2021-07-16 16:18:44

This could be a project I'd jump onto, but only in a few months when I have the luxury of time.

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Zuxtron (On A Trope Odyssey)
2021-07-16 17:09:01

Ideally, we'd convert the Creepypasta page into an index of pastas that have trope pages, and lose the list of tropes from assorted pageless stories as well as the links to them.

Kuruni (Long Runner)
2021-07-16 23:34:14

Indeed. But since it would take some time before we get new pages up, For the time being, I would suggest to 1. remove the external links to individual stories, dump them on discussion page, 2. folderized the notable pasta with page here.

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