This thread is for general discussion of page quotes, whether to change, move or remove them.
Unused quotes should be put on a Quotes Wiki page (just replace the namespace in the URL of the wiki page you are making a quotes page for with Quotes/) or, if they don't have an article, on Quotes Looking for an Article.
Image captions are discussed elsewhere and have their own thread
in the Image Pickin' forum.
Edited by Tabs on Jul 15th 2023 at 2:40:54 AM
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The Mulan quote is already on Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving but I think the Korra quote is suitable.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
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Korra Quote
nothing to report
Schoolgirl Lesbians is using the same quote from the page image of Transparent Closet. There's another quote in a subpage, but I don't think the schoolgirl aspect is very clear on that one.
PSA: a cat is not a dog
For Like You Would Really Do It
"With a single snap of the fingers Disney erases the box-office potential of Black Panther, Spider-Man, 5/7 of the Guardians, Dr. Strange, the Winter Soldier, and one third of the Avengers; and if you think those deaths are gonna stick for longer than a movie I've got a copy of The Death of Superman to sell you"
- Honest Trailers for Avengers: Infinity War
Ultimate Secret Wars
How sweet it is
Creator.Bob Saget has two quotes, neither of which look very good.
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bowserbros changed the quote on Oddity from its tagline as Mother 4 "Truancy, adventure and an aversion to business suits!" to the description of the January 2020 trailer "If you're looking for a roadtrip full of oddball characters and serious challenge with lots of heart... then ODDITY is for you!" I prefer the old quote, since even the page itself admits the new one may not be an actual tagline.
Keet cleanup
A True Hero's last few lines of its quote is the quote for You're Nothing Without Your Phlebotinum...
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Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
So the quote for Forbidden Planet is actually a line from The Rocky Horror Picture Show...
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An eagle
Someone said that the current main page quote for Unperson is misleading because it sounds more like Retgone than Unperson
Edit: To clarify, here's the differences in definition between the two tropes and why the quote from Nineteen Eighty-Four sounds more like Retgone
Retgone: The character is erased from existence.
Unperson: All record of the character is erased, I. E. the character exists, but everyone pretends they don't.
Edited by Billy5545 on Jan 4th 2020 at 11:35:10 PM
Just an eagle. (Feel free to PM me if you want to talk to me).
I fight for a "Jest" cause
How about swapping it with other 1984 example (minus pothole) found on the page quotes?
The page quote for Gardening-Variety Weapon seems quite poor. Since the game is on it's last legs how about an example From Dawn of the Dragons? (If people want to keep the current I'll make a quotes page instead)
Can't Take Criticism is No Real Life Examples, Please! and we've cut RL quotes about No RL trope before. Including those pertaining to this exact individual.
I will cut per this, but was told to bring here. For future reference any real life example quotes for no real life examples can be zapped, right?
Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught on Jan 7th 2020 at 4:53:15 AM
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
Apologises a Lot has two quotes for no clear reason. The description tries to integrate it into the Self-Demonstrating Article joke, but I have to say I'm sorry about not seeing what having two quotes has to do with apologizing a lot (the joke might work better on a page like Department of Redundancy Department, which doesn't have more than one quote), so it feels forced.
The second quote is shorter, and Brevity Is Wit, so I prefer it. Regardless of which one is used, I think one of them should be moved to Quotes.Apologises A Lot.
Edit: I've been commenting out Deranged Animation's ZCEs, and fittingly, that page's quote says nothing about the trope (the trope has more to do with what a work looks like than how it's written). In contrast, both quotes on Apologises a Lot would work, and the only problem there is that only one quote is needed.
How about swapping out Deranged Animation's quote with one of these quotes from Quotes.Deranged Animation?
— Don Hertzfeldt, Rejected
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 8th 2020 at 7:26:12 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
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The tagline used as the quote on Read Only Memories is already in the image.
Keet cleanup
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The page quote on Plot-Irrelevant Villain is a spoiler
PSA: a cat is not a dog
Princesses Rule has a complaining critic quote. How's this for a replacement? I'm just worried the tangent might make it confusing.
Crimson Sky: You think too much about the wrong things, Twitch.
I'm Sad Frogerson.
So, I found this on the Quotes sub-page for Animation Age Ghetto, and it's pretty much complaining about how people on TVTropes use this trope. Should we cut it?
, while juvenile mediocrities such as Disney's Gargoyles are treated as masterpieces on a par with the television dramas of Dennis Potter and David Simon. TV Tropes has a page devoted to what it calls the Animation Age Ghetto, which gives a reasonable if scattershot overview of the subject. The page's "examples" section, however, consists in large part of people filibustering about how their favorite superhero cartoons never caught on. The main reason that most of these cartoons never attracted adult audiences, of course, is that they are simply not for adults."
, and ripping on This Very Wiki in the process.
Edited by chasemaddigan on Jan 10th 2020 at 12:40:53 PM
Do we need these second rejoinder? The first part works on its own
- Very Long, and pothole-y. That's bad.
- Feels weird with the "What about" beginning the quote. Makes it feel incomplete without the other person's response.
Edited by Malady on Jan 11th 2020 at 8:40:05 AM
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It's the quotes tab, though, not that main page. Potholes and long quotes are fine there. The question is if something that's complaining about this wiki is a problem.
And I'd say it's fine, though I admit part of that is because I worry about censorship issues when getting rid of stuff that complains about us.
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I have my own problems with that quote that I'd like to posit. If it were just complaining about us, it wouldn't be a big deal, but there's a whole "complaining about people liking a show" with regards to Gargoyles specifically and other shows in general. Partly because of that, it's really in the opposite spirit of the trope it's supposedly helping illustrate.
SoundCloud
- Agreed.
Short-Term Projects herald
Word of Mod is that such potholes on the Quotes/ namespace are forbidden, too: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=82406&type=att#comment-230799
How sweet it is
Another page for a work creator with two quotes? Yep: Music.George Clinton.
I'm indifferent as to which one should be kept. I can go either way.
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I'm Sad Frogerson.
Okay, I cut the Animation Age Ghetto quote I brought up. I posted a link to the thread in my edit reason in case anybody wanted to add it back.
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What should be the page quote for Monster.Fan Works?
Film.The Wild Geese has two quotes.
I can go either way on which quote to use, but leaning towards the second.
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