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Original post
I'll start it off: could someone please unlock Hootie And The Blowfish so I can make a new page on it? The last page was cut for being copypasta from Wikipedia.
edited 18th Nov '14 1:26:41 AM by SeptimusHeap
Ah. Okay, then. I'll make a Sandbox page for the work once it's no longer Unpublished, and is under the Troper Works/Fanfiction namespace. Thanks, Fighteer. 
The Game should be unlocked so it can be made into a disambiguation page.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Lost in Space
Azureblade49 still hasn't been unlocked. Can someone please unlock it?
Lost in Space
We already said to put it in Web Original. Namespaces, people.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Fair enough. Can you at least unlock it so I can make it into a redirect?
Lost in Space
I put the redirect in myself.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Professor Zizoloziz
Here's a controversial one. Playing With/Pokémon should be unlocked as a "Just For Fun" page. Playing with a work's basic premises as if it was a trope should be permissible, especially for easily recognizable franchises.
Professor Zizoloziz, from Zyzzlvaria speaking.No, that's not what Playing With is for. You can't Subvert or Invert or Invoke a work.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Professor Zizoloziz
Works have basic premises, which serve the functions of a trope. Also, most works are known by a distinct combination of tropes, which lack a page when they are played with together. As you mentioned, you can't subvert or invert a work, but you can subvert the basic premises of it, especially when entries in a series are similar. I recommend excluding the "Invoke" from the page, since it would apply the same way to each work's premises. Also, it would be a "Just for Fun" entry, which would not require a serious interpretation.
edited 1st Oct '11 12:58:55 PM by zizoloziz
Professor Zizoloziz, from Zyzzlvaria speaking.
Lost in Space
No. Playing With is not possible with a work. That is absolute, so stop asking.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Professor Zizoloziz
Fine, I will stop talking now, and resume editing.
Professor Zizoloziz, from Zyzzlvaria speaking.
I see the Awesomeness.
Please unlock Have You Told Anyone Else? so I can finish the move, or someone else can.
Fight smart, not fair.
Wasn't locked. There was nothing there that required mod intervention except moving the discussion page. Sub-pages are moved by cut-and-paste plus the Cut List for sub-pages no longer required. To swap redirects around (Have You Told Anyone Else? was redirecting to ptitlek166hpb9) you need to contruct a "direct" editing url: in this case https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HaveYouToldAnyoneElse?action=edit
That's all fixed now.
I see the Awesomeness.
Well, when I tried to edit the redirect, it was redirecting me. So I thought it was locked.
Fight smart, not fair.
Fair enough. And I briefly created a circular redirect and caused causality to collapse for a bit.
Could Godivas be unlocked? I just wanted to add a redirect to Series.Godivas.
Added the redirect.
Thanks!
If You Know What I Mean was cut too early. We can't exactly continue with our sinkhole hunt if we can't find the wicks. And there are still a couple thousand left.
edited 26th Oct '11 5:33:46 PM by Insignificant
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
related to when cut 2582 links
related to now - less than 250.
We need the page restored (you can keep it redlinked, if you like.) to get rid of the sinkholes. Some of the pages may not have been edited in years, which makes them extremely hard to find.
edited 27th Oct '11 8:28:15 AM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
Also, that custom title needs to be nuked so the link will display properly when posted on the Permanent Red Link Club page.
We have some folks who like to find (apparently) disused sandbox pages and cutlist them. Not sure why, exactly.
edited 23rd Sep '11 6:28:13 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"