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openWiki/forum-related limits
Hoping this is the right place to ask this. I was wondering, what are the characters, image, etc. limits on the forums/wiki pages? (I believe wiki pages that grow too large end up being split apart, though.)
openEdit war
There is an edit war on YMMV.HelluvaBoss.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic example added by KingdomKey13/7.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic example removed by another troper.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic example readded by KingdomKey13/7.
openSLthePyro and Example Indentation
I know I've sent S Lthe Pyro multiple notifiers for Example Indentation, but it seems they've ignored them all, as this recent proposed change to Anatomically Impossible Sex shows.
openAre holiday specials films? Film
So I wanted to add the Guardian of the Galaxy Holiday Special to the upcoming works sandbox but do I label it as a film? Is that how it works?
openAlphabetic order
So I ran into this fic called ...Or is He Both? which I was about to put in an index... But as you can see the title starts with elipses. The web link doesn't have elipses: Fanfic.Or Is He Both
Do I take the elipses into account or not? I know we ignore the "The" and "A / An" parts of a title when we're listing, does this apply to this case as well?
Edited by LermisopenUsage of the r-word Videogame
While looking at the page for VideoGame.Five Nights At Fuckboys, I discovered a use of the r-word. Through my previous outings on Ask the Tropers, I know slurs should never be used unless through quotes. This was not a quote, so I removed it.
The troper who made this edit is St Fan, and the edit in question is this one. I am in no way trying to get them suspended, I just wanted to make the mods aware of this.
openI screwed up when uploading an image
I'm not sure if this is the place to say this, but I'm sorry for uploading multiple versions of the same image just now. I didn't know they would be uploaded if I didn't actually click "Done".
openAdding to drafts
I was lucky enough to get my CM candidate approved, but how do I add it to the drafts? Thanks in advance.
Edit: Never mind, I think I’ve got it. Sorry.
Edited by TheLaurelCrownedRavenopenOn the overhaul of African Mythology
Over the course of the last year, Liongo has been making a massive overhaul of African Mythologies on TV Tropes. We went from having a single "African Mythology" that said "a bit of everything" regarding Sub-Saharan African mythologies, to having over 20 pages concerning each separate mythology. What are we going to do with the original African Mythology page then? The page was already reworked to include resumes of African mythologies plus an index, but there's still a trope list at the bottom of the page. At this point, it pretty much makes no sense I guess? What's the point of having such generic and superficial trope list, when now each African mythology has its own page and, therefore, a comprehensive trope list?
openUnapproved image change?
The image on Memes.Western Animation appears to have been changed unilaterally by Matt Jacks 2003.
openFanfiction
Hi, new comer here. I was wondering how do you add a recommendation fic onto this website? Want to dedicate a page to it.
openEdit war
Tux 1 is edit-warring on the page for Tally Hall. They changed a quote to be written backwards, which was reverted by UFO Yeah, who (reasonably) thought it was vandalism. Tux 1 has reverted it, saying "That wasn't vandalism, it was a reference to the end of "Hidden in the Sand"
Worth noting is that Tux has been reported twice before on ATT, for a variety of reasons.
Edited by iamconstantineopenFlexibility of god tropes
I was wondering how much wiggle room there is or isn't concerning tropes about deities — things like War God, God of Light, God of Order, Disabled Deity, and the rest. Do they cover like, god gods in sensu stricto, or can they also be applied to, let's say, god-adjacent beings? Things like Demon Lords and Archdevils, Celestial Paragons and Archangels, Semi-Divine characters, that sort of thing?
openDrama importing/Edit warring Videogame
User Father Brown (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/FatherBrown ) is edit warring on the tropes page for a Fire Emblem Fanfic (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TheEmperorAndTheGoddess ).
History page here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Fanfic.TheEmperorAndTheGoddess
Essentially, they're misusing the Expy example to slag the story. The aggressive wording displays their lack of good faith.
Much of the complaints listed are straight from a tumblr community dedicated to hating on the author of the fanfic (the fandom discourse is a MESS, but essentially Edelgard's a pretty divisive character and the person who wrote the fanfic is known for posting analysis pages on her character and catching extreme vitriol, including death threats, from the character's detactors for it), so this smacks of drama importing to me.
Edited by RaxisopenTroping modded content
In Characters.The King Of Fighters XV, there is this entry under Otoma=Raga's folder:
- SNK Boss: SNK apparently took offense to people's assessment of Verse being a letdown. Otoma=Raga brings back some of the old cheese via screen-filling crystal pillars that deal a huge amount of damage. She even lacks a crouch animation like most of the bosses from the past sagas did. The only thing that keeps her in check is that her AI is programmed specifically to give the player a fighting chance.
- Interestingly, she will often beat the boss version of Omega Rugal if the game is hacked to pit them against each other, as even though Rugal is enhanced to be close to his former glory his A.I. reacts badly to hers and he'll will keep getting hit by her instantaneous horn stabs.
openSonicfan2022, Electric Boogaloo
Yeah, them again. The last thread was locked because they hadn't posted in days. Well... they're back, and not much has changed.
Stub page here. A bunch of incorrectly indented examples here, interestingly being single-examples that are subbulleted rather than the usual issue. They added Hilarious In Hindsight on main, and wonky grammar here.
openMaggielewis
Continuing down my growing list of tropers I've been keeping any eye on, Maggielewis has mostly had issues with ZCEs, the likes of which you can see here, here, and here, but in checking back today I see a lot more issues that weren't obvious before. We got some first-person natter. We got a potholed trope, and a spoilered-out trope, too.
And, yes, I've sent notifiers.
Edited by WarJay77open TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for Adjusting Your Glasses at the Trope Repair Shop. If inclined to join the discussion, do so here.
In Arknights, a new character Heidi recently became playable. In her character folder in Arknights Supporters A To M, her only image is of her younger self, while her playable self is older and thus has different images. Is it okay to post the new images in the folder without consulting the Image Pickin' forums and place the current image in a note, as I am not replacing any images?
Edited by Excessive-Menace