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openMore unilateral changes by RosaHG
So back in December, I had reported RosaHG for unilateral image changing. They were suspended and released with the understanding they would use Image Pickin' to discuss future image changes.
Which they have...sort of. They've made three posts in the Image Pickin' thread. The first was for proposing an image that pretty much got shot down immediately, the second was a quality upgrade that went through fine, but the third was an image that they then immediately threw up on the page without waiting for any feedback. They were called out in the IP thread and a separate thread where they were warned by a moderator.
Their latest edit is unilaterally changing the caption of The Greatest Showman, and while I know that changing captions isn't as frowned upon as images, this was something they were doing before the suspension, and it doesn't appear that they've learned anything after being unsuspended.
openDeleted Trope Examples Web Original
Content Warning for abuse, in case anyone needs that.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Bearded Expense, a regular guest in Ethan's videos, has gained quite a small following outside of Sound's videos thanks to his very specific on-screen personality.
- BeardedExpense can be a terrifying Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant when he wants to be. "the overmind", anyone?
The edit reason is "Due to controversy mentioned in Harsher in Hindsight, I do not think it is appropriate to paint Bearded Expense in a positive light on Sound Smith's (a victim of his) page." While I don't like the guy either, I think it's a bit much to remove the trope entries entirely due to out-of-universe drama.
I'm considering restoring the second example and re-writing the first to remove the chained potholes and adding an acknowledgement that he's not this trope anymore:
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Bearded Expense, a guest in older videos, has gained quite a following thanks to his recognizable and hilarious personality (involving lots of No Indoor Voice and Refuge in Audacity). This viewpoint, however, has since dropped off following real-life controversy from Bearded.
Is this OK to do?
openLooking for something Western Animation
It's a gag used in old cartoons, say a character has crashed a vehicle of some kind, an ambulance turns up and the ambulance workers come out with a stretcher, but then they put the vehicle on the stretcher and leave the character on the ground. Is there a name for this?
openFalsely Advertised Accuracy misuse?
Trivia.The Mysterious Mr Enter
- Falsely Advertised Accuracy:
- In his now-privated "The Wild World of Modern PSAs" video, Enter claims that in the Animaniacs (2020) episode "Bun Control", the Warner's solution to getting rid of all the rabbits is to import dingos from Australia to eat them. Not only does this completely go against the episode's message (it was a thinly-veiled alegory for gun control, not invasive species), but it also ignores what happens immediately afterwards. The dingos were a misdirection, and the real plan was to set up a "bun buyback" to safely dispose of all the rabbits from the people who didn't want them.
- In "SpongeBob Got Bad Again || Fun-Believable", he claims that the protagonist of the episode, Rube Goldfish, is a one-off whom the viewers have never seen before. Rube had actually been on the show for six years at this point, with major roles in "No Pictures Please" and "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" and frequent appearances on The Patrick Star Show. He also describes the episode as being from season 14, when it's from season 13.
This was under Cowboy Be Bop At His Computer, which I deleted as misuse (goes under the work the error is about, not the work making it), but it was added by under this new item.
I believe this is still misuse as these do not say Mr. Enter went to extra lengths to state his work was realistic/accurate. At least when I asked about using it for documentaries/reviews making errors it was deemed not an automatic replacement for all errors.
Thought?
resolved What is the trope for same action, different outcome?
I remember stumbling upon a trope that can be described with "When you do one thing as a character, you die. When you do the same thing as another character, you survive", but I lost the track of it. What was the title for that one?
openWonkage?
I think I just stumbled upon a troper's weird wonk while doing cleanup. Malebranche seems to have a fixation on the Doctor Who villain Cassandra; it seems to be the literal only thing they trope, and have done so since 2020 according to their history. I wouldn't be reporting it, though, if they didn't seem to be doing other weird things. For example, they keep claiming that Rose "respects" Cassandra, such as in these recent edits. While discussing how sexy she is (with the depreciated Evil Is Sexy to boot). And troping Cassandra's actions under Rose's page. And misusing tropes. And indenting wrong.
All of these edits are from one page, btw. They also have loads on Characters.Doctor Who Villains and Recap.Doctor Who S 28 E 1 New Earth, all of which have the same sort of problems.
Edited by WarJay77openRegarding "My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip" in Banned In China page Western Animation
Just went into Banned in China page and "My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip" is on the page again for the third time.
- Hasbro’s decision to renew their contract with Discovery Family through 2025 has resulted in a tantamount ban on My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip in many countries such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey, thus preventing the film from getting dubs in any of the languages spoken in those regions.
It was written on Teen Titans Go! example on the page. It was written by a troper named JHC1990. However, as there's no objectable content found in the MLP film, and I think that Hasbro's decision to renew their contract with Discovery Family through 2025 is not a reason for a tantamount ban on some European countries, and I don't think it's a tantamount ban. I think the example should be on No Export for You instead. What did you guys think?
openBook Ends or Bookends?
The Custom Wikiword page for Book Ends says it already has a customization as Bookends but it doesn't show as such. I remember it used to work for a couple of weeks though. What's wrong here?
Edited by eroockopenEdit War Alert
- Peach Lover 94 made an edit in Gertrud Barkhorn's folder by writing a paragraph about Gertrud being enemies with Gunnery Sergeant Hartman as well as placing him in her "Enemies" section.
- Mdalsted edited Gertrud's profile to trim down the paragraph and remove Hartman from the Enemies section, claiming in the Edit Reason that the interaction made them act in an OOC way (namely that Hartman's jerkassery was moreso him being Drill Sergeant Nasty and that it felt petty that Gertrud hated him for sharing a last name with fellow Strike Witches character Erica).
- Peach Lover 94 placed back Hartman's placement in the Enemies section as well as reverting the paragraph to the original version they wrote, calling Hartman misogynistic and racist/xenophobic in the Edit Reason.
Given the Edit Reasons, I doubt that they reached out to each other and discussed it elsewhere before Peach Lover 94 reverted the edit, so it seems like an edit war occurred. While Peach Lover 94 did post in a discussion page and later deleted their additions, it was after they made the third edit.
Edited by Excessive-MenaceopenSonic134
I gave Tropers/sonic134 a custom notifier about their use of first-person writing on WebAnimation.The Boy Who Cried Nazi, a page with several issues with first-person writing being a very blatant one. They responded asking if I'd fix it, to which I told them I couldn't but directed them to ATT / the forums for the second time. They responded saying they'd make minor changes but also demanded I not message them again. They haven't fixed that issue in the edits they made since that reply, and they also have other problems, like the stub / spam page that is WebAnimation.Zara. Clearly they do not wish to talk to me, so sending more notifiers won't do anything.
openQuestionable spelling and grammar
An editor called Dinosoar64 has been making numerous edits to the Terror-dactyl page over the last several months that are of questionable grammatical integrity, most-recently earlier today (as of this posting). I believe they've been messaged before regarding this, and I messaged them when I noticed their edit, but in the meantime what should be done?
openDiscussion about alternative titles
I would like to discuss about some ideas for trope alternative titles, but I don't know where I could do that. Any help, please?
openIs what this troper is doing violating ROCEJ?
I was in TRS when I saw that troper Larkmarn had a sandbox (Larkmarn where they list YouTubers and their political orientation. Does this violate ROCEJ? The sandbox lists several YouTubers that are dedicated solely to pushing extremist views and the sandbox is giving them more attention that they don’t deserve. The sandbox also includes many YouTubers where they themselves hold beliefs but their content is apolitical, which might be violating our rules about how YouTubers’ pages should be about their content, not them as people. Is it okay that we have a page dedicated to these topics?
open"That one popular tumblr prompt about shapeshifting cat" web original or webcomic? Web Original
I'm planning to make a page for a rather popular tumblr story who based on this specific prompt: https://64.media.tumblr.com/7628f052b2dbb72da37d1c9502f047a6/4a227267a67aab65-d5/s1280x1920/e6dc0900f497dc84d11daba02383b0134ce420d9.pnj
There is two oneshot webcomic version of the story one by lullychi and one by foldingfittedsheet, but since both comics following the same idea of the prompt so it would be unwise to turn them into separate pages for each comics. Like there is page for God of Arepo and it both covers two versions of the comics since they follow the story similar enough. However, I'm confused on which media I should tag this as. It first come from a short prompt idea, making it technically web original but the webcomic version is the most popular one.
Also the title. The prompt just suggesting the story idea without possible title, however the story often referred as The Witch's Cat or The Most Beautiful Woman in the Town.
Which one should i use as the title?
resolved Usage of outdated "Catchphrase" trope in regards to VTubers Web Original
I was just making my rounds and I saw that several examples for the no longer viable Catchphrase trope were listed for Filian. That got me wondering, for streamers that do have catchphrases/things they tend to say often, is that tropeable? Should each of the examples be removed?
resolved What is the purpose of The Amazing Atheist Sandbox?
Sandbox.The Amazing Atheist was created in 2015 for no particular reason and basically acts as a second YMMV subpage.
What should we do with it?
resolved Sayaka sock March 2024
I'm pretty confident that Slmfe0171 is yet another Sayaka sock, due to them editing the same pages as them (MST 3 K, Ruff Ruffman, Dangoranpa, etc.)
resolved Troper Editing TLPs
Jason Robotnik has been editing other's TLPs without stating so. I found multiple edits on Kiddy Coveralls and this editor has also done this with Goo It Up and others.
Edited by Nethilia
Tyler Durden 889900 created today Soy.Soi Bois, a page about the alt-right "soy boy" meme, written as if it was a trope page and using a made-up namespace (presumably as a way to bypass TLP).
Their only edit in other pages is adding a reference to a transphobic meme in Viewer Gender Confusion.
EDIT: While I was writing this query they added some weird misogyny in Women Are Wiser, saying stuff like "men have higher iq variance than women and thus accomplish more than them" and "Women belong in the kitchen and are actually happier being subservient to men, this is for biological reasons, not 'cultural' ones"
Edited by UchuuFlamenco