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openAdaptation Amalgamation edit
Khugol spun off the Comic Book film adaptations in Adaptation Amalgamation into their own page when the page hadn't been giving any too-long warnings or happened to be even close to too long, on top of there not even being that many example in the new page, so I have to wonder if it was really necessary in the first place.
Edited by rmctagg09open Balancing tropes
Here's something that's been confusing me for a while. Okay, so I don't know what's the best way to properly ask this, but I'll give it a shot: Is it true that Broken Ace should be used instead of The Ace, rather than in addition to? I'd ask the same thing about Jerk with a Heart of Gold instead of Jerkass, Genius Ditz instead of The Ditz, etc.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this question asked before, but I can't remember what the answer was. Does it really depend on the character? For example, the character page for Squidward from SpongeBob uses both the Jerkass and Jerk with a Heart of Gold tropes, which really confuses me because how kindhearted he is depends on the writer (he is by default a cynical, pessimistic, narcissistic grouch but has shown himself able to warm up to others and the title character on numerous occasions, but only if the plot demands it).
This is overall confusing and I can't seem to find a rule about this in administrivia pages whatsoever. :/
openThe article I made won't show up in search engine Literature/Crossover Series
I created the Literature/Crossover Series article yesterday and indexed it to the Alt-History Literature section
I have no idea why it is not showing up no matter what I typed
Edited by Moonreaper666openEdit war on Stardust Crusaders character sheet
Seguir edited Muhammad Avdol's folder title in Characters.Jojos Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders, changing from [[folder: Muhammad Avdol]] to [[folder: Muhammad Abdul (dub: Mohammed Avdol)]]. urutapu reverted this since "Avdol" is the official spelling and "Abdul" is not used in any official translation (that I know of), only fan-translations. Seguir then changed it again to [[folder: Muhammad Abdul/ Avdol]] with the edit reason "He's named after Paula Abdul for pete's sake." (JoJo's characters are often named after a musical reference), bringing it up to the three edits count required to qualify as an Edit War.
My opinion on the matter is that "Abdul" shouldn't be used on the page except maybe under Spell My Name With An S, since officially it's spelled "Avdol". The way the name of the person being referenced is actually spelled is unimportant, since many other characters don't follow their reference's name exactly.
openIndentation issues on Black Panther.
The latest edit to Black Panther (2018) doesn't respect the indentation rule that tropes shouldn't be put at a secondary level under another trope. I am not sure how this can be corrected in this case, though.
openNo Title
Appropriate Animal Attire has a whole section of links to what I can assume were essays or blog posts on the subject under "examples of the supertrope as a whole"
However, most of them are dead links by now, and that section seems to run afoul of the Examples Are Not General rule, can it be safely excised?
Edited by HarpieSirenopenReasons for FauxActionGirl
The Faux Action Girl trope states: "Like the Standard Female Grab Area and Designated Girl Fight, this trope is often caused by writers who want women in their action show, but are unwilling (or not allowed) to show a woman being hit by a man."
But that just doesn't seem like the reason to me, since making your character an Action Girl doesn't necessitate that she get hit by a man (she could defeat opponents whilst dodging their attacks), and the trope has a whole bunch of examples of women who are constantly defeated by men (showing that writers don't necessarily have a problem with the idea of a man beating a women).
openWhat is the procedure for recommending your own fanfics
So, I've got a fanfic that I've been writing for a while that might be up everyone's alley, but since fanfic recommendations can only be of others and not one's own, I have to ask what is the procedure for getting one's own fanfic recommended?
openTV Tropes the Webcomic lost content
After it was decided that Just For Fun pages can't have subpages, someone went and cut the characters and Recap subpages for TV Tropes: The Webcomic. That's all well and good, but that content doesn't seem to have been moved anywhere and is now creating redlinks on the page. Is there any way to get that content back? It seems like those pages had a lot of fun content that should have been migrated elsewhere.
Edited by naturalironistopenBadass removal
SevenWingedAngel added Badass to Omega Boost, I removed it since it's no longer to be used as a trope which I PM'd them about. But now they added it beck without explanation.
Is there anything more I should do before removing it, as I tried to PM them, before this becomes an edit war?
openEditing spat in HarsherInHindsight/StevenUniverse (major spoilers)
I don't want to call it an edit war because apparently that only counts when it's the same person doing the add and add-back or delete and delete-again, but anyway, I removed this example from HarsherInHindsight.Steven Universe that iamconstantine because I believe it was discussed on a HIH cleanup thread that I can't find now for some reason that examples that were clearly intentional didn't count, which this certainly was.
- Pearl considering removing Steven's Gem in "Three Gems and a Baby" was already a serious moment, but after seeing what would happen in "Change Your Mind", it gains a lot more weight.
Taylor Hyuuga readded it with "Doesn't change that it's Harsher in Hindsight."
So... Were we right? Is Taylor right? Does it really not count as an Edit War if it's two different people doing the adding and readding?
openIndependent character page Videogame
Creator.Alice Soft has a Character page index, which list characters from the company's games (Rance Series, Evenicle), even though the games themselves don't have pages. This is not kosher, right?
openCan you search for media using tropes as tags?
Is there a way to search TV Tropes for works (comics, books, anime, etc) using Tropes like tags? Say I'm interested in reading works that have The Dragon, but only if they also have The Lancer, Face-Heel Turn, Nightmare Fuel, and Mind Screw. Is there a way to use the data in the Examples section of those pages to search for only works which contain all 5 tropes?
Edited by kingoyaksopenA bit of clarification about Mythology Gag vs. Shout Out
When a work in, say, a multimedia franchise references previous creators from a different medium (like a Deadpool film referencing Rob Liefeld), would that go in Mythology Gag or Shout-Out, because I've been seeing them put in both?
openNo Title
Annileeg is a new account. Over on Trope Finder, they made a post simply titled "gay" with no content.
Not sure if they should be instantly sent to solitary, but an IP check is in order, perhaps?
Edited by DracMonsteropenWant to ask this in hopes of preventing an EditWar Videogame
So, in Unbuilt Trope I recently added the example of how Resident Evil 4 codified the Press X to Not Die trope and how it mainly existed to play up the Survival Horror elements and keep the player on their toes during cutscenes.
However, not a day later I checked back and see someone had replaced Resident Evil 4 with Clock Tower in the example. I don't want to change it, mainly because I never played Clock Tower myself so I can't say anything.
Can anyone verify if it's a better example for this trope or should be reverted back? Since I don't know anything about Clock Tower I don't want to get into a possible edit war over this. All I really know is that Press X to Not Die didn't really take off until RE4 did it, even if other examples existed earlier.
open Adobe Flash
Come to think of it, do we really need the Useful Notes page for Adobe Flash? It doesn't provide any advice for writers.
openFallout 76 Internet Backdraft subpage
(Follow-up to my Namine inquiry)
InternetBackdraft.Fallout 76 is far too short (goes double that its parent trope is sectionectomied), and several of the examples don't even fit:
- The Scorchbeasts (should be moved to The Scrappy)
- The canvas bag, the refund failure, the Nuka Dark incident (not even about the game)
- "The fact that the game is a multiplayer-only survival-RPG..." (this is Tainted by the Preview)
Should this subpage be cut and merged?
Edited by Albert3105
Username deleted the entire article for Fridge Logic.
EDIT: Nevermind, there is already an Ask The Tropers about Username's blanking stuff.
Edited by Playing_with_boy