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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 13th 2024 at 12:59:03 PM

Vandagyre I think I just got AC team loyalty from Dacardia (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
I think I just got AC team loyalty
#5826: Apr 27th 2022 at 1:16:18 AM

It's amazing how a work will attract an entire fandom's worth of complaining, but once it's out of the spotlight, said complaints can just... linger for ages because nobody cares about the work.

This observation was a result of my efforts to remove complaining from Pokémon: Genesect and the Legend Awakened and its subpages, which have enough 2013-era salt for me to season my popcorn for a month.

Cave Johnson, we're done here.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#5827: Apr 27th 2022 at 1:21:50 AM

Well the page is indeed made in 2013, and by the time we've got standards, the page sunk into obscurity so noone fixed it.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#5828: Apr 27th 2022 at 1:24:27 AM

[up][up]I've long griped about what to do with pages that were clearly only made because someone hated the work, honestly. Arguably the only thing worse are the ones where it's actually some random reviewer who hated it and the page is just parroting their points.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#5829: Apr 27th 2022 at 1:34:35 AM

We do have Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining and the anti-complaining thread, if pages have negative writing then they should be rewritten.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#5830: Apr 27th 2022 at 6:15:58 AM

The YMMV pages for a lot of those works are amusing in that even when someone admits to liking an element of it, it's like there's this unspoken rule that they still need to throw in a "But outside of this, the work is utter shit!" or "Looks like these idiots could do one thing right" in order to remind the reader that the work as a whole is bad and stupid.


Using Values Dissonance as an "um, actually" in a YMMV example doesn't work when there are available sources proving that what you're saying isn't a widespread thing or the target audience in the home country had the same reaction as foreigners, and I'm tiring of seeing it.

Edited by RacattackForce on Apr 27th 2022 at 10:53:27 AM

MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#5831: Apr 27th 2022 at 8:45:09 AM

Your edit history counts 90 edits per page.

Macron's notes
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#5832: Apr 27th 2022 at 9:40:10 AM

[up] I have like 9 pages worth of edits, so that means I'm only a couple hundred away from one thousand. Dang, I never realized that I edit a lot for someone who'll edit once in a while (then again I was a far more active editor back then).

CG for short
HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#5833: Apr 27th 2022 at 9:50:49 AM

You think that's bad! I was checking about a month back and I had about 60 pages worth of edits. Keep in mind that I haven't been here for even a year....

....I think I need more hobbies.

GenericGuy2000 I’m here, I guess. from a generic place. Since: Jul, 2021 Relationship Status: Cast away
I’m here, I guess.
#5834: Apr 27th 2022 at 10:14:35 AM

I… only have two pages. Honestly I don’t really edit much outside of just deleting entries after bringing them to the cleanup threads.

I’m gonna put some Gloom in your eye.
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#5835: Apr 27th 2022 at 10:25:29 AM

[up] Same here. I rarely edit outside of cleanup and TRS stuff.

Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#5836: Apr 27th 2022 at 10:58:26 AM

370 pages boyeeee!

It would not be nearly that large without wick cleaning.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
nombretomado (Season 1) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#5837: Apr 27th 2022 at 11:03:11 AM

7934, but wick cleaning and locked page edits will do that.

Tonwen HoMM Fan from Axeoth Since: Dec, 2021 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
HoMM Fan
#5838: Apr 27th 2022 at 11:03:47 AM

8, most of my edits are cleaning of some sort, although I do have some additive edits (and a pet page... don't judge me!)

Edited by Tonwen on Apr 27th 2022 at 1:05:58 PM

"Grandmaster Combat, son!"
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#5840: Apr 27th 2022 at 11:12:43 AM

To be fair, I am a bad Serial Tweaker myself. Doesn’t help that a lot of the shows I watch either have little coverage here or shockingly have no pages at all (I’m personally surprised we didn’t have a page on Terry and June for the longest time but it exists now).

themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#5841: Apr 27th 2022 at 11:19:35 AM
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#5842: Apr 27th 2022 at 11:22:29 AM

Daym, that's a lot of edits. I guess my amount is fair tamer in comparison.

CG for short
mightymewtron Word Up from New New York Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Word Up
#5843: Apr 27th 2022 at 11:31:38 AM

I just saw "this troper" used unironically in an entry for something that came out in 2020. While we have a lot of issues lingering from the early days, that phrase seems so discouraged that I didn't realize people still did that, unless they're really out of the loop. (It was on a Funny page for SNL, for context — a troper giving a personal anecdote to explain why something was Truth in Television. So yeah it was borderline Troper Tales-y.)

[down][down] I was on mobile on a train, when I usually avoid editing mistakes due to bad wi-fi, but that stuck out to me so badly that I deleted it the minute I had wi-fi. [lol]

Edited by mightymewtron on Apr 27th 2022 at 5:30:19 AM

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#5844: Apr 27th 2022 at 11:35:00 AM

History says the adder is an old-timer. So, yeah, they've just not caught up to the times, I guess...

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
alnair20aug93 🍊orange fursona🧡 from 🐾Furrypines 🇵🇭 (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
🍊orange fursona🧡
#5845: Apr 27th 2022 at 11:56:03 AM

[up][up]Have you deleted that entry?

ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔|I DO COMMISSIONS|ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#5846: Apr 27th 2022 at 12:15:41 PM

She did.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
MegaMarioMan (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#5847: Apr 27th 2022 at 3:41:50 PM

I feel like fairly frequently I go to edit a page and I know what I want to change, so I Ctrl+F to get to where I'm trying to go... and it pulls me to the Edit Tip at the top of the page, which just happens to have the word I'm trying to find in the page's contents. It mainly happens when I try to change "[[spoiler: " and happen to receive one of the tips about spoilers, but I just went to make an edit on Kirby to add Easter Egg examples and I Ctrl+F searched "Early" to get to the Early-Installment Weirdness wick... and I got "Edit Tip #19: Please read Example Indentation as early and as often as possible."

Side note, that link is red because the wick in the tip popup version of that one directs to the main page instead of the Administrivia page.

re. mightymewtron Just 10 days ago someone added what basically amounted to a Troper Tales example on Springtime for Hitler.

Edited by MegaMarioMan on Apr 27th 2022 at 6:46:11 AM

MegaMarioMan (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#5848: Apr 27th 2022 at 3:45:15 PM

edit: whoops, I accidentally double-posted instead of editing

Edited by MegaMarioMan on Apr 27th 2022 at 6:45:39 AM

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#5849: Apr 27th 2022 at 3:48:38 PM

Yet another troper from like 2012 who's continued using those rules...

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#5850: Apr 27th 2022 at 3:52:39 PM

Just in general it sets me off when old tropers still use terms like YKTTW. There seems to be a tendency for them to be the ones who edit poorly now because they never bothered to update their own habits in pace with our policy updates.

My musician page

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