Topic on All The Tropes talk:Administrivia

Okay, I've started actually doing this. I'm going to use this message to list the pages I've gone through and what "categories" (mostly as listed by Rob in the OP, plus others as I think of them) I think they go in, as I go through them one at a time. Discussion basically can start as soon as I do. <grin>

'''General Policy'''

*[[All The Tropes:Content Usage Guidelines]]

*[[All The Tropes:Bots]]

*[[All The Tropes:IRC]] -- Outdated, mentions our presence on Freenode

*[[All The Tropes:Writer Bashing]] -- definitely a policy, overly short

'''Manual of Style'''

**[[All The Tropes:Everything's Worse With Snowclones]] -- Likewise.

*[[All The Tropes:Style Guide]]

**[[All The Tropes:American and Commonwealth Spellings]] -- good subpage for the Style Guide, small enough that maybe we should just roll it in.

*[[All The Tropes:About Rhetorical Questions]] -- not entirely sure this is worth keeping

*[[All The Tropes:Example Indentation in Trope Lists]] -- This should be covered in the Style Guide

*[[All The Tropes:Signal to Noise Train Wreck]]

*[[Sinkhole]] -- Should be moved into project namespace and made a subpage of the Style Guide. But see Pothole, Dead link and Red Link below.

*[[All The Tropes:This Troper]] -- Very brief, its content probably should be rolled into the Style Guide and then turned into a redirect to the relevant section of the page

*[[All The Tropes:Multi-Part Picture]]

*[[All The Tropes:Grammar]] -- Cute and informative, but not exactly grammar ''help''. The few links to it clearly aren't expecting it to be what it is. Probably best rolled into the Style Guide.

*[[All The Tropes:How to Alphabetize Things]] -- keep but make sure the alphabetizing section of the Style Guide is consistent with it

*[[All The Tropes:No Trope Is Too Common]] -- We should pair this up somehow with [[People Sit on Chairs]] in a compare/contrast context

*[[Wiki Word]] -- Another for the project namespace, although its subject is covered by several other pages on the site and we probably don't need it.

*[[All The Tropes:Word Cruft]]

'''Help Pages'''

*[[Finding a Trope]] -- Rather skimpy, could stand some expansion, and as a help page should be in the project namespace.

*[[All The Tropes:Loaded Trope Word]]

*[[All The Tropes:List of Image License Templates]] -- Needs to be strongly linked on other image help pages

*[[All The Tropes:About]] -- Probably the best place to start with reorganizing everything for readability and ease of access

**[[The Same but More]]

**[[All The Tropes:Too Rare to Trope]]

'''Established Functionality'''

*[[You Know That Thing Where]] -- A redirect to the Workshop, listed as a separate topic

*[[Forum:Trope Talk]] -- Yet another link to the forums

'''Wiki Maintenance Pages and Tools'''

*[[All The Tropes:How to Do A Wick Check]]

*[[Missing Supertrope]] -- Needs to be moved into project namespace, and referenced somewhere useful

*[[:Category:Needs Wiki Magic Love|Category:Needs Wiki Magic Love]] -- As a "container category" for other categories it has no contents of its own; there's no need to link it off Administrivia or a similar page. The Community Portal serves that purpose better, and lists far more "fix me" categories than it does. Similarly, most of its sub-points on Administrivia are amply served by the portal:

**[[:Category:Needs a Better Description|Category:Needs a Better Description]]

**[[:Category:Works Needing Tropes|Category:Works Needing Tropes]]

**[[List of Works That Need Summary]] -- This should probably be turned into a category like the other "needs work" listings

*[[All The Tropes:Wick]]

'''Simple Content'''

*[[Pothole]] -- Yet another definition, another possible contender for a move into the project namespace. Maybe.

*[[Red Link]] -- Again, a definition. If Dead Link and Pothole go into the project namespace, so should this.

'''Simply Unneeded'''

*[[Wild Mass Guessing/Programme Note]]: The content of this page should be added to that already on [[:Category:Wild Mass Guessing|Category:Wild Mass Guessing]]. ''Nothing'' points to it but [[Administrivia]].

*[[Known Troper]] -- Defines a term we don't use, even though we note the ATT equivalent. The only thing linking to it is the Glossary

'''Policies Subject to Tempbans If Violated'''

*Nothing Yet

'''Too TVT-specific to save'''

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