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ilovewildkratts1 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-08-19 17:07:34

Might be helpful to point him to a few Administrivia articles. ATT is made for queries (and the one about the Living Thermostat trope is kosher in my eyes), but Administrivia articles answer a lot of questions for confused tropers so that they don't need to make consistent ATT queries such as "how does this work" and "can I make this page?"

As far as I can tell, no ATT query of his has people pointing him to such articles or to Administrivia as a whole, so I'd suggest maybe shooting him a PM with article links and encouraging him to give them a read.

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JHD0919 (Life not ruined yet)
2024-08-20 03:12:56

What Administrivia pages do you think I should let him know about? There are so many of them that I can't tell which ones are relevant.

Amonimus (Sergeant)
2024-08-20 04:33:52

"better fits elsewhere"

Such as...?

"point him to a few Administrivia articles"

Such as...?

Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
fireheart (Don’t ask)
2024-08-20 04:37:12

In general, I'd point them towards FAQ first.

How To Create A Work Page, How To Create A Character Page and/or Page Templates for the Animators Hell example. Maybe also Work Pages Are A Free Launch. TLP Guidelines for the Living Thermostat query, but make it clear that it's for their reading only so them can understand what's happened and why.

The download functionality query...not sure what page I'd point them to on that one. Best guess would be the GHWE thread on the forums. (Same goes for the two forum-specific ones) Personally, I don't think that the download feature he's after is kosher, but that's also not my call to make.

JHD0919 (Life not ruined yet)
2024-08-20 04:37:39

"better fits elsewhere"

Such as...?

Wiki Talk, Trope Talk, the Projects forums, and the Discussion tabs.

ilovewildkratts1 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-08-20 06:09:23

Whoops, my bad, I forgot to include links. Going to blue-link the ones in ^^ since those are good places to start.

- How to Create a Work Page

- How to Create a Character Page

- Page Templates

- Work Pages Are a Free Launch

- TLP Guidelines

As for the download wishlist query, I'd suggest telling him that if he wishes to make suggestions for the site, he should be more specific as to what he wants to see.

Edited by ilovewildkratts1 Wuewuewuewuewueing my way to the bank.
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2024-08-20 06:30:07

Anyone is free to just PM them to Welcome to TV Tropes and ask to read through Administrivia, which is what new users should be doing.

Out of the links in the OP, though

  • A tech request in the right place
  • Asking about making a page, a newbie question
  • A tech request in the right place
  • Asking where a trope page has disappeared due to it being unlaunched, something not many would know without knowing where to look
  • Asking if the site has a certain function, after which they were directed to the wishlist
  • I still have no idea what they've meant to ask in this one

So not sure what policy is relevant or of this is even a problem.

Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
JHD0919 (Life not ruined yet)
2024-08-20 06:32:41

Sent them a PM. Hopefully that helps.

fireheart (Don’t ask)
2024-08-20 15:08:55

^^^ thankyou for blue linking those - I have no idea why they came up as red for me. (Seems I need to reread the text formatting guidelines!)

^^ question - is this a standard thing for new accounts? (My account is a bit older so I can't confirm if it is)

MurlocAggroB Since: May, 2015
2024-08-20 20:45:20

^ It's because those pages are in the Administrivia namespace. You need to write Administrivia/WhateverThePageIs.

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ilovewildkratts1 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-08-20 22:54:56

^^^^ The last one is a misplaced Trope Finder query; he was pointed to Trope Finder after things were cleared up but I'm not sure if he redirected his query there.

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