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openSplitting a long page into alphabetical folders
After removing fan content from the VideoGame.Mega Man 8 Bit Deathmatch page, I realized that even if just cut to the tropes, the page is over 120,000 characters long. I've been trying to find a page explaining how to soft split it, but I can't find any examples that pertain to alphabetical ordering; is alphabetical ordering right, and if so, how should I do it in this case?
openOverly detailed descriptions for fanservice tropes
Gp H has had a habit over the years of doing edits involving fanservice tropes that tend to go into gratuitous detail of the "one handed posting" variety, and they've done it again over on at least Characters.Pokemon Gym Leaders Unova.
openadding/finding photos to add to pages
ok, i'm recently starting with this editing thing, but how do you register images as being ok to be added to trope pages? it seems like they're added to the internal database in some fashion, and i can't figure out where they're stored or how to view the available images, nor add new ones
openTroper with an agenda on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance page
I don't want to get into an edit war, so I thought I would bring this here. If I'm barking up the wrong tree I'll admit it and apologize, but for the The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, troper marcoasalazarm really seems to want to hammer his personal belief home that Hallie absolutely hates her husband Ransom, even though there's nothing in the film to even remotely suggest this. He even tried to twist Villainous Gentrification into reflecting this, when there's really not a good example of Villainous Gentrification in the film and trying to stretch it even further into Hallie hating Ransom is really overreaching. I've had to correct a few of his edits about Hallie hating Ransom before, because as I said there's nothing in the film to suggest Hallie hates Ranson. At best, his thoughts might belong on the YMMV page. Thoughts from other tropers?
Edited by Traveler123openBury Your Disabled blank?
The main page for Bury Your Disabled seems to be blank, with all the subpages like Laconic etc. still intact. When trying to edit it, all the text still shows in the edit window however. How did that happen and can someone revert it?
openPolicy on quoting something with heavy swearing
If we were to quote something in an example that used a heavy curse word like say, the f-word, what's the policy for that? Do we have to sensor it? And if yes, how so?
openWhat counts as Heartwarming? Webcomic
How did you determine if a media page gets its own heartwarming moments page?
openLinking work pages from their YMMV page.
Is it okay to link to a work's main page from their same YMMV page? I ask this because Morenatsu has this example on their YMMV page where it links back to its work page:
- Fan-Preferred Couple: Judging by the fan art for Morenatsu, Hiroyuki is paired up with Tatsuki, Kounosuke, and Juuichi more than his Implied Love Interest, Torahiko.
openA Random Troper Appeared! Print Comic
Some random troper named Gate Star X tore through the Runaways characters page and broke it up into several smaller pages, without bothering to give any of us who actually maintain that page any advance warning. He didn't even bother giving an explanation as to why he did all this. Is this sort of thing actually allowed?
openCan we have a Trope Repair for Tastes Like Diabetes?
I just saw that Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy had been repaired because it became Complaining About Shows You Dont Like. Can we do the same for Tastes Like Diabetes, since there are works listed there that aren't just cuteness for cuteness sake?
openAccentuating the Negative
I feel like Website.Tumblr has an overly negative feel to it. Most of the tropes seem to talk about how banning adult comment resulted in tons of other problems. It feels like said problems are the focus of the trope page itself.
(Sorry if this isn’t making sense, I’m sleep-deprived.)
openPage With No Tropes Live Action TV
Series.Anna And The King has gone on for six months without anyone adding any Tropes, not even to the subpages (those all apply to the 1999 movie). Should we delete it? Since only one episode has received an official home video release, I doubt the list of Tropes would run very long.
openJust Eat Gilligan example Film
In the section for Avengers: Endgame, an entry has been added twice saying that Clint and Natasha should have tried to sacrifice Red Skull for the Soul Stone to see if he was lying about needing to sacrifice a loved one. There's nothing in the film to suggest that would work, and I cut the entry for that reason, but it's been re-added.
Edited by Javertshark13openEdit War happening in a RWBY page Web Original
This time it's in the Misaimed Fandom page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=MisaimedFandom.RWBY
openFixing a YMMV Webcomic
I added several moments into the Heartwarming moments part of the YMMV for Long Exposure/Webcomic. However the Heartwarming moments is a red-link for some reason. I checked the Preview and it kept showing it as a red-link. I keep checking and changing and nothing.
openOn Public Domain Artifact
So, I have a few things to discuss about Public Domain Artifact. A few days ago I launched UsefulNotes.Holy Lance, and then troper Prime 32 was kind enough to list several dedicated pages on the Public Domain Artifact page, such as Main.Excalibur or UsefulNotes.Muramasa And Masamune.
So the things I'd like to discuss are these:
- Example transfer. Despite the existence of dedicated pages, the Public Domain Artifact page still hosts examples of said artifacts, like a section entirely dedicated to Excalibur. These examples must be moved, mainly to unclutter the Public Domain Artifact page - there's a warning that page is too long whenever someone tries to edit.
- I noticed that the page hosts examples of Holy Hand Grenade, even providing a link to the trope, even though by its own admission it's not a public domain artifact, and still under copyright.
- An issue that's been bugging me for a while now is Necronomicon. Examples of its use are listed both in this page, but also on ReferencedBy.Cthulhu Mythos, in its own section at that. Should all examples be moved from PDA to the Mythos page, or does it deserve enough for its own?
openIndentation
What should I do if a troper adds a wrongly-indented example, I fix the indentation, then the same troper reverts it back?
openEdit War
On Characters.Resident Evil Chris Redfield, Troper FudgetMuppet added an Expy entry here. Troper ultrafan then deleted it with no edit reason, only for Fudget to add it back in - and incorrectly formatted, at that.
openEdit war Web Original
Masterweaver and acela2163 are edit warring on Memes.RWBY. (Repeat occurrence on Masterweaver's end, as he was suspended for edit warring a month ago.)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Memes.RWBY&more=t
Edited by bwburke94
I've created some new tropes recently and want to create alternate titles for them. How do I do that?