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openIs 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 ZerukinopenShould Justified tropes be listed? Western Animation
I'm new here and I'm not interested in starting an edit war. In Wolfwalkers I added this entry:
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Justified with muskets and the wolves being small, fast moving targets, but one wonders how Cromwell conquered Great Britain and Ireland with soldiers that fail to hit anything.
openPretty sure this isn't allowed
I was browsing Hayao Miyazakis page and I noted that he also has a nightmare fuel page
Link: Hayao Miyazaki
I'm pretty sure that creator pages can't have those subpages unless they're musicians and I know that he had his YMMV page taken down a while back. Should the nightmare fuel page be placed on the chopping block?
Edit: I went to the cut list for request just in case.
Edit 2: I brought it up on the Nightmare Fuel cleanup page and waiting for a response.
Edited by KamonTheSkunkopenWhat counts as Adult Content
So, for video examples it says we're not allowed to show any Adult Content. So I just want to check what is and isn't adult content? Obviously Sex and nudity is off the table, but is there any other things we can't show?
openScrewed-up custom title
For the moment, the Role Reprise trope is being displayed under the title "The Same Darrin". This is presumably an attempted rename gone wrong.
(If the following link says Role Reprise, the bug has been fixed: Role Reprise.)
openI can't seem to request for WikiWords
I've read through How to Make a Custom Title and tried to follow through the instructions so I could fix the titles of episode recap pages for BoBoiBoy but after clicking "WikiWord", instead of a window where it should display something like this◊, I'm instead seeing this◊.
I have noticed that I am able to see the former window when I click WikiWord for pages that already have one◊. From what I understand, I'm supposed to be seeing the window where I can request for a WikiWord regardless of if it has one already, but I'm not.
Am I missing something?
Edit: Maybe it should also be worth noting that the external link for the keyboard code that can be seen when viewing "How does this work?" at the bottom of the window does not appear to be working◊ for me.
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenWas that allowed to not give context about spoilers? Videogame
So I was looking at Brütal Legend character page and I found this character file about a Walking Spoiler named The Leader of the Drowning Doom. They have a picture of the character from behind even they show thier face in the game just because according to the Walking Spoiler example they say this:
- Walking Spoiler: Why no, you're not allowed to even see her face or her name. Progress further into the Age of Metal and you'll understand.
open Another issue with What If...? (2021) Western Animation
Earlier, I posted about an issue I was having with someone removing tropes from upcoming MCU works due to ZCE. We managed to fix the issue, but one thing still remains outstanding: The Watcher trope in the What If…? (2021) page.
You'd think this would be a simple matter — heck, the narrator of the show is called the Watcher — but Alphatater keeps removing the trope for either having zero context or for speculation. Finally, I reworked it and put this in:
- The Watcher: Jeffrey Wright plays Uatu the Watcher in the show. During an interview, head writer A.C. Bradley described him like someone watching the pizza rat video:
He's above everything else. He's above everyone, but there should almost be a gleefulness watching these stories. I keep using this metaphor, which I'm not too sure if anyone likes, but I always compare it to the pizza rat meme that went around a few years ago. Someone next to the subway recorded this video of a rat dragging a slice of pizza across the platform. I think that's what The Watcher is—he's a guy watching a rat drag a slice of pizza across the platform. He has no interest in becoming friends with the rat, living amongst the rat, or doing rat things. He just goes, "Man, this is remarkable. Look at the little guy go"! That is The Watcher's relationship with humanity.
Alphatater then removed it again stating "You have not seen the show. Word of God saying the trope '"will'' happen is not the same as the trope actually happening."
First of all: I haven't seen the show, but I have seen the trailer where Jeffrey Wright clearly states "I am the Watcher." Second of all, the Word of God wasn't to say what will happen, only to provide context to the trope, so that it wouldn't have zero context. The Word of God isn't even stating something will happen, only what the character is like — which we can clearly see in the trailer. (There is also the context of this being a character already well-known from the comics.)
How can I re-enter this trope without it becoming an Edit War? I mean, The Watcher trope clearly applies here, right?
Edited by alliteratoropenDoes an Expository Hairstyle Change still count if it's a minor difference?
Courtesy link: Expository Hairstyle Change
For example: a person has wild or frayed out hair caused by stress or being in a bad situation. They show up later in a better place/mood with hair that's obviously the same but looks different because they now have the time to take care of it.
openSpoilers vs Notes
So I've read the Text-Formatting Rules, Page Templates, and Howto Writean Example and am still confused as to what the difference is between when something counts as a Spoiler vs a Note. Is there a significant difference that I am not noticing?
openI added a Headscratchers post to Gwain Saga, is this the place to tell about it? Web Original
I have a question i posted at the bottom and I'm hoping someone here could give me an answer (also I don't know where else to ask)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/GwainSaga
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 keyblade333