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Aren't the funny, awesome, etc, page inherently subjective too ?

Sure, but people don't call us in to act as kindergarten cops over their disputes.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

So those useful entries are just going to stay deleted or do we wait for the shitstorm over Batman vs Goku 2 to end before restoring them?

edited 31st Jul '15 11:03:00 AM by cricri3007

"Useful" is another one of those subjective terms. From our perspective, they are worse than useless because they drain our time and effort to police. The articles will remain closed permanently.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

The main wiki -discussion of tropes in fiction, objective and YMMV- is the point of this site.

If one person doesn't behave, they can be dealt with. When it's a multi-troper ongoing issue, the wiki itself takes the hit, usually through locked pages.

Darth Wiki (and Sugar) exist to shoo the complainers and gushers off the main wiki, yet give them a place to air their grievances.

If you read this thread, then pop over to Ask The Tropers and search "Death Battle", you will see how. freaking. insane the whole Death Battle Darth wiki arguing fans situation was getting. Even locking the pages didn't adequately deal with the issue. Hence the scorched earth approach.

I don't like some of the Death Battle results, but I see the logic and reasoning inherent in every single one. Unfortunately, some people can't approach it rationally. So the pages are gone, and will stay gone, because they're not part of the main wiki, and they were causing damage and trouble to the wiki.

Read through some of the Edit banned/suspended thread. It'll give you a feel for what the mods job is -and tolerating fan blowups has no part of it.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett

At Comic Books, please replace the second Baltimore entry with this:

• The Curse Bells storyline: The nameless warlock, who is clearly Adolf Hitler (this has been confirmed by Word of God) is a greedy, ambitious man who keeps a large amount of vampiric nuns enslaved to him with the lie he will heal them of vampirism. The warlock uses a dark ritual to resurrect a long-dead witch by feeding her ashes and blood to a pregnant woman so the witch rips its way out of her. The warlock has her curse the bells of the cathedral he uses as a base which will Mind Rape anyone who hears the bells into his slaves with whom he will enslave the world and purge any in the way. The warlock also reveals that he gained his mystic knowledge by entrapping a supernatural beast...by leaving a baby for it to eat and catching it while it bathed after the meal.

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For ImageLinks.Complete Monster: "The Crusader◊" from Hatred.

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Please replace the contents of Transformers with that at Transformers Monster and Cut List the Sandbox.

edited 2nd Aug '15 1:59:09 AM by ACW

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Done and done.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Also, what did I say about editing requests in already existing posts? Did that as well.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Sorry. I just saw you hadn't gotten to it yet.

Actually, those last two were within minutes of each other I think.

edited 2nd Aug '15 2:16:26 AM by ACW

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Main.Anti Hero needs its Index switched on.

Done.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Someone needs to add a write up for Windows 10 to Microsoft Windows

On UsefulNotes.Adolf Hitler the following change is in order:

From * In ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' [[CaptainObvious Hitler is Germany's boss.]] [[TheFaceless We only see his back, though.]]

To * In ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'', Hitler is Germany's boss. [[TheFaceless We only see his back, though.]]

It's an All Blue Entry and "Joke Fulfillment Link"-kind of a Sinkhole otherwise, irrelevant to Captain Obvious trope.

edited 2nd Aug '15 1:53:25 PM by SetsunasaNiWa

I’m trying to split the Main.Brick Joke page since it has gotten really long. But for some reason BrickJoke.Literature, BrickJoke.Live Action TV, BrickJoke.Video Games, BrickJoke.Web Comics, BrickJoke.Web Original and BrickJoke.Western Animation are all locked despite the fact that those pages haven’t been created yet.

^Someone probably created them badly back when cutting a page automatically locked it. Just ask for the mods to unlock the pages and it should be good.

While you're waiting, you can look at using the Sandbox namespace to prepare the drafts for the various pages so they'll be ready to swap in once the pages are unlocked.

Edit: And at 455951 characters, it's time for a split!

edited 2nd Aug '15 8:27:00 PM by Candi

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett

• 1999 update goes to Creepypasta.
• From here:
  • Rommy goes to Tales Series, at the end.
  • Sutler and Creedy go to Film P To Z.
  • Cassiopeia goes to Literature M To Z.
  • Ultron goes to Marvel Animation, in the "Other" grouping between Hammer and Shadow King.
  • Revas rewrite replaces the current tree at Video Games.
  • Goth (Series) and Chillingsworth (Movies) go to Western Animation.

Thank you.

edited 3rd Aug '15 2:07:58 AM by ACW

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DTH save for the Microsoft thing (need an actual writeup).

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Film P To Z: Please replace the Scanners II: The New Order entry with the corrected one on Scanners II: The New Order.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

• At Western Animation, for Goth, please make it "of the book series" instead of just "of the series".
• Please correctly alphabetize Sutler and Creedy at Film P To Z.

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A re-rewrite for 1999 (Creepypasta).

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Main.Brick Joke needs its Index switched on.

The tropes list on George W. Bush needs to be stripped of real life troping. Here's the cleaned up version:

Tropes as portrayed in fiction:

• The Napoleon: Portrayals of him often get into this, even though he's a little taller than the average American. The portrayal stem from some of his tics, as well as facing the even-taller John Kerry in the 2004 election.
• The Nicknamer: Bush was known for the many nicknames he gave people. 30 Rock parodied this in "Cooter", with the Beleaguered Bureaucrat "Cooter Burger" (real name James Riley, played by Matthew Broderick) explains how he got his name:

—>Cooter: Cooter Burger? What am I, a cartoon dog? The president gave me that name! "Cooter" because I look like a turtle and "Burger" because he saw me eating a burger one time! It wasn't even a burger... it was a sandwich.

• The Unfavorite: The Oliver Stone movie interprets that he was this while his brother Jeb was the one his parents had high expectations for.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: According to the movie by Oliver Stone, it is often perceived his brother Jeb was the one his father expected to get higher office. In one of Jr.'s nightmares, Dream!Poppy says, "A hundred years it took to build up the Bush name and you single-handedly destroyed it!"

I'm pretty sure the "adjective!character" thing isn't allowed.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

I know at least two of the mods really don't like text!text.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett

It's called Character Tags, by the way.