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As agreed on the discussion page, I moved all the X Moment sub-pages in the Disgaea series page from each individual work to the main series sub-page (example). Now, should I cutlist the remains(example) or redirect them to the corresponding sub-page?
Thanks.
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Dear Tropers
Seriously, how do you guys type with boxing gloves on?
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Jack Mackerel just vandalized Locked Pages and Permanent Red Link Club. Please ban.
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Now, I assume that Darth Wiki tropes aren't allowed off of Darth Wiki at all, but is there a specific page that states that?
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Ill Ill Ill Ill seems to have a grudge against Crowning Music of Awesome, and is going on a crusade to delete all of its potholes.
That'd be fine, except s/he's not moving them to a YMMV tab and is just zapping them, forcing me to clean up. S/he's also deleting potholes not "listed on a work's page as a trope," despite that to my knowledge those are allowed as long as they aren't excessive.
Advice please?
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Ill Ill Ill Ill has started a one man crusade against gushing. He's written a manifesto and is deleting any mention of it that he finds from the wiki pages outside of the Sugar Wiki. When politely asked to move them to YKTTW pages instead of just deleting them he flat out declined.
Edited by shimaspawnopen No Title
Me and the author of a combination search engine Duck Duck Go have been discussing special integration with TV tropes. He asked if you had a dump of the whole site he could use. I couldn't find it; is there one? Or if not, could the sysadmins make one?
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Is Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have! a female-only trope or not? I'm seeing a few guy examples on the page...
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Does anyone know what indexe/s this page should be given? I'm at a complete loss on how to categorize it.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElviraMistressOfTheDark
Edited by LazyGirlopen No Title
suedenim is waging a one-troper war against examples on Captain Ersatz - many of which are actual examples of the trope. She keeps saying "these are Expies" in her edit reasons, but... an expy is a character similar to another character by the same writer. That, and she seems to think that Expy is basically "Captain Ersatz as regarding objects or concepts of Shows Within a Show."
I really don't mean to complain, but she's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Yes, there are some examples that don't belong, and she's taking out some natter, but she's going a little too far.
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What are the logistical reasons that we can't keep any more than a few months of history? I'm aware that we don't have anywhere near the resources of Wikipedia and it's progeny or Wikia, but how many more bytes would it be to have more history available? I've just run into this issue yet again, and it's rather frustrating.
Alternately, does anyone have a copy of Binding Ancient Treaty from approximately last March or April?
Edited by WestrimopenNo Title
Now that teardrop/treasurechest is banned, can the lock on Prince of Persia be released? I was just about to work on spoiler reforms and moving stuff to the YMMV page when the hullabaloo happened. Relatedly, the history of the comments he deleted is blank. Is it possible to see what people wrote before he vandalized them?
Also, Firefox has hullabaloo in its dictionary. Huh.
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Where do I go to ask a question about the difference between two similar tropes?