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MagnusForce (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2022-03-06 16:47:22

Looking at the page, I think we should just cut it. It was clearly made by someone with no understanding of TV Tropes' purpose, and it feels like it was made to promote the creator's own work. The fact it was made only about 2 weeks ago and describes a user who only started making animations on a children's website when Covid began heightens my suspicions regarding the page. Pretty much nigh-unsalvageable.

Edited by MagnusForce "Detecting trace amounts of mental activity. Possibly a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer."
Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2022-03-06 16:47:26

Ha- PrincessPandaTrope specifically moved those to tropes to save the page from a cut.

Glancing at the "tropes", there are a few more synopses-like blurbs that can be rewritten as entries, like the Presents one. If you're up for it.

laserviking42 Since: Oct, 2015
2022-03-06 16:48:25

The page is confusing, it seems to be about a person who either created Scratch (even though WP says it was created by MIT Media Labs) or may be trying to say they create using Scratch. Several of the "tropes" appear to be in jokes that make me think of those roleplay pages that only make sense to the players.

In short I have no idea what this page is even supposed to be about (a creator? a web animation? a computer programming language?). If someone wants to clean it up sure, but otherwise I don't see how it brings much value otherwise.

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Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-03-06 16:50:08

I'd cut it and subpages for being an unsalvagable personal notepad, we're not FANDOM. It would be easier to ask Wise Wizard 6000 to recreate it from scratch if they're willing.

Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
2022-03-06 17:17:10

Thank you to Tabs for removing all the spammy material. Thank you to whoever cutlisted the character page for cutlisting the character page.

MagnusForce (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2022-03-06 19:18:58

Should we do something about the quotes subpage too? It's pretty messy.

"Detecting trace amounts of mental activity. Possibly a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer."
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-03-06 19:23:51

Since TheLifeConqueror has severely improved I'm taking back my vote to cut it. Quotes.The Life Conqueror should be cut, reformatted, or remade into Funny Moments.

Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
BKelly95 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2022-03-06 20:59:14

^ Wait, if Wise Wizard 6000 is the creator of the work in question (as theorized by Magnus Force), they created the quotes page, and we repurpose it into a Funny Moments page, wouldn't that effectively mean the work's creator has added YMMW entries?

Edited by BKelly95
laserviking42 Since: Oct, 2015
2022-03-06 21:32:41

Well, we don't know for sure that WW 6000 is the creator, so we can punt that particular worry. Looking at the quotes page, is there anything really salvageable in there? None of those lines seem particularly quotable, nor are they funny. In fact it seems (like the main page) that they are some form of inside joke.

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PrincessPandaTrope Since: Jan, 2017
2022-03-07 18:45:45

I added some tropes to the Characters subpage. Can it be restored?

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laserviking42 Since: Oct, 2015
2022-03-07 18:54:33

^ The page isn't really big enough to warrant a separate Characters page split.

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