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openPermission to remove spoilerly image Live Action TV
I have discussed this in IP discussion forum about an spoiler image from awesome moments page for Loki (2021) but I don't have an answer if I can pull this image. So I need your guys permission if I can pull it.
openNightmare Fuel misuse?
- The ad for Sunblock 5000. The girl states that the ozone layer is now gone and that a mere twenty seconds in the California sun is too much now for unprotected skin. Unless, of course, one applies an whole pint of Sunblock 5000, which is blue, to their entire body. Oh, and there's a Surgeon General's warning that it will, not can, will cause skin cancer, the very thing you're trying to avoid by using the damn stuff in the first place.
This sounds more like Black Comedy than scary (it's also under Funny.Robo Cop 2). Thoughts? I asked Nightmare Fuel cleanup but was ignored.
openNoRealLife Quotes?
I Reject Your Reality is NoRealLife.Too Controversial, so I assume RL quotes are thus not allowed for the same reason, right? I'll cut it unless I hear any objections.
I've seen No Real Life quote pages use RL examples discussing the trope as opposed to giving specific examples. Are those allowed?
openCan't read long pages?
I'm having a problem reading pages with a LOT of tropes on 'em. Whenever I try to open the folders, they just... don't open. Is this just me? How should I fix it?
openCrosswicking Question
I'm not very good at crosswicking, but know I need to get better. Something that makes me nervous to crosswick, when adding examples to trope pages, is when the kind of work that the trope example is from doesn't have a folder on the page. Is it alright to make a new folder for a namespace even if it's just for one example?
For a more specific question, I end up working on a lot of visual novel pages, but trope pages rarely have a folder for Visual Novels. I'll sometimes see them in folders for Video Games. Is that alright, or should there be a separate folder for visual novels? I guess I have a similar question about where Light Novel examples would go, since that's also a namespace, and while I vaguely recall this being discussed before I was never quite clear on if they could go in Literature, Anime and Manga, or if they deserved their own folder to begin with.
OR, is it that these two specific namespaces might only get their own folder if there's a ton of examples from them specifically? Or is this too complex a question for ATT? I'm mostly just always worried I'll put the example in the wrong spot.
openIs _iCEY._ an example of a Stylish Action game? Videogame
See the TV tropes page Stylish Action for a more accurate description. The reason why I ask this is because I recently added it in the page for the game, because, checking the three main bullet points in Stylish Action page, I think it's a good example of Stylish Action due to the following.
1. The game has a combo meter that, as you increase it, it increases your damage output.
2. The game is Nintendo Hard in regards to some of the attacks of the enemies, and the short invincibility frames, if there's any at all. The game gives little room for error, and you can easily die if you're not careful.
3. The variety of moves that can be purchased at the game's upgrade stations.
Edited by Orange_Swirlopen Cleaning up ''The Mask'' cartoon page
Do not respond to this. I’m just making the announcement here
I’ve decided to devote today to cleaning up The Mask because a troper “domino710” has made a ton of really bad edits that make the page hard to read (namely bad grammar and Word Cruft everywhere). If anyone wants to help me with this, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
openOrganizing the AEW roster Live Action TV
Currently in All Elite Wrestling the roster is organized under single competitors, tag teams, stables, etc. I'm wondering if the tag teams and stables should be split into the individual members with their own tropes or if we should just note each wrestler individually and then point to what tag team or stable they're a part of.
For example: SCU is listed, but as of now the stable has disbanded and they have their own individual gimmicks happening. What would be the best way to handle this? It'll especially help if any tropers who've edited pro wrestling rosters before could lend a hand here.
openNonsensical namespace
For some reason, this troper created the page Gh.WikiSandbox with the sole content being "THIS IS A NONSENSICAL NAMESPACE CUZ FUCK CONVENTION". The page is now on the cutlist, but still.
resolved Films - Literature folder?
Halloween Songs has a folder labelled "Films - Literature." I'm guessing this was a mistake and it was just supposed to be "Literature," but the sole example in that folder does not come directly from a book, so I am confused.
openFunny/FanWorks and Funny/Fanfic
So I was indexing a funny page for a Game Mod and discovered that we have separate fanwork and fanfic funny pages - however, after a quick glance, most of the works on Funny.Fan Works are actually fanfics, and thus belong on Funny.Fanfic instead. What do?
openNo Title
Amuck Cricetine appears to be removing a bunch of Inspiration for the Work examples from various Trivia pagesnote Trivia.Ant Man And The Wasp, Trivia.Aquaman 2018, Trivia.Assault On Precinct 131976, Trivia.Avengers Age Of Ultron, Trivia.Avengers Endgame, Trivia.Black Panther 2018, Trivia.Braveheart, Trivia.Captain America Civil War, Trivia.Captain America The Winter Soldier, Trivia.Captain Marvel 2019, Trivia.Chronicle. Trivia.Darkman, Trivia.Edward Scissorhands, Trivia.Fantastic Four 2005, Trivia.Guardians Of The Galaxy, Trivia.Hulk, Trivia.Iron Man 1, Trivia.Knives Out, Trivia.Masters Of The Universe, Trivia.Night Of The Living Dead 1968, Trivia.Joker 2019, Trivia.Pans Labyrinth, Trivia.Raising Arizona, Trivia.Red Dwarf, Trivia.Run Lola Run and Trivia.Rushmore, without giving any edit reason.
openWeird page
Entrance seems pointless to have. It even asks to have no examples, doesn't explain that much, and of the four wicks, one's on a character page and the other on Just for Fun.
open New trope launch: the dictatorship
Should the dictatorship be listed under No Real Life Examples Please? Want to know now.
openSirPellucidar and ZCEs
I saw that an example I commented out on Surfer Dude was just un-commented with no context added by Sir Pellucidar. I sent a notifier, but then checked their edit history, it seems that they have done this before as well as adding ZCEs of their own.
Edited by laserviking42openTroper adding continued ZCEs
On June 28, I sent a notifier to Sailor Venus 372 for adding zero-context examples to Characters.Tales Of Sonic The Hedgehog. I notice that they are still adding them, as seen here, despite acknowledging my notifier.
Rice Romp added the following to Narm.Spider Man Trilogy on March 17th:
I removed it as it was deemed not to be an example by the Narm clean-up thread
Today he added this to the page which, is more or less the same example but with slightly different wording: