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openCorrect formatting on trope pages
On Peer as Teacher, I fixed the formatting of an example from "In the French comic Les Profs," to "Les Profs: In the French comic,". The thing is it was changed back, and before I start an edit war, I want to clarify what is the proper format for adding an example of a trope page?
Edited by GateStarXopenWeird Edit Removal Reason Western Animation
On YMMV.Dexters Laboratory Walt K removed this entry
- Self-Fanservice:
- Dexter and Mandark get a lot of this in fanart.
- Dee Dee gets her fair share of this, especially when most artists think she'll take after her mom. It doesn't help that Dexter once described Dee Dee as "her hips a bit meaty".
they removed it with the edit reason "inappropriate" (presumably meaning "sexualizing characters from a children’s series is inappropriate")
Whether you agree with them or not, YMMV is just troping Audience Reactions, and we’ve had other Self-Fanservice entries from kids shows. Even if it is "inappropriate" we’re just troping what fans believe. Is this ok, or should I add it back?
openWhere and when to add?
Under Characters.My Little Pony Generation 5, there are these entries I have questions about:
- Missing Mom: Sunny's mother and why she's absent were just revealed. Should MM go under Sunny's folder or her mothers, or both?
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite Comet joining the main characters by the end of Season 1, he's been completely absent/unmentioned in Season 2, but it's just 1/3 a year and 1/5 of the planned content into the Season. How long does it take for WHTTM (or Chuck Cunningham Syndrome) to quality? End of Season?
openIs this walkthrough mode
I found this on Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes and I'm unsure if it is walkthrough mode.
- Easy Level Trick: The easiest way to recruit Hogan, who requires you to earn 50,000 Baqua of profit solely by buying/selling items at the Trade Depot, is buying as much trading items as possible before talking to him to initiate his side quest. That way, players can just run towards the nearby trading post and sell everything that can be traded to easily get him.
openHow do I revoke my own cut request?
The cutlist instructions say that there is a "wait" button to challenge a deletion, but I don't see said button.
openEdit war over the terms "performer" and "player"
I think an edit war happened on Characters.The Amazing Digital Circus over the terms "performer" and "player" when refering to the main protagonists:
On 16 October 2023, immblueversion changed the main protagonists' section header from "The Performers" to "Players".
On 18 October 2023, RandomInformation changed it to just "Performers", as "[they] believe they're more often described as this".
On 26 April 2024, immblueversion changed said section header, and every instance of the word "performer" on the page, to "player", with the reasoning that "[t]he "performers" don't actually perform at the circus, so it's an obsolete term".
So, which term should be used for the main protagonists? "Performer" or "player"? "Performer" is the term used more often by the fans, but it's a misnomer, given that they don't perform in the Circus. "Player" would be a more accurate term, but it isn't used as much.
openImpractical Jokers
I created a post from this link shown below and I was told that I need to create a thread. Where do I go?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1452266899092104700&page=624#comment-15598
openWhen flaws are appealing to someone Live Action TV
While friends are listing someone's flaws to show her that he's completely wrong for her, she actually finds those flaws appealing, making him more attractive.
resolved Questions about sandboxes
Is it considered okay if someone creates a work page by copying the content of a sandbox that a completely different user was working on?
I just saw that Literature.Demian was created by someone else using the contents I had written on Sandbox.Demian. I hadn't worked on the sandbox in a few months because I wanted to reread the book in order to write a good work's description (right now both the sandbox and Literature/ pages have almost no description).
I'm not upset about this, I'm rather kind of confused of what to do in this case.
I get if the user who created the page was tired of waiting for it to be an actual article, so I'm wondering if it's seen negatively if someone takes months on moving a sandbox to the correct namespace.
I'm curious about these things regarding sandbox etiquette.
openFormatting numbers - spelling out or digits only?
I launched a trope and in writing it wrote out the numbers below 100, since that's how I was taught to format numbers in writing — everything that can be two words should be written out (so everything below 100) and minimally, it's correct formatting to do at least every number below 10 and all numbers at the start of a sentence unless it's math you're writing Recently ~@HazelMcCallister changed the text so every written out number was turned into digits. Including a five, which I was taught grammatically should always be spelled out. Examples of numbers in writing here.
Is this a rule I'm breaking?
Edit for clarification on when numbers are written out.
Edited by NethiliaopenCelebrity gossip on Unfortunate Implications
I spotted two entries on Unfortunate Implications that I'm not sure belong there. Both entries, rather than discuss how the trope pertains to a certain work, instead discuss the personal lives of celebrities.
- Her [Taylor Swift's] decision to engage in a public romance with Matty Healy and released a collaboration with Ice Spice was widely derided as damage control for Matty's numerous racist behaviors and comments.
- Rihanna's continuous friendship and even collaboration to Chris Brown has been widely critized as sending messages of women accepting their abuser.
I feel like they should both be deleted, but I wanted to double check before doing so.
Edited by Storygirl000openIs It Possible to Make Custom Sub-pages for a Troper Page?
I noticed that when opening the menu for sub-pages on my Troper Page it had a lot of categories that are intended for franchises (characters, YMMV, Heartwarming, etc.) but I didn't see a way to make a custom sub-page. Do we just have to use the pre-existing sub-page types of is there a way of making a custom one that I just don't see?
resolved Post finder
Is there a feature that lets you see all the forum posts a user has made?
openAvoiding an edit war
Joylock un-commented out some examples on Characters.Fallout 1 that were commented out for being Zero Context Examples, which I ended up commenting out again after sending them a notifier. They ended up expanding on said examples, but they're still IMO Partial Context Examples at best but I don't want to get into an edit war by commenting them out again.
openEdit War?
So, I am unsure on this but YMMV.Dead Boy Detectives 2024:
- Shanwooo 444 added anUnintentionally Unsympathetic entry mentioning "despite him never being anything other than kind and patient with her".
- I removed that sentence in my attempt to make the entry more neutral and fix some grammar mistakes.
- Shanwooo 444 re-added that phrase almost word for word.
I mean like I said I am unsure if this is an edit war. They didn't discuss this anywhere and this is not the first time they have done this, but I was thinking on re-adding that part anyways as it reads weird without it. However, even then I am unsure if it counts but that is for a different discussion. Is this an edit war?
Edited by Bullmanresolved Image Formatting
Been trying to look around, even googled it but got nothing. I wanted to verify among the community, is it possible to make images sit next to each other directly?
So I want to make a page for a fanfic I just finished reading, but I don't want it to just sit in my sandbox collecting dust like previous attempts at work pages have. I could just launch the page now as I've been working on it in Google Docs, but there are some things I'm unsure about, so I'd like some help.