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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

nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#951: Dec 31st 2012 at 12:10:41 AM

[up][up][up]Isn't this attitude kind of ignoring the point of a wiki format? I'll freely admit I find the priorities on display here (and many other parts of TV Tropes, for that matter) highly questionable, but the whole point of a wiki is letting people edit where their interests lie. When the priorities are outright skeezy (as with 5P works and the apparent eagerness of some people to see 'Naughty Tentacles' restored), I definitely think someone needs to step in, but this doesn't sound like one of those cases. If the page had problems, it should have been worked on or maybe locked, not cut outright.

I'm no fan of the fandom in question, but I think this sets a bad precedent.

edited 31st Dec '12 12:11:01 AM by nrjxll

MegaJ Since: Oct, 2009
#952: Dec 31st 2012 at 12:15:53 AM

Okay, moved the markup to Brian Michael Bendis for the redirect.

TropeEater That One Troper from the depths of Hell Since: Mar, 2012
That One Troper
#953: Dec 31st 2012 at 1:47:06 PM

Why was Lol Cats locked again?

   Evil is my favorite color.   
Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#954: Dec 31st 2012 at 1:49:14 PM

Edit warring over a self demonstrating description. A link to the now-existing page in Self-Demonstrating/ really should be added to the main article.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#955: Dec 31st 2012 at 1:53:41 PM

It's even on Locked Pages.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
TropeEater That One Troper from the depths of Hell Since: Mar, 2012
That One Troper
#956: Dec 31st 2012 at 1:58:13 PM

Can't it be unlocked then, if there's a Self-Demonstrating version? With a commented-out note, of course.

edited 31st Dec '12 2:07:24 PM by TropeEater

   Evil is my favorite color.   
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#957: Dec 31st 2012 at 2:06:02 PM

While I don't usually trust such claims as they are always lacking in evidence, I can predict the page immediately fill with memespeak as soon as it's unlocked. So, I'd say no.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MegaJ Since: Oct, 2009
#958: Jan 1st 2013 at 9:48:46 PM

Oh hey, just a reminder that locked page Brian Bendis needs to be a redirect for Brian Michael Bendis.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#959: Jan 2nd 2013 at 1:43:11 AM

Edit requests go here, usually. And this makes me wonder if really need to have two separate threads for unlocking requests and for edit (and locking) requests.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#960: Jan 2nd 2013 at 5:38:05 AM

[up][up] Done. Do you think the new article needs to be locked? I guess we can give it a trial run and find out.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
MegaJ Since: Oct, 2009
#961: Jan 2nd 2013 at 5:39:09 AM

I'm watching the page right now, if I see any excessive Creator Bashing, I'll flag it.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#962: Jan 2nd 2013 at 8:50:05 AM

YMMV.Fez needs to be unlocked - there are YMMV items that should go there on the main page.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
ArcaneAzmadi from Australia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
#963: Jan 3rd 2013 at 7:47:59 PM

I think it's probably safe to unlock the page Naruto-The Konoha 12 now. It was (I assume) locked over an Edit War regarding whether Hyuuga Neji fit My Sister Is Off-Limits or Shipper on Deck towards Naruto and Hinata. Since that seems to be pretty well resolved now that he's dead (we're still not sure about the latter, but he's DEFINITELY not My Sister Is Off-Limits now), maybe the page could be unlocked? It's just a pain in the posterior having to jump through hoops to make changes to it and considering the direction of the current story arc we're probably going to need to be making quite a few changes soon.

edited 4th Jan '13 6:00:29 AM by ArcaneAzmadi

Always expect the worst and you can only be pleasantly surprised.
videogmer314 from that one place Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#964: Jan 3rd 2013 at 10:22:23 PM

[up] For hyphenated titles, you need {{two curly brackets}}.

Courtesy link.

TropeEater That One Troper from the depths of Hell Since: Mar, 2012
That One Troper
#965: Jan 6th 2013 at 11:52:32 AM

Laconic.Red Ones Go Faster needs to be locked to preserve color markup.

   Evil is my favorite color.   
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#966: Jan 6th 2013 at 11:58:22 AM

[up]Locked that one. [up][up][up] Unlocked that one. Let's hope it remains civil.

edited 6th Jan '13 12:02:53 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#967: Jan 6th 2013 at 12:05:09 PM

Just as a reminder, other candidates on the previous page were Green Is Blue, Everything Fades and Rainbow Speak. A previous lock request for All Your Colors Combined was accepted under the understanding that none of these laconics have reason to be edited and that there is time to re-unlock them if any such need should arise.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#969: Jan 6th 2013 at 12:16:15 PM

Thank you.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
TropeEater That One Troper from the depths of Hell Since: Mar, 2012
That One Troper
#970: Jan 7th 2013 at 3:15:27 PM

Laconic.Image Boards and Laconic.Incendiary Exponent have also color markup.

   Evil is my favorite color.   
Xtifr World's Toughest Milkman Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
World's Toughest Milkman
#971: Jan 8th 2013 at 1:01:51 PM

[up]Not convinced either of those are necessary or justifiable uses of color though—especially the first one.

Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#973: Jan 8th 2013 at 1:05:26 PM

These use it only for decoration, unlike the others, where it illustrates part of the tropes involved.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Aegeus Since: Sep, 2009
#974: Jan 9th 2013 at 1:21:41 PM

Girls Und Panzer is locked and blank. Shouldn't it redirect to Girls und Panzer?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#975: Jan 9th 2013 at 1:22:29 PM

We don't need a Main/ redirect there. These attract bad wicks if left around.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

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