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So. Personal opinions on the main wiki aren't allowed, be they gushing or bashing. Now, bashing gets tolerated even less than gushing, and that makes sense; it leads to more flamewars.

But that doesn't mean we have to live with all the gushing either. This thread can serve as a center for keeping it in check. One function might be to alert people to pages that are really heavy in gushing, to the point that it's not just a quick fix and will need some assistance.

Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#701: Dec 7th 2021 at 11:13:39 AM

On Recap.Star Trek Enterprise S 03 E 08 Twilight, the image caption is "Best. Teaser. Ever."

For every low there is a high.
Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#702: Dec 7th 2021 at 1:08:54 PM

I removed the more obvious gushing on OverClocked ReMix.

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#703: Dec 11th 2021 at 1:10:45 AM

From Fate/stay night:

  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Time has been rather kind to Sakura. While she was the least popular of the three heroines originally and did have many people complain about her Damsel in Distress moments in Heaven's Feel alongside her antics with the Shadow and as Dark Sakura, later revisits to her story found her to be sympathetic. Her relationship with Rider as seen in Hollow Ataraxia, as well as her bonding moments with Shirou and Rin in spinoffs, did well to humanize her outside of her predicaments with the Matous. In Japan at least her reception has been much better considering all that. The Heaven's Feel Trilogy was the final stake in the Sakura hatedom coffin, bringing her a huge influx of fans and warming up many longtime haters to at least accept the character. It also helps that later installments in the franchise would introduce highly popular and very Badass (not to mention extremely useful), characters, like BB, Meltryllis, and Kama, who wear her face and are basically a Literal Split Personality take on her, exploring different facets of her personality in more detail, thus reflecting back positively on the original by implying a positive boatload of appealing Hidden Depths she's just too afraid to or unable to show given her current situation and negating the What Measure Is a Non-Badass? criticism. Those finding her Yamato Nadeshiko aspects not to their taste may also be pleasantly surprised by how several of her alter egos have a heavy air of unashamed power, pride, and social non-conformity about themnote .

The second half of the entry is way too gushy and lengthy, and also the fact that it's about her Expies makes me think it's not even all that relevant.

nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#704: Dec 11th 2021 at 2:27:45 AM

Honestly, I'm kind of uncertain whether that example qualifies at all, because I don't think it's ever been really clear on whether Rescued from the Scrappy Heap is limited to The Scrappy. While there's definitely bits and pieces on this very wiki to support the "least popular of the three Fate heroines at first" assertion, I'm not sure how much evidence I've seen suggesting that most people hated her.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#705: Dec 11th 2021 at 2:52:07 AM

She's always had her portion of vocal defenders, and just as many or more vocal haters, but the vocal haters have tended to die down with time as later works came out and humanized her more or put more emphasis on her deconstructive aspects. So that aspect of the Audience Reaction is true.

Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#706: Dec 15th 2021 at 3:34:50 PM

From Running the Asylum:

This example has a lot of problems and I actually struggled with where to put this, so I decided to put it here since it was my first bet. I already changed the "human companion that doesn't suck" part (for being complaining) and removed the last sentence (since it doesn't fit with the rest of the entry) but I didn't know what to do with everything else.

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
DoktorvonEurotrash Lex et Veritas from Not a place of honour (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#707: Dec 16th 2021 at 3:44:23 PM

[up]Not a Transformers fan, so I don't know what to do with it, but I agree it has problems, including the "but DONE RIGHT!!" bit.

The following horror was in the first paragraph of Undertale:

" With virtually unanimous and universal critical acclaim and enough memes, tributes, music covers, and fan content to fill an ocean, to say the game was a roaring success would be the understatement of gaming history."

Any problems with me burning it to the ground?

Edited by DoktorvonEurotrash on Dec 16th 2021 at 3:44:45 AM

Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#708: Dec 16th 2021 at 4:21:41 PM

Ka-snip ka-snip

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
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Time to SLEEP
#709: Dec 16th 2021 at 5:49:52 PM

[up][up] I have no issues with that sentence being removed.

SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMY
Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
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#710: Dec 17th 2021 at 1:49:51 AM

[up][up][up] Removed it now.

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KingofNightmares Since: Aug, 2016 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#711: Dec 17th 2021 at 8:16:29 AM

The caption for the picture on The Muppet Christmas Carol is "The best Christmas Carol ever." Look, I like this movie, but that's still maybe a bit too gushy.

"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?"
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
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3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#713: Dec 17th 2021 at 9:41:19 PM

Some of the paragraphs in the description for Xenogears are quite gushy.

For example:

Edited by Ayumi-chan on Dec 18th 2021 at 1:43:25 AM

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ArthurEld Since: May, 2014
#714: Dec 17th 2021 at 10:18:44 PM

For the first one, I guess you could cut the awesome art pothole, and just say the story opens with a cutscene.

The second sentence seems fine to me. It doesn't say "some of the best written villains in JRPG history" or anything similarly gushy.

Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#715: Dec 17th 2021 at 10:51:03 PM

[up] Now edited the page to be less gushy

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Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#716: Dec 18th 2021 at 10:09:24 AM

From Invisible Cities:

Well, that's a superficial description of Invisible Cities. The concept is deceptively simple, but the way it is executed is amazing. Each city is unique — beautiful, chilling, simplistic, ornate — some are meditations on what cities are, some are Deconstructions, and some are metaphors for everything under the sky — but all seem similar in a way which is just beyond words.

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
ArthurEld Since: May, 2014
#717: Dec 18th 2021 at 10:42:58 AM

Yeah, I think the whole description of that needs to be changed-that paragraph is so gushy because the paragraphs before it are trying to strip out anything at all interesting, or even detailed about the novel.

It looks like the person who made that description was trying to be clever as opposed to informative.

RustBeard Since: Sep, 2016
#718: Dec 20th 2021 at 5:03:31 PM

This was on Turning Red:

  • Genius Bonus: There are many subtle clues that hint that the movie's setting is the early 2000's that keen viewers will notice such as Mei's flute case having stickers about "Y2K" and "saving the whales", as well as when Mei encounters a girl in the school restroom, she is seen wearing UGG Boots which were popular at the time.

This strikes me as misuse of Genius Bonus. This is basically saying a movie set in the early 2000's contains references to the time period.

Nen_desharu Nintendo Fanatic Extraordinaire from Greater Smash Bros. Universe or Toronto Since: Aug, 2020 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Nintendo Fanatic Extraordinaire
#719: Dec 20th 2021 at 5:13:48 PM

[up]It's more of an Unintentional Period Piece than a Genius Bonus.

Kirby is awesome.
fragglelover Since: Jun, 2012
#720: Dec 20th 2021 at 5:18:18 PM

[up] I don't think Unintentional Period Piece is right. The film takes place in the early 2000s, but it's coming out next year.

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Word Up
#721: Dec 20th 2021 at 11:18:33 PM

That's more of Freeze-Frame Bonus if anything, but given that we still just have trailers, it feels too early to assume this won't be blatant in the film.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
jandn2014 SMILE! from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#722: Dec 21st 2021 at 3:36:44 AM

Fraggle Rock’s description is quite gushy.

Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#723: Dec 21st 2021 at 4:06:38 PM

From Pokémon: Generation VI - Chespin to Hawlucha, in Tyrunt and Tyrantrum's folder (gushy part is bolded):

Edited by Wafer on Dec 21st 2021 at 4:07:03 AM

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
KUnlimited Since: Sep, 2020
#724: Dec 22nd 2021 at 4:19:49 AM

[up] Maybe replace it with "It's essentially a Tyrannosaurus rex etc."

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Delibirda from Splatsville Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
#725: Dec 22nd 2021 at 5:03:49 AM

[up][up]It has been disproven that Tyrannosaurus had feathers.

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”

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