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Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-12-09 14:43:54

I see no reason to remove the links here.

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Grotadmorv (Troper Knight)
2022-12-09 19:25:06

They also removed some links to other tropes because they showed up on the index. I'm wondering if this is allowed, since other recap pages like SpongeBob SquarePants do have links (such as SpongeBob SquarePants S 1 E 6 "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy" / "Pickles", Heroic BSoD, then SpongeBob SquarePants S1 E7 "Hall Monitor" / "Jellyfish Jam") and the trope doesn't appear in the index. I kind of remember this being a problem at one point, so I'm wondering why this happens.

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Aazkaal Since: Sep, 2019
2022-12-09 19:36:11

^ As far as I know, the first link in any entry gets indexed; if you don't start the entry with the link to the episode, you would index the wrong link. Not knowing how it works, it's easy to assume that every link gets indexed, and try to remove them.

Aazkaal Since: Sep, 2019
2022-12-09 19:41:04

Regarding the question which started this discussion:

If we put the red links into list of recap pages, we have to do null edit to make the new pages indexed once we create them. If we don't put them, we still have to edit the index to add new links.

With that in mind, it's easier to add the red links to the episodes in advance, as this way, at least it would be easier to quickly create them.

P.S. IMHO, all-white entry looks even uglier than red links.

Grotadmorv (Troper Knight)
2022-12-09 19:41:42

So I think if the page hasn't been created yet, it'll just index the first working link. That makes sense, but I think we can re-add them, since the pages are likely to be created anyways.

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Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2022-12-09 21:03:00

Those recap pages should be red linked — see Administrivia.Red Link

Only the first link on a bullet point gets indexed. If the first link is a red link and there's a blue link after it, the blue link will not be indexed.

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