Dashes are easy to fix, though. Find and replace, you're done. Parentheses are a pain in the ass, though.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.The official example delimiter is the colon, but we don't sweat it that much, as long as it's consistent. Some people find it irresistible to fix, and hey, that's great. Go for it!
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Their example of Title Drop is:
- Title Drop: Larry uses a shell corporation in his takeover schemes called OPM. Which stands for...
- Andrew Jorgenson also gets one in when he derisively accuses Larry of "playing God with other's people's money."
I intend to add: Early in the movie, Larry claims the only thing he loves more than money is other people's money.
How's the best way to add it in regards to Example Indentation?
edited 28th Jun '14 5:31:48 PM by luiz4200
For the Trope Page:
- Other People's Money is about a Con Artist with a shell corporation.
- The shell corporation is called OPM. Which stands for...
- Andrew Jorgenson derisively accuses Larry of "playing God with other's people's money."
- Larry claims the only thing he loves more than money is other people's money.
For the work page:
- Title Drop:
- The shell corporation in Larry's takeover schemes is called OPM. Which stands for...
- Andrew Jorgenson derisively accuses Larry of "playing God with other's people's money."
- Larry claims the only thing he loves more than money is other people's money.
I found this entry in Apple of Discord:
- In Malcolm In The Middle, Dewey does this to Hal's barbershop quartet group, asking the members why each of them has his own specific role within the group. They do make up (in the middle of a performance, no less), but presumably have problems again at the end, when Dewey starts in on them again. Played dead straight with Dewey working on a couple that performed. Five minutes after Dewey started in on them, they were in a gigantic fight.
- This sort of behaviour is his modus operandi throughout the series with the younger brother being generally quiet but interjecting the right line at the right time so that everybody else will react according to his plan. Dewey is one hell of a Magnificent Bastard.
I want to add this line:
Malcolm, Reese and Dewey once pose as political demonstrators to avoid being sent to their mother after an act of vandalism. When someone decides to send each of them a cupcake, Lois removes the cherries from two of the cupcakes so they'll fight over the remaining one. The boys eventually wise up to her plan and merely send the cherry back.
How to add it while conforming to the website's example indentation rules?
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Dewey: This sort of behaviour is his modus operandi throughout the series with the younger brother being generally quiet but interjecting the right line at the right time so that everybody else will react according to his plan.
- He does it to Hal's barbershop quartet group, asking the members why each of them has his own specific role within the group. They do make up (in the middle of a performance, no less), but presumably have problems again at the end, when Dewey starts in on them again.
- He also works on a couple that performed. Five minutes after Dewey started in on them, they were in a gigantic fight.
- Malcolm, Reese and Dewey once pose as political demonstrators to avoid being sent to their mother after an act of vandalism. When someone decides to send each of them a cupcake, Lois removes the cherries from two of the cupcakes so they'll fight over the remaining one. The boys eventually wise up to her plan and merely send the cherry back.
- Dewey: This sort of behaviour is his modus operandi throughout the series with the younger brother being generally quiet but interjecting the right line at the right time so that everybody else will react according to his plan.
This sort of thing is one of the few types of cases where a third-level indentation isn't Natter.
- First-level: the show. There are other examples at this level (other shows);
- Second-level: The basic examples within the show, there are two: Dewey as a regular practitioner of it, and the Lois example.
- Third level: Two examples of Dewey using it.
- Second-level: The basic examples within the show, there are two: Dewey as a regular practitioner of it, and the Lois example.
edited 17th Jul '14 10:45:09 AM by Madrugada
While browsing Liv and Maddie, I found this example of X Meets Y:
- The Suite Life of Zack & Cody meets Good Luck Charlie minus the hotel and new baby, and the twins there are played by one person. (See Acting For Two in trivia.)
- With a teensy bit of Hannah Montana thrown in for good measure in Liv's case. In fact one of Hannah's episodes was about how far she'd go for a Z-Phone.
- Not to mention casting inspiration from The Patty Duke Show
I want to add this: In-universe, Joey describes Space Werewolves as a result of Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings having a child and that child being adopted by The Avengers.
How to do that regarding example indentation?
The two existing bullets shouldn't BE bullets - they are an example of Thread Mode. They should either be incorporated into the main example, or purged (I don't know the shows in question, so I don't know how valid the stuff is). What you should end up with is something like this:
- X Meets Y :
- Put the info about the show itself here.
- In-universe, Joey describes Space Werewolves as a result of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings having a child and that child being adopted by The Avengers.
edited 17th Aug '14 3:52:51 PM by Zyffyr
Just a little question here. I'm not even questioning the policy.
- Should we actually avoid listing supertropes if possible? The current policy only states to avoid this when there're more than 1 subtrope, but what I think is: why should we list a supertrope anyway if there is an usable subtrope?
- Which begs a specific question I have noticed for years. Is The Short Guy with Glasses a subtrope of Smart People Wear Glasses and Shorter Means Smarter, and ultimately, The Smart Guy?
- Is it appropriate to add a single-line entry for Five Men Band (or similar) on a work page, if the work has a separate character sheet?
First question: Yes, supertropes should be avoided if a more specific subtrope is available. Don't list Badass if Badass Normal is more appropriate.
First-and-a-half question: I don't have time to investigate that particular one. Maybe someone else can help.
Second question: Yes, the main work article can get the Five-Man Band entry and the Characters page can get the individual components attached to the respective characters. Some Characters pages have a listing of tropes applying in aggregate to certain groups, where Five-Man Band might also be added.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"If the example fits a specific subtrope, list it as that rather than the broader supertrope. A Supertrope may have only one named subtrope for any of a number of reasons, the most common is that there's one particular variant that just works really really well, so most creators use it if they use the trope at all. In other cases, there are so many variants possible that we haven't got pages for each one. Finally, it may be that there are a number of variants that are all so similar that making each one into its own trope is "The Same But With A Door Instead Of A Tunnel, The Same But With A Window Instead Of A Tunnel And The Same But With A Picture Instead Of A Tunnel
edited 19th Aug '14 8:06:40 PM by Madrugada
Hi. Less than a week old on the wiki, so please bear with me and my mistakes!
I posted an example of an instance of the trope Cassandra Truth on its page, which has a bulleted entry that demonstrates (what I think is) a subversion of the trope. Within that subversion is a spoiler. Someone edited the example, but now the spoiler shows up all wrong and (I think) the indentation is a little off.
If you'd like to take a look, please see the last example under "Western Animation".
I edited it back, but apparently My Final Edits edited it back. I don't mean to start an Edit War, I genuinely thought it was a mistake that was better formatted the way I wrote it. Can anyone please help me out, show us what's the correct way to indent?
Thanks.
That wasn't an edit war. Your addition was good, My Final Edits edits were a valid attempt to make the indentation correct. The problem lies in the way the software parse the markup. The :: (s)he used to force a new paragraph rather than a sub-bullet was fighting with the : in the spoiler tag. The parser thought that the one in the spoiler tag was a command to start another new paragraph at one level less of indentation.
I fixed it by doing this:
Ride"). Usually, the former happens, and if she even hints to other humans that she can talk to pets, she'll try to work her way around not sounding like a Main/{{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
-->'''Blythe:''' [to her friends] I, well, when I say "talk" I mean... in their little animal language. You know, hehe...''[animal noises]'' Oh, those pets. They're just so cute and... [[Main/SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "non-verbal"]], hehe.\\
** Subverted by the end of Season 3's "The Secret Recipe" when Blythe feels that she ''needs'' to reveal her ability to someone, and they ''do'' believe her.
Oh, foo. There are parts of the wiki markup that don't work on the forums. Go look at the last edit in the history that I made.
Basically, I rewrote the first paragraph so that it works as a second-level bullet, under the first-level bullet of the show's name. than I forced a line break after the quote, and rewrite your addition to 1) not need the spoiler tags at all, and 2) be a 2nd, second-level bullet.
edited 28th Sep '14 7:09:03 PM by Madrugada

Yeah. I've previously read that dashes were to be kept if they were on the page originally, otherwise I'd just have rewritten everything without asking.
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