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Is there a page for "Doomsday Preppers" style shows? Or are they just the poster example for Wrong Genre Savvy?
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I know the rule "fix it yourself" but since I've never seen Firefly, I have no idea what's true within the four-bulleted argument/natter on the Photographic Memory page:
- River Tam from Firefly exhibits this when she memorizes the exact locations and cover arrangements of three soldiers in a room and shoots all three in rapid succession, a bullet to each, with her eyes closed.
River: No power in the 'Verse can stop me.
- That only required her to memorize three points, and retain that memory for a few seconds.
- Remember them exactly and then unerringly hit them in an instantly fatal spot. She captured their exact location and stance in an instant. Let's see you try that - with a Nerf gun, though. Shooting people is generally frowned upon.
- Not only that, but she also spun her body around. She was facing them when she saw them, got shot at and ducked in behind cover, picked up Kaylee's gun, stood up and then spun her clockwise, extending her left arm, while her eyes were still closed. She would have had to not only remember exactly where the guys were, but also calculate the exact angle she turned her body, how high she should point her arm (and the gun) in relative position to how far clockwise she spun her body.
Kaylee: Not even the captain could make a shot like that!- This is more a case of perfect coordination than perfect memory. You could set up basketball goals all around someone with perfect memory, but that doesn't mean they'd make every shot with their eyes closed.
- Possibly photographic memory (for locking the position of the targets in her mind), perfect coordination (to be able to move and attack with the necessary precision to the image in her mind) AND perfect calculation (for the position, trajectory of the bullets, possibly deviations, etc; she can kill you with maths)
- That only required her to memorize three points, and retain that memory for a few seconds.
Could someone who knows Firefly better please help out? Again, I would love to do it myself but I have little knowledge of the show. Another question, is this the right thread to ask for this type of thing or should I have put this in the discussion section of Photographic Memory?
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Not tremendously urgent, but an editor added a bunch of shoehorned tropes, natter, and complaining to the Firefly YMMV page. I've pulled them and explained my reasoning, but I've seen enough edit wars brewing to suspect that we might get a conflict in the immediate future if this stuff is contested. Some of it is the usual natter/flamewar-drawing stuff associated with Firefly, especially that prickly issue around ethnicity, so I went ahead and completely cleared that particular minefield. Giving a heads-up and requesting a moderator to keep an eye on it so if there is a conflict, we can nip any edit wars in the bud.
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Is there a franchise page for the Degrassi family? If not, how would I go about creating it and what would I name it? I don't know too much about the series but it would be nice to have some sort of page to link to when talking about the franchise in general. All I know is that there's Degrassi The Next Generation, Degrassi Junior High, and Degrassi High. Are there others I'm missing out of that list that we have on this site?
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I was looking into the western TV tropes and realized that a few shows may be missing.. how do i add pages for those shows?
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I've become involved in a bit of a tussle concerning a Faux Action Girl entry on the Quantum of Solace. The other troper involved, forsetipurge, is being rather rude and just added the trope back in after presenting their argument for it rather than waiting for a response. If it's not an edit war yet, I don't know what to do to not create one, since I feel I should remove the trope until we're finished discussing it, so some mediation would be useful. All the conversation is in the history and on the discussion page.
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Hey there, I was led to the No Nonsense Self Defense link on I Just Want to Be Badass and reading through the page I began thinking about Buffy The Vampire Slayer. You know how she goes out on patrol looking for demons and such? Well as many people would guess that would likely get someone killed. I have in my mind writing up a detailed prose on this. How would I go about doing it? Where would I post it? Or would it be better off to leave that to self defense experts?
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Matia readded an example that I had removed from Nightmare Fuel.Advertising as a nattery and zero-content example. It is still nattery and full of "this troper," and it's not really appropriate for Nightmare Fuel.
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Potential edit war (sorry, I didn't realise I should have put it here first) in the Sherlock Tear Jerker and Funny pages. A troper has been deleting fairly large chunks of examples, with no comments or reasons. I've put back the ones I've found, since I think they are justified (and no they weren't all written by me :p ) I'm loath to message the user as I don't want to start a PM war either. I can only assume she disagrees, but those are subjective tropes anyway, you can't just delete the contributions of others because you don't have the same sense of humour/sense of pathos they do.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Horrible.LiveActionTV
DarthMegatron has started an Edit War on this page. No Discussion had been done to our knowledge. (PM's may have been sent, but the Discussion page has nothing)
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I've been watching The X-Files re-runs lately, and also I've discovered the joy of editing this wiki. I've come across several little problems with The X/Files page. I'm willing to contribute and show it some love, but I think I need to ask about the right approach first.
The main page has two sections for adding tropes, This show and its Myth Arc and Individual episodes of this series.
The thing is that sometimes certain tropes appear in both types of episodes. There is one trope listed twice then, which I think goes against this wiki's policy. For example, right now there is Getting Crap Past the Radar or Single-Issue Psychology in both sections. Should this be merged, or is listing it separately justified?
Sometimes a trope that appears in several MOTW episodes is listed in the Myth Arc section (as in appearing throughout the series), but at times it's placed in the MOTW section and the entry gives specific episodes. Which approach is preferred?
I thought that perhaps there might be three sections. Maybe something like this:
- The series in general and its tropes, recurring tropes, and tropes used in both types of episodes.
- Myth Arc episodes and their tropes
- Tropes appearing in standalone episodes
Another possibility would be to join it all and have one section only, which is what most TV shows pages have I think.
Thank you.
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Just something I'm wondering. I would sometimes (re: as often as I can) link to Buffy The Vampire Slayer. At first I'd just use Buffy and noticed that all the time the link would be corrected. So I began using Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a tag and again it would be corrected to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I always have trouble doing. Just out of curiosity, all tags lead to the same place. So since it does that where's the need to use a specific tag?
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Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia has an episode based entirely on continuity nods and references; is that an example of Continuity Cavalcade or Continuity Porn? One is for a single scene, one is for an entire work, but there's no clear distinction on something between a scene and a work (IE an episode).
Just thought I'd get someone's opinion.
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So, I was trying to namespace a works page, and I accidentally made it LiveActionTV/Svengoolie instead of Series/Svengoolie. I made the former into a redirect of the latter, but seeing as the former really shouldn't exist at all, can someone delete LiveActionTV/Svengoolie for me?
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For Spartacus Blood And Sand I'm a bit confused as to when Tropes are filed under General Tropes or under the specific Arc folders. Do we add/move tropes to General Tropes from the moment they appear in more than one Arc? Or only if they appear in all? For instance, some (but not all) Battle Couples feature in multiple arcs, as do the examples of Unholy Matrimony and Condemned Contestant I'd like to add.
If I need to list them under all the specific Arc where they apply, do I relist the examples that happened in previous Arcs and still apply? Or only add new examples?
(I hope this is the right place to ask, if not, apologies)
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TV Rulez Again is deleting Complete Monster examples from YMMV pages without getting authorisation first. As at least one of these examples was still being discussed and no verdict made, it's clear that he hasn't learned from his last suspension.
Batman - Mr Freeze was still being discussed
X-Men: First Class - It was a poorly written example, but he still deleted it without getting the cleanup thread's okay.
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I'm not sure where to put this. I was trying to edit the Live Action Ensemble Dark Horse page with an I Pad and accidentally wound up messing up the formatting. I tried to fix it, but I think I just made it worse. I'm really sorry. I can't fix it on my own since I won't have access to a regular computer for a couple of days.
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Okay, the WMG section for the TV horror-drama, Supernatural, is getting excessively crowded, with no order to any of the WMG.
I want to do folders (which I know how to make) or redirects to new pages (which I don't know how to do) for different categories, but I'm not kidding when I call that thing huge and disorganized. I don't have the time (in real life or in the short amount allowed for edit sessions) to do all that by myself, so I'm requesting backup/help/divine intervention from anybody willing.
Please?
P.S. I'd also like to know if I'm even allowed to do that.
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Not sure if this is worth reporting, but we might have an edit war about to hatch in the Tokumei Sentai Gobusters page over how Metaroid should be spelled.
Comic Relief is a page about British charity telethon. However, it has some 280 wicks, almost every single one of them being used to mean Plucky Comic Relief.
It seems to me that the solution is to move the page to either UsefulNotes.Comic Relief or Series.Comic Relief, and make Main.Comic Relief a disambiguations page or a redirect to Plucky Comic Relief.
It this something I can do on my own initiative on the grounds that namespace moving and removing bad examples is a free action, or does the scale of it mean that I need to go to TRS?