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openA warning to those prematurely adding Complete Monster on YMMV pages
kamenriderfan18 is prematurely adding a Complete Monster entry on the Ultraman Z YMMV page after being told not to do so when there's a rule that a proposal has to be made two weeks after the show's season finale. To the moderators reading this, please deal with him ASAP.
This serves as a warning to those who attempt to put a CM entry on YMMV pages who don't heed to its rules.
openIf I added a page for my own work, someone added a YMMV page, and it had a grammar mistake
So I know not to edit YMMV and "moments" subpages for my own works, but if, hypothetically, someone made one and it had bad grammar, would I be allowed to correct it?
openAmbiguouslyGay or HoYay?
Got from Characters.Pokemon Sword And Shield Anime:
- Ambiguously Gay: Has several occasions where his behavior comes off as having a crush on Ash. In JN03 he's visibly blushing whenever Ash reaches out his hand and is frozen in adoration at the boy's heroics. Goh is also very flustered when asking Ash if they're still friends, his face red and going redder when Ash confirms it as if he doesn't want to be just that. This continues in the following episodes, Goh being completely comfortable with reaching for Ash's hand, patting his shoulder, hugging him, and faintly blushing at his compliments.
I wonder if Ho Yay is a better fit, given this doesn't seem like the sort of thing the show would go into. Another troper was also confused about what the line was between Ambiguously Gay/Bi and Ho Yay, I'm not sure if we have one.
I'm asking here first because there might be a larger issue regarding how to tell the difference between Ho Yay (unintentional subtext), Homoerotic Subtext (intentional, but seems like it can only be retroactively identified if those involved come out or with Word of God) Ambiguously Gay/Bi (may or may not be intentional) Thoughts?
openPage without transparent image Web Original
As I have read from this Administrivia page, I believe the image for Battle for BFDI is not transparent. The logo has black text as well as character outline. I’m wondering what I should do in this case.
Edited by callmeamuffinopenTroping Dummied Out content
Is there any specific rules on troping Dummied Out things that are still easily accessible? The page for Friday Night Funkin' has a lot of tropes regarding the Dummied Out character Lemon Demon, who isn't in the game proper but still has a fully functioning level hidden in the game's data that fans were able to easily mod back in.
openNo Title
I'm not sure where to take this,but Taylorswiftscat added it to Family Ties:
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Alex was a riff on an observable trend of the time. Gen X'ers were rebelling against the leftist stint of their Boomer/Silent Gen parents from the sixties and seventies. Politically, Gen X has always been seen as uninvolved, although most polls suggest a 50/50 split between conservative and liberal, whereas subsequent generations lean increasingly left. The current GOP has a demographics problem. If enough white, middle aged Gen X'ers swing right, it could be enough to keep them afloat.
openWish to fix the name of a YouTuber's page Web Original
So there's a YouTuber by the name of Tulok the Barbrarian, who has his own trope page. However, there's a problem, in that the page's title is Tulok the Barbarian, instead of Tulok the Barbrarian (a combination of "Barbarian" and "Librarian"). I wish to correct this, but I don't know how, so can someone please help me with this?
openExample on Space Whale Aesop has a sub-bullet saying bestiality might be OK in the future.
I'm not lying! There's an example on Space Whale Aesop which cites an HP Lovecraft story where the moral is not to breed with other races (yeah, I know) but involves people screwing fish-people. However, it then has a sub-bullet that basically implies that due to Yiff fetishes, screwing fish-people will be seen as normal in the future! Can I cut that?
openMinor edit war in Characters/Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 76 to 81
lilysakura220 made a chained-pothole in Characters.Super Smash Bros Ultimate 76 To 81. I sent them a Sinkhole notifier with an added bit specifically telling them not to put potholes next to each other making them look like a single link; then I edited the entry to separate the potholes, with an edit reason explaining not to put potholes side-by-side. lilysakura220 later reverted the edit without responding to the notifier.
openHow do I wick check a trope with over 100000 redirects?
So I wanted to try and wick check Up To Eleven to see how many of its uses were potholing but because of how many wicks there are for it, it seems impossible. Like how am I supposed to know where the 5000th wick is? Is there a way of knowing which number redirect it is?
openIndexing actors Film
What's the policy on indexing Useful Notes?
I notice actors are grouped under pages like "Stephen King Media Actors" or "Marvel Comics Video Games Voice Actors", but those pages aren't indexed, possibly because they fall under Useful Notes?
Edited by taylorswiftscatopenCleaning up DeconstructorFleet page for TheRisingOfTheShieldHero? Anime
The The Rising of the Shield Hero page has so many entries and the format feels all over the place. I don't think most of them fit and need review.
Do we have a cleanup thread for the trope in question?
Edited by keyblade333openIs ExpositoryHairstyles a trope, or an index? ... EDIT: Are we done cleaning?
I'm on a bent to do some TRS Wick Cleaning, and my focus is Expository Hairstyles, right now, since it's super short.
Expository Hairstyles is used as a trope in at least Motherly Side Plait, and calls itself a Super-Trope, but it looks like an index.
Is it an index or a trope? Or is it a trope that has effectively an Examplesectionectomy?
There's 33 wicks left. Should we work to remove all of them, or is it basically as clean as it can be?
Edited by MaladyopenBad grammar even after a notification
I sent Sugar Butterfly 432 a notification about bad grammar and linked them to the Help With English thread, but they kept making posts like this one. (Please note that after my notification they wrote the entire entry and kept tweaking it, so all the errors are theirs and not just the ones being added in that particular link.)
openSearching for a new page
When I try searching for a page I made a few days ago (Netajin), it always comes up with no results. The only way I can get to it is by going into my recent edits. Has the page just not been crawled yet, it is something else going on?
Edited by Loopytires55openIt is natter to say "find out next episode/season!" in an example? Live Action TV
So I was in some recap of some shows. And I found one example called The Unreveal in The Mandalorian season 2 finale that says something like " What exactly the villain going to do? Find out in next season!" For me it's sounds incredibly cheesy and unnecessary. Can I remove the last sentence for possible natter?
Edited by BubblepigopenSolicitations and advertising used for Upcoming Works?
In Creating a Work Page for an Upcoming Work, it says we should only use "pre-release material" for "Literature, manga, comic books/strips." I understand that does not include Word of God, but does it include solicitations? After all, solicitations are pre-release material that are mainly used to advertise upcoming books and comic books. They are basically a short written trailer.
If so, I understand we can only trope what's in the solicitations themselves, not speculate on upcoming works, but it would also mean so much more information is available.
In addition, what about announcements, like DC announcing Tim Fox was the Next Batman? Is that mainly considered Word of God or, since it's used to advertise an upcoming story, can it be troped as well? When does something become advertising rather than Word of God? For instance, on the DC Future State page, can I call the Next Batman "Tim Fox" or do I just have to refer to him as the "Next Batman"?
(This is mainly about the DC Future State page.)
Edited by alliteratoropenMaking a page
I plan to make a page for the manga when night falls eventually. It's original Japanese name is Yoru ni naru to baku wa. Would the original name become a redirect.
resolved Dragalia Lost Antagonists Videogame
Recently, I moved the antagonists of the game Dragalia Lost into seperate pages for campaign, event, and void battle. However, I left Adventurer Story antagonists on the base antagonists page. After some thought, I feel like I should have moved them too when I did all that... That's where I ask... Should I create another antagonists page for adventurer story antagonists or move them over to the NPCs page? Or, alternatively, are they fine where they currently are?
Edited by Zerukin
For example, adding this 😂, the most used emoji, to the index Laughter Tropes, and adding this 😡 to the index Anger Tropes.