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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - GethN7 - 06-14-2025
(06-14-2025, 02:30 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:(06-14-2025, 01:44 PM)robkelk Wrote: Do we have a trope for literally forgetting your own name?
I don't think so, but if we did it would be listed on the page for Azumanga Daioh, since IIRC Osaka forgot her own name in favor of her nickname.
This got so bad her nickname was used on an official school register of student names IIRC.
I propose the trope title "Forsaken Name" if we ever make a trope, unless someone has a better idea.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - MilkmanConspiracy - 06-15-2025
(06-11-2025, 05:46 AM)robkelk Wrote: My immediate reactions, as of less than a half-hour after waking up in the morning and seeing my computer wants to reboot:Got a response on this one. They claim they are the user 6. What should be done?
(06-10-2025, 10:46 PM)MilkmanConspiracy Wrote: Pretty tired so I’m going to sit in responding to these till my social batteries are recharged, but I wanted to stash my notes on the oldest entries in the mod queue for tomorrow and get a second opinion before taking action on these
Notes on pending edits.
Pending edit for Bottle Episode
Section about the Twilight Zone is a match for the TVT Bottle Episode Subpage.
Content was added to TVT by user "6" on September 8th, 2024, predating its submission to ATT.
Reject and inform the troper why, pointing them at the appropriate copyright policy page.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Bob Schroeck - 06-16-2025
In the past we've handled this on a case-by-case basis, mainly because there haven't been that many cases. Unfortunately I don't remember what we did the last time we needed to verify someone who we couldn't identify as a liar or plagiarist right off the bat. Rob, Brent, Geth, do you recall?
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - robkelk - 06-16-2025
I don't recall, sorry.
Hmmmmm... Have we done enough to be considered to have done our due diligence, in case an infringement case is brought against us?
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Bob Schroeck - 06-16-2025
I would say not; taking a potential infringer's word that he's not a plagiarist isn't enough. We need some way to verify he is "6" -- perhaps an innocuous message of our wording posted somewhere on TVT he can point us at?
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - GethN7 - 06-16-2025
(06-16-2025, 07:54 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: I would say not; taking a potential infringer's word that he's not a plagiarist isn't enough. We need some way to verify he is "6" -- perhaps an innocuous message of our wording posted somewhere on TVT he can point us at?
Agreed.
Looked through the queue, and we can take "DialgaX" at their word, their edits on our site match up pretty well to TVT.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Labster - 06-19-2025
Just as a note, I've been renewing some of the original domains that I proposed back when our wiki got started: trope.wiki, tropes.wiki, and allthetropes.wiki. Since the .wiki domain cost has gone up to $65 and I'm not using them, I'm going to stop renewing them, unless someone can find a use for any of them. They expire on July 13th.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - MilkmanConspiracy - 06-19-2025
It’s a shame since they're good domains, but that is also a crazy price hike. They’re minting new gTLDs all the time, so it may not be a big loss if we loose them should something else relevant come up.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Bob Schroeck - 06-19-2025
I wasn't aware, or had forgotten, you were doing that out of your own pocket. Of course drop them; the only reason I think we grabbed them was to prevent trollery from TVT goons.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - robkelk - 06-19-2025
My immediate reaction was "there's a .wiki TLD?"
Use or toss, and if it's too much work to use, then toss.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Labster - 06-20-2025
(06-19-2025, 03:51 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: I wasn't aware, or had forgotten, you were doing that out of your own pocket. Of course drop them; the only reason I think we grabbed them was to prevent trollery from TVT goons.
Nah, this goes way back to the original idea when we voted on a name. I grabbed them because they were great TLDs but the community chose another name. And I kept them because, as Milkman says, great domains.
Again, if someone can think of a use I can keep, or even transfer the domain to someone else who will use it.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - robkelk - 06-20-2025
Well, redirecting "allthetropes.wiki" to "allthetropes.org" seems like a no-brainer to me, but I live in a place where "amazon.com" auto-redirects to "amazon.ca". The others... unless we want to promote other trope wikis, I don't see a need to keep them.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Bob Schroeck - 06-20-2025
Pity there's no demand for the others, judging by the lack of offers for them... What good is squatting on a domain for over a decade if no one wants it? <grin>
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - robkelk - 06-22-2025
Just so nobody's surprised:
Quote:On Monday June 23rd, we will be conducting a hardware repair on one of our hypervisors (cloud15) which will require a full shutdown of the server. This will begin at 18:30 UTC and last around 90 minutes until 20:00 UTC. This will involve a full outage of all wikis on db151/c1 and editing, viewing files and account logins will be unstable on all other wikis.
This affects all Miraheze wikis to a lesser or greater extent.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - robkelk - 06-25-2025
This seemed like a good idea earlier in the week, during the heat wave. Obviously my thinking was impaired. But I've started it, so I'll see it through.
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Starlost/Recap
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Bob Schroeck - 06-25-2025
Be thankful there are so few episodes.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - MilkmanConspiracy - 06-25-2025
Speaking of cheesy live action sci fi.
I’m not sure if I’m categorizing Blippo+ correctly. It’s a "video game" that is essentially a TV simulator, and the only thing really interactive with it is the part when you need to "tune" the "reception" at the start. The rest is literally a television and read only message board livestream, where the only thing the player has control of is the channels, and I wouldn’t call adjusting rabbit ears and channel surfing much of a game.
I could see arguments being made for it being:
* An Augmented Reality Game, has the trappings of this and a meta plot similar to some of the ARGs I’ve read about, but it’s not really my scene.
* A Network (Since the content everyone watches is scheduled for streaming to all viewers at the same time, and a channel guide is published)
* A (or multiple) TV-Series - Since the shows within the show all get new episodes weekly, I’m not sure they’re good to lump into one page. That said, it’s much shorter than standard tv.
* A video game. Contains about as much interactivity as a Visual Novel, which ATT categorizes as a video game genre. Was first realeased in a game console, with the only current expansion plans being another console and a pc game distribution platform.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - robkelk - 06-28-2025
What happens when one wonders "do we have a place for this webcomic?"
Hours later, the answer to the original question is "no, that page already has a better image", and an entire subsection of the wiki now has a navbox.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - robkelk - 07-03-2025
I've updated the sirenotice to say that our current Moderation delay is five weeks long.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Bob Schroeck - 07-07-2025
With regard to the bit of moderation queue work I did over my vacation, I just have to wonder (and not for the first time) why the users who get impatient and prod us to review and pass their contributions are always the ones least likely to pass moderation to begin with. <sigh>
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - MilkmanConspiracy - 07-07-2025
Odd moderation question. A pending edit for Hair Flip appears to be from a TVT user (Very similar names?), who previously expanded a zero context example (Authorship unknown) on that site to be similar to their current pending edit. Since their current edit includes details not present in the TVT example, I’m inclined to not reject on these grounds as original analysis once it’s confirmed that the user is the same, but wanted to get feedback before going forward.
The example including a long list of adjectives with no commas between them is a different can of worms.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - robkelk - 07-14-2025
There's a new-page edit waiting in Moderation that I'm hesitant to either approve or reject. https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Moderation?modaction=preview&modid=23379
Ordinarily, I'd say is a clear case of not following the trope workshop guidelines coupled with an Esoteric Trope Name. ("Shark versus Dolphin"? But the Sharks play hockey and the Dolphins play football, and we already have "Gretzky Has the Ball" for not knowing about sports. Oh, wait... this is not that trope.)
However, the troper has been tempbanned twice for intimidating behaviour (and not being willing to acknowledge said behaviour). I personally don't need the hassle of being cursed at again.
Somebody else handle this one, please.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Bob Schroeck - 07-14-2025
I'll take a look at it.
EDIT: Done. And oh, it's that guy, the one who didn't know a particular definition of "artifact" and tried to shout everyone else down when they pointed out his ignorance. I'm glad I didn't check his history until after I wrote the rejection -- I might have gotten seriously snarky with him.
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - robkelk - 07-14-2025
Thanks, Bob.
Yeah, him.
(Oh, and this is post #299 in this thread...)
RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI - Bob Schroeck - 07-14-2025
Well, in that case I'd best close out the thread now.
The new thread can be found here.