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openCut pages in the random section of the homepage.
On the homepage, one of the random pages was Tacti Cool (including a picture), but that page was cut. Is there a way to prevent cut pages from showing up?
Edited by Chabal2openHailfire25 Film
Hailfire 25 has just added a bunch of complainy edits to the WMG page for Ghostbusters (2016).
openPokemon Stuff Videogame
On the Pokémon: Generation III - Treecko to Sharpedo page Poochyena and Mightyena are listed under Savage Wolves, Canine Companion, and Precious Puppy. Hyena are not canine. Would it be wrong if the tropes were deleted or are they allowable due to the lack of hyena-specific tropes?
open Going nuts looking for a show about Psychology!
Back in about the early to mid 80s, I used to watch this amazing show about the mind, the brain, and psychology. It was on our local PBS, and looked to have been made in about the 70s, maybe 60s.
It was trippy as hell, had a lot of stop motion animations, cut and paste stuff, just all kinds of stuff like that, mixed with videos of actual experiments, like the Little Albert, the monkeys taken from parents, etc. There was about 30, half hour episodes.
I know it's not Discovering Psychology, since the updated version is 1989, and it's too new and polished to be the one Im thinking of.
openIs it okay to do this?
I have a possibly somewhat touchy question: Is it okay to have two accounts on TV Tropes as long as your not using an alternate account to ban evade? Now I just have this one account and I don't have an alternate account, but I was wondering if it's okay to create one. I'm not trying to ban evade because I'm not banned or suspended, I just want to see if it's okay to create an alternate account to have a new username. So what's the policy with that?
openWhy do some bullets on pages have a "legal scale" icon instead of a bullet?
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I found that a few bullets on pages have a "legal scale" icon instead of a bullet. Does anyone know why this is?
openMisused Franchise/ namespace
There really seem to be a lot of work pages misusing the Franchise/ namespace, especially when no subsequent work pages exist. Is there an ongoing project to clean this up? It is delaying the wick migration project by adding to the workload.
Latest I've noticed were Franchise.Monster High and Franchise.Ever After High. From the look of it, the basic namespace should be Toys/ for both, is it okay?
Edited by StFanopenInterrupted Bathtub Comedic Film
I'm trying to figure out how to post to suggest a new trope, and I go around and around the instructions https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/TropeLaunchPad
openJmariofan77
Can someone give Jmariofan77 a tap on the shoulder? He made several mass-edits of the YMMV.Bleach page which Eagal and I have been going through and found several to be pretty Fan Wanky. He also deleted an example of Ass Pull after it had been through a massive Discussion page (which he was also a part of), and his reasons for it amount to more speculation about the story.
I just think the guy needs to chill out.
Edited by KingZealopenNot So Different
Is it okay to link to the Not So Different trope when a character says that two things, not the hero and the villain, are more similar than what another character claims? Like, Alice is claiming that Bob's anecdote is stupid when in fact she had the basic same experience but she's just that stubborn? I'm going for a hypocritical focus here, as you can see. Does Not So Different suit?
openedit war about zero context example.
mekal is edit warring about a zero context example in Characters / Pokemon Generation VI Families.
openHentai/Porn examples
Im PRETTY sure Hentai and Porn examples are a nono here but I wanted to make sure. I've seen seeing many Hentai and Porn examples sprinkled throughout the wiki even though they are not allowed. There is a particularly nasty one in Woolseyism where "Characters are aged up so its ok for them to fuck" that I want to tear apart.
open Is this a trope?
Someone travels through time and amasses a collection of famous historical figures, or at least people in period costume from various famous historical eras. Examples of such figures include: Napoleon Bonaparte Cleopatra Elvis Presley Abraham Lincoln Caveman (not a specific historical figure, but appears so often in every instance of this trope he well as might be)
open Regarding DarthWiki
EDIT: Disregard. I see that what I was asking about was already cutlisted.
Edited by ChaoticQueenopen Mediation Needed
Brief backstory:
In Xenoblade Chronicles X, there's an optional conversation with a party member whereas she complains about guys who hit on her as well as other women. If you are a male character (and ONLY if you are male) asks you for your opinion, and if you agree, she basically says "I KNEW you were different. Heck, I'd ask YOU out for a drink!"
After that, the concept of a date or romance never comes up again.
Myself and Dragon95 think this is sufficient for Ship Tease. Larkmarn leans toward agreeing with us, but hasn't played the game. Miin U does not agree, and is becoming increasingly hostile about their opinion.
This is the third time I've gotten into a debate with this person, and we are equally stubborn. However, Miin U's arguments don't make any sense to us, with all three of us at one point calling them out for making invalid arguments.
We need new people to chime in and say if they think we're right or wrong.
Edited by KingZeal
Should Alien Hair go through TRS? As far as I can tell it didn't go through YKTTW (there's an entry from 2008, but wno replies).
Edited by Chabal2