TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Ask The Tropers

Go To

Have a question about how the TVTropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help. It's not for everything, though. For a list of all the resources for your questions, click here. You can also go to this Directory thread for ongoing cleanup projects.

Ask the Tropers:

Trope Related Question:

Make Private (For security bugs or stuff only for moderators)

DracMonster Since: Jan, 2001
2014-02-01 17:48:19

Well, coming and explaining was good. Next time, do ask here first.

Basically, we avoid Trope Namers nowadays — they're problematic for various reasons. Redirects are also less than optimal since they muck up keeping track of how many wicks a page has.

Now, cut pages are normally locked, so I'm a bit curious how you were able to recreate it — normally, you shouldn't even have been able to commit this error.

Edited by DracMonster
Discar Since: Jun, 2009
2014-02-01 17:59:11

Fast Eddie recently reformatted the cutlist so cut pages aren't autolocked. Apparently it was causing more problems than it solved.

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
DracMonster Since: Jan, 2001
2014-02-01 18:04:21

Ah.

Well Mc Jeff, going forward, don't recreate something that was removed until you find out whether it's kosher. It probably wasn't.

McJeff Since: Jan, 2001
2014-02-01 18:06:14

Normally I wouldn't, but since I couldn't find any discussion and I was under the impression that things got discussed before they were deleted... like I said, I just usually steer far away from anything related to deletion. Too many bad wikipedia memories.

Incidentally I'm familiar with the frowning upon Trope Namers - I've been around long enough to remember trope names like The Kimberly and Xanatos Gilligan - but like I said, this is one of those that's sort of an exception because of the extremely narrow reason for usage and lack of problems with doing so.

Edited by McJeff Russell... likes to hurt people... for PEACE.
MyFinalEdits (Spin-off Series)
2014-02-01 22:26:57

Still should have asked before acting, sir.

135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311
SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2014-02-02 02:10:30

Well, for one thing, the fact that it takes two (a cutmaster and someone who is cutlisting the page) to get something cut is a discussion of some sort. For the record, I support the cut as it's just a meaningless character name.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Top