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openWild Mass Guessing Vs. Epileptic Trees
I noticed Epileptic Trees specifically does not allow examples, and tells the Tropers to write their theories on Wild Mass Guessing. However, I did a quick wick check on Epileptic Trees, and I noticed there are countless works that have Epileptic Trees examples in their YMMV page, while simultaneously having a WMG page. So... What's going on?
Edited by LermisopenAbout CanonCharacterAllAlong
The nature of the trope practically begs for all spoilers to be unmarked. Because the state the page is in now, toggling the "Show Spoilers" would result in a white blank sea.
openShould this be Just For Fun? Western Animation
Meet the Fatheads is in a Western Animation namespace, but it's a Show Within a Show. I assumed we put those in Just For Fun unless there's enough footage to trope the show as its own property (i.e. The Itchy & Scratchy Show). It's not even the correct title for the series, which seems to just be "The Fatheads". Should it be moved to JustForFun.The Fatheads?
openPlagiarism report Film
Recap.Chinatown, as brought up in the Recap cleanup thread, is word-for-word the same as the Wikipedia summary.
The page was created by William Shakesman.
openReport User?
I would like to report a user named Brista 85 for editing the Super Bowl Recap. I fixed the edits he made, as he went through and edited everybody named Dick, like Dick Enberg to and Dick Vermeil to read D—- Enberg and D—- Vermeil and cut out swear words, like asses to read a——. He didn't give a reason why he felt the edits he made were justifiable, especially as considering he was ending names out almost entirely.
Edited by wesker56openArtistic License
Just checking but Artistic License pages should not be listed on pages for works,correct?
openDawalk86 is... worrisome
Dawalk 86 was released recently, and has some issues.
There's a bit of Zero Context:
- Eye Pop: Killer upon seeing Charlie and Itchy have returned.
- Black Face: "Little Dutch Mill" briefly features a black shoeshiner (or rather a shoe shaver-and-painter) who is designed in this manner.
The Black Face one also doubles as misuses, since it's a black character who looks like that. Racist old trope, but not this racist old trope.
Then there's Word Cruft (bolded part):
- Color Failure:In "Little Black Sambo", the titular character turns white with fright upon encountering a tiger, not noticing at first that there's a real one behind him as his dog tries to warn him.
- The Dorothy from ''Dorothy Meets Ozmaof Oz". Dorothy's skirt billows from the front up to her thighs when there seems to be an earthquake in the cave.
Finally, there's a whole lot this kind of troping:
- Marilyn Maneuver: Dorothy's skirt billows from the front up to her thighs when there seems to be an earthquake in the cave. [This is a shoehorn, that seems to be here only so Dawalk can write about an underage child's thighs. The scene is HERE and doesn't qualify, in my opinion.]
- Panty Shot: Dorothy, whose skirt billows up from behind and gives a white panty peek as she and Billina flee from the Wheelers.
(I forced myself to look this up. HERE is the so-called panty-shot. It's not really a panty-shot as much as it's just panties being briefly visible, and it indicates that Dawalk just wanted to write about a child's panties.)
In itself not a problem that someone tropes those things as long as they're done correctly. Still, even disregarding that "Dorothy, whose skirt billows up" should read "Dorothy's skirt billows up", I'm just not sure that this is an intentional example of the trope. Also, Dawalks seems eager to trope panty shots, and again, it could just be an innocent interest so I don't want to assume. But it seems, well, one-handed. So to speak. And it seems as if he's looking for any reason to write about children's panties.
EDIT: Also, I've gone through all his post-release edits, and these are his basic trends:
- Posting Shes Got Legs every time a woman's legs are at all visible, regardless of whether it's meant to be sexy or just is a couple of legs existing.
- Posting Marilyn Maneuver every time a skirt lifts a bit for any reason.
- Calling every glimpse of visible panties a Panty Shot.
openViolation of the spoiler policy?
(Spoilers for Young Justice ahead)
I was scrolling through FanficRecs.Young Justice and I came across this:
Themes range from humorous to heartbreaking, and there are even some silly moments of Dick living up to his namesake. Most of the stories were written before and during Season 2, so while later ones directly involve Artemis's undercover mission, there's no reference to when Wally...er, y'know.
Should these be spoiler tagged or am I overreacting? I feel like if the fic doesn't mention Wally's death, then there's no need to mention Wally's death in the fanfic recommendation. They could've just written something like "these stories were written before season 2 ended, so some things are different from canon".
Edited by RainbowPumpqueenopenBroken Baseball/Softball Image Link Videogame
In Pokémon Gym Leaders: Johto, under Whitney's folder, there's a link to an alleged image of her playing softball. I say "alleged," because the link no longer works. Should we try to find a new link, or should I remove it outright?
openAlison Viktorin
So, the RoleEndingMisdemeanor.Anime And Manga page mentioned that Alison Viktorin retired in part due to the negative response she got from the Capitol riots back in January. However, a new troper, Glitchy Boy 77, removed the note about her retirement on the Creator.Alison Viktorin page, with the summary stating:
That said, I have a question: what is the best possible way to proceed with this situation?
Edited by gjjonesopenWAW Wrestling page edits
A user keeps editing the WAW Wrestling page to insult the company and specific people who worked there. Bashing was forbidden under this discussion https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13327578050A72722200&page=123#comment-3056 They have been warned twice and still kept doing it. They claimed to have made the page but I feel that doesn't give an excuse to break the rules.
openEdit History for Forum Posts
Just a quick question, can the mods see the edit history for forum posts? I ask because I recently hollered a post, but the user edited their post to remove the part that I objected to as I was sending the holler. I'm worried it might look like I made a faulty report, but if the mods can see the edit history of a forum post, than they're shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Edited by chasemaddiganopenEdit War Videogame
On the Smash Bros Tier Induced Scrappy page, there has been an edit war with the placement of Minecraft Steve. In sort, Mega Mario Man added Steve to the Both section for Ultimate while three days later I added him to High Tier. I didn't delete the other one as I didn't know it was even there.
Yorilroy decided to hide both and decided to put it on discussion, but then Poke Vader 999998 undid the hide for mine, causing Yorilroy to hide it again.
Edited by ReynTime250openRecreating the Forever Purge Tropes page Film
So, the page for The Forever Purge was cut a while back because it was a stub, since only one trailer had been released, with no release date. Since at least one more trailer is now up, with a release date of July 4th this year, is it okay to add it back in?
openWhat's the etiquette for editing TLP drafts?
I assumed people posted examples in the comments so the creator of the draft could add them, but they're open for anyone to edit. If someone edited their own example into someone else's draft, would that be okay?
resolved Recent Undermined By Reality removals
I noticed that a massive number of examples recently got removed from Undermined By Reality by a troper called Buzzy with no edit reason given. Anyone have any idea why this might be the case? I may not necessarily quite fully understand the more subtle elements and rules behind this trope, but a lot of the examples deleted yesterday seemed relevant in my eyes.
openTroper cutting a ton of stuff with no edit reasons
Genocide 24 has been deleting a bunch of stuff with no stated reason. They cut a bunch of tropes from Internet Historian and the YMMV page and what he's cutting as far as I can tell are valid examples. They cut references to a character being Love to Hate on L.A. Noire, removed a reference to a Crack Pairing on Hazbin Hotel, and an example of Magnum Opus Dissonance about an MLP comic all of which seem to be good examples. They also cut a Mighty Whitey and a mention of the Nazis from The Shangri-La. Is this ok? I'm concerned about the fact that none of these have edit reasons and some of them seem to have a bit of personal bias to them. Sorry if this is perfectly fine behavior it just seemed odd.
Edited by papyru30openTrope placement on character sheet
Would the trope Devour the Dragon go in the Big Bad's character folder or The Dragon's character folder on a work's character page?
Godscar Chasm deleted a lot of the examples on Nick Fury, so now it just looks like a list of tropes with no context.