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openNo Title Music
Okay, so, the Awesome Music section. Just about every example provides a link to the song in question on Youtube. Simple enough, right?
The problem is, and it's an increasingly obvious problem, that because Youtube is very trigger-happy with suspending accounts and/or removing videos due to Terms of Service schmuckery, a frighteningly large number of these links become null and void in an instant. I don't know how badly the other sections and subpages are affected by it, but I can't tell you how many Video Game subpages I browsed through, for instance, where at least half of the song links were broken.
So I guess there's two things I've gotta ask here. 1) Are there any people who regularly keep tabs on the Awesome Music subpages and could potentially fix broken links as they pop up? And if not, then 2) What are we gonna do about linking to songs? Just not do it at all, if we can't be bothered to keep replacing links all the time?
openNo Title Music
On the page for The Adventures Of Duane And Brand O, a troper named Silent Soundscape is causing a few problems. He's repeatedly adding an example of Berserk Button that is worded to slyly insult one of the works' creators. Both I and Crazed Ninja have removed the example at least once, and he keeps re-adding it.
This wouldn't be too bad, except he also happens to have blanked the entire page at one time (replacing it with "stupid niggershit"), so I don't think this is him honestly trying to be constructive.
I don't want to keep reverting his edit, and I fear that if I do, it will end with us both edit-banned for edit-warring.
Edited by EnlongopenNo Title Music
Alucard (IDK how to access a user history on edits) is popping out the correct link Guns N Roses for Guns N Roses to a ptitle link every time possible, it seems.
Here's a few cases on pages I watch: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.XJapan https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.BarBrawl https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.HidetoMatsumoto
IDK where else he's done it, though I'll be fixing those later if it's OK. <3
openNo Title Music
I understand that creating new pages on a work is generally okay, but is it alright to made a page about a band's particular album? Say for example, a concept album which has many tropes in its lyrics, or a particularly notable album by a band which they are well known for, or just because you like the album and want to give it exposure AND add tropes present in the album, at the same time?
Why is the Bruno Mars page locked? I see that someone did create a bad page for him under music, but why is the main page locked?