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As your friendly neighborhood Admin Team, the gang here at TVTropes HQ is always working to improve the site. Many of those improvements begin with suggestions posted right here, on the Community Wishlist. Is there a feature you really want on TVTropes? Post it. Is there something we could be doing better? We want to know. Do you think we look fat in these pants? We were totally afraid of that. See a bug? Report it.

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Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2022-05-31 15:23:59

Are there any particular examples that inspired this? Because listing redirects is useful for work namespaces. For example, ComicBook.The Umbrella Academy has a Series icon listed, which redirects to Series.The Umbrella Academy 2019. And since it's an adaptation, it makes sense to list the icons together.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2022-05-31 15:35:43

Well, there was a case where I'd noticed someone had made some rather ill-thought-out redirects to various works in the A Series of Unfortunate Events franchise, and I'd discovered it when I clicked on one and ended up at a work page for a work not in the redirect's namespace. Now there's controversy over how to handle Characters.Monopoly, and people don't want to redirect it because there'll be a pointless characters tab.

There's a difference when it's an adaptation and thus people will likely be searching for it, and when it's only there for the sake of being there even though it makes things more confusing in the long run.

Edited by WarJay77 Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2022-05-31 15:41:35

Oh I remember the ASOUE ones. But in that case, those redirects shouldn't have been made in the first place*, and they wouldn't have been noticed so easily if they were hidden.

* Because they were not valid alternate names for the Franchise page. Contrast with something like Franchise.Firefly, which has Franchise.Serenity as a redirect because works in multiple mediums in the franchise have been published under the name (due to issues with rights over the name "Firefly").

The Monopoly case seems pretty straightforward to me. Either the page stays, or it doesn't, is cut, and the auto-disambiguator takes care of it. It can also have the cut reason point to the work page. Although I'm questioning whether it needs to be cut.

(Where is the main discussion for the Monopoly page going on?)

Edited by Twiddler
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2022-05-31 15:54:29

The discussion for Monopoly is mostly here.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-05-31 23:39:40

Sounds reasonable to me, I think it's okay to make redirects for adaptation to point at the source page, but when it's in the tabs makes me think it's either unrelated or deviates enough. (Another argument to get rid of namespaces tbh, but that's been discussed enough times elsewhere.)

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
henke37 Since: Jan, 2001
2022-07-11 07:57:41

How about checking if the redirect is to another page with the exact same name, but different namespace? Those are generally not useful as icons.

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