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resolved 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.
resolved Indentation edit-warring Videogame
On YMMV.The Legend Of Zelda I, Tailikku had added two entries, one of which was improperly indented and also began with word cruft ("Speaking of"). I fixed both issues and sent them a word cruft notifier... then they edited the example to reinstate the lone third-bullet asterisks for the second entry (they cited "fixing indentation [and] formatting" in the edit reason, but what they're doing is repeating an editing issue).
I'm writing this query to ask for permission to revert that improper bullet sorting once again.
Edited by MyFinalEditsresolved Is this proper? Videogame
I added something in the awesome moments in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, someone else modified it, then another person completely deleted the modification saying it wasn't "awesome". Err I get that the modification (which wasn't added by me btw) makes it sound less awesome then it actually is but.....was there any consensus in the Awesome cleanup forums before they did that? They explained their reasons but I find them doing that to be nitpicking.
Edited by NKgamerresolved Regarding forms of SpottingTheThread Videogame
If a spy unintentionally reveals their identity by knowing someone's name before it's been told to them, is that a case of I Never Told You My Name or I Never Said It Was Poison
resolved Is the mention of cisgender necessary? Videogame
On Trivia.Unicorn Overlord, troper thecouchwitch added a Cross-Cast Role entry (which I moved to Cross-Dressing Voices as the former trope is about live action roles) where they wrote this:
- Crossdressing Voices:
- The agender Skyler Davenport plays the cisgender woman Scarlett.
- Kdin Jenzen, a transgender woman, plays the cisgender male Lhinalagos.
While it is true that cis is the mostly likely identity these character identify as, it still kinda strikes me as unnecessary. However, I want to ask here to see if it is ok to remove it.
resolved Helldivers page needing split? Videogame
It's becoming increasingly obvious that Helldivers is suffering from extreme Sequel Displacement (even if not enough time has passed to list it as such), and since no one though to make a page for Helldivers II, it and all its related pages are getting clogged with references exclusively to the sequel. Is there any kind of policy about splitting pages that needs to be adhered to or is it a freebie?
resolved So, how can I add a Complete Monster list of Rockstar villains? Videogame
The Rockstar games has a lot of characters that are truly horrible, enough to fill the entire page. But I saw that the complete monster list are restricted in terms of editing. Is it the same with crating a new complete monster list?
Edited by Tabsresolved Morrigan Aensland is a villain Videogame
If the udon version of morrigan is the "most infamous example" of [1] then why does she kills humans in everything she appears, most people don't care or like that she kills humans because as i've seen them say "she is a succubus, that's what she does" and how did udon release a comic about her on 2022?
resolved where would memes go on a page if there aren't enough memes? Videogame
i want to list some memes on the regretevator pages but im not exactly sure which page it would go on since it seems like there's not enough examples to be one whole page. can someone help?
resolved Trolling, edit warring Videogame
User Calm Hill Of Treasures,
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=CalmHillOfTreasures
has been engaging in blatant agenda-based edit warring and trolling on the ymmv page for Unicorn Overlord,
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/UnicornOverlord
Their particular focus is the Woolseyism trope (a noisy minority of chuds on twitter have raised a big stink over the localization).
Calm Hill has ignored invitations to discuss issues they have with the example, their edit reasons have been utter nonsense (citing Zero Context Examples despite including more than sufficient context), they've deleted Les Yay and Ho Yay from the same page because, "Grammar", they deleted a Crowning Funny example (that has a quote from the localization) because "typo", and they re-worded the Woolseysim trope to be hostile to the localization because, "fixing a sinkhole", before just deleting their own revised version because, "Grammar".
Edited by Raxisresolved Troping trivia and YMMV entries for a nonexistent subpage Videogame
I recently added a Laconic entry for the music album Pac Man Fever. I decided to check the trivia and YMMV pages out of curiosity, and found that people had added entries for the video game also called Pac Man Fever. However, clicking the VideoGame/ tab redirects me to the Pac-Man page instead, which means the VideoGame/ work page for it doesn't exist. Should I cut the Trivia and YMMV tropes, comment them out, or move them to Pac-Man's Trivia/ and YMMV/ namespaces?
resolved Edits Not Showing Up When Logged Out Videogame
Recently, I made these edits to the WMG page for Home Safety Hotline. The changes show up when I'm logged in, but they are nowhere to be seen when I'm logged out.
I'm not sure what happened, but could it be because I didn't click on the "CONFIRM CHANGES" button in the source editor after I finished making my changes? I noticed that button last night and didn't think much of it at first. Sometime after I noticed my changes weren't showing up logged out, I read on the changelog that the button was added on the 15th of this month along with the visual editor.
So could that be the problem of why my changes aren't showing up without being logged on? I never really had this problem until now.
resolved Mentioning fan speculation Videogame
Context: Shin Megami Tensei V`s Updated Re-release, Vengeance, was originally planned to release on June 21, 2024 before being moved up to June 14. This lead to people speculating that it was intentionally moved as to avoid competing with Elden Ring`s highly anticipated Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.
With that in mind, SMTV's Trivia page mentions this speculation twice (along the line of "leading fans to speculate"). I'm not sure this is allowed, but I want to make sure.
Here are the entries in question:
- Dueling Games: Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance was originally to be released on the same day as Elden Ring's highly anticipated Shadow of the Erdtree DLC expansion. When Atlus announced that Vengeance would release a week earlier, people speculated that Atlus wanted to avoid this.
- Release Date Change: Vengeance was meant to be released Worldwide on June 21st of 2024, but nearly a month after its announcement, Atlus announced that it would release a week earlier, with fans speculating that this was to avoid competition from Elden Ring's expansion.
resolved Are these examples correct? Videogame
Found this on FireEmblemThreeHouses.Tropes A To D
- All Lesbians Want Kids: If a female Byleth gets a paired ending with Mercedes it is stated that they ended up opening an orphanage and raising many kids together. Byleth also ends up adopting children in her paired ending with Dorothea but only in the Japanese version of the game.
Looking at the trope page, the trope is about various lesbian women who wants to have a kid. This entry simply states that Female Byleth and Mercedes opened an orphanage and becoming mothers to many orphaned children. No mention of them wanting kids. Any other thoughts?
Characters.Fire Emblem Three Houses Adrestian Empire
- Psycho Lesbian: She doesn't express any sort of romantic interest in any of the male characters and has an extreme obsession with Edelgard which goes to the point that she keeps track of every meal that Edelgard has eaten, the amount of times she's sighed, the amount of times she's said Monica's name, or to her chagrin, the names of others compared to her own. Downplayed, as while Monica's obsession with Edelgard is clearly unhealthy she doesn't actually physically hurt anyone over it.
The trope is about a woman is psychotically obsessed with another woman, to the point of actively harming others. As written, Monica sounds more like a lesbian Clingy Jealous Girl than anything.
Edit: The examples are misuse per here and here. Locking as resolved
Edited by Ayumi-chanresolved Specificity of Release Windows for Upcoming Works? Videogame
How specific does a release window for an upcoming game that only has a cutscene trailer need to be? Is a year enough, or do we need the quarter/season/month?
resolved The Elder Scrolls Character Page Splitting Videogame
The character page for The Elder Scrolls: Divine Beings is getting quite large, so I'm looking to split it into "Pre-Creation Entities", "Aedra", "The Tribunal and Dagoth Ur" and "Other Deities".
Additionally, I'm looking to soft-split The Elder Scrolls: Historical Figures into different sections for better categorisation.
I'd just like to know if I need to discuss with others before splitting any character pages, or if I can go right ahead with the edits. How to Split a Page doesn't specify if I need prior permission, but I just want to be sure.
For reference:
The Elder Scrolls: Divine Beings (including pre-existing Daedra sub-pages)
- Pre-Creation Entities
- The Aedra (Nine Divines)
- Daedra
- Daedric Princes
- Lesser Daedra
- The Tribunal and Dagoth Ur
- Other Deities
The Elder Scrolls: Historical Figures
- Cyrodilic Emperors and Regents:
- First Empire:
- Alessia the Slave Queen
- Second Empire:
- Reman Cyrodiil
- The Akaviri Potentates
- Third Empire:
- Tiber Septim
- Pelagius Septim III "the Mad"
- Uriel Septim V
- First Empire:
- Other Historical Figures:
- Merethic Era:
- The Snow Prince
- Topal the Pilot
- Veloth the Pilgrim
- Ysgramor
- First Era:
- Arch-Mage Shalidor
- Dumac Dwarfking
- Frandar Hunding
- Gaiden Shinji
- Indoril Nerevar
- Jurgen Windcaller
- Kagrenac
- Morihaus
- Pelinal Whitestrake
- Second Era:
- Ada'Soom Dir-Kamal
- Vanus Galerion
- Third Era:
- Potema Septim
- Multiple Eras / Unknown Era:
- Iachesis
- Lamae Beolfag
- Orgnum
- Rajhin
- Umaril the Unfeathered
- Wulfharth Ash-King
- Zurin Arctus / The Underking
- Merethic Era:
resolved Can I cut this page if the only entry no longer applies? Videogame
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: As Sarcastic Pasta Games have taken down the DLC in 2020 citing the need to replace multiple assets, this DLC is currently unplayable unless you already have a copy of it.
Except, now that I've checked the creator's page, the DLC is available to download again, by about note (coincidentally, since I just came across this news because of this entry) half a day ago. It's the only entry, can I cut the page?
EDIT: 5 days late, but I just updated the entry per the last reply. Going to lock without bumping. Edited by BlackFaithStar
resolved Character folder for Eiko from Street Fighter 2 Pocky Edition Videogame
So I want to make a character page for Eiko from the Advertising game Street Fighter 2 Pocky Edition. And I want to know if it's okay to do so.
Edited by AFanresolved something wrong with the Baldur's gate 3 Origin Characters page? Videogame
Specifically this one. Checking the history of the page or the edit page, i can clearly see there is content here. But when i try to look at the page itself... it's blank.
I've seen this acronym used in several video game-related pages, and it never links to anything nor does it have any accompanying explanation. What does POTN mean/stand for?