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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

ryanasaurus0077 Since: Jul, 2009
#1426: Dec 13th 2013 at 7:02:58 PM

After all this time, why is Rip Haywire still locked? Can we unlock it now? Or have things not quieted down sufficiently yet?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#1427: Dec 13th 2013 at 11:55:05 PM

The vandal has been here yesterday. And a few days ago. And the whole past month.

That said, given that they now are hitting pages indiscriminately, I would support an unlocking under the consideration that the lock now doesn't help anything.

"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
#1429: Dec 19th 2013 at 11:56:27 AM

TV Tropes Writing Contest ought to be restored and unlocked. It was cutlisted because the creator wasn't aware that it was in the right namespace. For the record, it seems to me that there is no more appropriate namespace for that sort of thing - it's troping the contest, not the submitted material apparently.

edited 19th Dec '13 12:04:02 PM by SeptimusHeap

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#1430: Dec 19th 2013 at 12:13:34 PM

Yeah, I noticed the original page was getting clunky and still in the main namespace but when moving it the closest thing I could compare it to was Na No Wri Mo, which was in Useful Notes. I didn't think that fit here so Web Original was the next best thing, but then I misread the indexes and ended up cutlisting it as a result. My apologies for the trouble.

TheBlankMage Since: Nov, 2010
#1431: Dec 19th 2013 at 2:14:44 PM

I was in the middle of editing Mean Time to Breakdown when it was cut and locked. It was a new page, so I was putting off my edits until (apparently) the last minute.

edited 19th Dec '13 2:16:06 PM by TheBlankMage

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#1432: Dec 19th 2013 at 3:48:46 PM

@Septimus: Isn't it a tad self-referential for us to have an article on our own writing contest?

@The Blank Mage: Please don't make stub articles. They get cut very quickly. Draft your work offline or in the Wiki Sandbox and post fully-formatted articles with enough examples to avoid the Cut List. I'll unlock it.

edited 19th Dec '13 3:49:13 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
TheBlankMage Since: Nov, 2010
#1433: Dec 19th 2013 at 3:59:16 PM

I didn't make it, so I'll neatly sidestep the blame on that. Thanks for the help.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#1434: Dec 19th 2013 at 5:17:03 PM

Isn't it a tad self-referential for us to have an article on our own writing contest?

Perhaps, but if we can't document our own contest on our own site then where can we? It's not that different than a page dedicated to one of our on-site roleplaying games, except once a game is over it's over, the contests are regular events that can be expanded upon.

Referencing is actually part of the idea. It is a lot easier to read up on the history of the contest while it's on one page with a few paragraphs and a nifty trope list rather than a dozen forum threads that will eventually be cleaned out of the system. I know it's hardly up there with The Great Crash page in terms of important history but it's still a nice little part of our site and it'd be a shame to lose it.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#1435: Dec 19th 2013 at 5:20:52 PM

Okay. I unlocked it.

And restored the last version from history. You'll have to do all the crosswicking and indexing and stuff.

edited 19th Dec '13 5:21:37 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#1438: Dec 31st 2013 at 4:53:29 PM

I'm guessing it was cut for being empty? We should try to stop doing that. Anyway, I unlocked it.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
wuggles (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1439: Dec 31st 2013 at 7:57:38 PM

Robin Thicke is locked, I would like to edit it.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#1440: Dec 31st 2013 at 8:01:02 PM

Nope. Too controversial. Suggest edits you'd like to make in the Edit Requests thread.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#1441: Jan 2nd 2014 at 10:54:17 AM

The anime series Space☆Dandy is going to start airing on Toonami this Saturday. I'd like to get started on setting up the work page, but it is currently locked. Can that be unlocked, please?

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
#1443: Jan 2nd 2014 at 11:18:40 AM

Yeah, it was cut for not having any examples.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
CaptainCrawdad Since: Aug, 2009
#1444: Jan 2nd 2014 at 1:54:08 PM

Can Catch-22 be unlocked? It was deleted before I could add more trope examples. As for three starting tropes, there's the two that were on the page previously plus the Catch-22 Dilemma no-brainer :)

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#1445: Jan 2nd 2014 at 2:06:55 PM

I'll unlock it, but it needs more than a stub. If you need to draft an article before writing it, use the Wiki Sandbox or do it offline.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
CaptainCrawdad Since: Aug, 2009
#1446: Jan 2nd 2014 at 2:28:23 PM

Alrighty thanks. By the way, the page's entry in the Films of the 1970s index was never deleted along with the original page, but the new page is still not showing up as being indexed. Is there a way to fix that?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#1447: Jan 2nd 2014 at 2:29:51 PM

Null edit the index.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Thnikkafan ? from Faroe Islands (not really) Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#1448: Jan 3rd 2014 at 11:54:38 AM

A very temporary opening of the YMMV page for Jesu Otaku, for the purposes of removing some remaining slander that was posited there by a stalker she used to have.

Actually, if one of you admin-folk could just take out her Creator's Pet entry and maybe some of the more attack-y bits of the "she panned it, now she sucks" entry, that'd be great.

edited 3rd Jan '14 11:56:53 AM by Thnikkafan

Anyone who assigns themselves loads of character tropes is someone to be worried about.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#1449: Jan 3rd 2014 at 12:03:25 PM

You might want this thread, comrade. Moderators can edit locked pages.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
StarSword Captain of USS Bajor from somewhere in deep space Since: Sep, 2011
Captain of USS Bajor
#1450: Jan 9th 2014 at 9:01:06 PM

I would like to have Main.Hostile Takeover unlocked and the disambiguation page Literature.Hostile Takeover transplanted into it.

Trust me, I'm an engineer!

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