All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXIX

[robkelk]

... I wouldn't trust the sitenotice; we've had plenty of evidence that people don't read it. ...

Probably because it's far too long -- we're alerting people to seven different things in it right now.

What absolutely, positively must remain on the sitenotice, and what can be tossed?

1. Alert that new users are moderated: it's been there for four years - by now, it should be in the new-user message. (it's also a half-k long -- tl;dr.) Vote to toss... and to restart sending people the new-user message.
2. How to change the rules: Nobody's suggested changing the rules in years. Vote to toss.
3. Forums are down: It's been years, we have to assume we aren't getting that forum back. Vote to toss, and to point everybody at the still-working forums.
4. Infoboxes need summaries: We got a few to begin with, but none in over a year. Vote to toss.
5. Links to disambiguation pages need cleanup: We got a few to begin with, but we also got a lot of desired links to disambiguation pages changed to individual pages. Vote to toss.
6. Pages listed in Category:Needs a Better Description need better descriptions: We got a few to begin with, but none in over a half-year. Vote to toss.
7. Visual Editor's been turned off. It's been there for months. Vote to toss.

So, yeah. Get rid of the entire sitenotice. Then, when we have something that's actually newsworthy, people will actually see it.