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openno direct linking to fanfics that don't have work pages
I noticed an example of a fanfic I had placed years ago was red linked because there is no work page for it. Looking back through the history I had linked directly to the story, but it was changed because the site isn't meant to take people away from the site. Or something like that.
Is this true? Because if it is it kind of makes it harder for people to find the story if they take an interest.
Where I saw this: Circus of Fear
openHow do you index YMMV pages? Videogame
Hi, I want to try and index the YMMV page for the video game KGB (since they don’t automatically), but I don’t know how to. Could someone point me to the right page to add to?
openNeed some help
Trying to set up a page for my show... but ran into some difficulties and I am admittedly new at this. Mind a little help to figure out what I'm doing wrong here?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/TendoTheSeal
openPastamonsters ghost indexing
I see that Pastamonsters The Under Rhelm, Pastamonsters The Pit and Pastamonsters The Human World are index by Pastamonsters, despite that page not having them, how?
Also I've noticed Pastamonsters Beings Of The Universe, Pastamonsters Dark World Inhabitants, Pastamonsters Pastamonsters The Final Season, Pastamonsters: President Bush and Other Associates, Pastamonsters The Malitch Empire, which are unindexed and probably needs to be merged with parent page too.
openYMMV trope question? Film
Discovered this for Ymmv from the film Pig (2021), as seen here (click here):
- Award Snub: Academy Award buzz was high for Cage's performance, and the film in general. Suffice to say many were surprised and quite annoyed when the film received zero nominations.
resolved NRLEP with page.
The Real Life page for Mercy Kill exists, although last I checked, it was listed as NRLEP. It just isn't linked to on the main page itself anymore. Was this an oversight?
openLaunching Nonstandard Tropes
Is it possible to launch YMMV/Trivia tropes? All of the tropes I see being launched are standard objective ones. If so, how would I go about it?
openEdit war (?) on YMMV.Hilda Western Animation
I think there is a possible edit war on YMMV.Hilda.
Back in December 11, 2023, Nic Master Trope added a Base-Breaking Character entry covering Anders from S3, which I then deleted since it violates No Recent Examples, Please! (as it had only been a couple of days after the season aired (december 7) and examples require a six month waiting period after the work/season's release). However, on April 29, 2024, Nic Master Troper re-added and expanded the example, once again violating No Recent Examples, Please! (waiting period for S3 examples is not over til June 7) and ignoring the commented out saying not to put such examples until the waiting period is up.
I am taking it here, because I want to avoid an edit war and the user has now violated No Recent Examples, Please! twice.
Edited by Tylerbear12resolved Possible ban evader?
I may well be wrong on this, but there’s a troper named jhonsogflint who has only been active here since March 2024 and might be a ban evader, specifically of Planet Of The Primates and/or Amour Le Fou. They just resurrected a two-year old TLP proposal first created by Amour Le Fou, and the latest edit on the proposal is credited to that bounced troper (might be a glitch, though).
The TLP proposal is for Human Noises. Link here.
Could an IP check be done to find out one way or the other? Thanks.
Edited by BoltDMCopen TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for Schmuck Bait at the Trope Repair Shop. Click here if you want to join the discussion.
openWhere part of TvTropes do I go to for suggesting examples for subpages Web Original
I want to add another example to Nightmare Fuel, on Serina.
Edited by robo22openVA citation Videogame
A few hours ago, Datriel 917 removed Copy the Code's English voice actress (Rebecca Wang) from her folder on Neptunia - Antagonists, citing that there must be an official confirmation from the VA. I don't buy it, since Excessive-Menace (the OP who added the ENG VA) put out an external link from Wang's Twitter post confirming such. This feels like an unnecessary edit if you ask me.
Edit: spelling fix
Edited by ToonAbbyopenShould we have a trope for this? Web Original
A lot of new Web Animations added here are one-shot manga anthologies featuring the same main characters in different situations. I'm talking AoHaru Manga Library, Manga Soprano, ATTAC Kon MIKA, things like that. If Object Shows already has its own page with a list of examples, why shouldn't these manga anthologies get one?
Edited by Eris250openTrying to fact-check an entry that might need to be removed
So, the page for South Park Imaginationland has a list of characters from other works who appear in Imaginationland. On this list is an entry for Pat the Hammer from Handy Manny.
The thing is, while there is an Animate Inanimate Object hammer seen in Imaginationland, it doesn't look like Pat (who has a fairly distinctive blue color scheme), and its voice doesn't sound like Pat's either. Is there any official source that says this random hammer is actually supposed to be Pat, or is that entry on the list just some troper's random theory that they proclaimed as gospel?
openHindsight misuse or not, needs prediction?
YMMV.My Little Pony Nakama Is Magic
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Tama in the English dub of One Piece calls Luffy "Big Bro Luffy", just like Spike.
I PM'd the troper who added it that Hindsight only applies to/goes under the earlier work made this, not causing it. They replied that this fic came out before that point in the dub so not misuse, the replied separately that they realized it's misuse as Hindsight requires it be a prediction.
This is the first I've heard of the prediction criteria, does it require that? And is this a valid Hindsight example or not?
About a week ago, there was discussion about giving the original Peter and Company (or as I plan to call it, Peter and Company (1998), though I'm fully aware the title can be changed by others by consensus so the title I picked is not official) its own page rather than trying to merge it with the current incarnation of the comic. This I am currently working a draft on.
Now, given the sensitive nature of the topic, this is a page I would actually like to work with the community of TV Tropes over. Do I just go straight to the launch pad activity like I would a proposed trope for that?
Edited by Stardust5099