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closedSegregate Archive pages from other wicks on Related pages
Currently on Related pages, archives are mixed in with the other wicks. Since archives are not to be edited at all, it would be helpful to move those links to either the top or bottom of the list and visibly separate them from the other wicks, either in a box or with a banner or divider of some sort.
closedSet wicks for indexes and disambiguation pages to be a different color
Something that might be helpful for cleanup purposes is if pages with the types "index" and "disambiguation" could have their links show up in different colors than blue, red, or amber. See this TW thread
for reference.
closed Profile request
I believe that it would be incredibly convenient if your profile included a link to your troper page.
closed Make disambiguation pages show up as redlinks
Fairly simple suggestion. Pages in the Ambiguity Index should show up as redlinks even though they technically exist (like with This Troper and some other pages), to discourage linking to them.
Edited by RamenChefclosed Chekhov’s Gun Tropes
You know how Chekhov's Gun has different variations like Chekhov's Gunman or Chekhov's Skill? Why can’t the names have a consistent theme. Like we already have Chekhov's Gun and Chekhov's Gunman. What about Chekhov's Skill turns to Chekhov’s Gunmanship and the place version of the Trope becomes something like Chekhov’s Gun Armory?
Edited by ArakanIchigouclosed "Report Page" button for TLP
Reposted from here
(didn't know Wishlist was a thing before). We had a drive-by negative-effort TLP draft posted and it was bombed to oblivion within hours. It would be very useful to have a quick way to flag these kinds of things up to the moderators without having to go through the PM system.
closed Disambiguated Trope Icon
With lots of tropes cut and disambiguated, there should be a given icon to indicate users more easily of a trope that's been dewicked.
Like how Trivia and YMMV tropes display a question mark and gas pump when used on a main page, one suitable icon would be an exclamation mark like this:
closed Adding WebComics to the New Edits Dropdown Filter
Webcomics is not listed in the New Edits Dropdown Filter. It should be listed with all the other namespaces.
closed Please Let Us Edit our Edit Reasons
I wish we could edit our own edit reasons in case we happen to make a mistake (e.g. a typo) in one.
EDIT: For the curious, when I edited this, I just added "Please" in the title.
Edited by RandomTroper123closed Ability to easy find your own posts on Ask Tropes, Trope Finder, etc
Sometimes, a week or two later, I'll remember I made a post, and want to check for answers, but unless I can figure out specific keywords, it's surprisingly tricky to find it without scrolling back page by page and hoping I recognize it on sight. Am I missing some sort of "View my posts" on those sections?
closed A warning logo (similar to YMMV, Trivia, and Flame Bait) when linking to a Just for Fun page
Kind of like how when you link to a YMMV it shows a fuel dispenser, when you link to Trivia it shows a question, and when you link to Flame Bait, it shows a fire.
I was thinking there should be one of those, but for Just for Fun. It'd cut down on the X Meets Y and Drinking Game sinkholes.
As for what the logo looks like, I was thinking maybe a party hat, blocks, noisemaker, or a teddy bear as those are things associated with fun.
closed Paginate Related lists
I've succeeded in convincing admins to paginate namespace index
and page type per namespace lists
, so I'm asking for this. I want lists under the Related tab to be split into pages with 500 entries each like with page type per namespace or put into 3 columns and 1000 entries for each page (prefer the former), like with namespace index. This is important as several very linked-to pages have tens of thousands of wicks. The Related page for Big Bad
has 50000+ entries and weighs 5MB+. Other pages on Overdosed Tropes and Trope Overdosed reach similar levels of mass. This needs to be fixed, as these pages will likely keep being linked to and grow larger and more ludicrous in size. I know that namespace headers may make this more difficult, but I think they can be managed by putting them again at the beginning of a page if a page ends in the middle of a namespace. Thank you.
closed Finding questions
If there is a function, I cant find it, but it would be nice if there was an easy way to find a 'Trope Finder' or 'You Know That Show...' question that you posted and can't remember how you worded the question, like a way to search usernames or a tab on the profile.
Edited by lightsidesoulclosed A way to keep track of your questions
A way to keep of ones entries in YKTS, Ask the Troopers, Wishlist, Trope Finder, etc... something like the "following" option of the forums or the "my edits" on the profile.
closed Cutlist for Images
I want there to be a way to cut images that may be NSFW, duplicates of other images, or otherwise deprecated. If there are threads for the repairs of images, tropes, and other pages, and a cutlist for bad pages, why is there not a cutlist for undesirable images?
closed Icons for theatre and eastern animation tabs
Theatre - those happy and sad masks (I forget what they're called)
Eastern Animation (AKA just 'animation') - Pleasant Goat, similar to how Western Animation has Felix The Cat. Pleasant Goat is probably the most referenced non-western, non-Japanese cartoon on this site.
closed Templates
I really wish that TVT had a function like FANDOM where you can make templates that put the same text on every page that uses it that can be edited and auto effects all the pages it's on. For instance, many Character pages have this thing at the top that navigates the other pages that we have to edit on every page every time a change is made to it.

Recently, Disambiguation pages got their own link color. This is very useful for finding and fixing them on work and trope pages... so can we please have something similar for redirects and index pages, for the same purpose?
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.