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Nightshade92 Since: Mar, 2021
2022-02-15 05:15:47

Can you show some examples? I admittedly only skimmed but I’m not seeing anything substantially worse than any other page?

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Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-02-15 05:54:06

I've skimmed through edit history but from a quick glance I saw only punctuation adjustments and making some notes more elaborate. Also just a friendly reminder that the trope itself is about typos, so I hope nothing unnecessary got changed.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
2022-02-15 06:05:34

When I said to start a project I mainly meant that if the pages were too large, maybe enlisting more help there would work. If that's a bad idea though I get it.

Works That Require Cleanup Of Complaining | Troper Wall
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-02-15 06:39:54

Short-Term is a good place to fix large pages if there's too much for one person, I just don't see the exact problem the OP has without pinpointed examples to judge the size of the issue.

Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2022-02-15 07:48:12

I was only able to skim last night while half-asleep, but I also didn't see any obvious typos.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Arctimon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2022-02-15 09:23:25

I think the stuff that OP is talking about is capitalization issues, parentheses, and punctuation. Some of the examples were like this:

  • Trope Name: example text

to:

  • Trope Name: (Example text.)

Which...is fine for cleanup, and I agree it's annoying, but if that's all that it its, there's no need for a thread.

Now, if there's other things that I'm missing, then they should be brought up.

Edited by Arctimon
2022-02-15 11:36:33

Question: have notifiers been sent (and do they need to be sent)?

Works That Require Cleanup Of Complaining | Troper Wall
Arctimon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2022-02-15 12:26:47

It's more about getting the page more uniform than an individual person's edits. Besides, most of the edits are from ten years ago. I don't really think any need to be sent.

ARandomPage Since: Sep, 2021
2022-02-15 16:43:42

Yeah, what I was talking about is indeed capitalization, parentheses, and punctuation. Aside from some examples without text, and the first subpage being large enough for a split, that's about it, though on a much larger scale than what I'm used to.

What do you mean most of the edits were from ten years ago? The pages were created in 2021, I think. (Though there's a good chance they had it on the JFF page before the split.)

Edited by ARandomPage Troper Wall, sandbox, and I'm trying to kill typos.
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2022-02-15 16:51:44

Yeah, that's a bit weird, unless The Sykfoogle decided to merge them all together sometime in 2021? I distinctly remember finding these pages years ago, and there were way more than just two subpages. I thought I might've been misremembering until just now.

Edit: Courtesy link.

Edit 2: Wait, now looking at the main pages history the examples were indeed moved from the main page, but I s2g there used to be subpages.

Edited by WarJay77 Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
ARandomPage Since: Sep, 2021
2022-02-15 18:10:42

Huh. Strange. Pages that we think were older seem to have been created in 2021 (eg. Trope-tan) even though they were not. Probably some form of namespace migrating. Also, the troper's name is The Skyfoogle. They're quite active.

Edit: There are many indentation and alphabetization errors as well. And here I thought I could go fix the thing myself over some time. A bit of Department of Redundancy Department there as well.

Edited by ARandomPage Troper Wall, sandbox, and I'm trying to kill typos.
Arctimon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2022-02-15 19:56:21

^ Most of the problematic edits were from ten years ago. Sorry, should've made that more clear.

ARandomPage Since: Sep, 2021
2022-02-15 22:39:51

Well... uh... there's over a thousand edits. I would ask for examples, but I couldn't give any back when I started this thread.

Troper Wall, sandbox, and I'm trying to kill typos.
GastonRabbit MOD (General of TV Troops)
2022-02-16 05:32:38

ATT isn't a good fit for long conversations like this. If the page needs to be cleaned up, take it to Short-Term Projects if necessary.

You can't just say "perchance".
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