Removing complaining, bashing and other negativity from the wiki

I've zapped 60% of the Gate example due to the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment alone.

Edited by Albert3105 on Dec 11th 2018 at 2:05:59 AM

Discontinuity.Super Mario Logan is 80% 'this episode sucks and people hate it' without giving reasons why or being neutral in tone.

I remember that page being brought up on this thread or another thread before. And the page just looks like a list of episodes people dislike and is very complain-y.

The first few quotes on Quotes.Vocal Minority look a bit more negative then they should be.

And they're using words to describe the groups that are not ROCEJ friendly, especially the second and third.

Anyone else in favor of pulling those?

The second and third quote sound ROCEJ-violating, so those should be removed.

Consider it done.

What about this one?

This sentence the lead section of Monkey Island sounds like it's bashing the later LucasArts (how do I quote on forums?):

"As LucasArts was actually somewhat clever and still had a sense of humor in those days, they told Schafer and his gang write the rest of the dialogue."

Thoughts on the Monopoly page quote?

I don't see how it's complaining.

Yeah, that seems more like humor than actual complaining.

Could a mod fix the red links in the pinned post?

Recap.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic IDW Issue 48 To 50:

• Broken Aesop: The entire story arc builds up the idea that Accord's absolute order is just as disharmonic as Discord's absolute chaos because harmony is a mixture of chaos and order and thus an absolute of either is just as bad. Being convinced of this is the entire reason that Accord agrees to turn back into Discord. This Aesop is completely shattered by the fact the Elements of Harmony don't work on Accord because he's absolute order, meaning that harmony IS absolute order after all, at least as far as the Elements, the uncontested ultimate arbiters of Harmony until now, are concerned.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Twilight and Luna's entire Battle in the Center of the Mind subplot. Not only do they fail to restore Discord, but Accord simply brainwashes them too. And nothing that they've learned even gets used during the Final Battle.

Broken Aesop: requires the Elements have the Omniscient Morality License as opposed to being fallible tools, which is fan assumption as they show has never explain their working (it's explained why they didn't work here by Accord, who may have been biased).

Shoot the Shaggy Dog: From the characters perspective, yes, but it foreshadows to the audience how he'll be beat. Is that a misuse if it has a greater purpose?

Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught on Dec 24th 2018 at 3:20:16 AM

Not sure if this is the right thread for it, but the description for Metaplot seems to mostly be an essay as to why metaplot in ttrpgs is bad. It should probably be rewritten to be more neutral.

Headscratchers.Advertising looks to be full of complaining that's probably a relic from when it was called Just Bugs Me. I started going through the page to see what was complaints, but there's a lot of it.

Edited by costanton11 on Dec 24th 2018 at 6:25:56 AM

Are Headscratchers subpages even allowed for types of works, as opposed to specific works or series? Subpages like the Awesome/ subpage at least act as hubs/indexes for Advertising/ articles' subpages.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 25th 2018 at 8:50:44 AM

It was mentioned here that general headscratcher pages for media types were agreed to be cut.

Media types, as in film in general, tv in general. The Advertising has specific examples, whatever else its flaws.

I went through and removed most of the complainy bits from the page.

Is this too complainy for a YMMV page? For context, it's The Weird Al Show's YMMV page

Anime.Romance Of The Three Kingdoms' lead section is basically all bashing it, and it's not a universally panned anime from what I can tell, having a 7.45 rating on MyAnimeList. Also, this example of Fandom Rivalry on YMMV.Danganronpa V 3 Killing Harmony seems to be bashing Exile Election (I just edited it to remove the "recently" part and correct an error):

• Exile Election has been the target of Danganronpa fans, being accused of being a poor copy of the franchise, the generic designs that are less interesting than DR's art style, the pandering use of Lolicon and Shotacon appealing designs of several characters and the lack of originality in the game's premise (twelve people get stuck in an amusement park, being forced to vote on which of them must die).

Re: Weird Al:

I say it can be rewritten just to focus on watching the show for the titular person and cut out mention of flaws. Something like this, maybe? Suggestions for improvement welcome:

• Just Here for Godzilla: Many dedicated Wierd Al fans still remember this show. Of those, some watch it just for Weird Al himself.

You misspelled "weird" as "wierd", but other than that's it is pretty good.