User blog comment:Felicitations/Structure proposal/@comment-24775284-20140406031928

There is no need for a dedicated field if you simply split the “link” field (row) into 3 or 4 columns to encompass all unique URLs at once. So, for instance for the Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past article the modified Link row would be looking something like: “Links: Fanfiction | Goodreads | TV Tropes”. That is, the user only consequently enters all the required links, and the template then converts them to “Links Fanfiction | Goodreads |TV Tropes” format on its own. The need for manual editing also gets eliminated.

This seems rather achievable. For instance, here is a Wikia Community discussion back from 2010 that resulted in a creation of a similar functionality.

>since it's likely that anybody who wishes to see lists like that can easily find them on whatever site it is that they're looking for stories on, rather than through us >plus, this community is so quiet

Well, one reason for linking to Goodreads and TV Tropes is to introduce the communities of reddit, Goodreads and TV Tropes between each other, and to this wiki.

The way I see it, at least, is that if everybody stays on their favourite discussion platform despite its limitations, then maintaining these platforms (reddit, TVT, GR, FF) isolated will make this wiki redundant, because each of them has something better to offer than whatever can be offered here (e.g. GR as a personal library and list creating tool; reddit as a discussion platform, TV Tropes as a “themes” catalogue). If used as a connecting node between all of them, however, this wiki could serve as a cross-way between all of them. Doing so it could categorize stories here, link to lists (“shelves”) containing that story on GR, to discussions about it on reddit, to all the relevant tropes on TVT and so on.

>I don't think enough fics are present on Goodreads for one dedicated field

They moderators there will not oppose to creating new story entries, as long as the stories are finished and long, or popular enough.

p.s. I am not ignoring your previous warning about time constraints—if you feel like this is too much work to be implemented right away, then just keep it in your peripheral vision as a possible future improvement. I myself can help with creating some of the GR entries, and maybe try contacting the Wikia Community for help with template modification.

In either case, good luck to purpleyuan and you with your pet project.

edit: this was intended as a reply to this comment.