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openMisfiled page Live Action TV
Taliyus was launched a few years ago and is marked as 'Series', when in actuality it is a collection of art and writing by a Deviantart user, which I think should warrant being a Web Original instead.
Edited by WinningPonyopenWeird disambiguation Live Action TV
Is there any particular reason why Tidelands (Netflix) has such a bizarre disambiguation?
First of all, work disambiguation is usually done by year, sometimes by country... but not this.
Second of all, Tidelands might be a disambig, but the only other work with this title is one book in a series, and both are currently red links. So I don't see anything preventing the series to just be Tidelands (currently a redirect).
openIs my work lost? Live Action TV
Yesterday, I tried to start a Franchise Actors page for Cannon. I'm the kind of guy that likes to tell everything he knows, which usually means that when I start a page, I go past the allotted time for editing, which is what I did here, and when I decided to knock off and save the page, a box popped up saying that another troper was checking out the page and that I couldn't save it. Fine, so I kept the page open overnight, checked it again in the morning before I shut down the computer, got the same message. Came home tonight, started up the computer, and I can't find all the stuff I typed. Is it permanently gone, or is it still lurking somewhere?
openQuick question on the WhatHappenedToTheMouse entry on the PRTF character page Live Action TV
Back in June 2023, I removed the What Happened to the Mouse? entry from Gluto's section in the Characters.Power Rangers Time Force page (history is here). V-Nerd re-added it nearly a month ago here.
In many stories, some characters enter the story, serve their role, and move on without any fanfare. If they have served their purpose and exit the story, then it's not a What Happened to the Mouse? situation just because there isn't some final "where are they now" information given. The trope is for cases where a character simply disappears without reason or acknowledgment by the rest of the cast. Plus, it's also a plot point. In this instance, Gluto slipping away during the final battle between Frax and the Rangers by freezing himself is a reasonable explanation for him leaving the story.
Rather than get involved in an Edit War, I'm bringing this up here. That said, any thoughts on what should be done?
Edited by gjjonesopenWhy were sports show pages cut? Live Action TV
The reason given for the page for Inside The NBA was that the "Page is about an NBA-related talk show that has no fictional content." Sportscenter's page was also given a similar reason. These are just the first two I noticed, I don't know if more shows were cut, or where such decisions were made. This doesn't make sense as:
When was it a rule that there had to be fictional content on a show? This site has an entire index on Non-Fiction Series, including one for "variety talk shows", which these series are, with guests, recurring segments, interviews, etc. These series even predate many of those. Let alone the fact that they're also multi-time Sports Emmy winning news series, and in the case of Inside The NBA, a comedy show. And they contribute page images, videos, etc. to other parts of the site.
Sports Talk Shows are their own section on the Talk Show page. Is it now a bad thing to be sports related? Are we just not allowed to have sports series pages? What about the sports video games, or athlete pages, etc?
Why even have such a limitation on content? This opens up a slippery slope. Will cooking shows be cut next? Nature documentaries and hosts? Instrumental musicians and albums?
Edited by wanderlustwarrioropenAwesome Music Live Action TV
Could we give the other 45 sentai seasons(Ones that aren't Kyoryuger,Kirameiger or King Ohger) Awesome Music pages as they all have awesome songs? Note:Kyoryuger,Kirameiger and King Ohger are excluded as they already have one
openCapote vs. the Swans Live Action TV
How are we planning to document the tropes for Feud: Capote vs. the Swans? Are we doing it like the American Horror Story minis, where the page would be titled Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, or would we do it like American Crime Story, where the page would be Capote Vs The Swans? Or are we just going to put the new tropes on the current Feud page?
openClassic Series of Doctor Who = Kishoutenketsu? Live Action TV
I looked at the page for Kishoutenketsu the other day and I want to know if any four-part episodes of the Classic Series of Doctor Who fall into this category. Kishoutenketsu involves introduction (ki), development (shou), a twist (ten), and resolution (ketsu). I feel like at least An Unearthly Child falls into this. Can anyone else tell me if any other episodes from the show (classic or modern) meet the criteria for Kishoutenketsu?
openDealing with a page becoming bloated Live Action TV
Characters.One Tree Hill Main Characters has, over the last two months, become incredibly bloated with overuse of natter and unnecessary details across the page. On top of that, the page is now using a lot of misinformation that is never actually stated in the show.
What is the best way to go about dealing with this?
openUse of WMG page headers Live Action TV
Doing a larger clean-up of Doctor Who recaps, and have noticed how the entire Series 1, the Fourteenth Doctor episodes, and the first episode of Series 11 have WMG headers to the entire series of episodes, while the rest of the show doesn’t. I’ve seen WMG headers used for show recaps like Firefly’s, but the inconsistency is obvious.
Personally, I’d say go all in or all out on the WMG headings, but I wanted to ask any Tropers interested.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1openTroping with an Agenda Live Action TV
Troper skj edited the page for The Falcon And The Winter Soldier complaining about language being too sympathetic to characters who are murderous terrorists, despite the series objectively framing the violence of Walker's attack as excessive in context.
openReality TV Scrappy Live Action TV
This might be a stupid question, but I was unable to find it actually answered for sure anywhere.
I see that when using The Scrappy, the bottom of the page says No Real Life Examples, Please!. Does this extend to reality TV as well? As in, the YMMV pages of reality TV shows should NOT have any form of The Scrappy (including Rescued from the Scrappy Heap) listed on the page at all? (As in using contestants or participants of the show as examples).
I ask because recently someone deleted all examples and text of The Scrappy and Rescued from the Scrappy Heap from the YMMV page of Hell's Kitchen (quite a lot, since it was an accumulation of 17 seasons worth). If this edit is valid and correct, then I assume there are probably many other reality shows that require this clean-up on their YMMV pages as well.
Again, sorry if a stupid question, just wanted confirmation and the red or green light to clean up other reality TV YMMV pages. Thanks!
openAdding tropes and examples to a page Live Action TV
Hello guys. Today I added another trope on the characters page of a Live Action show. This is my first time editing a page. When I finished editing and clicked on "safe", the trope then was added to the page but it did not turn blue and one cannot click on it. I wanted to asked how I can fix that? I made sure that I used an existing trope. Thanks a lot in advance and kind regards.
openWhat do you do with a page mostly plagiarized? Live Action TV
I’m doing a plagiarism clean-up of Doctor Who’s trivia pages. I got tipped off a while ago that almost every page of the first Three doctors’ pages has examples (mostly under What Could Have Been) that have been plagiarized from either the show’s wiki or this comprehensive website (which the wiki itself has cribbed from).
For example, several trivia examples from the episode “An Unearthly Child” (the very 1st episode of the series) had been plagiarized from it’s wiki article’s story notes.
- The first school scene was re-written to reduce the tension between Barbara and Ian. In the original script, Ian says, "When I've had a bad day, I come in here [the staff room], and I want to smash all the windows". Barbara retorts, "It hasn't been a bad day", and Ian remarks, "You're just naturally like that?" Barbara replies, "I hope not. I've had another kind of day. A very puzzling kind of day".
- Ian and Barbara's relationship was much more romantic in the original script.
- In the original script, the "PRIVATE" notice at the junkyard was originally supposed to appear significantly newer than the lettering on the gates. The junkyard was also supposed to contain "a broken-down old shed".
And while doing cleanup the trivia page for the episode “The Romans” and it is seeping with plagiarism, up to and including Wikipedia.
So how should I go forward with this? I’ve been editing previous pages to remove plagiarism, but this particular page is compromised with it.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1openThe Penthouse: Joo Seok-Kyeong Live Action TV
I've started watching Penthouse and I wanted to talk about one trope which would fit Joo Seok-Kyeong well,
Do you think she would count as a Like Father, Like Daughter trope because much like her father the villain Joo Dan Tae she would also bully, abuse and manipulate others (which in turn was because of Dan-Tae abusing her and her brother) And this just a discussion.
Edited by Rm74openMoving (2023) Live Action TV
Has anyone made the page for the 2023 Superhero Korean series Moving yet?
openUser keeps removing my entries about Brooke in the One Tree Hill Heartwarming page for no reason Live Action TV
user Tv Addicted has removed entries I made about Brooke on the One Tree Hill Heartwarming page for no reason twice now, after I restored them for the first time the user kept one entry but removed another one with no explanation. Judging from all of the edits they made to the shows YMMV page praising the Leyton romance while bashing the Brucas romance it seems like this user genuinely has an issue with anything that gives praise to Brooke. So if someone could please tell them to knock it off and leave my entries alone that would be much appreciated.
openSeries / The Guest Live Action TV
There is a South Korean series called 'The Guest' (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheGuest) and an American film with the same title (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheGuest) but they aren't related at all. On the page for the series there is a Film, Trivia, WMG and YMMV that all belong to the film, not the series. How do you remove them?
There is an AI-generated fanfiction listed in the Doctor Who section whose entire recommendation appears to be "This was AI-Generated and it's cool". I wouldn't be surprised if the author themselves put it. Again, the merits of the story are never actually discussed. The entire thing reeks of Dancing Bear. The comments section reads as follows:
"Comments: Of course, some people have a grudge against AI for taking most of their jobs (writing, drawing, reading, etc.), but this AI-experiment with Chat GPT to create a Doctor Who fanfic is quite interesting. Love it or hate it, this is something I think is worth checking out if you're curious about the capabilities of artificial intelligence in fanfiction."
Can I remove this "recommendation"?
Edited by Zelda12343