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openHeavy-handed "badge of honor" troping Live Action TV
rr3elite appears to have a major Single-Issue Wonk focused on showing off the villainy of the character Zein from Kamen Rider Outsiders and their appearances in other Kamen Rider media, including this week's episode of Kamen Rider Gotchard. I initially reported them on ATT before for shoehorning in Fan Myopia-laden comparisons to other works through misuse of various tropes, but it is now clear that was a symptom of a much bigger wonk, mostly afflicting Zein's sheet, the page for Outsiders itself, and various pages for Gotchard (YMMV, antagonists sheet, Nightmare Fuel, #33's recap) where Zein's appearance is concerned.
I haven't sent any notifiers because there's too many offending edits to comb through, but a lot of their edits consist of what they have previously been reported for, plus Bold Inflation, countless sentence structure and grammar errors, and "look at how horrible this person is" examples that stretch Zein's villainynote it is a sapient AI that has placed the world into an authoritarian surveillance state with the intent of mass genocide and has manipulated the heroes into giving it its resources, but I would hesitate to call a lot of its actions deliberately symbolic or nuanced beyond face value.. They also added Speculative Troping examples to Gotchard #33's recap suggesting Zein would have had a darker and more dramatic role in the episode, when in reality he only appears to kill one of the unambiguously-evil villains in the episode and leaves just as quickly to promote Outsiders.
I'm not sure if this is a policy violation in its own right, but I cannot deny in good faith that it is starting to compromise their writing and thus the quality of the pages they are editing.
Edited by TrocyteVopenFake Brit and Voice Acting
On Trivia.Valkyria Chronicles, troper gjjones deleted a Fake Brit entry with this edit reason:
To knowledge, unlike Dawson Casting, which is strictly live action, Fake Brit (and related tropes) can be applied to voice acting since it is about hearing an accent than physical appearance. Any other thoughts on this?
resolved CoolNickNack (again)
In a previous query I reported Cool Nick Nack for continuing to make Example Indentation errors despite notifiers, and apparently they were suspended. However they're still editing and still making indentation mistakes, in particular tacking on "sub-bullets" like replies or extensions of the previous example. And it's not as if they don't know how to indent properly either, as shown by this edit.
openCrosswicking RL
Just making sure the exact policy on this one. Since plenty of trope pages allow Real Life examples, but you're not supposed to trope a creator's personal life, does that mean you're not allowed to cross-wick the RL examples from the trope page when it pertains to people who have Creator/ pages?
openTroper unilaterally taking down images
I have reason to believe Wilben unilaterally and prematurely took down several images as per the current Moments Images cleanup crowner. Should they be restored for at least the next few days? And what, if anything, should we do with Wilben?
Edited by JHD0919openDeleting excess character pages Web Original
How do you deal with character pages that are bare bones apart from an image or Zero-Context Examples? Is it okay to get rid of them if they aren't fleshed out, or do you have to get approval?
I’ve brought the page I want to deal with (the overloaded Planet Dolan page) to the Character Page Cleanup thread, but I don’t know where else to go from there.
openSuspicious user
I received a PM from the user Master Waldon which mischaracterizes the contents of a post I made on the Complete Monster Cleanup thread. It doesn't seem to just be a good faith misunderstanding as the choice of words in their post match a previously suspended troper who had a history of twisting tropers' words in regards to CM and getting extremely rude in their bad faith interpretation of folks' post. I just wanted to flag this for mod attention in case we could have a ban evader situation.
openTroper M00ny4rzu needs a tap on the shoulder. Western Animation
Troper M00ny4rzu keeps on adding back An Aesop for this recap page for the Bluey show, despite there being a cleanup for the wick. I had added the reason it was removed and the troper put the example back. The second time, I added much more details.
openAre Just For Fun pages free launch?
The description of Tom Swifty is kinda clogged by the amount of items in its 'catalogue of Tom Swifties' folder, so I was thinking of moving that folder to a Just for Fun/ page but (1) idk whether JFF pages are free launch and (2) I want to discuss whether it's appropriate to move them there.
I woulda brought the latter to the Description Improvement thread but seemed more practical to lump my two questions here.
resolved Do you need permission for creating subpages?
Because I am fairly new at this wiki, I have a question regarding creating new pages: if the page for a work on this wiki lacks a certain subpage (for example, a Funny page, or Recap page), do you need permission first before creating that respective page?
Edited by HipsterDog02resolved Questions about sandboxes
Is it considered okay if someone creates a work page by copying the content of a sandbox that a completely different user was working on?
I just saw that Literature.Demian was created by someone else using the contents I had written on Sandbox.Demian. I hadn't worked on the sandbox in a few months because I wanted to reread the book in order to write a good work's description (right now both the sandbox and Literature/ pages have almost no description).
I'm not upset about this, I'm rather kind of confused of what to do in this case.
I get if the user who created the page was tired of waiting for it to be an actual article, so I'm wondering if it's seen negatively if someone takes months on moving a sandbox to the correct namespace.
I'm curious about these things regarding sandbox etiquette.
openLily Orchard rename
Should Creator.Lily Orchard be renamed Creator.Lily And Mikaila, due to the channel being renamed?
Edited by randomtroper89resolved Is this walkthrough mode? Videogame
On The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie, I removed a Do Well, But Not Perfect entry since it read like Walkthrough Mode. When I sent a notif to the troper, they argued that it was valid. I tried to say it still read as walkthrough and I can't rewrite it without making it such. Do I'm asking if the entry is walkthrough mode.
- Do Well, But Not Perfect: The final battle against Ishmelga, aka Zoa Gilstein. If you target his precise weak point, The AI will always dodge and counterattack. The key to winning the battle is to just hit him in the "wrong" position, which won't stagger him but will still hurt him.
openSpecific forum complaining policy?
What is the policy for complaining about a show or film on the forum? I need to know so I know when hollering the mods is appropriate.
If there is a link to the rules, that would also be helpful. Thanks.
opentv tropes missing buttons????/ Webcomic
Ive been trying to rehaul the homestuck beyond canon page and when i tried to create a shoutout page it was just blatantly missing from the create new tab
openI am confused by this edit reason.
So, on Dry Docking Sabot Tori edited a bunch of entries to remove mentions of fans finding the actors attractive saying ""Played by the beautiful X" appears five times on this page with little variation, and four times in a row in one section. I've retained one example of this that mentions something more descriptive, but there needs to be more about why these actors are appealing to the fans, or it's just a subjective example without any sort of clarifying context or explanation." Which I find odd, as isn't saying that fans find the performers attractive mentioning why fans find them appealing? Is it necessary to describe in detail why they are attractive when the trope doesn't require it? I am not even trying to get them added back (I don't think the performers needed to be mentioned) but am just confused what the edit reason is going for.
Edited by Bullmanopen Holding Out for a Hero
Hello.
This time I am looking for something that is exactly like the trope name indicates, that is, a person that feels trapped and desperately wants someone to be their knight in shining armor to come and save them from their situation. It is not necessarily that they are a Damsel in Distress but they still feel trapped and they hate their situation. The actual Holding Out for a Hero does not appear to cover this instance.
Anything that might fit?
EDIT: Brainfart, put it in the wrong section.
Edited by mattesteopenHow to add images to forums
Hello. I have been here for awhile now, but I had never added in images in forum boards before. How do you add an image to a forum post?
Today, I found that Tropers/kuchiki222 moved the content of several subpages for Epic Fail to the main page, specifically the pages for Comic Books, Comic Strips, Animated Films, Literature, Tabletop Games, Web Animation, and Web Original. Later, Stalker Gamer removed the links to those pages. Was this discussed anywhere? Neither of them left an edit reason.