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resolved The Colonial Period
As The Colonial Period has been moved to the Useful Notes namespace, the name sounds too generalizing to non-American tropers, such as myself whose country had two colonial periods. Mind if I suggest renaming it to The American Colonial Period or The Thirteen American Colonies as to make it specific to the US colonial period?
UPDATE: Crowner for Alternative names HERE. UPDATE 2: Related thread HERE.
Edited by alnair20aug93resolved Self-demonstrating works pages?
I just came across the Pygmy page, where the plot description and all the examples are written in imitation of the narrator's idiosyncratic prose style. The author deliberately chose the prose style to make it unclear what was going on, which is fine in a novel but I think is unhelpful in an informative web page. Is there a policy covering this?
resolved Potential misuses of What an Idiot
On some of the various "What an Idiot" pages, some of the examples feature acts of idiocy by characters that are supposed to be idiots, such as Homer Simpson and Patrick Star. On the trope page, it says "some characters are supposed to be idiots, in which case we probably don't need a full and complete list of every stupid thing they do." It seems to me like the trope is describing examples of characters who are otherwise smart doing a stupid things. Conversely, stupid characters doing stupid things seems to be expected of them. Should such examples still be included?
resolved Thinking about moving a page Webcomic
A while back I created the page for DNA. I think it needs to be moved because their are some unrelated works with the same name that also have pages. Although I am not sure what to move it to. Also I have never moved a page before. I was thinking of moving it to WebComic/DNATheWebComic. Is there being works pages with the same name for unrelated works a good reason to move it? And if so, what should I move it to?
Edited by legendaryweredragonresolved Can I make new Image Picking thread on same topic with old one in morgue?
On Lethal Joke Item again. There used to be one thread, but it got locked and the trope itself got TRS treatment. Now that's done and it's clear that the image, despite being picked by IP, doesn't illustrate the trope (and possibly misuse, hard to tell since the entries of the image source are ZCE).
Edited by Kuruniresolved Incorrect page title Anime
On the Digimon Xros Wars characters page, the subpage for the Blue Flare Army is mistakedly titled as Blue Fare Army. Does anyone know how to correct that error?
resolved Creator Killer
Some examples on Creator Killer seem to list examples of the creator doing something illegal or unethical as a creator killer, rather than the quality of their work, as specified in the trope description. Should this be fixed?
resolved Creator Trivia page
Since Creator Trivia subpages are not allowed, I tried to cut Trivia / Chris Savino but the request was declined because of inbound links. How do we fix this?
resolved Capitlization Issue in Page title
The Headscratchers Page for The Godfather, currently has a typo where the "S" in "Headscratchers" is capitalized, resulting in the title appearing as two separate words, i.e. "Head Scratchers". How is this issue to be fixed?
Edited by costanton11resolved Cinemasins Critical Research Failure Web Original
On the Cinemasins Critical Research Failure Page, one of the examples is the narrator not knowing that the Smiley Face on Mars depicted in Watchmen is real. Is this considered common enough knowledge to count as a Critical research Failure?
resolved G8 namespace
The page for the Group of Eight is currently at the main namespace when it should be at the useful notes namespace. How do we move it to the correct namespace?
resolved Proving Unfortunate Implications
So, there are two entries I want to make to the Unfortunate Implications page.
The first is a Tabletop Games entry, referring to the Vistani of Ravenloft and the Aperusa of Spelljammer, both of whom are based on gypsy stereotypes, with the Aperusa in particular being particularly negative/offensive in their portrayal. The second is a Comic Books entry about Black Panther, specifically pointing out that M'Baku the Man-Ape has come under fire since the late 1990s because of his unfortunate resemblance to the "African people as apes/monkeys". If you search "M'baku racist" on Google, you will hit a dozen articles reporting that the character was stripped of his original comic books name & costume because it was deemed too racist.
Both times, I have been denied due to "lack of citation". What do I actually need to say to prove my point?
For comparison, these are the entries as I have written them so far:
- In Marvel's Black Panther, one of the titular African superheroes' few enemies from his homeland of Wakanda is M'baku, a member of a rival tribe who has also gained superpowers through mystic rites associated with his tribe's totem animal. The problem is that his totem animal is the White Gorilla, and M'Baku's supervillain name is thus The Man-Ape, as he runs around in a gorilla-themed costume. The long history of demonizing African men by comparing them to gorillas has led to ever-increasing backlash against the character in recent years - both he and his brother were killed off in the comics, for a time at least, and the 2018 feature film has promised to not use M'baku's super-villain name or his costume.
- The Black Panther/Storm romance was also criticized on these grounds, with many arguing that the two characters had no preexisting connections or any real chemistry, and that they were simply thrown together because both were strong, independent black characters.
- The Aperusa are "Space Gypsies" and, thusly, are a misogynistic pack of cowardly thieving con artists who are incapable of sincere faith in any deity, instead loudly professing worship for the god whose priest has most recently performed something beneficial for the tribe, only to convert the instant another cleric does so. No, this isn't hyperbole. It's not even exaggerated. It's all taken directly from their entry in the Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium, which can be seen online here.
resolved Planning a page for one of my works Literature
I have a story that I am planning on making a page for. I currently have drafts of the first five chapters on deviantart, but things in them are subject to change in the final product. I ask if I should put it in the Darth Wiki because of this, or if it is okay to post it as part of the main site while acknowledging the posted chapters are not the final versions?
Edited by Zerukinresolved Edit warring on Series/TheMuppetShow
On The Muppet Show, Geoduck removed the existing example of Who Writes This Crap?! and replaced it with a sentence claiming that the show contains many examples but not describing any of them, with no edit reason. I put the example back, with an edit reason explaining why. Geoduck just repeated the same edit, again with no edit reason.
I think I remember correctly that the border line of edit warring is around here somewhere?
resolved The Ugly Barnacle Western Animation
Since The Ugly Barnacle page is based on a joke from SpongeBob SquarePants, should it be in the Just for Fun namespace?
resolved Pachinko Genre-Killer...in the West?
There's this entry in Genre-Killer. I already ask in discussion page, but nobody reply.
- While pachinko and pachislot spinoffs of video games have been a longtime industry that largely went without much backlash, Konami's gambling and parlor branch began marketing a new Castlevania pachinko spinoff subtitled Erotic Violence along with a Metal Gear Solid pachinko spinoff that used the iconic final confrontation between Naked Snake and The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in its trailer. Both of these games massively tainted the genre, especially in the eyes of Western fans of Konami's properties, effectively killing any and all good reputation the pachinko industry had, with all licensed pachinko games going forward, regardless of series or company, being met with virtually nothing but seething hatred. Both of the aforementioned pachinko spinoffs coming off the heels of other big-name Konami controversies certainly do not help the pachinko genre's reputation in the slightest.
(the bold is done by me) I'm pretty sure there's no Western market of pachinko to start with, so Western fans piss at pachinko industry should be no factor at all. I'm thinking of remove this entry, but would like to ask first if anybody know if Japanese pachinko fans really mad with this? I mean, Konami's fans sure hate it, but they aren't same group with pachinko's fans. To me this sound like "non-fans are really mad at this" without fans' input.
Edited by Kuruniresolved TearJerker/Elysium
TearJerker.Elysium has only one example and it break at least three rules.
It use spoiler tag in moment page (Spoilers Off), it's All Blue Entry and Chained Sinkhole, and it's Zero-Context Example using It Makes Sense in Context as excuse.
Should I send it to cut list?
resolved wikiword request goof
I accidentally clicked on the WikiWord request button of a page (Rich Idiot With No Day Job) instead of the To Do button, and didn't realise until I'd already typed my note in and hit Enter.
Is there anything I can do to cancel the request, or do I have to just wait and trust that the admin who fields the request will realise what happened and not action it?
(I mean, it's going to be pretty obvious that what I entered isn't just the page title with different punctuation. Just the admin's probably going to be puzzled about what I was thinking.)
Edited by PaulA
Most Dangerous Chair add a single two bullets entry to NightmareFuel.SCP Foundation SC Ps 1000 To 1999. I corrected it by merge it with the first bullet, put a link to Example Indentation in Trope Lists in edit reason, and send the notification to them. The troper make it two entries again with "SCP 1590 re-edit" as edit reason. Possibly a clueless newbie, but clearly they need to be talk to.
Edited by Kuruni