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openIs this okay?
Hello! I am completely new to trying my own hand at adding to Trope and Fandom pages and wanted to ask, i have come across several instances of a Trope being linked on a fandom page, but not no link to the fandom exists on the page of the trope?
Like, for example, in the character section for The Magnus Protocol there is a character who is stated to fit the trope called "Parents as People" but the character is not listed on the Trope page for"Parents as People" and i wanted to ask if tgats intentional?
Does that mean that this character or Fandom does somehow not "count" as an occurrence of the Trope?
Or can i just add it to the Trope page in the same way that the others are?
Or am is that against the rules?
(Please dont yell at me over this, i am Very new to this and would never edit something like that without being completely sure its allowed)
Thanks in advance for your replies!
- Storyweaver
Edited by StoryweaveropenEdit war over the terms "performer" and "player"
I think an edit war happened on Characters.The Amazing Digital Circus over the terms "performer" and "player" when refering to the main protagonists:
On 16 October 2023, immblueversion changed the main protagonists' section header from "The Performers" to "Players".
On 18 October 2023, RandomInformation changed it to just "Performers", as "[they] believe they're more often described as this".
On 26 April 2024, immblueversion changed said section header, and every instance of the word "performer" on the page, to "player", with the reasoning that "[t]he "performers" don't actually perform at the circus, so it's an obsolete term".
So, which term should be used for the main protagonists? "Performer" or "player"? "Performer" is the term used more often by the fans, but it's a misnomer, given that they don't perform in the Circus. "Player" would be a more accurate term, but it isn't used as much.
resolved Not sure if it's an edit war, but...
DR34DN0UGHT has added an iffy piece of text to a Tainted by the Preview on this page, then added a similar-sounding paragraph after much of the entry was cut down for being a ROCEJ violation.
openPage for an Abandoned Project
I found this page, Rebuild Of Pocket Monsters The Animation, which seems to be about a webcomic that only had two or three pages drawn before it got abandoned. I noticed that the page was made in May 2020 and that the Tumblr that page links to was last updated in June 2020, meaning that it was made by a troper who got hyped up by an ambitious project that quickly got cancelled before it actually went anywhere. This means that the page is almost exclusively troping Word of God tumblr posts about future ideas and plans that were never drawn.
My question is that do we keep a page for an abandoned project? Do tumblr asks and some page sketches and character drawings give enough tropable material for a page?
openDarkhorse misuse, re-delete?
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Violette Rainbow proved popular enough with fans that she wound up being introduced to Tell Your Tale in season 2.
I previously deleted this as it was added before the one month waiting period. A separate troper added this back after said wait, but I believe this is still misuse as the character was heavily (by the standards of the work) promoted and publicized before debut, and Darkhorse only applies to minor/unexpectedly popular characters, Breakout Character covering this better.
Permission to re-remove? Would it be edit warring if removed over two separate misuses from separate tropers? Or any thoughts on if she qualifies as Darkhorse or not?
openSomeone deleted my edit, but I don't agree.
On Quotes.Abuse Mistake, I added the quote from a TheOdd1sOut video about his book. The quote entailed a book a child James wrote titled I Do Not Like This Family, which he thinks might have made the teacher think he was abused, when actually he had a great childhood but just hated chores.
A user named animuacid removed it, however, with the edit reason "This quote doesn't meet the new definition of innocent things mistaken as abuse." But I think it does — he gave the book that title for a mundane reason, but the teacher may have mistaken it for abuse.
openEdit war
So @Xvrprkm added a really complainy entry on Arthur that I removed and cited the complaining thread, but he added it back completely.
- Designated Hero: D.W. can be this sometimes due to her whiny, bratty, and occasional Smug Snake behavior and the fact that she almost never faces any consequences for such behavior. And yet the show often treats her like a good guy or a victim. She's often seen as the female Funny Animal version of Caillou.
openImage Pickin issue
I'm trying to propose a couple of image changes, but the forum has been full for the past week. Is there a que list, or do you just have to get lucky and view it at the right time?
openHazbin hotel fan works page move Western Animation
The page is detailed since it was a leftover redict it said but where does it redirect to?
openCut YMMV page for the Bluffers? Western Animation
The tropes page for The Bluffers used to have a YMMV page, but it's been cut, with the reason given being only "Sonic satam fan myopia". Can anyone tell me why the page was cut, and if maybe it should be brought back?
openEdit War Live Action TV
- On the YMMV page of Kamen Rider Gotchard
- ddyingle added a lot of Natter on various elements of the page.
- I removed all of them and sent them a notifier.
- Not only did they re-add one of them in a different place, but they added more instances despite the notifier I sent them.
openExamples Are Not Arguable clarification
It's always been my understanding that the intention behind Examples Are Not Arguable is to state that either something is an example of a trope, or it isn't an example, and that entries that read along the lines of "X/Y is arguably an example of this trope" should be clarified or deleted.
However, lately I've noticed several instances of users seemingly interpeting the policy to mean that the words "arguable", "arguably" and other variants thereof aren't allowed to be used on the site in any context short of directly quoting a work, even on YMMV or Darth Wiki pages. Is this a correct reading of the policy, especially given that YMMV tropes are by their very nature something that people are going to potentially argue over?
openDiscarded draft
Has this draft been rouge nuked? It has plenty of hats (almost twice as many as bombs), it wasn't discarded by the sponsor, and the person who discarded it didn't say anything nor has had any discussion in the draft before.
Skimming over it, I don't seem to see anything bad enough to warrant an immediate discard; perhaps some concerns about misuse and bringing up aesop tropes going to the TRS, but other than that based on the hats it may have been doing decently. Am I missing something?
openHow do gendered redirects work?
Say I wanted to suggest "Anti-Education Papa" as a redirect for Anti-Education Mama. Is there some place I could go to do that?
openUploading Format Mistake
I accidentally uploaded a sizable batch of images as .webp instead of .png like they were intended. And TV Tropes isn't compatible with webp, including keeping them out of the image list page, so I'm not sure how to delete them. (Darn Wikia, converting them to that useless format...)
I don't upload images that often, so I'm not sure what to do in this situation.
openWhat can I use for example images Anime
Hi there! Long time lurker, newbie editor of pages. I decided to do a baby step of fixing some dead links on the *K-ON!* page. However, I'm unfamiliar with what exactly is fine to use as an example image. Are archive.org okay to use, or is first-hand source preferred? I was able to replace one with another example image (since they demonstrated the same thing), but some of the others don't have exact replacements. I have found an archive log of one example, but am unsure if I could use it.
Also, what should I do if a link is dead, and I can't replace it? Three out of four video links have since been deleted, unclear if by copyright or by the user, so I'm worried I might not be able to find replacements. Should I remove the links if I can't?
[PS: if one could redirect me to a source that explains this, it would be much appreciated. ^^ I've tried but I didn't find one as of typing this]
Camera Shy
It was a fairly detailed page, for an ongoing fanfic that has a fair amount of following, and the reason for cut was "Unneeded redirect". It has nothing to do with Camera Shy, the trope, which is the only redirect situation I can think of.