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openNo Title Western Animation
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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I would like to contact an editor (or whoever it was who posted my work) to thank them for being so generous for caring about my freeware video game - is there a way I can privately get the contact of such a person? Who do I contact for such a request?
Thank you! Joel.
openNo Title Western Animation
The Young Justice page has a bit of an edit war going on about whether or not to add examples for episodes of a series that have not aired yet, even though a preview of the episode (which the examples are supposedly coming from, I have not verified) is up on the Cartoon Network website.
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Moleman 9000 just put a whole bunch of recently removed YMMV tropes back on the Total Drama Island Character Sheet page, with an edit reason complaining about the rules.
Edited by PPPSSCopenNo Title Western Animation
Somebody just posted a rather harshly worded criticism of Dwayne McDuffie on the Ben 10 JBM page. I think the criticism is valid, but I deleted it anyways because the man just died the other day, now is not a good time to be calling him a Jerkass. Did I do the right thing? Should it be added back? I do think there would be no problem had it been posted three days ago.
Edited by loracarolopenNo Title Western Animation
What's the best way to handle season-episode references in examples?
Wakfu just started its second season, and inevitably examples are going to have to differentiate between the happenings in seasons 1 and 2. Currently, examples just refer to "episode x" because until today there was only one season that the episodes could have belonged to.
Replacing every instance of "episode x" with "episode x of season y" is a very long and redundant way to type it, and replacing them with the actual episode titles could cause confusion over title translations (the show is French). Some form of shorthand would be best, but there are a lot of ways to do that (syex? y-x?) and I haven't been able to find any examples of the preferred season-episode shorthand on this wiki.
openNo Title Western Animation
If I was hoping to make a tvtropes page for a fake TV show, kind of like the Avatar And The Airbending Fellowship Of Vampire Slayers, would I be allowed to do so? Would it go on the darth wiki, or as a troper? Is it just not. allowed. Period?
I ask as there's a prompt on a meme I frequent that's asked for a fic that would be a mock TV show, and all I could think of was how great a mock-tvtropes page would be... But I am totally willing to forgo it if it's against the rules. *
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I know I had conflict with Moleman9000 before, but this is the last straw.
On the Total Drama Island Tropes, he keeps insisting a character Gwen is an example of a Sympathic Adulterer, because she made out with with Duncan who was at the time dating Courtney.
The thing is while Duncan was in a relationship with Courtney(so he could fit in the adultery example) Gwen wasn't with anybody at the time. She was single. So she didn't comit adultery because in order to do so, you have to be in a relationship with someone then make out etc.. with someone else.
Am I right or wrong?
Edited by MadrugadaopenNo Title Western Animation
How do I create a Wild Mass Guessing page for the Beetlejuice page? I've got some really good ones that I'd like to share.
openNo Title Western Animation
On the Headscratcher page for Total Drama Island, there seems to be a problem with making folders, they were working fine for over a year, but then suddenly became broken mark-up, and whenever anyone tries to add the folders back in, it's just broken mark-up again. For now I've switched it over to AC organization, but I'd really appreciate it if someone could get the folders back.
Edited by GingerSnapsopenNo Title Western Animation
I would like to introduce a new series and am a little unsure of how to put it on. The Series is called "Zula Patrol", which is -quoting from its website-:The Zula Patrol, a 3D/CG animated children's show, is designed to entertain while promoting an understanding of science and astronomy through engaging character-driven stories, which focus on specific educational science learning objectives. In every episode of The Zula Patrol, the characters demonstrate inquiry-based learning and critical thinking skills. They also model inquisitiveness, observation, self-reflection, and social experiences that encourage collaboration, teamwork, and an excitement for scientific exploration and problem solving.
The Zula Patrol television show is a part of Zula's Pre K - 3rd Grade curriculum titled Zula's Exploration Mission Modules and Afterschool Program titled Zula's Afterschool Discovery Program. Both the school and afterschool programs provide all materials needed for children to view and discuss an episode of The Zula Patrol, read a similarly themed book, complete a similarly themed hands-on activity, and go online to Zula World.com for a technology-based exploration of the program topics. "-www.zula.com/main.php
What the website does not mention is that for every new science principle that they introduce, they break at least one scientific principle.
openNo Title Western Animation
litw went through the Fridge page for "Tangled" editing some stuff and outright deleting others. Is that even allowed? I mean, if it was the main page, I'd argue that they're cleaning up natter, but on the fridge logic page...?
Edit: It's been edited again. I reverted it to the base state, but could we get a mod to take a look? If they have time, I mean? ^^;
Edited by loracarolopenNo Title Western Animation
I've noticed that some of the pages on the Transformers work+index are no longer actually showing the Transformers listing on their own pages, where they did used to before. Was there some tech change that now requires new ways of listing or something in the code?
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when Iron Man's armor expands a gun out of inch-thin armor, or Kevin's car opens it's roof and a BFG comes out of the two inch-thick space - Where is it coming from? is there a trope for it? I couldn't find it under "hammer space".
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There's an argument going on over in Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Gaang. I'm not sure how big a deal that would be if it was just a heated debate, but Anaheyla has started insulting the tropers opposing his side of the debate.
Edited by TheOtherSteveopenNo Title Western Animation
Reading the X-Men Evolution edit history, i noted an edit war between Arcolops and iamnoone. In the ending Arcolops desisted, but their edit reason when desisted is the motive i am informing it:"But I know how this works, you're just going to add it back again. There's no reasoning with you guys." Link: X-MenEvolution
Edited by MagBasopenNo Title Western Animation
There's yet another edit war going on at the Young Justice cartoon page over the Dating Catwoman trope and whether it applies to two characters or not.
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Hi there! I am a brand-new troper (cue moans of exasperation from veteran tropers) who wishes to create an article for a show that doesn't have one yet. But it looks like someone has already begun creating one; when I search the title of the show, I'm linked to an article that is completely blank except for the title. The site tells me that the first thing I need to do is to create an index, and I'm confused. What should I link to in the index? Just "Western Animation" itself, or other Western Animation shows? Do I link to tropes that appear in the show? I've even seen some indexes that are alphabetical; should I do that? Any instructions for a first-timer on how to create an index for a new article? Thank you so much!
openNo Title Western Animation
- sigh* Okay. I've just added a new article (no information yet except for the title) to the Western Animation index, but it's been Red Linked. I'm positive that I haven't made any spelling errors and that the page exists, because when I search its title, I am linked to an article with that title, which says "Click the edit button to start this new page". It also says that the page hasn't been indexed yet, even though I have added it to Western Animation. I don't mean to be a nuisance with all the questions about indexing and whatnot that I've been asking, and I promise that I'm trying to be as self-sufficient as possible, but can anyone help out a frustrated newbie and tell me why my article has been Red Linked and what I can do to fix it? Thanks.
JustBugsMe.FanboyAndChumChum was blanked by Bgal, leaving the comment "Please only FRIDGE LOGIC examples, not things of the show that bug ya. Kaythx." He/she was quite right that the stuff there (natter and complaining) was not what JBM was for, but the page should have been deleted instead *; is this an exception to the page-blanking autoban, or what?