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openToo much release format information on work’s page? Print Comic
On Dawn of X, there is a huge section dedicated to the collected editions of the various series. I’ve never seen one this big on any other work page, if they have anything similar at all, which they rarely do.
The one for individual series is already too big — and will only get bigger the longer it stays — but the second part, with the line-wide collections, is bigger than the main text of the page. Not only that, it reads more like an editorial on the merits of the way the titles are collected than a guide like the individual titles section does, and that was already unnecessary.
Can these be deleted?
open Icons bug?
When viewing The Stations of the Canon, this page or any page, this error happens:
i.imgur.com/azhDhhf.jpg
Has the PM Wiki software got a bug?
Edited by Merseyuser1openError/Curiosity about Ask The Tropes and Additional question
Hello. I think I may have come across an issue with Ask The Tropers. Whenever I submit something to the form, I've seen that it's nowhere to be found. Do I have to achieve a certain task to see it? This issue has resulted in me submitted two of the same question. Is there a certain place where I could find it? If so, please tell.
Also, this the message I'm currently trying to get across and if this message does show up and become public, then answer the following query as well: "I've noticed an edit about Squidward's folder, by a user lemarhoffman, yes, as you already know, the user who prompt a war between me and him. It's about an edit for Anti-Role Model where he removed. He left a question on how the trope may apply to Squidward and I feel that I could give a more expanded upon explanation on how it applies to Squidward, as a certain episode painfully tries to make out Squidward as something the viewer should never follow and other episodes try to explain this trope (with his Butt-Monkey status, Grumpy Bear personality, and contrasting to SpongeBob makes clear of). So, I am asking to be granted permission to try and expand it."
open Weird format glitch
Why are all these weird symbols all over the site now on things like links and prompts and such? Is it a glitch?
openMobile Following Glitch
Are any other tropers on mobile getting a weird glitch on their following pages? When I look at mine or similar pages like Recent Edits the text is compressed into narrow columns, making it really difficult to read.
openHow do I post to Headscratchers?
I’m trying to post something to the headscratchers subpage of a movie but I don’t see where to do that. I posted my question to the discussion section but that looks like it starts its own separate thing. I’m just a little confused. Does my post that I submitted through the discussion section get transferred to the main subpage with its own bullet point after a while or do I have to post it some other way?
openPage Vandalism
A trooper named Gate Star X just turned the ComicBook.Daredevil page into a pure disambiguation page. While certain runs of the comic do have their own pages, they were already listed in the original version, and this page hosted tropes from other runs, such as the initial 60's version. The troper removed all of that, and did not create any new page to host those tropes. They also completely removed the comic description, page image, and quotes.
I am certain this is vandalism - it did not add anything to this wiki, just removed it.
Edited by LermisopenMinor Edit War on CinderellaPlot
So I wake up this morning and decide to check on Cinderella Plot to see if any edits rolled in over night. While looking, I noticed an edit war:
- Cooking Cat changed the Yeh-Shen reference to instead reference a Greek story called "Rhodopis".
- Fruitstripegum changed this back.
- Cooking Cat reverted the edit back.
Now, I'll be clear. Though I originally put it at Yeh-Shen, if it really is this "Rhodopis" story then fair enough, but whether we keep the new version or not the reversion probably should've been discussed.
openHow much context is required for genre definition examples?
I'm workshopping Legal Thriller on TLP and I'm wondering how much context (if any) is needed for examples when every explanation would amount to "yep, this work involves the law and is a Thriller." Looking at some randomly chosen genre definition pages - Romance Novel, Conspiracy Thriller, and the subpages of Science Fiction - the examples sections are almost entirely just bare lists of works. Is this definitely kosher then, or do I need to worry about the ZCE rule?
Edited by pyroclasticopenMoving Comic Book to Franchise
The contents of ComicBook.The Punisher were moved to Franchise.The Punisher. Isn't the franchise page supposed to be for disambiguating works with different media?
Edited by Chabal2openWriting a Work page on an unfinished work
I think there was a page on TVT that explained this. Do I handle it like I would with any other work?
openNo Title
TriumphantExample.E has the same custom wiki words as E!, despite the fact that they are unrelated. Can this be changed?
openSorting entries alphabetically?
For example, HaveAGayOldTime.Other
In general, is there a policy for sorting entries alphabetically on pages where it's not sorted as a folder?
Edited by Merseyuser1openPage blanking
Aquila 89 removed all content from Right Ho, Jeeves last week for no reason. I've just restored it.
Worth noting is that if you try to blank a page nowadays (this didn't used to be a thing), a warning will pop up, saying the page is blank, and the edit won't go through. They got around this by leaving nothing but a single bullet point, so it seems like this was deliberate.
openNamespaces Literature
I've been recently thinking of launching a work page for Anatole, which began as a children's book but later received an Animated Adaptation. Now, in my experience, most works of this type (Franklin, Little Bear, The Dumb Bunnies, etc.) have Literature as their main namespace, but also include a Western Animation namespace that redirects to the Literature one. I'm hoping to do the same thing for Anatole, but the problem is that I have absolutely no idea how this is achieved. Any pointers?
openIs Big Damn Heroes a character trope or a regular trope
I've noticed that a lot of pages list Big Damn Heroes on the character page of the person who's doing the heroing, but it feels more like an event than a character trait, doesn't it?
The same goes for tropes like Curb-Stomp Battle, Dynamic Entry, and No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
Edited by reppuzanopenBad history in OlderThanDirt
I believe I asked about this a year or two ago, but can't find the old thread.
Someone has added highly contentious statements about the oral traditions of certain cultures to Older Than Dirt - claiming without any hedging that they accurately record memories of events from tens of thousands of years ago. While of course this is possible, the truth of these claims is fundamentally unknowable, and for this reason the vast majority of relevant scholars don't take these ideas terribly seriously. As Older Than Dirt itself notes:
"Note: Tropes originating in mythologies/religions that aren't Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Anatolian, Vedic, or Chinese are never indexed here, as we have no idea whether those stories even existed in 800 BC, or what form they had, centuries or millennia before they were first written down. [...] Early folklorists often started with the assumption that folktales and myths were primordial; more research has shown that people can and do modify all sorts of tales for any purpose."
I think we should generalize the above statement to cover oral traditions as well. Otherwise, we'd need to list every single culture with a flood myth, as it's at least conceivable that such myths retain a memory of some Ice Age-era deluge.
Someone did a huge edit to Token Aquatic Race where they put every work title (except the ones in the anime & manga folder...) at the start of the example, followed by a colon. I know this doesn't break any rules, but it also feels wholly unnecessary.