User blog comment:Felicitations/Structure proposal/@comment-24775284-20140404202229/@comment-4023106-20140404220923

Just to be clear -- you mean adding the categories on this page (Peggy Sue, etc.)? I could do that, and I don't even think that would need to be automatic; since there's only like six tropes there that are 1) actually tropes and 2) not already present on this wiki, I could just make a themed list for each trope and manually categorize stories. I could go ahead and make those lists sometime today and anybody can start adding and categorizing the stories.

And if you (or anybody) wanted to add a new trope not already listed on the TV Tropes page (ex. The Makeover), I'd think a themed list would also serve just fine. And if there's a desire for it, I could monitor uncreated themed lists in the same way that I monitor uncreated character pages -- somebody can just add the category "Theme: TropeXYZ" to a story and, if they don't want to create the themed list page themselves, I'll just create it when I have the chance.

And just overall, the ficbox template is already sort of stuffed with fields, and there are so many different tropes and different possible variations of each trope name that it would be a huge chore to keep track of them all! We already have the themed lists in place, so I feel like adding tropes to the template would be redundant and confusing -- where do you draw the line between a trope and a theme, you know?