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This thread is for requesting edits or unlocks to Locked Pages or for requesting locks. It can also be used for technical requests to moderators such as:

  • creating new pages in the Main/ and other restricted namespaces without going through Trope Launch Pad
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  10. Inappropriate pages that keep being recreated, pages banned under The Content Policy and subpages that are disallowed (like Headscratchers pages for tropes) are valid reasons for requesting page locks.

NOTE: Edited with OP's permission.

Edited by Twiddler on Aug 6th 2023 at 11:53:14 AM

StFan Since: Jan, 2001
#9001: Aug 21st 2014 at 8:10:00 AM

About the German pages on Hyphenated Titles, all we're doing here is listing them for quick reference. I agree it is better if it's the people focused on this part of the site that are doing any move.

And on this subject, the last [/index] markup on this page need to be removed and put on the bottom of the list, so those German hyphenated titles will be indexed too.

TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
#9002: Aug 21st 2014 at 9:56:48 AM

[up]Septimus Heap seems to have talked about the de-hyphenation and not making new hyphenated titles in the German translation thread (thread is in German), but I only read that after I posted (it was a page or two back from what they are discussing now.)

edited 21st Aug '14 9:57:35 AM by TheOneWhoTropes

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TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
#9008: Aug 21st 2014 at 4:28:25 PM

Please remove these from Administrivia.Creator Pages In Main:

I'm not looking at Administrivia.Creator Pages In Main to do this, so I don't know whether any of them are next to each other in the list.

edited 21st Aug '14 4:55:18 PM by TheOneWhoTropes

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MarkLungo Grand Poobah of Crimestrikers from Berea, Ohio, USA Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Grand Poobah of Crimestrikers
#9009: Aug 21st 2014 at 4:43:17 PM

Okay, I made a mistake.

Way back in post 8979, I wrote that Fall Of The Studio System should be removed from Fallen Creator. What I meant is that it should be namespaced on that page. If some moderator could put FOTSS back on Fallen Creator and namespace it, I'd be very grateful. Thanks!

"But... nobody told me I needed a signature!"
TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
#9010: Aug 21st 2014 at 5:04:04 PM

Please remove these from Administrivia.Creator Pages In Main:

And these from WorkPagesInMain.P To R (not my work, checking for completed moves):

also, Robin Hood should be added to Useful Notes Pages In Main, since he is a legendary Historical Domain Character, (at one time being called Robin Hood was a name given to criminals, rather like an electronic tag, nowadays.)

edited 21st Aug '14 5:53:45 PM by TheOneWhoTropes

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MarkLungo Grand Poobah of Crimestrikers from Berea, Ohio, USA Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Grand Poobah of Crimestrikers
#9012: Aug 21st 2014 at 5:54:05 PM

The Interregnum can be removed from Useful Notes Pages In Main.

"But... nobody told me I needed a signature!"
TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
#9013: Aug 21st 2014 at 6:03:00 PM

Rugby Union can be removed from WorkPagesInMain.P To R and added to Administrivia.Useful Notes Pages In Main.

Unicorn Trilogy can be removed from WorkPagesInMain.Sto U, as it has been moved to Literature.The Unicorn Trilogy by persons unknown.

edited 21st Aug '14 6:06:30 PM by TheOneWhoTropes

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#9014: Aug 22nd 2014 at 1:49:08 AM

Upon considering a few new editors, I think a message about bad work page links, like so, may be worth adding to the "message editor over an edit" function:

"Greetings,

The <page> edit you made isn't linking the work page properly.

Work names in trope examples should preferably be in link form (CamelCase or for single-word titles between {{ and }}), in italics (done by surrounding the link text with and ; except for short stories, where they should be between " and ") and with a namespace before the link (like Namespace/WorkTitle). If you have problems with that, just consult Text-Formatting Rules or Ask The Tropers.

Thanks for helping us keep the wiki cool."

There may be another way to write this, though.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
#9015: Aug 22nd 2014 at 2:14:09 AM

[up]you need to add some anti-markup markup so you get something similar to: ''and'', (two apostrophe characters either side, which shows up like this: and.) Later on make sure they know they're quote marks, because they can look exactly the same in some fonts.

edited 24th Aug '14 9:30:25 AM by TheOneWhoTropes

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Nohbody "In distress", my ass. from Somewhere in Dixie Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
"In distress", my ass.
#9016: Aug 22nd 2014 at 2:27:20 AM

Please add the following to No Real Life Examples, Please!, as per the "Real Life section maintenance" thread in the Long Term Projects forum:

* EvilMentor: Calling real people evil.

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Making morality calls about what adultery is justifiable, which is outside the wiki's mission.

* NobleBigot: Calling real life people bigots, and "noble" is a morality judgement, which isn't what the wiki does.

All your safe space are belong to Trump
TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
#9017: Aug 22nd 2014 at 2:49:12 AM

move Tour De France from WorkPagesInMain.S To U, to Useful Notes Pages In Main, to go with our other sporting pages, thanks.

Also move Teletoon from WorkPagesInMain.S To U to Creator Pages In Main, as it is a broadcasting network that is clearly stated on the page to produce at least some of the content it broadcasts.

Please remove Super Bowl from WorkPagesInMain.S To U, it is a Useful Notes page that has already been moved to UsefulNotes.Super Bowl

Please remove State Broadcaster from WorkPagesInMain.S To U, and add it to Useful Notes Pages In Main. The way it is written and set-up it is more of a Useful Note.

Spiritual Warfare can be removed from Work Pages In Main, as it was duplicated with a better page at VideoGame.Spiritual Warfare, moved all the wicks over.

edited 22nd Aug '14 5:04:53 AM by TheOneWhoTropes

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ACW Unofficial Wiki Curator for Complete Monster from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#9018: Aug 22nd 2014 at 5:20:51 AM

For Live-Action TV, please change the sentence of the Las Vegas entry to the following:
He uses his money to get away with his crimes, cheery that it allows him to do whatever he wants.

edited 22nd Aug '14 6:09:22 AM by ACW

CM Dates; CM Pending; CM Drafts
TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
#9019: Aug 22nd 2014 at 6:14:02 AM

Please move Sinter Klaas from WorkPagesInMain.S To U to UsefulNotesPagesInMain.S To U, as he is the Belgian and Dutch interpretation of Santa Claus, and in modern times, both he and Santa Claus are considered separate characters.

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Prfnoff Since: Jan, 2001
#9020: Aug 22nd 2014 at 6:15:08 AM

Michael Sinterniklaas, Shigeru Nakahara, Taiki Matsuno and Urara Takano have been namespaced, and can be removed from Creator Pages In Main.

edited 22nd Aug '14 7:13:10 AM by Prfnoff

TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
#9021: Aug 22nd 2014 at 7:05:50 AM

Please remove these from WorkPagesInMain.S To U:

Also change the link to {{Sandusky}} on FiveManBand.Web Comics to Webcomic/{{Sandusky}}

edited 22nd Aug '14 8:11:38 AM by TheOneWhoTropes

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TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#9023: Aug 22nd 2014 at 9:30:11 AM

Archive.Ad Of Win Archive 2010 and Archive.Made Of Win Archive Early 2009 are archive pages and should be locked as such.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#9024: Aug 22nd 2014 at 9:34:06 AM

Done to here, mostly.

9014: Done with slightly different wording, but am running into technical issues; see [1].

9018: Done except for one of the Attempted Rape potholes because having two potholes to the same trope around the same kind of text on the same line seems a little pointless.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
TheOneWhoTropes Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty from Newton-le-willows, quaint town Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
#9025: Aug 22nd 2014 at 9:36:20 AM

Please remove these from Administrivia.Creator Pages In Main:

edited 22nd Aug '14 9:36:45 AM by TheOneWhoTropes

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