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Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 15th 2023 at 11:35:01 AM
Discworld and Disney have their own namespaces to prevent name collisions. Harry Potter is a blunder created back when the namespace process wasn't very clear. It is being phased out.
Namespaces correspond to the medium of the work. Comic Book, Video Game, Film, etc. It's very rare that a franchise will have its own namespace, and it needs a good reason for that. Furthermore, you should never make up new namespaces on your own, especially when they're so narrow. Creating a new namespace requires discussion on the forums.
You are free, of course, to move works in the proper existing namespace. Most of what you moved was supposed to go under Comic Book.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
NCC - 1701
Okay, I see now. Your first request was not to have an argument over religion. Here, you're saying leave it out altogether. Understood. I agree to leave religion out of the discussion completely.
Edit: So, will my ban be lifted?
edited 16th Aug '12 10:11:21 AM by TheStarshipMaxima
It was an honor
Yup.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
I'm really really sorry if I did something wrong I'll try to improve
Matthewtheman
How long does suspension last?
Mew Lettuce Rush: Your capitalization and punctuation are poor. You also use This Troper and first person, neither of which are allowed on the wiki.
Matthewtheman: They don't have an expiration date. They get lifted when we are confident you won't repeat your mistakes again.
In your case, you have punctuation and capitalization problems while inserting natter and incorrect use of the term 'subversion' to support a certain pairing. The wiki is not here to push your favourite ship.
edited 16th Aug '12 5:24:05 PM by lu127
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Matthewtheman
I will fix examples instead of use Natter, and I'll stop giving subversion examples altogether
Matthewtheman
What's the difference between a ban and a suspension
Matthewtheman
Oh yeah, and I will also use proper capitalization and punctuation.
I'm kind of confused. What did I do, exactly, to get suspended? Can I please edit again?
edited 16th Aug '12 8:27:17 PM by TheToonGeekette
Lost in Space
Do you have some kind of nanny software that turns the word "Nazi" into "Nutbunny?" If so, we don't allow that. When you run that kind of software it vandalizes all the pages you edit. If you were doing it intentionally, then cut it out.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Ohhhh...sorry, I kinda discovered Fox Replace recently, and I thought it would make certain Internet discussions (ones invoking Godwin's Law, ones bringing up issues the people in question clearly have no understanding of, ones involving 50 Shades of Grey, etc.) more interesting. It's off now.
Huh. Shouldn't have been able to edit, actually. They must be doing something different from the other nanny-bots.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
Lost in Space
Okay. I'll restore you. Be aware that if it happens again, we will permanently remove your editing privileges.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
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Namespaces correspond to the medium of the work. Comic Book, Video Game, Film, etc. It's very rare that a franchise will have its own namespace, and it needs a good reason for that. Furthermore, you should never make up new namespaces on your own, especially when they're so narrow. Creating a new namespace requires discussion on the forums.
You are free, of course, to move works in the proper existing namespace. Most of what you moved was supposed to go under Comic Book.
I see.
That seems counterintuitive to me. Batman is a comic book, no doubt about that. However, nothing I moved into the Batman/ namespace is a comic; they're all a bunch of storylines that are each a small (though significant) piece of the comic. If Batman is akin to a TV show, then the storylines I moved are akin to episodes of a show rather than shows themselves.
If they have to be forced into an existing namespace, it seems to me that Recap/ would be more appropriate than Comicbook/.
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Lost in Space
And Recap/ is an existing, valid namespace that you are entirely welcome to put stuff in. Just don't make up namespaces without asking and expect that to fly.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
I think I'm suspended for bashing. Either that, or for making a mistake when I tried to index. Nah, don't think it was the indexing.
And yes, I have read the rules.
I guess you think I'm a horrible person for what I said about Edwardz Lovah. The thing is, she's not actually real. I completely failed to make that clear in the article. I would never write such an article about a real person. This is a "trollsona" who writes intentionally weird crack fics with lots of shout-outs to My Immortal and Face the Strange. She has said from the start that Savanna is not her actual name, it's just "prettier then my reel one".
I'm very new to editing, so I may also have made some honest formatting mistakes. Thought I was actually being helpful, by helping a couple of my friends make pages for the cluster of new trollfics we discovered on DA. 
Again, I'm sorry. I was stupid, and I do understand if I don't get my editing rights back, but I want you to know that I never meant to hurt any real people.
Lost in Space
It doesn't matter whether it's real or not. TV Tropes will not be a party to your little trollfic bashing games. We are not a wiki for bashing things, as it says right on our homepage. If you want to go do that stuff, do it somewhere else.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"You are using the wiki to ridicule someone with whom you're having fights in other parts of the net. That's called drama importation and it is not allowed.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
I understand. It's alright, you can ban me.
Before I go, I just want to say, we're not actually enemies. Both Edwardz Lovah and Adriana are people I know from other places online. The "fight" was meant to be in good fun. I don't like leaving misunderstandings lying around. Again, sorry.
Hi
Vampire Buddha, I'd strongly recommend that you not move comic storylines into the Recap namespace. This may be something to bring up in Wiki Talk, but the rule of thumb that I'd go by is if a particular storyline can be broken out and sold on its own, such as many Batman arcs like Knightfall, Hush, The Long Halloween, etc., it's considered a separate work that merits its own entry under the Comic Book namespace.
What'd I do?
Launching YKTTW drafts with awful formatting and spelling errors while there is still disagreement over their names and status. You are expected not to launch a draft in a state where everyone has to clean up after you.
I also see failure to produce quality articles in YKTTW.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
There's a bunch of major Batman storylines with their own pages, which were in the Main/ namespace. Work pages aren't supposed to go in Main/, so I went to move them off.
I saw that the pages on the individual Harry Potter, Discworld, and The Dark Tower books, and the Disney movies, were each in HarryPotter/, Discworld/, TheDarkTower/, and Disney/ namespaces respectively, and reasoned that individual Batman storylines should be treated the same way. Was that wrong?
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