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The "sister trope" option was removed very early on because almost everyone who used it had no idea what a Sister Trope actually was. It generally came down to listing every trope that shared a Super-Trope, which defeated the purpose of having a categorization beyond Super-Trope.
I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.OK, that's cool then :) I didn't know said issues happened... to be honest I like to keep out of the forums/discussions/etc for the most part because I'm already in other social networks, and like reading and editing articles and contributing to namespaces for them, etcetera, when I'm here - I don't really like reading through (much less participating in) wank much and the forums seem to have a bit too much for my taste. :)
That said, would the enabling this for creator/artist pages as well as works pages be workable? Because I really see no barrier as to why not. The only potential issue I could see with that is an exploit involving No Such Thing As Notability (say, some guy who really got inspired by Guns N Roses comes on and links his two-bit garage band to Guns N Roses as a child) but that's one that could be dealt with if it happened.
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Can we install the "relative" button/namespace on creator pages? Especially for music this would be very interesting in order, to, say, construct a "family tree" for a band or artist or list its/his/her/their connections to others.
This would especially be better for some pages I work with (note the clunky box on the side of Yoshiki Hayashi, listing bands that have come to be as a result of his work in the Japanese music scene, as one example: if the "relative" button/namespace worked there, I could move the listing of Luna Sea, Tokyo Yankees, and Dir En Grey, for example to there)
While I'm ranting about this I would also like to see the related trope button not just include parent-child tropes (and with my change, creators) but sibling tropes - using pages I work with again as examples, sibling tropes would be, say, '80s Hair to Anime Hair. Anime Hair arguably came about alongside '80s Hair, but isn't a direct child of it, though they have common roots and originated around the same time.
Edited by AGroupie