All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI

[GethN7]

Since I'm editing the main work template, and we don't want to do that very often: How would we feel about changing the way that the Source tab works?  I've come around to thinking that we should perhaps not host source content at all, for a few reasons:
* Searching for some terms comes up with almost entirely Source subpages, making it harder to search the main wiki content
** Moving source to a different namespace would solve it, but make our normal pages slightly more expensive to load
* We're really not maintaining or improving source pages
* WikiSource exists, which handles all of the copyright notices, as well as having generally more readable text
** Compare their Alice to our Alice, for instance -- you can link to individual pages in their version, but not in ours
* It doesn't handle film and video at all, currently.  JustWatch exists, and we can point to them.  The same goes for a youtube source, if we know it.
* Some short sources, like poems, would be better off inlined on the work page itself

I know people like the idea of hosting something TVT doesn't, but would we be willing to make some changes here?

Sorry I didn’t get around to replying earlier. This seems reasonable.

Fair enough to me, though I still see no harm in having copies of source documents it's legal to host, though I won't fight the majority on this. I also replied to our recent party who thinks copyright laws are fun suggestions:

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Topic:Yrs8...9395oyfpup

I also support handing Fortossai their VIP card.