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openNo Title Western Animation
can u add FLYING CAR,M.A.S.K five man band eye beam hondo mcclean blaster mask on to M.A.S.K TV TROPE
Edited by 71.227.109.128openNo Title Western Animation
There's an Edit War between two tropers going on at YMMV.The Fairly Odd Parents.
Edited by TheOneWhoTropesopenNo Title Western Animation
Troper presendent is stirring up the same Disney Princess Eye Color things as last week, going through the trope pages and removing ones s/he doesn't feel is appropriate, as well as taking the Eye Colors completely off the page.
I'd really rather not see it locked, since I'm fairly sure that presedent is a sock puppet of the only person who was causing trouble in the first place, and they simply are ban evading.
ETA: Double post? I'm sorry, I'm not sure how that happened.
Edited by helterskelteropenNo Title Western Animation
So... In Family Guy, we know that Brian has suffered some MASSIVE character derailment... But from what I've seen of the show recently, and reading up on the Character Derailment page (not to mention the Family Guy page)... This just doesn't seem to be sufficient?
Is there a more specific trope of Character Derailment when it's Taken Up To Eleven and beyond? I mean, hell. Brian used to be intellectual, well educated, and generally knew what he was talking about... Now he's just blowing hot air.
openNo Title Western Animation
Someone seems to have put a little too much love into the Panty Shot entry on the Doug page. Should it be trimmed, or just remove the sub-entries?
openNo Title Western Animation
There's some Edit warring on the Cartoon Network page. Tropers.I Am Boring keeps removing and changing any content that mentions the "CN Real" and "renaissance" eras (and a few other things too) on the page to whatever he wants, only saying "No YMMV items on the main page", which is ironic considering that he himself has put YMMV stuff on the main page (not to mention that there is a bunch of YMMV stuff still there, even before this edit war), and really sounds more like "I want this description done my way" rather than issues of having subjective tropes. I even tried to make a compromise, but he just continued on with his edit warring. Can I get a resolution on this? Yes the network has been in a bit of a rut lately, but I know that we can describe the network with a description that can make all sides happy.
Also, what is the rule when it comes to YMMV and Audience Reaction potholes and mentions when it comes to a work's/network's/creator's/etc. description? The only thing I know is that these shouldn’t be used as an example to a trope with the exception of In-Universe examples. If there’s a rule using those in a description, then all I can say that it is poorly enforced around the wiki. If not, then I smell a need for mod intervention on this page.
Edited by GundamforceopenNo Title Western Animation
Hello, there. I'm wondering if anyone is still available to discuss tropes from Codename:Kids Next Door . I've made several contributions to the cartoon's headscratchers section recently, but no one seems to be around anymore.
Edited by deLatreopenNo Title Western Animation
The user IM Boring completely deleted the Deconstruction tropes from the Beauty And The Beast page, claiming it was natter. Does it count as natter? Battosaijoe already restored it, and it doesn't look like natter to me- help?
openNo Title Western Animation
While not a problem on any particular page, MrFamicom seems to be under the impression that the wiki is his own personal blog for voicing his... rather strong opinions on the current state of animation.
The page that is the most problematic is The Millennium Age Of Animation, but he has also editorialized on Animesque (This was some time ago, but his edits, such as changing "And now we have Symbionic Titan, which was also largely anime influenced." to "And now we have Symbionic Titan, too, but depending of who you ask, some people will like to forget about this show ever being made.", were only recently caught and reverted) and pimped Rough Draft studios by going to some of the pages of works not made by Rough Draft and editing in remarks about how that work's animation isn't as good as that of Rough Draft.
I tried to discuss the problem with him on the discussion page for The Millennium Age Of Animation, but he is entirely uninterested in hearing any opinion other than his own.
I won't say he needs to be banned or anything, but I really think he needs at least a stern talking to from a mod, as he obviously won't listen to me.
openNo Title Western Animation
What namespace do western animation films go in again? I know it's either WesternAnimation/ or Film/, but I can never remember which.
openNo Title Western Animation
Is it alright to make new namespaces for specific series? Surely it would at least require mod approval. We already have HarryPotter/, Discworld/, and some others listed on the Namespace page, after all.
Specifically, I want to copy over specific Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies films to a new namespace that could be called LooneyTunes/. There are quite a few shorts with their own pages, so I don't think it would really make sense to put them all on WesternAnimation/. I could be wrong about this, though.
Edited by FinalStarmanopenNo Title Western Animation
How exactly do you make a redirect? I'm moving Transformers Rescue Bots to the proper namespace, and this is my first time using redirects.
openNo Title Western Animation
We've got yet another shipping edit war between sozincomet and LRS on this The Fairly Oddparents page. Second to most recent edit by sozincomet had a rude edit reason as well. To be fair, LRS DID ask in his edit reason for any problem with it go to the Discussion page. However, it appears sozincomet ignored that request.
Edited by battosaijoeopenNo Title Western Animation
Why is the Ho Yay page for The Penguins Of Madagascar locked?
openNo Title Western Animation
ninjaclown and Jteeth alerted me to this recent mass-deletion of pony entries on numerous wiki articles without prior discussion. Could we request some entry restoring/cleanups and further assistance on this matter? Filed under Western Animation because ponies are under that category even though the mass edits happen all over.
openNo Title Western Animation
Pandering to the Base's history shows that Metal Gear Chick put an offensive line into the Western Animation section. We were alerted to this by Fell Deeds Awake, and Badwolf removed the offending portion once they found out.
openNo Title Western Animation
Look at the history section of the Animation Age Ghetto and Network Decay pages. Alex Sora 89 has linked to Wall Banger (yes, getting past the fact that the Main redirect was zapped so it wouldn't be used anywhere outside Darth Wiki). I've already zapped the pothole in both pages, but because I didn't expect him/her make the pothole in two pages (I thought he only did in the ND page until I went to AAG), he might have done the same in other pages. Can somebody talk to him? Thanks
openNo Title Western Animation
Recently I cleared up the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Tear Jerker page, per the Special Efforts thread. rubyrose has since re-added two examples twice without edit reasons, after I twice pointed out why they didn't belong on the page. I'm not sure which one of us is right and I don't want this to become an Edit War.
I might be the only one to care, but the PoundPuppies page covers both the 1985 and 2010 versions of the show. Now that The Hub seems to be supporting the newer show, perhaps the two versions should be have their own pages. I wouldn't mind doing the work, but I'm not sure if it's as simple as naming two pages, say, "Pound Puppies 1985" and "Pound Puppies 2010" or something similar since all the potholes on other pages would need to be changed, or if a disambiguation page would also be needed, or what-have-you. In short, I'm wondering who does (or who can) separate the pages and if I were to do it, what are the steps I need to take?