Post generally @Bob: Hey, just to let you know, I wasn't trying to pull rank on the policy pages or anything. And that wasn't a rebuke, just a difference of opinion.
I think it's because I come from a different world where this kind of thing is common. When I wrote my first Perl 6 module, I got commit access to just about everything Perl 6 related, from the website to some of the compiler's core. Just for showing up and trying to contribute, pretty much. In a wiki or repo, if things get screwed up, you just revert them and it's no sweat. That's the kind of open, collaborative atmosphere I'd like to encourage for as long as possible. (And eventually we'll get a Life Sciences Division to defictionalize some dinosaur tropes!) (I'd like reduce all of the site rules to "Do as thou wilt" but I don't think enough people understand their true will.)
All The Tropes:History isn't a redlink any more, but...
Anyway, I was thinking about your "Unicorn in the Garden" rule page, and a couple of questions came up. First ... is that a trope? I'm watching Rose of Versailles right now, and the premise that Oscar is a girl raised as a boy who becomes a royal guard is about as likely as a unicorn in 18th century France, and comes up early on. Is it just a writing guide page, or an aspect of the premise, or a full trope page?
Second question is "WTH do we not have a page on 'Premise'?" TVT doesn't have one either. We are really, really lacking on first principles of writing. Anyway, everyone please contribute to that so we can launch it right away, or let me know if we have it under a weird name. Either way, we're gonna beat TVT on this one.
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I think it's because I come from a different world where this kind of thing is common. When I wrote my first Perl 6 module, I got commit access to just about everything Perl 6 related, from the website to some of the compiler's core. Just for showing up and trying to contribute, pretty much. In a wiki or repo, if things get screwed up, you just revert them and it's no sweat. That's the kind of open, collaborative atmosphere I'd like to encourage for as long as possible. (And eventually we'll get a Life Sciences Division to defictionalize some dinosaur tropes!) (I'd like reduce all of the site rules to "Do as thou wilt" but I don't think enough people understand their true will.)
All The Tropes:History isn't a redlink any more, but...
Anyway, I was thinking about your "Unicorn in the Garden" rule page, and a couple of questions came up. First ... is that a trope? I'm watching Rose of Versailles right now, and the premise that Oscar is a girl raised as a boy who becomes a royal guard is about as likely as a unicorn in 18th century France, and comes up early on. Is it just a writing guide page, or an aspect of the premise, or a full trope page?
Second question is "WTH do we not have a page on 'Premise'?" TVT doesn't have one either. We are really, really lacking on first principles of writing. Anyway, everyone please contribute to that so we can launch it right away, or let me know if we have it under a weird name. Either way, we're gonna beat TVT on this one.
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