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Topazan (talk) 20:28, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey guys, it's been awhile.

So, awhile back I made the suggestion that All the Tropes should distinguish itself from tvtropes somehow.

My idea was that we could be a "one-stop-shop" reference for fiction and pop culture. One of the ways I proposed we do this is to create a space for "world elements". Vorticity asked me to try it out in my user space.

Here's my example: http://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/User:Topazan/QuantumVibe

I meant for this to be much more complete before I showed it off. The fact that I was only able to finish a couple of entries shows the major flaw in this plan: the amount of manpower it would require.

However, I think that this could help attract more attention to this wiki. Every time one of us sees a new fandom, or a new webcomic or something, we can say "Have you started a wiki for this yet? We'll give you the server space, community, and the framework of tropes to get you started." If we can turn this place into THE place for making fictional world wikis, that will go a long way towards distinguishing us.

Bump Topazan (talk) 19:31, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Will someone please say something? :) Topazan (talk) 02:58, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

While I admire the idea, we're a wiki on a wiki farm, not a wiki farm ourselves. However, you always could help our insanely benevolent Orain overlords out by recommending this wiki farm service to people who want to do that and don't like the limitations of Wikia (our main competitor in this regard). GethN7 (talk) 03:41, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, my main concern is that we find something to offer that tvtropes doesn't. It doesn't have to be this, but if we don't think of something we'll never overcome tvtropes' massive head start or attract enough people to match their advantage in community. I don't think what I'm proposing would take away from the core mission of this wiki. There'a a lot of interesting analysis that could be done by focusing on individual elements rather than the work as a whole. In fact, many tropes are only applicable to individual elements. Many tropes, for example, are character tropes. If we focus on a specific character, we could really reflect on what purpose he serves in the story, his relationships with other characters and the associated tropes, and the tropes concerning his character arc in the story. This, I think, would be much more meaningful than "Somewhere in this ten book series there's a Knight In Sour Armour who wears a Badass Longcoat and had a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Topazan (talk) 03:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC)