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There seems to be an Edit War going down on the Dethroning Moment Of Suck Zero Punctuation page.
Edited by Marioguy128openNo Title
There appears to be a small edit war going on between Larfleeze and Acridty in the Zero Punctuation Dethroning Moment Of Suck page.
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I have kind of a weird question. I just deleted an example that had been deleted before where someone wanted to list God under Evilly Affable- the descriptor was written as Yah weh. I unfortunately can't remember off the top of my head, but I've seen this kind of shoehorned example a lot lately. Is it the same troper doing this on different names or IP addresses?
Edited by JordanopenNo Title
I was of the understanding that lolicon images were strictly forbidden on the wiki. I just removed one from the Psycho Lesbian trope (and started a discussion on Image Pickin'), and so far 2 of the 3 comments have been objections with one telling me I was out of line.
So if I was out of line I apologize, and I'm posting this here because I think Fast Eddie or a Moderator should speak on the subject.
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Charlottes Web (the troper, not the book) has been creating a series of stubs consisting of nothing but a link to Spiders Web A Pigs Tale, a page with nothing to do but complain in a self admitted trolling attempt.
Laugh, lol, Internet, Plan Bee, BF 101, The Great Gawp, Jarlaxle Artemis and Spiders Web A Pigs Tale are all signs of the moronicity. Going through their edit history is like going through a mine of material to be cut and reverted (which is what I'm doing, btw).
Edited by SomeSortOfTroperopenNo Title
Would it be a good idea to maybe mark an example or trope in an article as "under debate" or something if it's being contested in the discussion page? I notice that few people tend to frequent the discussion pages, and on many occasions I have to wait months before someone replies to me contesting an example. If such contested examples could be marked somehow, I think that would speed up the process and get it to work better.
(Would this even be possible?)
Edited by FoolsEditAccountopenNo Title
I admin for the Elfen Lied wiki. Does a link on the front page of the EL Wiki to Tropes Main EL page break any rules?
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Iggy Luv 333 has horrible spelling. Every entry I peeked at has at least one rather large mistake. I'd clean it all up myself, but I'm heading to bed. Clean up in aisle 4.
Edited by shimaspawnopenNo Title
There seems to be some edit warring in the Your Mileage May Vary page of all places, mainly when it comes to if there should be an examples list. The original note was:
No examples, please. This descriptor applies to literally everything. No matter how universal the affection for something may seem, there is someone, somewhere who doesn't care for it. The only way to cover all the possible examples would be to write "Everything ever," so examples aren't necessary.
...but nuclearneo577 keeps changing it to make it literal by making a examples list that only says "everything ever", which is unnecessary. He even noted in one of his edits when i reverted his previous one, quoting: "Stop writing a Take That at me for making it funny." I even noted in the discussion page that this is unnecessary, but he doesn't seem to be stopping. Can we get a resolution for this?
Edited by Gundamforce
Quick question.
When it's better to ask a question here, and when it is better to ask it on the forums?