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Have you tried asking acrobox?
It's a decision from this thread https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13258997110A98996400&page=93#2315
Basically, it's decided that Badass Grandpa can already fit in with other old tropes (Old Master, Old Retainer, The Patriarch, etc), making it redundant.
There really should be an easy to find page that states Edit Reasons must be provided when deleting things from pages. The only one I could find was on the TV Tropes Glossary, under "Edit Reason".
Edited by homogenized
@homogenized — Here's the page to help you with that: Edit Reasons and Why You Should Use Them.
Edited by mouschilight "In conversation, do you listen or wait to talk?" "I have to admit that I wait to talk, but I'm trying harder to listen." — Pulp Fiction
While I'm all in favor of edit reasons, people who want to police the wiki should at least try to stay aware of the cleanup projects going on. The "Badass" cleanup has been going on for years, and seeing someone start work on a new Badass trope should come as no surprise.
Ditto for edits involving Action Girl, which has been a problem-magnet forever.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.
Not everyone pays attention to the forums. And of those that do, not everyone pays to the Projects, short and long. Plus, new folks don't know all the details of the site.
I'd rather have someone ask here than assume vandalism and revert. That gets messy.
Although one way to help with spreading the word is mention the cleanup and link the thread in the edit reason AND the discussion page. Even commented out notes as needed. Open and obvious communication short circuits issues like this.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
> "Not everyone pays attention to the forums"
That's why I said "people who want to police the wiki" rather than "everyone". :p ;)
(At the very least, I'd hope that someone who knows enough to check for repair shop threads would also be willing to learn to glance at short- & long-term projects too.)
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.
Mouschilight said he checked the trope, not the forums. My guess would be looking for banners or discussion page notices.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
So my Watchlist notified me that several Naruto pages got edited, and all of them involved the troper acrobox deleting the Badass Grandpa entries, without leaving an Edit Reason as to why he did it. Can someone explain why he would do this? If Badass Grandpa is being repaired for any reason, then that's one thing, but I just checked the trope and it doesn't look like it's being repaired or being discussed for a repair, so... I don't know what to do about this, nor what else to say. Is this agenda-based editing? I caught this same guy doing the same weird editing with a lot of Action Girl entries in some Naruto pages a couple of months ago, now that I remember...
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