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Work was extremely busy yesterday.
TvT Rivals Wrote:...
Second: Bringing back the fun Tv Tropes was in old days. (Some of us have been around since before the Great Crash.) Take the titles, for example. SPOON may be right that some trope names were hard to understand, but they were fun and made you curious what's behind a title. "Parker Lewis Ferris Bueller" sounds better than "High School Hustler", and even totally obscure titles like "Flaming Cobra Sugar Cellar" were interesting.
We understand the point of FoRKS and would like to bring to old experience back. Maybe something like "FoRKS Friday"? Each Friday, the titles of some renamed pages are changed back to their old names for a day. A cron job on the server should suffice for this.
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The "fun" names only work if you already know the context, though. Unless you have some idea who this Parker L. F. Bueller person is, naming a trope after him isn't going to tell you anything about the trope. (Similarly, I discovered earlier this month that "No Sell" had nothing at all to do with an in-game merchant refusing to do business with you, so we changed the name.)
EDIT: Oh, and "Highschool Hustler" has that Added Alliterative Appeal.
One really nice thing about MediaWiki is that the redirect capability lets us use the cute name, the informative name, and the industry-standard name for the same article, all at the same time.
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Rob Kelk
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