Topic on User talk:QuestionableSanity

Hi there,

It looks like you're trying to run a bot job manually. Would you:

• Like to ask for help?
• Like to read documentation on bots?

Some pages actually need to have the Useful Notes header removed instead of {{trope}}, {{work}}, or {{creator}}, and require a human eye to judge. I'll focus on editing out the Useful Notes headers where they're not needed, then have a bot do all the rest.

So the problem with editing the high traffic templates is that they basically fill the work queue when they're changed. So I try to not do it very often. If Orain becomes slow, congrats: it's your fault :D

Consider making test templates to see how they work first, like I do with {{work test}}.

Alright, I won't edit any more templates for the time being. I'll just finish up what I started, determining whether things really fit in Useful Notes or some other category, for the sake of completion.

I made the change because Useful Notes are (ideally) not tropes, works, or creators, but real life subjects. Genres, too, ride such a fine line between works and tropes that it's really much simpler in the long run to give them their own category.

I was considering adding templates for series and franchises, but those are just works, so they don't need them.

Useful Notes is fine... it's just the other ones that are included on every other page of the wiki, you know?

You mean, removing all the {{trope}} and {{work}} templates from Useful Notes pages will create too much load on the server?

Adding or removing a template doesn't create nearly as much work as editing a widely used template. It'd be like editing the ^{[citation needed]} template on Wikipedia.

Ah, okay. I see you reverted the edits, Vorticity. I won't unrevert them, but at some point, I would like to discuss applying some kind of consistent design philosophy with you, Geth, and others.

Yeah, sure I don't mind that. That's a good idea. The idea is to present a new design before pushing it out to everything.

I think this is my personal flaw in that I'm a bit more waterfally than agile. But I'd like to see some design discussion before the commits.

Just FYI, the jobs queue is still calculating changes from the edits you made to {{trope}} and {{work}}.

So I noticed. :(