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openBluenose Attack Live Action TV
I detected a Bluenose Bowdlerizer on Creator.John Barrowman, should we revert?
openTrans Audience Interpretation question
Im wondering if Trans Audience Interpretation can be use for a character who is transgender in a work but fans interpreted them as non-binary? I read the description and it said you can include non-binary and genderfluid but im wondering it cancel each other out out if they are canonical transgender.
Edited by WhirlRXopenWrong TLP draft
Can a mod delete this draft? I accidentally posted it in TLP when I wanted to post in TF
resolved Opposite Trope Question
Do opposite tropes both need to have the indication that they are opposite in the trope description? For example: On the trope page for The Team Normal the description indicates that is it opposite to Token Super, but the page for Token Super does not have the same indication.
Edited by NejiiuynopenLost Recap and Moments pages cleanup Live Action TV
The Lost Recap section is pretty threadbare, with only about a third of the episodes having pages. The same applies to all the moments pages, which were a mess of Natter and looked like they hadn't been touched in years until I started cleaning them up a few weeks ago. Is there any way I can get a project going to fix this? It seems like a shame to have the pages for a show that was so popular to be languishing like this.
Edited by HfxjfrvnnopenAnother capitalization question.
The trope Breakout Villain was created with this spelling, but many tropers seem to expect a custom title of "Break-Out Villain" by using the Wiki Word BreakOutVillain. Which one is correct, in the hivemind's opinion?
Same question for Breakout Character and Breakout Mook Character, in fact.
Edited by StFanopenPeter Parker is the one true Spider-Man Print Comic
So, I just found out that the character page's title for the protagonist of the Spider-Man saga was changed to "Spider-Man: Peter Parker". I have to ask "was this even necessary? Was anyone even asking for this?"
As far as the average American is concerned, Peter is the one true Spider-Man, just like Bruce Wayne is the one true Batman and Clark Kent is the one true Superman. This might be my personal bias talking but characters like Miles Morales and Ben Reilly are just occupying the Spider-Man whenever Peter is unavailable. Try as Marvel might, it cannot overcome popular culture.
I don't mean to cause controversy, but this change, in my opinion, was unnecessary.
Edited by MasterHeroopenLobo Self-Demonstrating Page Print Comic
Lobo is a thing, but Lobo isn't. Should the latter also be a thing, like we did for Deadpool?
openMore Paper Mario Malarkey Videogame
Looking at Salamander Skull, half of their edits are focused on a classic you've probably heard before: "old Paper Mario good, new Paper Mario bad". Normally that wouldn't be very suspect, except the account was recent enough to get the New indicator when it first cropped up in my Watchlist. Additionally, some of their edits are very Wall of Text-y and Word Cruft-y.
resolved Fanfic Recs removal
A entry on FanficRecs.Animaniacs was removed because another troper didn’t think it was recommendable. I’m pretty sure this isn’t allowed.
Edited by costanton11open Please lock this, it's been answered
I finally decided to "launch" my draft for the Holy Lance, but I'm not sure which namespace and index I should but it in.
Should I use UsefulNotes.Holy Lance or Myth.Holy Lance?
On the indexes, I found Useful Notes.Religion, which has a part about christianity, but all its subdots (is that how you call them?) are about the different sects and important individuals, not an object.
Edited by LermisopenAlphabetic order
Which goes first: O.O.C. Is Serious Business or Original Character? Cause OOC is an acronym and I'm not sure how that works.
openStubs and ZCEs
KhaiPhan2000 seems to have a habit of creating stub pages with poor grammar, incorrect formatting and ZCEs. Here are two examples.
Even on pages not created by them, they add ZCEs.
openComplaining headscratchers on danny phantom Western Animation
So I was browsing the Danny Phantom pages and Danny Phantom page is really weird. We have a folder on "how can the major plotholes of this show pass muster" (which Im pretty sure isnt allowed due to complaining) , another one discussing fan characters (which seems really offtopic), another discussing why they didnt use another actor for one of the shows villains and asking why a character (Sam) is uh..divisive in fandom.
All this stuff seems to not have much to do with the actual show or is weirdly off topic and/or complaining.
openWhat exactly should you do if you get a warning about an edit?
I assume you should say something like "I'm sorry, I'll fix it" and then do so.
openDisappearing Dash
When I proposed Non Action Couple on the TLP, it had a dash in it, much like Non-Action Guy. After I launched it, the dash went away. Can it be fixed?
openEditing Old Tropes to Reference New Ones
I just launched a trope called the Non Action Couple, which in the description states both that it's a contrast to the Battle Couple and might include a Non-Action Guy. Can I go to those trope pages and edit their descriptions to include Non Action Couple? I've only really edited examples before, I can't find the rules for it.
openAlias for Faint in Shock
I'd like to add the alias Faints in Shock for Faint in Shock. What's the correct procedure?
open Some little girl
A show that is like in the times of slavery. It’s a cartoon. Centered around a little girl. Her mom and I think she had a sibling die in a ship wreck. Her father and her survive. Father remarried then I think he dies.
Hello, In Inglourious Basterds, Major Hellstrom, sitting in an adjacent room to the main bar area, hears a German soldier who just became a father asking Lt. Archie Hicox about his odd German accent. Major Hellstrom also thinks it sounds odd and comes into the main room to confront Lt. Hicox and question him about where he is from. I saw this example listed under Ooh, Me accent's slipping, and I wonder if it would also apply to Accent Interest. What do you think? Thank you. Sean