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Throwaway404 Since: Mar, 2020
#1: Mar 24th 2020 at 9:55:04 AM

This happened quite a few years ago, in high school. I thought it was hilarious at the time. Then I stopped going on TV tropes much and forgot all about it till recently.

Needless to say, I am ashamed of myself. Should I just erase it, or is there a protocol to delete pages and links to them from other pages?

The "work" is Northland Series.

Edited by Throwaway404 on Mar 24th 2020 at 9:55:50 AM

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#2: Mar 24th 2020 at 10:43:58 AM

If you want to write the work, you can move the page to DarthWiki.Northland Series while trying to get it ready for publication. It cannot have any subpages, so everything goes on the Darthwiki page and the rest of the pages will have to be added to the Cut List. I'm working on removing wicks right now.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
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#3: Mar 24th 2020 at 1:37:16 PM

Otherwise, you might be able to get it to JFF, but yeah, cutlisting is always a valid option.

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#4: Mar 26th 2020 at 11:50:57 AM

Obligatory link to The Fic May Be Yours, but the Trope Page Is Ours.

Considering that the work does not actually exist and the page is in the wrong namespace to begin with, it probably is not an issue to add the page(s) to the Cut List. However, don't forget that under normal circumstances, you have absolutely no right to request a page be cut due to embarrassment, given the aforementioned policy.

Also, is this a throwaway account of ~Laika? This is not reddit. We can see the history of these pages and who created them.

Edited by WaterBlap on Mar 26th 2020 at 11:56:56 AM

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Throwaway404 Since: Mar, 2020
#5: Mar 28th 2020 at 12:30:47 PM

Thank you for the answers. That was probably my account, or one of them, back in high school, and I've forgotten the password a long time ago, hence why I created a new account in order to fess up. Otherwise I would have done it with that account - I know it's visible, I'm not trying to hide anything.

Since this account is new, I don't have access to the Cut List. I'll purge the page for now, or not, depending on what you guys feel is appropriate. If someone else could add it to that list, I'd be much obliged; otherwise, I'll wait till I have access.

Apologies once again.

Tabs Since: Jan, 2001
#6: Mar 29th 2020 at 1:27:43 AM

It's been cut, so we're good here.

Don't ever delete all content/blank a page! It'll look like vandalism, and there are other avenues (i.e. discussion and cut list, like here).

Edited by Tabs on Mar 29th 2020 at 1:30:43 AM

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