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openMoonlit Fantasy Anime Opening Literature
In the second half of TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- season 2, the opening for the anime has two sets of opponents, first Kuzanoha's students and their rivals, and immediately various hyuman leaders from different countries and the demon leadership, giving each other Giving Someone the Pointer Finger.
I wasn't sure if this counts since it is in the opening and should it be under Literature of Giving Someone the Pointer Finger even if it is from the anime version of things.
openHypothetical Casting Literature
I'm wondering if I could make a Hypothetical Casting page for Once Upon a Studio: Version 2.0, with it being a full-scale reimagining of Disney's 100th anniversary short film, but I think I should ask how many credits, roughly, would be needed to accommodate that page. The credits are already listed under Fan Works, but I'm hoping to move them to a dedicated Hypothetical Casting page for the fanfic itself.
Edited by IronSpider24resolved Ellen and Otis: Gone Horribly Wrong Literature
On the page for Ellen and Otis, the example for Gone Horribly Wrong reads as follows:
However, she doesn't get in trouble for taking the beet without permission, she isn't shown being written up, and she does get to clap erasers during recess, which is why she brought the beet to school in the first place. So, does this really count as an example of GHW, or is it some other trope?
openShould this be an example? Literature
I'm alphabetising Blah, Blah, Blah and I'm unsure how to sort this example:
- Dave Barry, after writing a column complaining about Neil Diamond's songs, in particular a Painful Rhyme in "I Am, I Said," received a great deal of hate mail from irate Neil Diamond fans, which he condensed into this all-purpose letter incorporating most of what they were fuming about:
Dear Pukenose:
It's in the Literature folder, but instead of the usual fashion of examples saying "this is an example that occurs in a work", it reads to me as "this is an example in a writer's critique of another work". The best way I can think of alphabetising this is by author surname, but I'm wondering if it should be an example in the first place if it's not about a fictional/narrative-driven media.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenLiterature/ACertainMagicalIndex -- Main Page review Literature
Hello, inexperienced Troper/editor here
Wanted to ask if some people could take a look at the main page for A Certain Magical Index that I've been adding to recently so that I can get a second opinion as to whether the tropes section should further be split into more folders for ease of reading (currently, only 4 folders are in use). For those familiar with this work, I also posted a question as to whether the the page should be further compartmentalized into different series (OT, NT, and GT) so that those who have only caught up to the anime aren't being bombarded with examples and spoilers from the novels, but I then realised that different tropes are used by different series, so I'm not quite sure how that'd work. Would love if people had some suggestions.
Last thing I want to ask: there's a few mentions scattered about (on said page and elsewhere) for a certain character, Kuroko Shirai, being a lesbian based on her interactions with character Mikoto. I'm wondering whether this would fall under Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment since her sexual orientation has never been outright confirmed, only alluded to. I'll leave it at that, but I am willing to explain further if more information is required.
Thanks everyone.
Edited by TheLaserSonicresolved Literature/Victoria - A troper has been busily re-adding tropes cut during a cleanup Literature
Troper Axe 23 has been busy re-adding tropes to Literature/Victoria page that were removed in the cleanup thread without going through the cleanup thread first. What should be done about that?
I tried to message them, but they never replied.
Cleanup thread here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16063931900A23789400&page=8
Now, I know that normally it is the opposite rule here, if you see a trope on a page (say Knight in Shining Armor ) mentioning a work, you should go to the work page and add an example to it. That is normal crosswicking. The issue here is that there was a clean-up of the work page but wick cleaning of the other pages was never completed (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16063931900A23789400&page=7#comment-161 ) after sandbox swap.
You can recognize the cleaned up wicks on the other pages because they point to Literature/Victoria instead of towards Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War and they should be deleted and not crosswicked back to the main work page.
Edited by youngstormlordresolved Victoria vandalism Literature
I'm on a self-imposed hiatus due to reasons, but this should be brought to the mods' attention.
Walker 45 has edited Literature.Victoria, calling it "a deranged piece of Nazi propaganda" and the like. They have also made forum posts expressing overwhelmingly negative views towards the work and saying they will remove all mentions of it from the wiki.
Requesting mod revert of Victoria.
openNamespace issue regarding pages related to "Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World" Literature
I think it has to do with a namespace issue that got changed, but the book Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World seems to have some of it's pages not properly linked to it. As a result it has two YMMV pages, here and here. This is a simple enough fix, as the details exclusive to the first just needed to be moved to the second, something already taken care of. The other issue though is that the first has a Trivia page, and the characters tab redirects to the main character page.
As such, I think its best if the Trivia page be rewicked as "Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World", and the character page has the alternate title "Bleach Cannot Fear Your Own World" either flat out removed or changed to the proper namespace.
resolved Validity of an example Literature
Wasn't sure where to put this, didn't seem like it belonged in "Is this an Example". I was adding something to ThenLetMeBeEvil.Literature and happened to find this:
- Fagin in Oliver Twist is such an anti-Semitic caricature that Dickens himself grew ashamed at the remonstrations of several Jewish acquaintances, mended his beliefs, and wrote much more sympathetic Jewish characters in the future. However, since Oliver Twist was so popular and has so frequently been adapted, the adapters have had to deal with the Unfortunate Implications somehow. Some of them have used this, depicting Fagin's villainy less as a stereotype and more as an understandable response to the grinding poverty and degradation he would have suffered due to the relentless classism and anti-Semitism in England in the period.
The whole example is basically complaining about Fagin being a Greedy Jew stereotype, which, fair enough! But the example
- doesn't even get to illustrating the trope until halfway through.
- isn't actually an example for the linked source material but rather about unnamed adaptations.
- is violating Examples Are Not General by not specifying any adaptations in particular.
So I think this should probably be cut. Agreed?
Edited by StarSwordopenTitle mess up Literature
I was trying to create a new page, but I messed up the title somehow, and several words in it are smashed together. I’m not sure how to fix this.
Also it keeps splitting Mc Gonagall’s name into two and making it a red link. I’m not sure how to fix this.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/HarryPotterandtheRitualofLovesMemory
Edited by wingedcatgirlopenCreate a page for book I’m releasing/ for a fanfic Literature
Hello,
I was wondering how to create a page for a book I am releasing. I have an idea of some of the tropes I used.
There was also a fanfic I read that I don’t see a trope page for and wanted to create one.
openMod request: Reversion of Page to restore ZCEs on American Girl Characters Page Literature
(edited title: originally ZC Es removed from American Girl Characters page.)
Princess Lulu 6 cut all the zero context entries from the Characters.American Girls Collection Historical Characters page. I know a good part of them may work—I was the one who commented them out some time back—but the tropes listed more need expansion than removal. I'm exceptionally familiar with the works but have to consult my library to do so with several so as to be accurate the first time. Is this something that should be restored, and can I do it? There's so many it might be best to have a mod roll it back.
Edited by NethiliaopenWeird note on a trope page Literature
When editing HaveAGayOldTime.Literature, there is a note for editors at the top of the page:
"Order by surname/family name for items concerning a person; by title for a title; or by the important word of the term, e.g. "Have a gay old time" is about the word "gay" not "have" so it goes under g."
Since this is a trope page, all entries should be under work titles so the last clause will never apply; also, my understanding is that on work pages, Have a Gay Old Time would indeed be alphabetised under H (it's the first word that matters, with articles being the only exception).
Remove the note? Or was it consensus-approved at some point?
Edited by ViluiopenEdit war with big time gap Literature
On Run with the Wind in 2022, Jack The Hammer added a sub-bullet under No Export for You to link to a fan translation. I removed it around that time because 1) it didn't add anything to the original example and 2) because I assume linking to a non-legal translation is iffy.
Just recently a similar edit linking to the same fan translation was made by Jack The Hammer, just different wording.
Due to the big gap between the two edits, it's not clear to me if the user remembers making the original edit or not. Either way, am I free to undo the edit?
resolved Moving character to a different page Literature
I'd like to move Shen Jiu's character profile from Characters.The Scum Villains Self Saving System Demon Realm And Other Characters over to Characters.The Scum Villains Self Saving System Four Main Sects. Currently he's just under Other Characters, but I think he should really be under the Qing Jing Peak section as he was literally the leader of said peak before his (presumed) death, at which point he exits the story. (I'm explaining this to clarify that there are no conflicting affiliations or anything so I don't know why he's been placed under Other Characters.) Am I allowed to go ahead and move him?
Edited by ZaperexopenWhere to put some LMM examples? Literature
Lucy Maud Montgomery's page has a few examples from the Chronicles of Avonlea books. It's specified that all examples from books that have their own pages don't count. The thing is, the Chronicles books are explicitly in the world of Anne of Green Gables, even if Anne only makes a few cameos. So what do we do? Option 1. Move the Chronicles examples from Maud's page to the Anne page and add a note to Maud's page listing all 11/12 (it's complicated) books in the Anne series, all three Emily books, etc. Option 2. Split off all miscellaneous Maud short stories into their own page, including the Chronicles books, preserving Maud's page for the authoress herself and recurring tropes only.
openBooks with the same name Literature
I added the book Out of the Dark by Norah Lofts to Summary/Literature which I may or may not create a page for at some point, but Out of the Dark already goes to the book by David Weber on this wiki. And there are a bunch of other books with that exact name. What do we do in this case?
Hi, I am thinking about creating a page for the book Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum. But I’m unsure what category it would belong to, as it’s non fiction and is a history/reference book about the risky world of musical theatre. Hope you can help fellow Tropers, thanks.