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Make a Tech Wish:
openLocating past Trope Finder questions by username
Like in recent time, I try to find old questions I've asked on "Trope Finder" but I can't find it easily. Like I really have to dig deep when finding specific ones. Is there a way to find past questions easily by username or update the Trope Finder section for it to happen?
openVideo titles and descriptions should be editable by everyone
Right now, if you see a video with an error in its title or description, you have to go to the video maintenance thread and ask a mod to change it, which is inconvenient since often, these changes are very small.
I thought this was a wiki, and the entire point of wikis is that if you see something incorrect, you can change it yourself. I don't see why changing text in a video's description should be any different from changing text anywhere else on the site.
open"Life Preserver" feature for stub articles
If an article is found to be a stub (less than 3 trope examples with context and correctly used), the article can be marked for the Life Preserver section, which lists out articles which are in danger of being cut as stubs but a troper can save by fixing or adding examples. If a work is online (legally), web links are provided by the marker for the troper to check out the work and add examples for themselves. Once done fixing, the troper can mark the page for the mods to review if the article has its "life preserved". If a listed article has not been fixed and marked for review after 7 days, the article is cut automatically.
This could help save articles from being cut if the writer had written well-enough information for the work and not wanted their work to be gone.
Edited by PrincessPandaTropeopen Account age restriction for TLP
We’ve had quite a few TLPs created with numerous problems, such as lacking Wiki Word markup, which would be easily picked up on if someone edits the wiki for a time. If there were a restriction on creating trope proposals based on account age and/or wiki activity, people would theoretically at least understand the basics by the time they create a TLP and as such many of the problems would not happen.
open Block new users from making TLP drafts
TLP is a section that's really meant for more experienced users of TV Tropes. It requires good knowledge of what is and isn't a trope, understanding of How to Write an Example and our Text-Formatting Rules, and a grasp on which tropes we already have. It's quite common to see very low-effort drafts, for concepts that aren't tropable, are formatted incorrectly making them hard to read, lack examples...
So, wouldn't it make sense to block brand-new users from making new drafts? It should require a certain account age, as well as a certain number of edits (50?). That way, by the time a user is able to propose a new trope, they'll be more likely to understand how to make their draft look readable and their concepts tropeworthy.
Edited by ZuxtronopenBlock new accounts from creating new TLP proposals.
We've had a large number of low-quality TLP proposals created by new users. Perhaps we could block accounts from creating a TLP proposal until they've posted at least once in the Trope Finder?
workingUsername search in You Know That Show
I know this has been asked before, multiple times for years. I can't believe there still is no option to search by username or view all your own posts in You Know That Show. It can be so easy to lose track of them. Especially when sometimes someone does go through and answer an unbumped one from possibly years ago, but not always.
openSearch TLP drafts by the sponsor
Similar to being able to see a person's editing or posting history, we should be able to at least see their draft-making history. A lot of people have consistent issues on the TLP but it's difficult to report on it unless everything happened at the same time and you're writing a report that same minute; it's hard to find specific TLP drafts and if all you can remember is that a specific troper made them, it can be near impossible to find them if they've been launched or discarded unless you spend hours digging through the drafts.
So give us the ability to search for the drafts a specific troper has created, like we can their edits or posts.
openSearch multiple unrelated words at once
I wish there was a way to use multiple search terms that aren't necessarily consecutive. For example, I'm trying to find a page on Trope Launch Pad that I think contains the words "rpg" and "class", but I can only type in "rpg class", but since there's no TLP with that exact phrase, I get no results. It seems like it's the same for the other search bars here.
I think other websites make it so that you can separate unrelated search words with commas, like "rpg, class."
openTracking proposed tropes
There should be a way to follow proposals in the Trope Launch Pad, the way it's possible to follow launched pages and forum threads.
Edited by tyrekecorreaopenClosable link tag that can include formatting
Often links include additional formatting (EG: bolding, italics) The current solution is to create a separate link for each differently formatted section.
EG:
[[TestPage the quick brown fox]] ''[[TestPage jumps]]'' [[TestPage over the lazy brown fox]]the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy brown fox
This is ugly in the markup and creates three HTML link elements. For the reader, segmentation of the link into three elements makes it non-obvious that all three links go to the same place. Either via the underline on mouse over on desktop or highlight on long press on mobile.
One good solution would be adding a closable link tag similar to the existing note tag. EG:
[[link:TestPage]] This link ''can'' include formatting.[[/link]]
Another possibility would be coalescing of multiple sequential links so that the three links in the original example markup get coalesced into a single link in the output HTML. That seems messier and likely to slow down markup —> html rendering.
Edited by 8I6D962J7DopenFilter Videos by lack of a vote
We should get the ability to find videos that haven't been rated yet.
openReasons for Rating a Video Example
It would be useful to give videos more specific feedback than just a number of stars, e.g. if a video example of Suckiness Is Painful is put on Brown Note, it would be more helpful to vote one star and say "this is not Brown Note, it's Suckiness Is Painful" than to vote one star without being able to point to the correct trope. It might also help to separate the legitimate "this is not an example" one-star votes from "I hate Show X" one-star votes.
War Jay 77 made a wish to find unrated videos, someone else mentioned it would be handy to have rating reasons, so I gave "rating reasons" its own wish entry.
Edited by Miss_DesperadoopenAdd "fanfiction" and "misc." to the medium catagories on YouKnowThatShow
People looking for fanfics, sayings, quotes, etc. have to ask in the literature category, even though that doesn't really fit. Since we have "fanfic" as a separate namespace for works and a separate folder on trope pages, maybe we could list it as a separate medium on You Know That Show too?
openBetter TLP edit history viewer
For the edit history on a TLP to clearly show what changed between versions.
openMake edit changes in TLP more visible
The edit history of a draft on the Trope Launch Pad doesn't display exactly how users have changed the draft.
openOrphan finder
A tool that finds all pages with zero wicks, excluding certain namespaces (ideally selectable by the user, but by default probably Tropers/, TroperWall/ DarthWiki/, SugarWiki/, JustForFun/, Sandbox/, and the various subpage namespaces like YMMV/ and the like).
Outside these excluded namespaces, pages with zero wicks tend to be problematic in some way — at the very least, the fact of having zero wicks is problematic in itself. But they're also hard to find because there's no wicks to them. A tool to find them directly would be very helpful.
Edited by wingedcatgirlclosed Post history for ATT & etc.
ATTS, I'm looking for a way to look back through places like Ask The Tropers or Trope Finder, and filter it down to ones you've been involved in. Kinda like the edit history in your profile, or the post history on the forums, but for ATT & etc. Whether it's just an OP that you made - or any post in any discussion - can either be decided by the mods, or both can be added, and tropers can filter it themselves.
Edited by GofastmikeopenWhite Laconic symbol for Dark mode
The image for the Laconic namespace is a black capital L, which is hard to see on Night Vision mode. It would be nice to change the color to improve visibility, or to provide an alternate image (preferably a white version of current) while in Night Vision.
I wish there was a way to add extra links to a video like if they apply to more than one trope. Or to update the source. Or if we could edit the video and add the extra trope and other source tag to it. You know what I'm saying? It would really spare us a lot of stress of re-uploading the same video in question. If a certain video applies applies to more than one trope we must add that extra applicable trope. Also, I wish we could remove or at least report videos if we don't agree they match the trope and explain why we think so.
Edited by ngh93