User talk:Lequinni

Hello Lequinni!

As a result of the Great Miraheze Spam Flood that affected multiple wikis in December 2020, we have instituted moderation of posts. Most people's edits and image uploads will not appear immediately, the way that they would on Wikipedia... but, now, yours will - no more waiting for a moderator to approve your edits.

This is a privilege given for consistently good edits and being a Troper in good standing, not a right. Congratulations!

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

The rest of Xander's edits are gonna need some looking over as well, and I was wondering if you could help me with that - I'd gotten a start on that but in typical wiki fashion other matters on- and off-site sidetracked me.

I was unaware of the drama this person has generated, so I'm not sure what to look for (besides obviously nasty things). However, I'll see on the things he has edited and see what I can do.

Thank you muchly.

But while you're doing so, could you also please take a moment to take care of any other issues a page might have? Things like missing or incorrect categories, markup problems, the page name being different from the actual work name due to TVT's limitations, random blank lines in the text, stuff like that? Otherwise an admin like me has to follow along behind you and make sure stuff like that is fixed anyway.

Thanks.

I'll try to do a more thorough job when working with the "tropelist template needed" articles. I was more concerned with applying the template to clean up that backlog and fix the articles themselves later, but I see that I overworked you unnecessarily instead.

If it helps, here are a few rules of thumb I use, extracted from various guideline pages in the project namespace:

• The first time the work's name appears in its article, it should be bold and italicized (unless it's a shortform work that gets double quotes instead of italics).
• If the page name is different from the way the work is named in the page text, do a quick Google lookup to see which is right. Rename the page if necessary, otherwise change the text.
• If the description is a less than several sentences long, it gets the {{Needs More Info}} template. Replace any links to "Needs a Better Description" with the template, too.
• If it has less than ten tropes, it gets {{Needs More Tropes}}, unless it has none at all, which gets {{Work Needs Tropes}}.
• If it's got a "Needs" template on both sides of {{tropelist}}, add the {{workstub}} template at the top of the page next to the page type template.
• There should be only one blank line and no rule line before {{tropelist}}, and no blank lines after it.
• We should rarely if ever have two blank lines or more in a row.
• Categories should always include a "top level" medium category, like "TV Series", "Literature", and so on.
• The category for the work itself should match the page name exactly.

I hope that's helpful and not too much.

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For all the work you've been doing to clean up the mess left by the Uncategorized Pages bug. Thank you!

I appreciate your comment in this thread and I've incorporated some of what you said into the official documentation.

The thing is, there are nicer ways to start off than "Because you seem to have a lapse of common sense". That isn't against our Terms of Service, true, but making a habit of it would make you a "huge jerk".

You haven't done anything that merits more than just a friendly (I hope) comment. No worries yet.

I admit that that that was off the line. I'll control myself in the future.

Thanks.

Also, if you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask, and welcome to ATT, hope you have a good time here!