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Is it possible to skip getting Ana in Earthbound Zero? The only scene I remember her ever influencing was the romantic dancing scene, and I'm not sure, but if that area is skippable, then there should be no reason that you couldn't complete the game without her besides Nintendo Hard difficulty. (I heard it's possible to beat the game with Teddy in your party, so it should be skippable... unless that was just a rumor)
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I would like to clean up pages such as Resident Evil 1 & Silent Hill 1 of any subjective tropes. If I were to do so, should I create YMMV pages for those specific series entries or can I dump the subjective tropes in the main series' YMMV pages (Resident Evil & Silent Hill)?
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Now that teardrop/treasurechest is banned, can the lock on Prince of Persia be released? I was just about to work on spoiler reforms and moving stuff to the YMMV page when the hullabaloo happened. Relatedly, the history of the comments he deleted is blank. Is it possible to see what people wrote before he vandalized them?
Also, Firefox has hullabaloo in its dictionary. Huh.
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What are the logistical reasons that we can't keep any more than a few months of history? I'm aware that we don't have anywhere near the resources of Wikipedia and it's progeny or Wikia, but how many more bytes would it be to have more history available? I've just run into this issue yet again, and it's rather frustrating.
Alternately, does anyone have a copy of Binding Ancient Treaty from approximately last March or April?
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(A) Is there a policy about posting fanfic recomendations "in the name of" another handle?
I've seen two users adding fanfic recs in the name of Slick Nick Shady. By toolfan here (on 18JAN) and by theschwab34 here (on 17JAN).
(B) Is there a policy on IJBM entries that aren't about the work itself? One of the above mentioned tropers has added two IJBM about the WMGs for the same work here.
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I'm brand-new as a contributor (first edit was today, relating to the Bathroom John entry), although been visiting a something like a year. I'd already posted this question earlier in another part of the forum, but realized this was probably the better home for it afterward, so bear with me ... it relates more to the "mechanics" of the wiki rather than any specific trope or work.
Is there a setup option somewhere here to display to me the times of ALL posts and other events in my local time (US/Canada Eastern, GMT-5)? It's much easier to see how recent an entry or posting is that way. Thanks and best.
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So, on the Awesome.Avatar page, Wanderhome listed as CMOA's Quaritch punching out Sully, and Quaritch burning down hometree. I removed both on the grounds that punching out an unarmed, near-malnourished paraplegic isn't awesome, and neither is, you know, slaughtering hundreds of innocent people. Wanderhome responded that, "Beating a traitor and burning out vicious, animalistic alien savages is always awesome."
Checking some of his other edits, it's clear he just has a hate-on for the movie, and is probably just trolling. Edit: Oh, and you can add straight-up "xenophobic prick" to his descriptions. He's doing nothing but deliberately mischaracterizing the movie to put his bullshit across.
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There seems to be an Edit War going on at the Total Drama Island main and character pages, generally regarding complaints against characters (Gwen/Courtney/Duncan) involved in a particular romantic plot from the most recent season. Would it be possible to get some moderator assistance resolving the issue?
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OK.
On the edit history for 'The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask'' someone had deleted the Nightmarefuel entry from the page without making a tab for it,which I have since done.The problem is that the icon does not display at the top of the page along with the other tabs and I can't fathom why,help?
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There's an Edit War in Critical Research Failure with a guy who's absolutely determined to include his "Fox News Is Evil" entry, come hell or high water. Even granting all his premises as true for the sake of argument, the standard for Critical research failure is a lot higher.
Would it be ok to ask if a certain person has been edit banned or anything? Just something that occurred to me, since someone who kept editing out a couple of my bullet points seemingly vanished.