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Hi fellow Tropers. I was wondering here: there is a formal procedure to summon Wiki Magic to a trope page (Trope Repair Shop, that is), but what should This Troper do to summon it to a work page? Works Needing Tropes won't do, as the work is rather obscure and needs a certain demographic to edit it, and, well, it does have a trope list large enough not to fit in that category.
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Is there already a trope for the unrare video game and movie phenomena where, having played/watched the game/movie for many hours with no idea of what the heck is going on the game suddenly dumps the plot on you all at once? And uneloquently, with no build up, just sort of By The Way as if you already knew it? I guess it seems kind of like an Ass Pull but is it a trope in its own right?
(My example being Chrono Cross where after you go through more than half the game with only a vague idea of what the heck is expected of you until the ghost children just idly and off-handedly tell you some pretty significant plot details as if they were giving you directions to the local bakery.)
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Not sure if this is to be posted here, but you should probably be on the lookout for NC 69 possibly for vandalism. He changed the Jerkass photo from Cartman to Spongebob (who doesn't look much as a jerkass to me) and made a gazillion edits to try and purge the Cartman image from the history list.
Edited by GundamforceopenNo Title
I just noticed this when I was explaining the site to a friend, but when did Narm get shifted to the Darth Wiki, and why? I could understand the subjective label, but Darth? I ended up linking her to a different page that explains the concept less well, just so she would give this site a fair chance.
Edited by CrypticMirroropenNo Title
Excuse me, but aren't Abiguously Brown and But Not Too Black the same thing? Or is there some sort of distinction?
Edited by wandawonkaopenNo Title
The Distracted by the Shiny link on the page Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! leads to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleuugjrjxk%20Sonic%20the%20Hedgehog%20comics?from=Main.Ptitlem4f37xq499gk
What exactly happened? Is it just me?
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I've spent a little while now chasing down and cleaning up a few edits by AncientNonun. His (her?) edit history is comprised of painful grammar infractions all over and recent edit warring over the Zero Punctuation page. Would someone please look into this?
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Wswordsmen seems to be making it his personal goal to pot hole things to tropes at random (even if those tropes don't fit the words they're being Pot Holed from), and link Darth Wiki pages on the main site when we're trying to kill those.
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I know there's a war on YMMV tropes on the main page at the moment. What if they were the Trope Namer? Badass Decay\Spikeification and "Funny Aneurysm" Moment being listed on the Buffy main page, for example?
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I looked on the That Guy With The Glasses related pages and they are really long. There is so many unnecessary things. And whenever someone try to cut it, someone else finds some reason to put it back. Any else think there is a need to shorten those pages?
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Shouldn't Eye Scream belong in Darth Wiki? Its like serious High Octane Nightmare Fuel
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The So Bad It's Horrible fanfic page has gotten ridiculously large, so I made a page for bad authors. Can it get the flame bait banner?
Edited by nuclearneo577openNo Title
Just a quick question, would Artix Entertainment games (i.e. AdventureQuest, DragonFable, MechQuest, AdventureQuest Worlds, WarpForce, EpicDuel, HeroSmash) be categorised under "Video Games" or "Web Original" under examples for tropes?
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I'm sure this has happened elsewhere, but this is the example I found.
Todd In The Shadows
Check the Line for Brain Bleach, both for the Main entry and the source.
On the source, during editing, and on-history, it reads
-->'''Todd: [[{{Ptitlegf1u3pozudh8}} CAN'T... GET.... CLEAAAAAN!]]'''
In the main page, it comes out as:
- Todd: This! Is! Sparta!
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How does one create punctuated page titles? I am looking to create a page for the Fan Webcomic ''Aki-chan's Life'' , but so far none of the relevant "how to" guides on this wiki have been useful. Is there anything that can be done, or is the punctuation of the title such that a link can not be produced on this wiki?
Edited by CodyFett
Sean Murray, despite warnings from Madgruda, keeps deleting the link to help lines on the Driven to Suicide page. This was discussed and it was decided that the suicide prevention links be moved to Useful Notes, but he just does not seem to want to take the hint and is demanding it be purged completely.