General Page Quote Discussion:

So, considering Detail-Hogging Cover lost a Platypus Comix quote that sounded too much like complaining, should the CinemaSins quote on Vanity Plate also go?

Achievements in Ignorance has two quotes. Which should go?

First one. It expresses the trope better.

Should a page quote control a You Tube link? The page quote for Good Cannot Comprehend Evil has one, and my instinct is to remove it, but I wanted to check before I did so.

Ideally I'd like to be able to quote in the edit reason an administrivia page, if there is one, explaining why that's a no-no. But I'm not sure where to find it. The search for one is what brought me to the thread though so I figured I might be able to get a point in the right direction

So, considering Detail-Hogging Cover lost a Platypus Comix quote that sounded too much like complaining, should the CinemaSins quote on Vanity Plate also go?

• Vanity Plate: No, that isn't merely complaining. That's being sarcastic and making a joke while complaining. I think it's fine. Moreover, it is not speculative like the Detail-Hogging Cover quote. There really are that many seconds of logos that are being complained about as opposed to someone making an informed guess as though they're an expert with a bunch of citations or something.
• Achievements in Ignorance: Agreed, though it's already been taken care of.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: If we're not supposed to pothole anything in the quote, then we shouldn't link anything either. It's the same principle.

It was still a pothole, just an external one.

Quoting my ATT query:

And the reply I got:

Yeah, I can think of two reasons to take that out:

1. If cannot confirm, deny. (Simply because this is a quotation we're talking about rather than some other thing on the wiki that may have an easier time at getting benefit of the doubt.)
2. It's not quite the same principle as "no potholes," but it still requires reader input to figure out what's goin' on, so to speak. Rather than hovering your cursor over the link, though, you have to click on it.

Okay, done.

There's two quotes on John Green.

The first one is attributed vaguely to "fans". I prefer the second quote anyway.

In either case, nuke all the potholes. Argh, that is bad!

was looking at a fanfic page for South of Oz and noticed it provides the page quote for Cue the Flying Pigs. Upon checking said page out I noticed said quote has a spoiler tag in it and the troper who replaced the original quote curates the Oz page pretty faithfully.

The original quote was:

The new quote is:

Is it kosher to change a page quote without asking? And should it be changed back?

General consensus is you can add the first quote unilaterally, but to change it you come here. It's been a long while since it's been openly discussed, though.

I say revert to the former quote.

And page top quotes don't get potholes, sinkholes, or spoilers.

Aren't sinkholes forbidden everywhere, sort of by definition?

Maybe not the forums.

I brought up in Ask The Tropers that Stray Shots Strike Nothing and Arbitrary Maximum Range have the same quote. Do we want to replace one of them with something else?

Setting aside the length issue, I think it's a better fit for Stray Shots Strike Nothing. Not sure what to replace the Arbitrary Maximum Range quote with, so I suppose we can pull it for now.

edited 19th Dec '17 1:17:25 PM by TotemicHero

The page quote on Role-Ending Misdemeanor doesn't make sense to me. It was added by johnnyfog, but the fact that I can't make sense of it in relation to illustrating the trope brought me here.

It requires a slight bit of popculture osmosis to get - I've never watched Friends, but I know the character Joey plays a doctor on a Show Within a Show, so the idea from the quote and the title of the episode is that the writers killed his character in retaliation for Joey belittling them.

That said, I don't think it works, and anyway Word of Mod is that johnnyfog's stuff is supposed to be cut on principle. Chop it.

I saw that episode. I would count it as a snub, but not a misdemeanor.

Unfortunately, the quotes on the Quotes page are kind of long, and the one down in the examples from Cheers doesn't seem to fit either.

Way, on sinkholes: there's been a lot of people who argue "you didn't tell me that", that no one said the rule applied to this specific thing, or argue their way is better even if it violates the rules. I'm the type that likes to get out in front of those, before they appear. Plus it can help newbies to list out specifics.

edited 20th Dec '17 1:46:48 AM by Candi

I cut the quote. If there's a "cut on principle" thing, plus a "this is confusing" thing, plus a "that's not exactly an example" thing, I think it's safe to cut. Not sure what to replace it with.

What about...:

"The golf world is still rooting for Tiger Woods. Fans of the game would love to see the Tiger of yore, swinging away and winning majors, breaking records and dominating the field. Everyone loves a comeback, or a good redemption story. And people in general would have one less thing to shake their heads at if the demons of 2009 could just be exorcised forever."

— Natalie Finn, E! Online, ""Tiger Woods' Life Hasn't Been the Same Since His Cheating Scandal"

edited 20th Dec '17 7:01:12 AM by WaterBlap

The page quote on Playing Against Type was originally added by Johnnyfog, I wanna replace it with one of the quotes on the quotes sub-page, but I'm not sure which one to use:

The Ebert quote seems good. I don't think the first sentence there is necessary.

I found another quote from johnnyfog, but it's on Quotes.Sequel Gap. It's complaining about Fuller House and I'd normally cut it, but the page would be left completely blank if I did that. The main quote on Sequel Gap works fine and can stay as it is, but can anyone think of some quotes to add for the quote page so I don't have to put it on the cutlist?

Here's the quote I'm talking about:

"I know what they’re doing. Those tricky little tricksters are screwing with Neflix’s emotions, because they can. They probably call up Netflix and say that they’ll do a few episodes of Fuller House and are sending over the contract. When their carrier black crow drops the contract off at Netflix’s offices, Ted Sarandos unrolls it and sees the word “SIKE” written in blood on it. (Fun fact: “Sike” is 90s for “psych.”) Then the Olsens “bleehehehe” into the cold night air, because fucking with people brings them joy. They do that a couple of times a week."

—Michael K., "Netflix Teases That The Olsens May Guest Star On “Fuller House” After All"

edited 21st Dec '17 1:22:33 PM by chasemaddigan

Are there any quotes down in the examples that could be used?

Could someone please fix the quote on Guardians of the Galaxy (2015), to show who exactly says it?