User talk:Haggishunter

...because you replaced direct links to tropes with redirects, and you turned a number of working links (like Pac-Man) into redlinks (Pacman).

Please don't do this. Trope lists on work pages should use direct links to the tropes in question, not redirects (and if they do, they're going to get replaced sooner or later). And it is good practice to make sure the link you are inserting actually, you know, exists.

-- Looney Toons, admin

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Oops - apologies for that, it looks like I edited an old version of the page by mistake.

The only change I meant to make was to remove a few words telling people to "look in" an unspecified page for more info - and that was the only part I checked on the preview. I had looked at the oldest version we had, to try to get a clue what page it might have been talking about, so that must be the version I edited. Not sure how I managed to miss the warning but I'll be more careful in future.

Thanks for catching & correcting it.

Ah, I've almost done that myself more times than I care to think about. No problem.

This is one reason why "Making an honest mistake" is on the list of things that we specifically do not ban people for. No worries.

...such as you did on Breakout Character. Wiki style is to add new examples to the end of sections so they're easy for users to find, so they'll just get out of order eventually anyway.

-- Looney Toons, admin

Ok

Because of your history of consistent good edits since you joined the wiki in September, as well as your willingness to engage the moderation staff and take advice, you are being granted membership in the autopatrolled and automoderated usergroups. This means your edits will no longer go to the Moderation queue for approval by wiki staff, but will instead be applied directly to the wiki. This is an awesome power we are entrusting you with, which we hope you will use only for good.

Once again, congratulations, and thank you for all your contributions to the wiki.

And Merry Christmas, as well.

-- Looney Toons and the rest of the ATT Administrative Staff

@Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

Thank you, and merry Christmas!

...not because you did anything wrong, but because when you added it via the visual editor it did a bunch of stupid stuff that made unwanted changes to parts of the page unrelated to your new example. It also decided to have some useless fun with the markup for your example:

*The protagonist in [[Goodbye, Mr. Chips|''Goodbye,'' ''Mr. Chips'']] gives some creative lines to Colley when the latter tests his authority.

Ideally this should have been coded like so:

* The protagonist in ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'' gives some creative lines to Colley when the latter tests his authority.

I suggest re-adding the new example with the Source Editor ("Edit source" at the top of the page) instead, so the Visual Editor won't have its merry way with it, nor will it rampage through the rest of the page removing desired whitespace.

Thanks!

-- Looney Toons, admin

@Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

The visual editor is so notorious for doing this kind of thing that we actually investigated turning it off altogether at one point. (We couldn't.)

All we can do is recommend using the source editor as a matter of course.

That would explain why you've both had to restore whitespace on my edits in the last fortnight, I did wonder. I'll switch to the source editor from now on. Thanks.

And your second try got an approval right away.

... not because it was bad, but because the "circular" link is needed.

We have an unwritten policy of removing unused redirects, even if they're redirects of real life terms to tropey titles. Thus, we need to keep the redirect in use somewhere, and the place that's become the standard for such links is the page with the tropey title.

Whether any of this is a good way to handle things is debatable, of course. But it's what we've come up with, lacking a better way to handle this situation.

@Haggishunter @Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

Ok, thanks for the explanation. Seems a reasonable hack to me.

These help casual readers who are in a hurry, so it's a good thing to have them. I appreciate the work you're doing here.

Seconded!

Thanks! I wasn't sure how long to make them but thought something is better than nothing.