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I was looking into the western TV tropes and realized that a few shows may be missing.. how do i add pages for those shows?
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Is there a franchise page for the Degrassi family? If not, how would I go about creating it and what would I name it? I don't know too much about the series but it would be nice to have some sort of page to link to when talking about the franchise in general. All I know is that there's Degrassi The Next Generation, Degrassi Junior High, and Degrassi High. Are there others I'm missing out of that list that we have on this site?
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Not tremendously urgent, but an editor added a bunch of shoehorned tropes, natter, and complaining to the Firefly YMMV page. I've pulled them and explained my reasoning, but I've seen enough edit wars brewing to suspect that we might get a conflict in the immediate future if this stuff is contested. Some of it is the usual natter/flamewar-drawing stuff associated with Firefly, especially that prickly issue around ethnicity, so I went ahead and completely cleared that particular minefield. Giving a heads-up and requesting a moderator to keep an eye on it so if there is a conflict, we can nip any edit wars in the bud.
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I know the rule "fix it yourself" but since I've never seen Firefly, I have no idea what's true within the four-bulleted argument/natter on the Photographic Memory page:
- River Tam from Firefly exhibits this when she memorizes the exact locations and cover arrangements of three soldiers in a room and shoots all three in rapid succession, a bullet to each, with her eyes closed.
River: No power in the 'Verse can stop me.
- That only required her to memorize three points, and retain that memory for a few seconds.
- Remember them exactly and then unerringly hit them in an instantly fatal spot. She captured their exact location and stance in an instant. Let's see you try that - with a Nerf gun, though. Shooting people is generally frowned upon.
- Not only that, but she also spun her body around. She was facing them when she saw them, got shot at and ducked in behind cover, picked up Kaylee's gun, stood up and then spun her clockwise, extending her left arm, while her eyes were still closed. She would have had to not only remember exactly where the guys were, but also calculate the exact angle she turned her body, how high she should point her arm (and the gun) in relative position to how far clockwise she spun her body.
Kaylee: Not even the captain could make a shot like that!- This is more a case of perfect coordination than perfect memory. You could set up basketball goals all around someone with perfect memory, but that doesn't mean they'd make every shot with their eyes closed.
- Possibly photographic memory (for locking the position of the targets in her mind), perfect coordination (to be able to move and attack with the necessary precision to the image in her mind) AND perfect calculation (for the position, trajectory of the bullets, possibly deviations, etc; she can kill you with maths)
- That only required her to memorize three points, and retain that memory for a few seconds.
Could someone who knows Firefly better please help out? Again, I would love to do it myself but I have little knowledge of the show. Another question, is this the right thread to ask for this type of thing or should I have put this in the discussion section of Photographic Memory?
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Is there a page for "Doomsday Preppers" style shows? Or are they just the poster example for Wrong Genre Savvy?
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Comic Relief is a page about British charity telethon. However, it has some 280 wicks, almost every single one of them being used to mean Plucky Comic Relief.
It seems to me that the solution is to move the page to either UsefulNotes.Comic Relief or Series.Comic Relief, and make Main.Comic Relief a disambiguations page or a redirect to Plucky Comic Relief.
It this something I can do on my own initiative on the grounds that namespace moving and removing bad examples is a free action, or does the scale of it mean that I need to go to TRS?
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I'm fairly certain that TheMentalist had a headscratchers page. Did someone remove it? I just wanted to be sure, since I wanted to add one.
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I am currently making edits on the Degrassi page that are being removed by two other users. Is there some sort of process we can go through to avoid an "edit war". Such a thing is pointless and is only wasting all of our time so if there is an official resolution we can come to it would be greatly appreciated. Also I am under an "Edit Lock" meaning I have to wait 20 minutes before making an edit. Is this normal or am I being punished/reprimanded for some offense. I have tried stating my case on the Degrassi Character Discussion but it seems to have done no good. I’m not trying to make trouble or be a troll so any help/information would be greatly appreciated.
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Question: Does Ultraman's Specium Ray count as a Hand Blast? It's not from his fist or fingertips, but from the side of his hand. See the page image.◊ It shoots from his right hand in that pose.
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I am Troper agentjohnbishop and am here to discuss what has been going on in YMMV section of the Series/Sherlock. It will be easiest to understand by looking at the last three days of history, but in a nutshell a troper named Prometheus Unbound has been repeatedly making wildly opinionated and angry posts about how much he disliked a specific episode and placing these under the heading of Big Lipped Alligator Moment. I originally left his post intact but added on a small note that said "the above is of course Your Mileage May Vary and many like the episode". He edited that anyone who feels this way should have there head checked. Since then other tropers have deleted the entire exchange (as I should have done in the first place) but he has put it back in an expanded and increasingly rude form. He should be either banned or the entry should be locked.
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Why is YMMV.Outnumbered locked? It desperately needs an Example Indentation fix.
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thatsnumberwang appears to be edit warring on The Walking Dead tv show page.
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Hi. I was wondering, but is there a trope for sitcoms where the youngest member of the family learns a swear word and the parents have to find out where they learned it from?
I saw it last night on an episode of Good Luck Charlie, and remember seeing a similar plot in that old sitcom Growing Pains.
I wanted to launch a trope page, but want to make sure there isn't one already.
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Newbie question, sorry. I thought I'd followed the "How Indexing Works" steps to index a new Work page (I added it to British Series- Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow, under D), but the page still says it needs an index. Is there a step I've missed, or do I just need to wait?
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Where would I start a thread about cleaning up pages? In general quite a few of the Reality TV shows' pages need clean-up, but I'm not sure where to ask for help.
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I'm not very good at this and I not sure where to put this ether, I'm intending this to be a disscussion as such, its kind of a suggestion and question in one, In Doctor Who: Colony in Space the Doctor's companion Jo Grant dose something really insainly stupid, "Jo you're standing in the beam!"souts the 3rd Dr. awhile after avoiding and getting past said beam to get in said Tardis then they are in the Master's Tardis, alerting the Master, who promptly releases sleeping gas, who then tells the Doctor gleefully that it could easilly have been posion gas, do you see my point, surly this could be mention in a topic, but which topic, thats the question, i'm new to this could someone please metion this where ever this could go??? (help?)
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A while ago, I removed links to fan uploads of Young Dracula on You Tube which were presented in the article intro in a way that implied they were official. There's now talk on the discussion page about adding them back because my removing them was just based on my personal opinion. I'm pretty sure it's a site policy, but I can't find the page. Could I get a word from a mod?
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I'm kinda new to making wikis for media and putting in tropes. Can someone who watches one liter of tears help me fix the wiki I made and add more tropes? Please and Thank you. :)
I've become involved in a bit of a tussle concerning a Faux Action Girl entry on the Quantum of Solace. The other troper involved, forsetipurge, is being rather rude and just added the trope back in after presenting their argument for it rather than waiting for a response. If it's not an edit war yet, I don't know what to do to not create one, since I feel I should remove the trope until we're finished discussing it, so some mediation would be useful. All the conversation is in the history and on the discussion page.