Mission
Comment out Zero Context Examples and leave this comment note on the page itself:%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.
Edited to be a thread header.
Edited by nombretomado on Mar 3rd 2019 at 6:12:58 AM
Can Characters.SCTV be saved? It's got plenty of ZCE's.
Edited by Berrenta on Jul 27th 2021 at 9:40:47 AM
she/her | TRS needs your help! | Contributor of Trope ReportSurvivor Hag Island has nothing on its main page and no real contextualized tropes on its character page. Is anything salvagable?
Edited by Libraryseraph on Jul 28th 2021 at 2:18:27 PM
Absolute destiny... apeachalypse?What surprises me the most is that the main page just has a question mark and nothing else. Also, the character page has quite a few YMMV tropes. We could move some of the character tropes to the main page (after expanding on them), but given that the main page has remained effectively blank for almost a year, I'm not sure it's worth it (the page isn't indexed either).
Yeah like the fic isn't even linked, so I have no idea how to expand the character page tropes
Absolute destiny... apeachalypse?Now I am so damn curious to whatever the hell it can be! Damn it!
"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!”It was created by ~Happyfrybreath back in August 2020.
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallIt's late and I'm in dewick mode, so dropping Missing Stars here.
Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢Ah no sorry!
I got into a period around that time where I was like "I must create a new Tv Tropes page for EVERYTHING I ever do!" but didn't really have the attention span to do it (worked pretty well for Among us tho).
Edited by Happyfrybreath on Jul 28th 2021 at 11:42:31 AM
"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!”
I just realized I have no idea what to do for the page image
From AscendedExtra.Literature:
But what about everyone else listed?
Welcome Episode is filled with examples that are just "Character name in Series title"
Edited by PhantomDusclops92 on Jul 29th 2021 at 5:22:10 PM
The best character is always the one-shot disguise.Another "can this 2-year-dead page be saved?" enquiry once more.
Polychromatic looks pretty hopeless (and have 6 misplaced YMMV items, all which are also ZCE). Permission to cutlist?
EDIT: This one's arguably worse: Lamentable Nights
Edited by RobertTYL on Jul 31st 2021 at 5:47:31 PM
As much as I'd love to comment out the ZCE's, I am caught in another TRS cleanup effort.
she/her | TRS needs your help! | Contributor of Trope ReportAlmost none of WesternAnimation.Lil Bush has any context at all. I'm not even sure how much of it is salvageable.
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallI've commented out a whole bunch of ZC Es. The page should look a bit tidier now.
Solstice Twins has a description that admits the webcomic has been taken down without it being archived (making it inaccessible), and is full of examples that have little to no context. All of the edits past 2013 involve formatting fixes and removing tropes that are no longer used, as well as updating the description to say that the webcomic is no longer available (and one case of the page being blanked, then restored). And the page's creator (who added pretty much everything to the page) has been inactive since 2013. I doubt it can be saved.
Edited by Shadow8411 on Aug 1st 2021 at 5:21:26 AM
I started drafting the following descriptor slug for an entry for Afterschool Dice Club's Miki Takekasa in 'Shy Blue-Haired Girl,' but it feels too long to me, and I also don't know whether all the links I added are really necessary:
- Afterschool Dice Club: Protagonist Miki Takekasa is a serious, introverted high-schooler with subdued and repressed emotions who doesn't socialize much with her classmates. She's always had trouble understanding what other people enjoy about having fun but yearned to change this, yet doesn't quite know how to start doing that without help. One day after school on her way home, Miki crosses paths with happy-go-lucky fellow classmate and recent transfer student Aya Takayashiki. Her sunny disposition is infectious, and their chance meeting becomes the start of a close friendship. Later on in the middle of their shared walk home that same day, Aya unexpectedly spots their stickler-for-the-rules class representative Midori Ono entering The Dice Club — a specialty board-game shop, of all things — and drags Miki along on a little adventure to investigate. It turns out that Midori works there and also has a hidden side to herself: she's always enjoyed board games and even wants to make one of her own some day. The store's manager invites Miki and Aya to try one of the games he has in stock out, and Miki finds to her surprise and delight that she rather enjoys playing. Learning to play various different board games with Aya, and now also with Midori, soon ends up sticking as a routine pastime for Miki and her new-found friends and helps her grow out of her shell.
What could/should I do to improve this?
Edited by RandomDSdevel on Aug 1st 2021 at 4:03:24 AM
Jamming out to some random anime or game theme or song as usual. — RandomDSdevelI suppose I could go with something like:
- Afterschool Dice Club: Protagonist Miki Takekasa is a serious, introverted high-schooler with subdued and repressed emotions who doesn't socialize much with her classmates until she starts acquiring friends and bonding with them over, among other things, playing board games and grows out of her shell.
Maybe that's about the right length…?
Jamming out to some random anime or game theme or song as usual. — RandomDSdevelThe only thing missing is a mention of her hair color.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness(Facepalms.) Right, I'll add that in with my page edit.
Jamming out to some random anime or game theme or song as usual. — RandomDSdevelStumbled upon Cinderella Unni. From a cursory glance I'm not sure how much of it is keepable.
Edited by WarJay77 on Aug 1st 2021 at 9:09:35 AM
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure PurenessCan Baby Aliens even be saved?
ZCE and weblink abuse aside, the last update was 3 years ago, so...
EDIT: Well, just found another one, guess that's what Tempting Fate means.
Anyway, here be Augustos. ZCE? Check. First-person writing? Check. Obscure enough to show NO result on Google? Check. Last updated when Age of Ultron was still playing in theaters...
EDIT: Rule of Three strikes again!
... yeah, have fun with this one. Mushroom Go
Edited by RobertTYL on Aug 3rd 2021 at 4:17:11 PM
Ditto.
"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!”