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I'll start it off: could someone please unlock Hootie And The Blowfish so I can make a new page on it? The last page was cut for being copypasta from Wikipedia.

edited 18th Nov '14 1:26:41 AM by SeptimusHeap

lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#701: Jun 14th 2012 at 10:18:02 AM

Because someone wanted to get rid of a ghost wick and decided this was the best way to do it. Cutlist abusers. A bane upon the world.

I'll fix it.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#702: Jun 14th 2012 at 5:33:54 PM

What happened to this thread title btw? :D

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Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#703: Jun 14th 2012 at 6:13:24 PM

[up] What do you mean?


Could Pages Cut Under The Policy Change please be unlocked? It was cut because of a rogue request and never unlocked subsequently, and it could really use to be updated.

ccoa Ravenous Sophovore from the Sleeping Giant Since: Jan, 2001
Ravenous Sophovore
#704: Jun 14th 2012 at 6:15:35 PM

Done.

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
SuperSaiyaMan Since: Jun, 2009
#705: Jun 14th 2012 at 7:07:14 PM

Can the Complete Monster Western Animation page be unlocked?

Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#706: Jun 14th 2012 at 7:10:09 PM

No. The Complete Monster subpages are being cleaned and then locked (or sometimes locked and then cleaned) in order to help halt the massive Trope Decay that was happening.

Any changes to any Complete Monster page must go through the Complete Monster Special Efforts thread.

edited 14th Jun '12 7:11:32 PM by Nocturna

SuperSaiyaMan Since: Jun, 2009
#707: Jun 14th 2012 at 7:20:35 PM

Trope decay? The Western Animation Complete Monster trope page has been locked for two years now so Vandals haven't been able to do anything for it. And there've been a lot of recent Complete Monsters that haven't been added to it.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#708: Jun 14th 2012 at 7:43:58 PM

I doubt that. There aren't supposed to be a lot of Complete Monsters in any genre. Take it to the cleanup thread if you want to help move things along.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
SuperSaiyaMan Since: Jun, 2009
#709: Jun 14th 2012 at 7:45:31 PM

We have Qilby from Wakfu, Tarlock or Yakone from Korra...

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#710: Jun 14th 2012 at 8:17:43 PM

Read Nocturna's post. It tells you how to get changes put in.

edited 14th Jun '12 8:20:22 PM by TuefelHundenIV

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StFan Since: Jan, 2001
#711: Jun 15th 2012 at 5:38:08 AM

Just curious, but I've noticed that several subpages for Mass Effect are locked, notably all character pages, the YMMV and the Funny/Heartwarming/Awesome/Tearjerker subpages.

Was there an especially vicious edit war on those pages?

I don't have much changes to do — mostly as part of the wick namespace migration effort — so if you think it's too soon to unlock them, don't mind me.

lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#712: Jun 15th 2012 at 5:39:55 AM

A ridiculously persistent vandal employing at least 10 socks a day is targeting them. So, we can't unlock them just yet.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
StFan Since: Jan, 2001
#713: Jun 15th 2012 at 5:44:02 AM

Okay, understood. I thought it had to be something like that for such a widespread lock.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#714: Jun 15th 2012 at 5:45:48 AM

[up]It's also on Locked Pages

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
macepaladino Since: May, 2011
#715: Jun 16th 2012 at 1:07:45 AM

I was just curious why the Ship in a Bottle webcomic page was locked and subsequently blanked. It's not like TV Tropes doesn't have a bunch of pages for NSFW webcomics, right?

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#716: Jun 16th 2012 at 1:13:42 AM

[up] Looks like that one fell afoul of the content policy. Pages Cut Under The Policy Change hasn't been updated, though.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
ninjaclown Since: May, 2009
#717: Jun 16th 2012 at 3:31:09 AM

If you don't come around here often, you probably didn't hear Tv T is doing a purge of articles that are guilty of violating new article standards, long story short porn is no longer acceptable.

Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#718: Jun 16th 2012 at 11:04:15 AM

[up][up] Pages Cut Under The Policy Change only records pages cut pre-P5. Ones cut post-P5 can be found in this post. I'm not seeing Ship In A Bottle on either list, though, and it's not showing up on the cutlist, either.

EDIT: Found it in the P5 decision queue, so evidently it was indeed cut for violating the content policy.

edited 16th Jun '12 11:06:46 AM by Nocturna

NinjaPancake Since: Apr, 2012
#719: Jun 22nd 2012 at 8:11:44 PM

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RemnantsOfAnEmpire

Can a mod please unlock/restore this page? I put it up on the cut list thinking I didn't need it for the Roleplay namespace.

edited 25th Jun '12 8:59:32 PM by NinjaPancake

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#720: Jun 23rd 2012 at 4:56:33 AM

Know the Staff and DethroningMoment.Video Games are still locked even after the other Mass Effect 3 pages were reopened.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#721: Jun 23rd 2012 at 6:58:34 AM

There's no reason to unlock Know The Staff. It rarely gets any edits, and we can do those ourselves. Plus, even outside Mass Effect, it's a troll magnet.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#722: Jun 23rd 2012 at 7:00:19 AM

[up]I expected that answer, but the edit history disagrees with you.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#723: Jun 23rd 2012 at 7:04:01 AM

I don't think so. There's still vandalism from before the ME troll days. And, there's a reason we lock Administrivia. Too many people try to slip their messages as policies. It's fine as it is.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#724: Jun 23rd 2012 at 7:07:41 AM

[up]Given that it took 6 months to add the edit about engineers having locking power in Wiki Talk, I don't think so.

And that is not a policy page. It's a list. That is the important part. Everything else is sidestuff. Nobody has seriously tampered with it, ever.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Morven Nemesis from Seattle, WA, USA Since: Jan, 2001
Nemesis
#725: Jun 23rd 2012 at 7:14:00 AM

Is it incorrect now? I don't think it is. If it ever should appear to be incorrect, please let us know of our oversight.

Who are the staff and what they are able to do is not something that users need to be adding their opinions of, in my view. This should be a page maintained by us.

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