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RallyBot2 (Elder Troper)
2020-04-17 20:03:02

If it has examples, can't you just crosswick them to the work page?

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
2020-04-17 20:06:46

Once it has a works page, yes. But since they are currently naked links, the only way to find them is to do a search and hope they're all caught. Which will be annoying.

I mean, that's the plan, because I don't see any better way to do it, but it will still be annoying.

Oh, and the majority of them are just quotes, not examples. So that makes it hard too.

Edited by Discar Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2020-04-17 20:44:38

For the summary, what about something like

Plan 7 of 9 From Outer Space is a fanfic of Plan 9 From Outer Space by Odon. It follows Captain Proton on a mission to save the world.

Yes, it's barebones and needs context (who is Captain Proton? from a cursory search, he doesn't seem to be from the movie. is he an original character? a character crossing over from another work?) but it gets the job done. As long as the page has a description and three non-ZC examples, it can stay.

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2020-04-17 21:26:24

What I would call the "better way to do it" is a Red Link. Those 471 results should be linking to the fanfic page. That way, https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Fanfic/Plan7OfNineFromOuterSpace would actually tell you where examples/wicks are.


This is something I do with other works. I start with a search for the title on tv tropes, make sure they wick to the (non-existent) work page, and copy the example to a Google Doc. I do a bit of internet research to get context on when the work was released and get an idea on the packaging/marketing, then I (re-)read the work, clean the google doc draft, and upload the page.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Piterpicher (Series 2)
2020-04-18 04:34:01

Agreed with that idea of wick searching and copying, though I'd recommend using Notepad++ instead of Google Doc as it's more efficient at handling wiki markup and plain text (I don't use Word either for a similar reason). As for calling the page, use Fanfic.Plan 7 Of 9 From Outer Space because it's better to use numbers wherever possible and that potential page name of Fanfic.Plan 7 Of Nine From Outer Space is inconsistent (it's not like it would not require custom titling anyway).

Edited by Piterpicher Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
Discar Since: Jun, 2009
2020-04-18 09:50:05

Alright, made the page, managed to scrounge up three examples, and wicked everywhere I could. Ended up with 101 wicks (plus the index)... ninety-nine of which were quotes without context.

Who the hell has been pimping this work like this for so long?

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
immichan Since: Jan, 2018
2020-04-18 10:04:12

In at least one case, the author themselves. They added a page quote from it for Touch of the Monster back in 2014.

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Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2020-04-18 11:08:22

It'll need to be added to Quote Source as well.

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
2020-04-18 11:13:52

Quote Source is good. It's where I got the first few wicks. Most of these were on quotes pages.

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2020-04-18 11:26:03

Huh. It's not indexing? Not sure why the works on Quote Source are excluded from index tags, when that's the opposite of how the subpages handle it.

immichan Since: Jan, 2018
2020-04-18 17:03:46

So like... I clicked several at random (Chest Burster, Laugh Themselves Sick, Mysterious Antarctica, Stock Footage Failure, Wakeup Makeup). Laugh Themselves Sick was added by Jack G; the other 4 were all by the fic author, Odon.

Synchronicity MOD (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2020-04-18 17:10:58

^^'Twasn't indexing on Quote Source because the link hadn't been changed to the work page link. I fixed it.

Synchronicity MOD (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2020-05-08 13:29:48

Bumping to ask — Jack G has added a very capitalized and blue-link-filled description to Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. Should this...be trimmed down somehow?

Arctimon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2020-05-08 14:15:52

There's a lot of blue links everywhere on the page, so much so that it's very hard to read it.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2020-05-08 14:16:56

Dear god that page needs scrubbing.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Arctimon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2020-05-08 16:31:23

I've cleaned up some of the blue links on the page, but there's a ton more that can probably be removed because they don't add anything significant. Not to mention Jack G's grammar isn't the best...

MacronNotes (Captain)
2020-05-08 17:34:47

Is it ok if I reverted it to the description it had before Jack G changed it?

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