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So, on the Awesome.Avatar page, Wanderhome listed as CMOA's Quaritch punching out Sully, and Quaritch burning down hometree. I removed both on the grounds that punching out an unarmed, near-malnourished paraplegic isn't awesome, and neither is, you know, slaughtering hundreds of innocent people. Wanderhome responded that, "Beating a traitor and burning out vicious, animalistic alien savages is always awesome."
Checking some of his other edits, it's clear he just has a hate-on for the movie, and is probably just trolling. Edit: Oh, and you can add straight-up "xenophobic prick" to his descriptions. He's doing nothing but deliberately mischaracterizing the movie to put his bullshit across.
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There seems to be an Edit War going on at the Total Drama Island main and character pages, generally regarding complaints against characters (Gwen/Courtney/Duncan) involved in a particular romantic plot from the most recent season. Would it be possible to get some moderator assistance resolving the issue?
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OK.
On the edit history for 'The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask'' someone had deleted the Nightmarefuel entry from the page without making a tab for it,which I have since done.The problem is that the icon does not display at the top of the page along with the other tabs and I can't fathom why,help?
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There's an Edit War in Critical Research Failure with a guy who's absolutely determined to include his "Fox News Is Evil" entry, come hell or high water. Even granting all his premises as true for the sake of argument, the standard for Critical research failure is a lot higher.
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I just want to start a new thread about something that just bugs me. Where's the right section of the forum? (About Furry Fandoms, to be exact.)
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Why is this duplicated?
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As agreed on the discussion page, I moved all the X Moment sub-pages in the Disgaea series page from each individual work to the main series sub-page (example). Now, should I cutlist the remains(example) or redirect them to the corresponding sub-page?
Thanks.
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Valxam56 doesn't seem to know (or care) if the trope(s) he is adding is subjective. Either he just doesn't read the trope page, or he keeps ignoring the "Please don't list this on a work's page as a trope" message. Nightmare Fuel and High Octane Nightmare Fuel seem to be his favorite tropes, as he's put them on a bunch of different pages. Those aren't the only ones though (he put Ass Pull on the Criminal Minds page). Even when the trope he's adding doesn't have the YMMV warning, you sometimes get the feeling he only paid attention to the trope name.
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When does a trope page belong on the Darth Wiki? I'm about to YKTTW a Just for Fun page on "Villains Who Should Have Read The Evil Overlord List" and while it's intended to be tongue-in-cheek and good-natured, I can easily see the page turning into a License To Whine and edit warring over people's favorite villains. So, should this go on the Darth Wiki?
Also, do Just for Fun pages need to be YKTTW'd in the first place?
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A related question: should tropes now marked as subjective be removed from pages they were added to and caused no problems on before they were labeled "subjective?" For example, I have High Octane Nightmare Fuel linked on a couple pages I maintain, and I'm pretty sure I linked it before it got the "subjective" banner, and the things involved are pretty much agreeable as HONF (e.g. one page I listed it on is someone suffering from osteonecrosis of the hip and leg... I'm pretty sure no one would disagree there, because that's the Real Life equivalent to your bones rotting away while you live)
[Edited: Question that was here as the second question mostly resolved. I checked the Scam Religion page and it doesn't seem to prohibit potholing, just additions to its page from Real Life. So is the Real Life Pot Hole on another page justified when the group in question is 1) involved in a massive lawsuit directly related to its being a scam and 2) when its most ardent devotee left it and sued, its only defense was to personally attack him for having PTSD and start an aggressive stalking campaign, not to state any sort of beliefs or anywhere one could even see their having a point. When something makes Happyology look sane I'm pretty sure it qualifies, no?]
Personally, I'm for "leave it unless people start fighting over it or it actually starts trouble" in both, but I will work on fixing those if that isn't satisfactory enough.
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Greener223 is Nattering, having Conversation In The Main Page, adding entries to main pages that seem to be intended just to mock characters, and was using bad spelling and grammar. I'm not sure what to do about him and I don't know enough about the subjects in question to know if it's as bad as it looks like.
I'm brand-new as a contributor (first edit was today, relating to the Bathroom John entry), although been visiting a something like a year. I'd already posted this question earlier in another part of the forum, but realized this was probably the better home for it afterward, so bear with me ... it relates more to the "mechanics" of the wiki rather than any specific trope or work.
Is there a setup option somewhere here to display to me the times of ALL posts and other events in my local time (US/Canada Eastern, GMT-5)? It's much easier to see how recent an entry or posting is that way. Thanks and best.