Rob, maybe edit the template to make your stock phrases default options? Like {{noreallife|squick=1}}
I feel like real life sections should, in general, be limited to notable things. I'm just imagining an example for Freudian Trio like "* [[This Troper] and his two friends. Geth is the id, Brent is the superego, and Bob is the ego." It might be interesting to the poster, but does anyone else care?
Anyway, the real reason I'm posting is because I wanted to get y'all's input on alphabetization rules. Style Guide stuff. Now that I have a bot that has been automatically alphabetizing tropelists, I need a clear set of rules, because some of the changes surprised me.
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I feel like real life sections should, in general, be limited to notable things. I'm just imagining an example for Freudian Trio like "* [[This Troper] and his two friends. Geth is the id, Brent is the superego, and Bob is the ego." It might be interesting to the poster, but does anyone else care?
Anyway, the real reason I'm posting is because I wanted to get y'all's input on alphabetization rules. Style Guide stuff. Now that I have a bot that has been automatically alphabetizing tropelists, I need a clear set of rules, because some of the changes surprised me.
- I decided that tropes should not be alphabetized based on English articles. This means that [[The Dragon] would float up to the D's, soon to be joined by [[A Day in the Limelight]. [[La Dolce Vita] will not be joining them. But it looks like the existing rule put the "A" tropes at the top while mixing in the "the"s. Was my choice the correct one?
- I have a general belief that spaces should be sorted before non-spaces. So "Modern Tropes" would sort before "Modernism". Should I ignore the spaces instead? This seemed to be the TVT standard, because of sorting on CamelCase.
- What about punctuation? Should hyphens be considered in sort order? Should commas or quote marks? We've got a lot of parentheses, too. Both spaces and punctuation are part of the unicode standard's 'variable' block (see UTS #10), which means the programmer SHOULD choose how to handle it. Right now I'm ignoring punctuation for sort order (well actually considering at level 4, "tiebreaker"). Is this the best approach?
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