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resolved Mean character, Nice Actor
Mean Character, Nice Actor is a No Real Life Examples, Please!, so I removed it from James Spader's page. However, it has been added back in a different form. What should be done?
resolved Is Timeline namespace allow for Creator?
I just found Timeline.Electronic Arts. Since the Timelines say Here's the place where you can find the events of works organized into chronological order. (bolded by me), I have feeling that this is misuse.
Plus, the timeline isn't events of EA in chronological order, it's focus on All Developer Studios EA Has Acquired and Later Shut Down(sic).
resolved Distance page revival Videogame
I noticed that originally, someone had created a page for the Video Game, Distance, but due to the original author never doing anything about the stubbiness of it, it ended up getting canned. But now, with the Adventure Update out, I feel that it might be time to revive the page, although I think we do need to figure out what tropes to put in it.
I know for a sure that, with the first Adventure Mode, it's a Timed Mission - with there being four hours in-game (which is slightly less in playtime, given that the timer drops quicker during teleporting between sectors than it takes to load) in order to complete the game (although I do not know yet what happens if time runs out) - while the second Adventure Mode, titled "Lost to Echos", basically shows how things have been in Nitronic Rush since when players completed it quite a few years ago (of which Distance is a Spiritual Successor of)
I just am not sure what else to add to the page to make it fleshed out enough for the Wiki Magic to be applied right now, as I'm slightly burned out from what I was doing.
Edited by auroVeeresolved A character sheet in Darth Wiki
I just found DarthWiki.Toei Cinematic Universe Characters.
The page is not indexed, has truckload of ZCE, and I'm pretty sure that a characters sheet is not allow on Darth Wiki.
Cut it?
Edit: Also found DarthWiki.Genjitsutouhi Series Characters, also not indexed, but this one has an unpublished work page.
Edited by Kuruniresolved Creator bashing?
BNSF 1995 just added the following into Hyrule Conquest's description:
Note that UndyingNephalim is a somewhat infamous figure in the Zelda community, primarily for creating role-playing games that are essentially Hate Fics directed at Saria, either making her Yandere for Link, or killing her off in a dismissive manner.
This does sound awfully like Creator Bashing, especially as most of it isn't even true.
resolved YMMV Idea (question about inversions)
I have an idea for a YMMV entry that have been thinking of putting onto the TLP (A bit iffy on doing it, but that is why I am posting this). To start, the YMMV I have in mind is a entry into The Scrappy index (which i know has been debated about if we really need another but I still feel this could work).
That is where my question about inversions come in. Some trope pages have two example lists. One for straight examples, and one for inversions. My question is basically if I could include a list of inversions in the TLP?
Edited by Zerukinresolved Working on a trope.
I currently have a trope in the trope launch pad titled "Hungry Hungry Hero" which I proposed as a subtrope to Big Eater. This problem I am having right now is that in its current state, it ends up being The Same, but More Specific as pointed out by the first comment. I feel it could still work as a trope though if given more details to help it better stand out, since Tropes Are Flexible. I'll be looking into possible ideas to make this trope stand out better, but any help is appreciated.
Edited by Zerukinresolved Dethroning Moment
The DethroningMoment.Modern Family page only has one example. Should it be merged to the Live Action TV page?
resolved Page in wrong namespace
I noticed a page in the wrong namespace (VideoGames instead of VideoGame). I have already moved the whole content of the page to the correct namespace; is the page ready to be cut now?
resolved Another Wrongly Locked Page
Yet another page still locked from the recent update; Gasshole is currently unavailable to edit.
resolved The Ugly Barnacle Western Animation
Since The Ugly Barnacle page is based on a joke from SpongeBob SquarePants, should it be in the Just for Fun namespace?
resolved Should Nightmare Retardant limited to something meant to be scary?
The latest example make me think it's on advance state of Trope Decay.
- Though the Gecko in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots are a force to be reckoned with in combat, they would have been a hell of a lot more frightening if they didn't moo like cows while attacking.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Gecko isn't suppose to be scary. The worse offender are these entries.
- In fact, just take something that you find scary in mind. Take a long hard look about what it is and why you are afraid of it. Examples?
- Dem Bones - Walking skeletons... technically what you are. (That just became unintentional Fridge Horror, didn't it?)
- Malevolent Masked Man - The same things trick-or-treaters wear.
- Giant Spiders - spiders and insects are never bigger than a dinner plate because those're the limits of exoskeletons - sea spiders aside (not that you'll ever see one of those in your life, of course) - and open circulatory and respiratory systems.note They don't have circulatory systems as you generally think of one. It's a blood-like liquid called hemolymph that essentially is sloshed around inside the body cavity, immersing the organs to keep them oxygenated and fed. It's terribly inefficient, much like their respiratory system, and if you scaled it up the hemolymph would essentially pool at the bottom and the dang thing would die in very short order. Life is not a Xerox machine; "enlarge original" is not an available function. Furthermore, the bigger a spider is the more harmless it is. Those dinner-plate spiders? Completely harmless, unless you have an allergic reaction to them. Besides, spiders will only ever bite you to defend themselves.
- Snakes - also mostly harmless, and even if they're not? Knee-high boots. They'll only ever bite you to defend themselves, usually after some sort of prominent threat-display which gives you a chance to back away and not get bitten like an idiot.
- Elephants and hippopotamuses (hippopotami?). Both are very large animals more than capable of killing you in half a dozen different ways if they feel like it. Both are so incredibly goofy-looking that in fiction they're more or less relegated to the comic relief of the animal world.
- Dolphins, who are considered ridiculously cute critters, despite the fact that they're known to kill sharks.
- Chimpanzees, those really funny act-so-much-like-humans animals most folks just seem to adore, have been known to kill people and are among the few species on the planet other than humans that conduct actual wars: chimp social groups will, if their ranges overlap, routinely launch into insanely vicious, bloodbath-level wars. No, really: kidnappings, infanticide, cannibalism (including literally drinking the blood of their enemies), torture, and completely indiscriminate killing have all been observed. The longest known chimpanzee war took four years to resolve - from 1974 to 1978 - and is known as the Gombe Chimpanzee War.
- Baboons, as well, even though they have teeth made of scimitars and Ebola, and are one of the few animals that are habitually sadistic, torturing other creatures (especially lion cubs) for fun, which not even humans do (normally).
So basically, instead of (from laconic) "Meant to be scary, but isn't." some examples are more of "Does not meant to be scary, and it isn't, but I think it should". It is no longer about audience reaction, it's WMG.
resolved Signature Song Aversion
The Beatles' entry on Signature Song is the following: "Averted. The Beatles have so many iconic songs that it's next to impossible to single out just one as their signature. Even picking out signatures from individual albums isn't much easier a task." Given that Signature Song is a YMMV trope, I don't think it can be averted. Not to mention that there are definitely some Beatles songs that are better known than others.
resolved Edit war?
On Infinity Blade, Super Waitei re-added an example for Damage-Sponge Boss that was originally removed by me for being misused. Does this count as an edit war and do I have permission to remove the example again?
resolved Total Drama Island
Why was the Total Drama Island Page changed from a redirect, given that the Total Drama Page currently covers all the seasons?
resolved JustForFun.TheLoudHouse
The Just For Fun page for The Loud House consists only of Myers–Briggs results for the characters. Is this a valid use of the namespace?
Edited by costanton11resolved Found a complain in Headscratchers.GhostMaster
There's only one entry on Headscratchers.Ghost Master (don't count the "I agree" second bullet). Since this is so old that the name of original poster is lost in time, I would like to think that this is one made when it was Just Bug Me. Since it isn't a question and is just complaining, cut list it?
resolved SelfDemonstrating Namespace
On Wick Namespace Migration, it says that Self-Demonstrating/ is not a namespace that should be used for wicks. However for Deadpool, the Comic Book/ namespace, which is the original medium, is currently a redirect to the Self-Demonstrating page. Should anything be done with this?
I removed a Mean Character, Nice Actor entry from Rondo Hatton's page due to being NRLEP, but a different entry has been added recently.