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Repost: The wppage parameter for page type templates...

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Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

(@New XanderMartin98: Somehow the original of this message ended up on an incorrect user talk page when I wrote it eighteen days ago; I just realized that now and am reposting it here today because the points it covers are still valid issues regarding your edits.)

... is used to specify the name of an existing Wikipedia page to look up instead of the All The Tropes page name when the Wikipedia button is clicked. It is an optional parameter, to use only when our page name does not match the corresponding Wikipedia page's name. It's not needed most of the time, and since the Wikipedia button defaults to the page name, it's redundant to put the page name in the parameter. And it's definitely not needed if there isn't a page on Wikipedia for your fic -- which there isn't.

On another topic entirely, you've been making dozens -- nearly hundreds -- of little one-sentence edits. Have you considered using the preview button instead of saving and reopening a page every time you add something? While there's nothing inherently wrong with what you're doing, it does fill up the Recent Changes log with many, many, many little edits, and makes the daily task of reviewing changes that some of us admins do that much more difficult and tedious.

-- Looney Toons, admin

PS: The main reason I went looking for this notice was to note that eighteen days later you are still making hundreds of little one- and two-sentence edits a minute or two apart on basically the same six to ten pages. It would be unfair to penalize you about this as you almost certainly never saw the notice due to my error, but from now on please consider just opening the page up once and using the preview feature instead of opening and closing it every 90 seconds or so.

CC: @Labster, @GethN7, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @Derivative, @SelfCloak

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

This is a reminder, since you apparently need it. Unless Wikipedia has a page for your fanfic, which is unlikely to the extreme, do not use the wppage parameter for the work template.