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The trope Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You needs an index. Comedy Tropes? Maybe whatever the index we use for resurrection tropes?
Edited by nrjxllopenNo Title
The American Civil War has itself listed as in the indexes for Useful Notes, Military and Warfare Tropes, Hollywood History, and Furry Comic. And I for the life of me cannot figure out how to remove that last one. Anyone?
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How do I start my own contributor page? I can't seem to make it work. Even when I clink on the link of my own name, 411314, on a forum where I've written, such as this one, instead of taking me to a contributor page template like it does for everyone else on the forum, it takes me back to the Home Page. What am I doing wrong?
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Someone replaced heavy chunks of text on Little Shop of Horrors (admittedly not very clean, well-organized, or in-place) with weasel words denying the objectivity of an objective trope. Can I revert this?
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The Fatal Frame works page isn't displaying the buttons for Fetish Fuel, Tear Jerker, and High Octane Nightmare Fuel at the top. Can someone help me figure out what's going on? I added links to those subpages on the series' main page until the issue gets resolved.
Edited by LosingStreakopenNo Title
There seems to be some kind of glitch in Liveblogs. Whenever I edit the first installment it counts it as a new installment - meaning that between the first time I sent it and both times I edited it, it's being counted as three installments.
At least, I think that's what's happening.
edit: I'm also noticing that a few other people have this... well, it's not much of a problem, but whatever, in the Liveblogs section, so I'm guessing it's been brought up before.
Edited by EponymousKidopenNo Title
Does anyone else think we need a new policy on "subjectives" on main pages? Covered Up just showed up as one, and while I know it may be in some contexts and there may be some fighting related to it, in the place I listed it, there's no argument over whether the new version is better (amazingly enough in a fandom where people can and do fight over ANYTHING)
Personally, I'd like to see something like a sliding scale of subjective tropes, if that could be workable, rather than a "nuke on sight" policy, if that makes any sense.... ones on the softer end (e.g. there is not wide debate or disagreement related to it in general, it hasn't started drama on the page or even elsewhere except maybe You Tube, it is not related to drama in any way) can stay on main as long as they're not causing trouble, while ones on the harder end (e.g. the reasons for a Broken Base, arguing or a Flame War has erupted over it somewhere, it's a trope like Fan Dumb or such that describes arguing/drama) it gets cut or goes to YMMV.
Edited to add: While working on moving stuff there to YMMV I found another subjective-related question I wanted to raise. So while the general agreement on Epileptic Trees is that it is totally a subjective, in my fandom, what was an RL Epileptic Tree (that someone's religion was abusive and taking advantage of him rather than making the positive changes in his life he claimed it was and his defenders claimed it was at the time) actually turned out to be the truth of the matter, at least as far as the person once involved said. Should that still be listed on main? I know it's an odd example but...
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The Character pages on Mahou Sensei Negima! when you go to the actual pages it shows them Indexed but it doesn't show the next page in line (I cant figure out if the formatting is wrong or what)
NVM it seems fixed
Edited by RasoopenNo Title
I wanted to know if there are any rules pertaining the creation of a trope page for fan made games. specifically I want to create a page for this game.
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The user Cortez is deleting valid examples without explanation in the pages for Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, both Main, YMMV and Shout-Out, and the worst part is that he never gives an explanation for his deletions.