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closed Placeholder text in Image Pickin/TRS to prevent mistakes
So that newbies can easily avoid mistakes of putting "Suggestion for Lorem Ipsum..." in Image Pickin' titles.
Have a placeholder saying
This would lessen the need to holler a post and inform the mods about correcting IP/TRS thread names.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2workingTutorials
For new users, to be sent a one-time pm:
- When first registered, requesting to read Welcome to TV Tropes and Administrivia as well as some info on site's navigation.
- When opening the edit window for the first time, to show a briefing from Text-Formatting Rules, How to Write an Example, and some layout explanation.
- Also, if making a new page in Media namespace, ask to make sure the page has 3+ tropes and a description, as well as image uploading guide.
- When opening the forum page for the first time, to show a briefing from TV Tropes Forum
- When opening the TLP for the first time, to tell about it's purpose and proceedings.
closed Purge the votes on a TLP draft after a certain period of inactivity
One of the problems with the TLP is the inertia a bad first impression can leave. Early bombs can make a launch unsalvageable even if the kinks getting ironed out, and this applies even to drafts that have totally left the public eye.
If a draft with 10 bombs and 4 hats gets brought back up after everyone has forgotten about it, then it's basically a fresh draft that needs 11 hats instead of 5. I think that after an extended period of nobody editing or commenting on the draft, the votes on it should be automatically wiped so it can get a truly clean slate. I'd suggest either 6 months or a year as the threshold.
closed Bullet that shows when a non-YMMV Trope is on the YMMV page.
This is kind of unrelated to everything going on at the moment, but this would be a really useful feature for spotting non-YMMV tropes that are mistakenly posted to the YMMV page. Considering we have the same for the reverse, it seems reasonable to have this as a helpful edit tool as well.
workingTroper Counter
This is kinda minor, but I wouldn't mind having the Troper Counter come back.
closed Give some indicator that you're about to double post
I've been double posting by accident a lot more recently. It would be cool if there was some prompt that let you know if your next post would be a double post and cancel it if it were accidental.
closed Include the running number in comment header section
On forums we often have to refer to earlier comments but have to hover over the post in question in order to get its ref number. It would be helpful if the running number showed next to the comments.
Edited by eroockworkingMake it easy to find unread queries
I and others struggle to find old queries marked as unread (new replies) in my query list that has been growing over the years. I suggest unread threads/queries to bubble to the top of the list. Alternatively, there should be a sorting/filter option to bring them quickly into view.
workingA preview feature for private messages/notifiers
I think a preview feature for notifiers would be helpful because you can't edit a message/notifier once you send it. So I think this would be nice to check formatting issues.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2closed Tone down the brightness in Night Vision?
I like the new layout, except for the indexes at the bottom of the screen. In Night Vision it's like blindingly bright, I can't read the name of the index or the two tropes it suggests without zooming in and squinting. Is there a way to tone it down? Or at least make the color of the texts darker and more readable?
closed Playing With Template Automatically There on Creation
Self-explanatory - makes it a little bit easier to start up a Playing With page if it automatically loads with the template and a link to the main page. Playing With is a great way to get into the wiki, and the change is simple enough to be bang for your buck.
closed Warning Icons for DefOnly, FanSpeak, and UsefulNotes pages
These pages are not meant to be used as "trope" examples and yet often times they are because visually, they show up as blue links no different from a trope page.
Similar to how YMMV and Trivia Wiki Words have an icon that pops up when used in the example area, I think these pages should have icons as well to prevent incorrect use.
Edited by amathieu13closed Locations subpages?
I think we should have a subpage that lists all of the locations in a specific work and their associated tropes. For example, Genius Loci, Academy of Evil, Town with a Dark Secret, etc. Kinda like a map, but not really.
workingColor Mark in signatures
Could the color mark up show up in forum signatures as well as posts?
closed Warning Icons for SugarWiki
You know how Flame Bait items have an orange flame icon when they are linked? Well, I've been wondering if certain items on SugarWiki, like SugarWiki.And The Fandom Rejoiced, could have something similar to ensure they're not linked to. Maybe something like a pink icon depicting a sparkling cake?
Edited by ChillyBeanBAMworkingFlameBait rewording
The Flame Bait tag say "This example contains a Flame Bait entry. It should be moved to the Flame Bait tab."
There is no such tab because we do not use Flame Bait/ as a namespace, so it should Instead say something along the lines of "These are forbidden outside of each Flame Bait's respective trope pages."
Edited by AmonimusopenGive an option to link your profile to a work page.
You ever have that moment when you see someone's profile pic and be like "Hey, that's a cool person/screenshot in your pfp, I wonder who that character is/what show that's from."
Well if you do this option, you can go to a Troper's avatar gallery and the gallery will provide links to the source. Again this is optional, so a Troper can decide if they want to link to the image's source/work page or not.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2closed My wishlist
Just found this place accidentally, so I'd reckon I'd leave here my wishes
- Editing Improvements and Changes:
- Edit reason: Upcoming/Recent (there should be a detection of the words "recent" and "upcoming" that aren't "then-recent" nor "then-upcoming" or aren't placed in quotes) and Arguable.
- A button to preview changes in changelog format (as in, the diffs between the current page version and the edited page version). Useful for making proper edit reasons.
- Trope Launch Pad:
- Request a bombing reason before placing a bomb on a TLP draft.
closed A Just For Fun idea to make Wick Checks/Wick Cleaning more exciting/a little less boring.
Click a button that will make you randomly go to a page within the wick list in a Trope/Work/Page's Related Tab.
Edit: Nevermind, already in the works.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2
For pages we don't have an article for, Page Info box is still present, but it's empty. You can also edit the pagetype, though it won't save.
Logically, this box shouldn't be visible then.
Edited by Amonimus