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Hmmmm ok. And it's the norm to have the names of the series be in italics?

Oh, and you guys missed it but "Two cannons 4 treads" where I put 4 in the wrong way, i was about to correct it but it's more fun to say it here now.

edited 4th Jul '12 1:08:56 PM by serialkillerwhale

Yah; a series title is italicised, and an episode/chapter/song title is put in quote marks. It helps distinguish it, I guess, though I don't know where the convention came from.

Yes, our formatting rules are to italicize the name of a work, such as a series, novel, manga, etc. For chapters, songs, essays, and the like, use "quotations" instead. This is commonly accepted writing protocol.

I think it's just MLA guidelines that are carried across most writing conventions.

I've heard once that one should spell out numbers that are twelve or less, but to write as numerals those that are 13 or greater. The exception would be if it referred to a statistic, so you would say, for Desperation Attack, for instance "In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Power Rush badge increases Mario's attack by 2 whenever he has 5 or fewer HP remaining."

edited 4th Jul '12 1:11:44 PM by DarkConfidant

Can i try again with the same edit or should I come up with a new one?

Up to you. Would you like me to add that one again now, or do a final checking post?

Can you explain the options a bit?

I guess you can either post this one again (fully correct) as a sort of final check and it'll be added after that, or you can ask for it to be added to the page now and I or someone else (Mom will probably kick me off within an hour, as it's nearing my bedtime) will do so. Whatever you do is fine, and it will end up on the page correctly regardless.

• The Command & Conquer series has the Mammoth Tank, which can basically be described as a tank with two cannons, four treads, and an insane amount of armor. It appears in all but one game, but has nothing to do with the plot whatsoever.

Done. Never really figured out why they do that. Fixed.

edited 4th Jul '12 2:07:59 PM by serialkillerwhale

It needs to be namespaced. Put VideoGame/ right before Command And Conquer.

Also, a comma after Tank.

edited 4th Jul '12 1:31:38 PM by DarkConfidant

*nitpick* the "Two" in "Two cannons" shouldn't be capitalized. Apart from that, it's fine.

edited 4th Jul '12 1:45:43 PM by jkbeta

I was going to add it to the Recurring Extra page, but the page is about characters, so it doesn't actually belong there.

Arggghh! still can't find where to put that one!

It's pretty much the series mascot though, is there a trope for that?

There's Series Mascot, but according to the definition on Mascot, it has to be "a character, animal, or animate object".

It's already there.

Artistic License – Military:

• Command & Conquer has the Assault Destroyer, which is a warship with treads and a Stone Wall. But in real life, a destroyer is considered a unarmored warship meant for all-purpose combat with low survivability mitigated by firepower and speed. They also do not have treads.

How was that one? I said anti-submarine, surface, and air which, I hope would mean Anti-Air Anti-Submarine and Anti-surface FLYING DESTROYERS!!!! AWESOMENESS!!!

edited 5th Jul '12 4:03:17 PM by serialkillerwhale

The first comma (after Command And Conquer) needs to go, and I'm not sure about the second comma (it's probably correct). Apart from that, it looks alright. By the way, a ship with air duties sounds like some kind of flying ship to me. Do you mean air defence?

The second comma is correct.

Would you consider my grammar to be acceptable now?

If you mean anti-submarine, anti-ship, and anti-air, you need to say it like that. "Anti-" forms a compound with the word it's applied to, so in a list like that, it only applies to the word it's combined with.

Ok, sorry about that.

edited 6th Jul '12 2:23:35 PM by serialkillerwhale

I would give you another shot, serialkillerwhale. Consider it given. But you forgot the period to end that last sentence. So... be careful, please? Keep coming back here if you have questions. Practice will make perfect, and I'd rather you delay your edits a bit then get suspended again, this time for good.

edited 5th Jul '12 4:09:47 PM by Fighteer

Fixed.

Hello I have recently been told that my writing is not good enough for this wiki, and it has a several spelling grammatical and sentence structure errors. I will post one of my entries and could you please tell me what is wrong with it

This is from the Western Animation page of the Missing Episode trope.

• Three late episodes of the Scooby Doo show were not syndicated or re-ran after there initial broadcast they were called "The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake","A Menace in Venice", "Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear". It is unknown why these were not included with the rest but they did eventually air on Cartoon Network a couple decades after they were first released.

edited 15th Jul '12 9:57:25 AM by Ranonamis

How about this?

Three episodes of The Scooby-Doo Show were not syndicated or re-run after their initial broadcast - "The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake", "A Menace in Venice", and "Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear". They eventually aired on Cartoon Network decades after their first release.

edited 15th Jul '12 10:00:23 AM by DarkConfidant

Thank you, and could you change that for me since I am currently banned. I will probably run by my new entries her before posting them after the ban is lifted to make sure this douse not happen again.