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openThere are several edits by ethanm1 on the headscratcher page for a New Hope that seems written by AI Film
Example
Great question! The Death Star is powered by a powerful reactor located in the station's core. This reactor generates a massive amount of energy that is used to power a combination of propulsions systems, including repulsorlift engines, which allow the station to hover in the air or space, and sublight engines, which allow it to move through hyperspace. The Death Star also employs a special type of engine known as a hyperdrive, which is capable of moving the station across vast distances at faster-than-light speeds. This engine can be used to move the station between different star systems, and is what allows it to travel from one battle to another. However, it takes time to charge and power up the hyperdrive, which is why the Death Star is usually accompanied by a fleet of support ships, such as the imperial star destroyers, which can provide protection while it is charging its hyperdrive. Overall, the Death Star is a highly advanced and powerful vehicle that is designed to dominate the galaxy and instill fear in its enemies. The station's weapons, armor, and propulsion systems make it one of the most formidable craft in the galaxy, and its ability to travel from one system to another allows it to be a constant threat to any target, whether it's a rebel base, or simply an entire planet that it has been sent to destroy
Are the use of AI to answer headscratchers okay?
resolved Url rules violation
I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to add punctuation in the wiki word of any page here, and instead use a wiki word.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/ULTIMATE-ONE-TYPE-Taylor
EDIT: There IS a Fanfic.Ultimate One Type Taylor page that's apparently completely separate from the first???
Edited by LermisopenUnmarked spoiler removal for Walking Spoiler in Characters.The Amazing Digital Circus Players Web Original
Recently, LCJ has removed the unmarked spoiler warning of Kaufmo's folder (a Walking Spoiler) in Characters.The Amazing Digital Circus Players and inserted a bunch of spoiler tags without elaborating why they did it.
I'm soliciting a mod to revert this huge change, because as well as the lack of reason, it's clear that Kaufmo's folder is better off with unmarked spoilers due to a large majority of the tropes listed in it addressing spoilers from the work, not to mention that thus far, there's been only one more edit (on Ragatha's folder) after the removal that I can easily restore following the reversal.
Edited by Inky100openEdit War
- Tallmoon — Removes an image (despite the IP tag) citing "per thread", with no such thread existing.
- Clancy Gardener — Revert
- Tallmoon — Unilatellay removes it again with "copyright violation" as an edit reason, which it is not, and makes a long post about it here.
Tallmoon also unilaterally replaced an image at Bishonen (despite the IP tag), followed by a similarly nonsensical justification post.
Edited by AmonimusopenEdit war on Fallout 2024's Trivia page.
On May 14th, troper Doctor Detective removed this entry Fallout (2024)'s trivia page with the edit reason "None of that requires that the creators lied, given the time between the games and the show, and how all of the games' endings are actually rather open-ended in terms of what happens next."
- Lying Creator: Part of the creators' insistence that the show would be a canon entry in the franchise in the leadup to release included assurance that the show would not engage in any Cutting Off the Branches for previous entries. Despite this, the show's very first episode featured an appearance by the Prydwen from Fallout 4 intact and still operational in the Brotherhood's service, with reference made to members of the organization still operating within the Commonwealth. Due to the Institute and Railroad endings requiring destroying the Prydwen, this leaves only the Brotherhood and Minutemen endings plausible and invalidating half of the game's potential endings. Additionally, The Stinger for the Season 1 finale indicates the show will showcase the now run-down city of New Vegas heavily in the second season, which by its nature will require either choosing a specific ending to Fallout: New Vegas as canon or rendering the player's choice of ending irrelevant somehow.
The edit reason made me raise an eyebrow, considering it appears cut and dry when it comes to the Prydwen being intact contradicting the Cutting Off the Branches claim, so I restored it on May 17th with the edit reason "Main page doesn't mention any requirements. If the creator lied about something, even if something is "open-ended", then it qualifies."
The next day, Doctor Detective removed the entry again with the edit reason "The requirement is that the creator lied about something. They didn't. Viewers are speculating about what must have happened, based on partial information. Retcons, added information, and nine years of additional story without direct reference to or confirmation of what happened in previous installations do not constitute lies. Everything about this entry belongs I the WMG page."
Regardless of his reasoning for it, it's an edit war now.
Edited by Super_Weegeeresolved Troper keeps changing other people’s edits and gatekeeping pages
So basically I’ve been looking through Star Wars character pages and i noticed that zakitaro has been overly involved in these pages. If you see the edit history for pages like Star Wars – Anakin Skywalker, whenever any troper adds an edit zakitaro makes massive alterations to the previous troper’s edit. Sometimes it’s fair, like replacing a trope with a more fitting trope, and most times I think it's just downright disrespectful and unfair because they completely change the explanation for the trope that someone else added. Whatever a troper adds, zakitaro frequently comes in and changes it and I think it’s kind of rude and inconsiderate of other tropers. They also massively gatekeep the Anakin Skywalker page because I and other tropers frequently have to wait before we can make edits because zakitaro is almost always editing on there and if you look at edit history it proves that.
openFilm about infected people living in a non-infected society. Film
Have anyone see or heard this film? The film about a guy, who along with others is a infected zombie, tried to live in a normal life in a non-infected human society after been reconcile. There's also a woman and a boy she's looking after living in the same area as the protagonist, and another infected, who want the protagonist join his rebel against the people who treat them terrible. Does anyone know the name of this name?
openAdding a picture
How do I add a picture to a page from my phone? I want to add a page image to the Funny page for Cult of the Lamb.
openIn-universe WAI/Darth, disallowed?
- What an Idiot!: In-Universe. In The Layover in the S8–S9 off-season, Adam did a poll of 1,200 Jet Lag fans, with one question being "What is the dumbest thing anyone has ever done on Jet Lag?" The answers were: 1. Adam taking off his wig in Tag EUR Itnote as it meant his elaborate disguise was completely wasted when Sam and Ben staked out the train station he was at; 2. Sam and Joseph gambling in Singapore in Circumnavigationnote a high-risk strategy that left them completely stranded halfway through the game; 3. Sam and Brian buying a tracker powerup in Battle 4 Americanote as it wouldn't have given them any way to actually stop Ben and Adam's plan and they ended not not having the coin to steal back the critical challenge; 4. trusting Deutsche Bahnnote which has led directly to at least one tag in each season.
While YMMV and Flame Bait allow in-universe examples, Darth Wiki I belive does not, correct? Also WAI requires the You'd Expect/Instead format so this isn't an example.
So should this be cut? Any possible replacements? (You Fool! seems the in-universe equivalent to WAI, but if it's limited to verbatim uses of Fool/synonyms is a question I asked but have yet to hear anything on.)
resolved More unilateral changes by RosaHG
So back in December, I had reported RosaHG for unilateral image changing. They were suspended and released with the understanding they would use Image Pickin' to discuss future image changes.
Which they have...sort of. They've made three posts in the Image Pickin' thread. The first was for proposing an image that pretty much got shot down immediately, the second was a quality upgrade that went through fine, but the third was an image that they then immediately threw up on the page without waiting for any feedback. They were called out in the IP thread and a separate thread where they were warned by a moderator.
Their latest edit is unilaterally changing the caption of The Greatest Showman, and while I know that changing captions isn't as frowned upon as images, this was something they were doing before the suspension, and it doesn't appear that they've learned anything after being unsuspended.
Edited by ArctimonopenLow-effort image suggestions by a recurring problem troper
Rosa HG has had a history of making unilateral edits of images and replacing them with images from My Little Pony, and has taken to making several low-effort suggestions on Image Pickin' today (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), most of them being MLP-related, some of them being reposts of the same images they inserted unilaterally several months ago (including the image from Came from the Sky, which they further kept trying to push in the Image Suggestion thread despite being told several times that it's not great), and none of them giving any adequate explanation for why they should replace images for tropes that already have them (their Licked by the Dog suggestion also implies to me that they don't actually understand what the tropes in question properly are). It looks to me like they still fundamentally don't understand the point of how the site handles this whole Image Picking process, has ignored the efforts to correct and guide them, and is taking to spamming the forum.
Update: 6th thread.
Edited by number9roboticopenFallen Literature
I’m a novice to this site who was trying to create a page for a YA novel series which was also adapted into a film and has a very generic title. There are already pages for unrelated works called Fallen. I inadvertently added its information to one’s page under Literature (it previously hadn’t had a Literature section). I have submitted it for the cut list. Fallen is a pretty well-known series and should probably have a page, particularly since it often gets mixed up with other things, but I’m not sure how to create one or whether it’s better left in the void. Advice? I’m very sorry for the inconvenience.
openWhere do fanfics made in 2024 go?
I'm asking because I'm seeing the Fanfics of 2010–2011 page onwards are pages created for fanfics created between a range of two years. Does that mean that we have to wait for next year in order to add fanfics made in 2024 (for a "Fanfics of 2024-2025" page), or can a page for 2024 fanfics be created in the meantime?
openTRS Queue: need permission to add?
I noticed Canon Fodder seemed a duplicate trope to Fanfic Fuel, (the supposed difference that it will later get addressed in canon being speculation and seeming chairs). Results from Canon Fodder Wick Check:
- Just 10% correct.
- 38% redundant with Fanfic Fuel or other items.
- 30% non-YMMV (intentional hooks/items explored in canon).
- 14% were misspellings of Cannon Fodder.
- 8% ZCE/other.
This sounds like it deserves to go under the TRS Queue. Any objections?
And for future reference, do I need permission/approval to add anything to TRS Queue if a wick check finds significant issue/misuse?
openMy questions regarding visual arts.
Some tropes seem like they would fit into work pages with the "Art/" namespace. But I am unsure if these are appropriate to edit. Are these OK to put them as examples?
- Minimalist Cast: Most sculptures and some paintings only involve like 1 to 3 characters, some paintings also depict only landscapes and objects without any characters.
- No Plot? No Problem!: None of these works have any narrative, therefore it seems fitting.
openZalgo on TvTropes and quotes.
From my understanding, Zalgo is disallowed on TV Tropes, but what if you are quoting text that uses Zalgo for effect? In particular, I am thinking of this skit from Overly Sarcastic Productions.
Remove the Zalgo, and it's no longer getting the impression they were going for across.
Edited by TheharboopenMaking a page of a Tumblr blog
If I wanted a page of a Tumblr blog to link back to Tumblr, which is currently locked, how would I go about that? It isn't a character blog, so I can't really link it there, it's just one that posts short stories that I'd like to trope.
Edited by t99legcentipede
There are plenty of catboys in fiction (Schrödinger from Hellsing, etc) as well as cat adults. Is there an equivalent trope I'm missing?