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/).
Image captions are discussed elsewhere and have their own thread
in the Image Pickin' forum.
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jun 10th 2024 at 5:50:24 AM
The Going Cosmic quote doesn't give any indication that the story it was from was at first "mundane" and only later tackled philosophical or theological themes, do others agree it should be removed?
I agree.
(Also, I disagree with removing the Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes quote. It establishes a good baseline perspective from which to consider all the tropes linked in the index.)
Edited by Noaqiyeum on Dec 19th 2023 at 8:37:22 PM
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Isn’t that baseline perspective "rape is a serious matter", forgive me for saying this, but I don’t see any value in keeping it.
Edited by PlasmaPower on Dec 19th 2023 at 12:49:54 PM
Thomas fans needed! Come join me in the the show's cleanup thread!I'm glad you think it's obvious, but the trope list itself includes a variety of tones writers apply to sexual harassment so clearly it isn't actually self-evident. It certainly isn't so bad that no quote at all is an improvement.
If you recognised that you should come to the thread to ask for support to cut it, then you shouldn't have cut it anyway after the only person to respond disagreed.
Edited by Noaqiyeum on Dec 19th 2023 at 9:13:49 AM
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOhoping it's not too much of a problem but i shuffled some quotes related to the "memes" speech from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and removed a duplicate in the process. Memes.Metal Gear and Memetics in Fiction used to have the same quote; both of those now have new quotes from the same source, and i moved the former quote on Memetic Mutation, the thesis from richard dawkins, to UsefulNotes.Memetics where i felt it was more fitting as a serious explanation of memetics. then i moved the "memes" speech to Memetic Mutation, as it sums up the trope nicely by being a meme about memes, and being in a prominent place will likely prevent it from being duplicated again. normally i don't do this kind of thing without asking but i didn't think it would be much of a difference here. sorry if it's any trouble.
Edited by NoUsername on Dec 19th 2023 at 1:33:23 AM
Your changes seem fine to me.
Bumping a suggestion of mine
Edited by RandomTroper123 on Dec 19th 2023 at 9:43:20 AM
House of M has this:
The problems:
- The quote is not representative of the work's actual plot. Emma does propose Murder Is the Best Solution in the first chapter, but her suggestion is immediately shot down and forgotten afterwards.
- The person who said the quote isn't proposing murder as "a solution to mental illness", she is trying to prevent a severely mentally unstable, borderline omnipotent person from destroying reality.
- The quote was quite clearly added to complain about Emma Frost's character, and was written by a troper who was notorious for adding passive-aggressive remarks
and rude comments
to other pages.
- "No More Mutants" is the work's Signature Line and well-known even among Marvel fans who have never read House of M. I would like to add it as a replacement.
Any objections?
Is it just me or is there something wrong/weird with the way Quotes.Hamilton is formatted?
Not sure if I should go to this thread or "Is this an example?", but I wanted to ask if this quote on Quotes.Lost Aesop actually demonstrates a Lost Aesop:
Howard the Duck has two quotes:
I prefer the second one personally.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI think the second quote only makes sense with the context of the first as its playing off the original tag line.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.The current on Scream VI is a trailer line that I'm pretty sure isn't in the final movie, and it's also pretty generic and doesn't say much about what the movie's about. I think this is a better one for highlighting the killer's motive.
Ghostface: Who gives a fuck about movies!?
Edited by Hfxjfrvnn on Dec 24th 2023 at 7:31:36 AM
Master of Unlocking has the same trope namer, image source, and quote source. Of those, I think the quote is the least illustrative. I'd like to replace it for variety's sake.
Here's a replacement from the Quotes page:
The current quote for God Is Evil needs to be changed, as it's an example of Rage Against the Heavens, not the page trope. God Is Evil requires a god actually being evil, not just characters saying they are.
I propose a quote from Shin Megami Tensei II, as it's one of the more well-known examples of God Is Evil:
—YHVH, Shin Megami Tensei II
Edited by FoolsEditAccount on Dec 25th 2023 at 3:53:44 PM
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That... doesn't obviously have anything to do with the trope, though. The one right below it on the quotes page is much better.

Do we really need a real life folder in the quotes page for Fan Dumb? I feel like that’s asking for trouble.
Thomas fans needed! Come join me in the the show's cleanup thread!