Hey, I got a question about the TV Tropes/Heartwarming page and other similar pages. What do we do about those red unlink words about the Tropers from the Other Wiki? Do we link to a new page that says that "Certain Tropers are not found here, it's because they trope in Tv Tropes and they haven't join All The Tropes?"
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We've generally ignored the troper links, or turned them into plain text.
Do I put the tropers' names or just leave them to say "This Troper" or "A Troper"? Though putting their names will might be a tiny bit confusing.
Leave the tropers' names, just unlink them and remove the "Tropers/" namespacing, if you feel you have to do anything about them at all. By which I mean, if you come across something like
[[Tropers/RandomPerson]]
or
[[Tropers/RandomPerson|RandomPerson]]
just turn it into
RandomPerson
if you really feel like you must do something about it.
As for possible confusion, well, most of the time if not almost all of the time, the tropers' names will be in contexts that will make it clear they are tropers' names., If there's anyone on the wiki who'll be confused because he doesn't know we forked from TVT and thus have references like that around, well, we want to know so we can celebrate him, and having him ask about it will point him out to us. <grin>
Got it, I was just thinking of those new readers who don't know about the fork and stuff, when I said it'll cause some form of confusion, like assuming the Other Wiki Tropers also do double time here.