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Edited by Twiddler on Aug 6th 2023 at 11:53:14 AM
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
Aren't we putting Hey Its That Guy on trivia pages?
a discussion that mentions it and other things here.
edited 22nd Feb '11 4:52:23 AM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
Lost in Space
Correct, that goes on Trivia. Seems we still have a lot of work to do to promote that change.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
It's probably because, unlike the YMMV change, the Trivia changes are ongoing, and aren't shown on the editing page.
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
There's a bunch of subjectives on The Bible.
- Alternate Character Interpretation
- Broken Base
- Character Derailment
- Draco in Leather Pants
- Ensemble Dark Horse
- Epileptic Trees
- Fanon
- Fan-Preferred Couple
- "Funny Aneurysm" Moment
- Gannon-Banned
- Historical Villain Upgrade
- Internet Backdraft
- Love It or Hate It
- Macekre
- Memetic Badass
- Misaimed Fandom
- Moral Event Horizon
- Never Live It Down
- Nightmare Fuel
- Shipping
- Values Dissonance
Also on The Bible, Trope Overdosed doesn't have a bullet in front of it and Fetish Fuel isn't on its own line.
edited 22nd Feb '11 6:07:27 PM by Anaheyla
This is still a signature.
On the Prince of Persia page the tropes Mental Time Travel and Second Hour Superpower are not in the correct alphabetic order.
Please put Mental Time Travel right under the trope Meet Cute. And put the trope Second Hour Superpower right above the trope Sequel Hook.
And in Amar's quote in the trope Compensating for Something, replace the word "guys" with the word "men" cuz that's what he said in the movie. Thank you
likes the cheeses.
Since the initial disagreement over Main.Wife And Wife (namely whether Manga.Wife And Wife should have been put in the Main namespace as opposed to Manga) has died down, could Main.Wife And Wife either be unlocked or made into a redirect to the Manga namespace?
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Lost in Space
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Out of curiosity, why? We don't always do Main redirects for stuff that belongs in a medium namespace, especially when it has a name that generic.
Done.
The Bible: Done.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
likes the cheeses.
I've always been under the impression that the most optimal strategy for adding a work is to put it in the correct namespace first, then to make the Main namespace a redirect for easy linking until something comes along that would create a need to change Main to a disambig page.
As it stands, someone simply potholing Wife And Wife on the fora and the wiki will create a redlink if they don't realize that the article is on the Manga namespace. I figured that making Main a redirect would be a good idea, since it's not serving any purpose as a locked blank page at the moment.
edited 23rd Feb '11 7:21:49 AM by Meeble
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Lost in Space
Okay, did that. Incidentally, I think you used the wrong Main link earlier which is partly what confused me. Or else, Wife And Wife spontaneously turned into a bluelink when I wasn't looking.
edited 23rd Feb '11 6:42:17 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
likes the cheeses.
Thanks! I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but I apologize for any confusion I may have caused.
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On Prince of Persia movie page in Amar's quote in the trope Compensating for Something, you replaced the word "guys" with "me" instead of "men". Please correct it.
The trope ~Hey, It's That Guy!~ needs to be rewritten into HeyItsThatGuy so it can become Hey Its That Guy and lead to the trope's page.
Lost in Space
Sorry, fixed that typo. I moved Hey Its That Guy to Trivia where it belongs.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Thank you. I've just thought up a new trope for the movie.
- Composite Character: Princess Tamina, judging by her actions and behaviour, is a combination of all the female characters from the games (Farah, Kaileena and Elika).
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
It's been suggested on the Michael Cole discussion page that we add Bullying a Dragon, in regards to his feud with Jerry Lawler. With The King having shown recently to be a Retired Badass I thought I'd jump the gun for the troper's behalf and suggest it here.
Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
Yeah, that was me. Thanks for posting it for me! Also, it was somewhat justifed as the GM had banned Jerry from hurting him. However, Jerry finally snapped and did find a way to get his revenge by challenging Cole to a match at Wrestlemania, sending Cole running for his life. Reason this applies is it proves Cole is well aware that he's no match for Jerry and that he's got no intention to back it up.
edited 23rd Feb '11 7:42:57 PM by Godzillawolf
|Y| = |X| Add 5
"As Wikipedia gains popularity, there are more and more Wiki Vandals in modern media. Should the trope be rewritten a bit to allow examples?"
Aminatep posted this on Ask The Tropers, but since he/she has a forum ban I posted it here for them. I'm not exactly sure if this is a good idea or not (essentially, someone in a work vandalizes a wiki, and so should we allow those kinds of examples), because it would probably fit in something more general and even then Wiki Vandal was locked for a reason...
If anyone wants to run with it, figured I should throw it out there.
"The fact that your food can be made into makeshift bombs alarms the Hell out of me, Scrye." - Charlatan
The target of the vandalization is almost always Wikipedia, isn't it? So, YKTTW a new trope about vandalizing Wikipedia?
|Y| = |X| Add 5
I'd say that's going a bit in the wrong direction (as is, it could apply to Wikipedia, us, Minepedia, any other wikia thing...)
Although your right, it probably mostly is Wikipedia/Wikipedia knock-offs. I don't know of many examples, though, so... *shrug*
"The fact that your food can be made into makeshift bombs alarms the Hell out of me, Scrye." - Charlatan
Please add this to Ctrl Alt Del:
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Done quite literally in this strip.
edited 23rd Feb '11 9:33:08 PM by nuclearneo577
New tropes for the Prince of Persia movie page!
Magic A Is Magic A: The usage of the Dagger of Time is very clearly outlined that you can't exist in two places at the same time, merely move through time.
Rags to Riches: Dastan.
I'll see if I can find some more.
edited 23rd Feb '11 11:08:52 PM by litw
Re: Memento "Hey It's That Guy":
I added the Trivia page and the entry. Thanks.
(Why yes, it's real. Why?)
Lost in Space
Getting back to these requests:
- Re: Michael Cole, I'm extremely reluctant to add tropes that come down to a Take That!, especially when we're talking about a person, not a character (except in as much as Cole is a "character" in WWE). If the Bullying a Dragon example can be demonstrated within kayfabe, fine, but if we're just slamming on the guy's interpersonal relationships with the wrestlers I am thinking no. Personally, I'm inclined towards perma redlinking the article anyway if it's just going to be another Uwe Boll.
- Re: Wiki Vandal — this seems like a Trope Repair topic, not one for this thread, as it it'll absorb quite a bit of discussion.
- Ctrl Alt Del — added example, moved Never Live It Down to YMMV. Incidentally, why in the heck is The Un-Twist YMMV now?
- Prince of Persia — Done.
The Un-Twist is an Audience Reaction because it's about the audience expecting a twist that the author didn't write. There's a note at the bottom warning that to a sufficiently paranoid Troper, any plot development can become The Un-Twist.
If no one has suggested it yet, I'd like to add the following to the Memento page:
edited 22nd Feb '11 4:37:00 AM by TooBah
(Why yes, it's real. Why?)