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neoYTPism Since: May, 2010
#1: Nov 26th 2010 at 5:00:07 PM

I notice that for some tropes, like Snooping Little Kid, they go back a lot further than the page history says they do. (Namely, I saw a reference to the Snooping As Usual meme in a former page quote and not in the page history... it was not really an example, though.)

In others, where the event list is a lot longer, you can only see so many of them. Consider, for example, the trope Moral Event Horizon:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.MoralEventHorizon

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.MoralEventHorizon&more=t

In the front of the edit history it says it is the last 10 of 225, and that you click to see the next 200.

When you click it says it is all 225, but even then it is pretty clear that is not the beginning of the trope.

Is there some means of looking further back into page history, or is it that we are not supposed to or something?

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#2: Nov 26th 2010 at 5:19:55 PM

IIRC histories get purged every so often, so the max you're able to see back is however far the extra 200 will allow you to go. It kinda sucks, because there's some stuff that's been lost on at least one page that I wanted to save, but that's the way it works.

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