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On the Shenmue page, I removed a bullet point starting with Sega Superstars, with the edit reason that Sega Superstars is not a trope- it's a video game series. It was later re-added by someone who says that Sega Superstars is a trope, and goes so far as to say that it's one that works as an umbrella trope covering all the Sega All Stars games. Just... what? I'm not getting something really wrong here, am I?
Edited by AzureSeasopenNo Title Videogame
God Never Said That has been a magnet for the Final Fantasy VII shippers a few times. I knocked out a fresh edit from them after a few months of dormancy, but would it be possible to have a mod note added to the page discouraging dredging that up?
openNo Title Videogame
The folders appear to be broken on TearJerker.Mass Effect for some reason. I've inspected the syntax and can't find anything wrong with it.
openNo Title Videogame
Not sure how to go about this, but here goes.
Been playing Mass Effect 2 lately. I usually play as a female Shepard and during those playthroughs I love Jack in it. However playing as a male Shepard I find myself continually being pushed away from her because of how much worse she seems to treat him. So I've been working on pointing it out across the game and trope pages, however thought I should stop and ask for a bit of input.
I'm a little worried about going too far in discussing what a Jerkass Jack can be, if I hadn't already. Would someone mind looking at my recent edits and seeing if what I've said is fair enough?
openNo Title Videogame
Why is Gamebreaker YMMV, while Disc-One Nuke is not? It just strikes me as odd because a D 1 N is basically a gamebreaker that just becomes obsolete before the end of the game.
openNo Title Videogame
We've got an Edit War on the Mass Effect Races page. And There Was Much Rejoicing is the trope of contention.
Oh, and another Edit War at Questionable Content about Wham Line.
Edited by ABNDTopenNo Title Videogame
Okay, I kinda goofed with something here. I made a new page for a game, Cargo Commander , as seen here:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/CargoCommander
I took a cue from the Prototype2 and thought that putting it in as a Videogame entry was the correct way to do it, but it turns out I've made it difficult to link to, and the stuff like the YMMV page for it doesn't have the Main button. The thing is, I thought it would do redirects automatically, like it did with the Prototype 2 one here, but evidently I was mistaken -
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Prototype2?from=Main.Prototype2
Could someone please fix this, or better yet, tell me how to fix it myself so I don't screw a page up like this in the future, please?
openNo Title Videogame
I've recently launched The History Of Video Games and most of its subpages. What kind of redirects should I put for the subpages? Could I just put Seventh Generation for The Seventh Generation Of Console Video Games, for example?
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Ok...so I was editing the Arc Fatigue page and noticed that a mention of Final Fantasy Type-0 didn't have a link to the game's respective work page. I typed it as VideoGame/FinalFantasyType-0, but the link became a Red Link upon editing. I visited the game's actual page via a Google search to see what the URL address had; it ended in the exact same sequence that I had typed before. I suspected that the dash/hyphen (-) in the Wiki Word had something to do with the issue...to make it easier, I went to go make a redirect for VideoGame.Final Fantasy Type Zero (I typed it as [[redirect:VideoGame/FinalFantasyType-0]]), and that managed to result in this mess:
...which I think manifests as my original attempted redirect of VideoGame.Final Fantasy Type Zero incorrectly redirecting to a nonexistent "Final Fantasy Type" videogame page. I'll suppose I need to head over to the Cut List page to begin fixing the mistake, but my question is this: How can I make a proper redirect from VideoGame.Final Fantasy Type Zero to the game's actual page without the pesky hyphen (-) getting in the way?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Edited by fenyx4openNo Title Videogame
The troper kyuubidriven did a major page split on Characters.Borderlands with no discussion anywhere that I can find, and it was poorly done to boot. I sent them a PM, but no response. Requesting page be reverted to the edit "23rd Oct '12 8:56:59 AM kyuubidriven."
openNo Title Videogame
I posted the following entry to Artistic License – Nuclear Physics:
- The Mass Effect writers usually get the science right, which makes it all the more jarring when they don't. In Mass Effect 2, while explaining her cyberwarfare capabilities EDI notes that once she's breached the enemy ship's firewall she can potentially force their fusion reactor into meltdown. Unless the term was redefined at some point, meltdown is a danger that is specific to fission reactors.
We got into a discussion over whether the example counted. Can we get a mod ruling?
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There's a guy (Turtler) who seems to be a bit of a single-issue editor (his 'thing' appears to be military tactics and their history). To date, he has edited every attempt at an X Com (2012) article to attack one specific NPC he apparently doesn't like. He'a also reversed an edit by somebody else who (correctly, in my opinion) cited him for natter and poor formatting. While one revert doesn't make an edit war, I really would like somebody to take a look at this, as it's getting a bit...tiresome.
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There's this review for Arkham City, right?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_comments.php?id=4996#listtop
People have slammed the reviewer's views, and I have questioned the harsh criticism. The latest comments state that the comments section is for saying how much you don't like something. I thought we weren't a wiki for bashing things.
Edited by tsstevensopenNo Title Videogame
So, we've been having a real issue of late with the example of Ghetsis from Pokemon. After finally having him removed due to vote in the Special Efforts thread for cleaning up Complete Monster, an entry for him appeared in YMMV.Pokemon Black 2 And White 2. It was removed, citing the Special Efforts thread, and then readded with a rather emotional edit reason about a half hour later. Thoughts?
Edited by 32_FootstepsopenNo Title Videogame
I'd like to head off a potential Edit War on the Devil Survivor page:
The original uses the phrase "Peaceful days are over". The Updated Re-release uses "Peaceful days died". Tropers who have played only one or the other keep changing it. Is there a policy for which one goes on the page?
Referencing the query I made about folderizing YMMV pages, user Shaoken cut a huge swath from the YMMV/Dragon Age page for all the tropes folderized like a character sheet, and did not move them and doesn't appear to have any intention to. I'm restoring now. I agree it needs cleaning, though.
Edited by helterskelter