All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXI

[GethN7]

Do we have a trope for literally forgetting your own name?

I don't think so, but if we did it would be listed on the page for Azumanga Daioh, since IIRC Osaka forgot her own name in favor of her nickname.

This got so bad her nickname was used on an official school register of student names IIRC.

I propose the trope title "Forsaken Name" if we ever make a trope, unless someone has a better idea.

[MilkmanConspiracy]

My immediate reactions, as of less than a half-hour after waking up in the morning and seeing my computer wants to reboot:

Pretty tired so I’m going to sit in responding to these till my social batteries are recharged, but I wanted to stash my notes on the oldest entries in the mod queue for tomorrow and get a second opinion before taking action on these

Notes on pending edits.
Pending edit for Bottle Episode
Section about the Twilight Zone is a match for the TVT Bottle Episode Subpage.
Content was added to TVT by user "6" on September 8th, 2024, predating its submission to ATT.

Reject and inform the troper why, pointing them at the appropriate copyright policy page.

Got a response on this one. They claim they are the user 6. What should be done?

[Bob Schroeck]

In the past we've handled this on a case-by-case basis, mainly because there haven't been that many cases. Unfortunately I don't remember what we did the last time we needed to verify someone who we couldn't identify as a liar or plagiarist right off the bat. Rob, Brent, Geth, do you recall?

[robkelk]

I don't recall, sorry.

Hmmmmm... Have we done enough to be considered to have done our due diligence, in case an infringement case is brought against us?

[Bob Schroeck]

I would say not; taking a potential infringer's word that he's not a plagiarist isn't enough. We need some way to verify he is "6" -- perhaps an innocuous message of our wording posted somewhere on TVT he can point us at?

[GethN7]

I would say not; taking a potential infringer's word that he's not a plagiarist isn't enough.  We need some way to verify he is "6" -- perhaps an innocuous message of our wording posted somewhere on TVT he can point us at?

Agreed.

Looked through the queue, and we can take "DialgaX" at their word, their edits on our site match up pretty well to TVT.

[Labster]

Just as a note, I've been renewing some of the original domains that I proposed back when our wiki got started: trope.wiki, tropes.wiki, and allthetropes.wiki. Since the .wiki domain cost has gone up to $65 and I'm not using them, I'm going to stop renewing them, unless someone can find a use for any of them. They expire on July 13th.

[MilkmanConspiracy]

It’s a shame since they're good domains, but that is also a crazy price hike. They’re minting new gTLDs all the time, so it may not be a big loss if we loose them should something else relevant come up.

[Bob Schroeck]

I wasn't aware, or had forgotten, you were doing that out of your own pocket. Of course drop them; the only reason I think we grabbed them was to prevent trollery from TVT goons.

[robkelk]

My immediate reaction was "there's a .wiki TLD?"

Use or toss, and if it's too much work to use, then toss.

[Labster]

I wasn't aware, or had forgotten, you were doing that out of your own pocket.  Of course drop them; the only reason I think we grabbed them was to prevent trollery from TVT goons.

Nah, this goes way back to the original idea when we voted on a name.  I grabbed them because they were great TLDs but the community chose another name.  And I kept them because, as Milkman says, great domains.

Again, if someone can think of a use I can keep, or even transfer the domain to someone else who will use it.

[robkelk]

Well, redirecting "allthetropes.wiki" to "allthetropes.org" seems like a no-brainer to me, but I live in a place where "amazon.com" auto-redirects to "amazon.ca". The others... unless we want to promote other trope wikis, I don't see a need to keep them.

[Bob Schroeck]

Pity there's no demand for the others, judging by the lack of offers for them... What good is squatting on a domain for over a decade if no one wants it? <grin>