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Darksilverhawk Since: Oct, 2014
2015-01-08 06:37:45

You can bring it up in the general long term project threads if you can pin down a few specific problems (the page has a big zero context example problem, to start). If the work has a forum thread I'd let them know as well. You can take really bad work pages to TRS, though it's not always the best course of action.

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Nohbody Since: Jan, 2001
2015-01-08 07:09:16

There is a general cleanup help request thread for pages with more than one issue, here.

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Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2015-01-08 07:39:45

I've been meaning to improve the article for 2001 for quite a while, but never felt like I had the time.

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Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2015-01-08 09:07:44

I am 90% sure I saw one ZCE that was also a sinkholed trope name.

If no one else does, I'll bring it up in those threads when I get the chance. RL is demanding my time. (Really, there should be more evening services for us diehard night owls. /tongue firmly in cheek.)

Edited by Candi Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
SolipSchism Since: Jun, 2014
2015-01-08 09:12:40

^ Well, I can at least tackle that; those are easy enough to find and correct. The sinkhole, anyway.

EDIT: Done, plus a couple of other quick fixes. See my edit reason for the additional changes:

"Fixing Sinkholes/Potholed trope names. Also deleting Novelization, as such "adaptation" tropes go on the page for the adaptations themselves, not on the works being adapted, and that adaptation does have a page. Cutting the Odysseus comparison out of the Sole Survivor example because it's really not relevant. Further issues currently being discussed, but these were easy enough to fix."

Also just added the Novelization example to the book series' page, since outright deleting it would have been wasteful.

Edited by SolipSchism
Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2015-01-08 19:46:36

And posted in the help request thread. I took a more detailed look to get 'this is why it needs help' info... there's a "Practically the Trope Codifier" example down there. Among other issues. Eeep.

Edited by Candi Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
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