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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

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#13101: Nov 17th 2022 at 3:49:40 PM

To continue the discussion from here, I see NamespaceGoesHere.Title Goes Here was PRLC but TitleGoesHere.Title Goes Here was not to obvious results.

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#13102: Nov 17th 2022 at 3:52:26 PM

Yeah, when I looked at the link I saw that one. It's so poorly made that I just tossed it on the cutlist.

I don't get why they made it as that anyway, since unlike NamespaceGoesHere.Title Goes Here, TitleGoesHere.Title Goes Here doesn't even make any sense.

Now to check if NamespaceGoesHere.Namespace Goes Here is blue... Okay, it's not, thankfully.

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#13103: Nov 17th 2022 at 4:50:01 PM

Sudden bit of curiosity but what happens if you tried making an PRLC page? Do you get a special screen telling you you can't make the page or something?

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#13104: Nov 17th 2022 at 4:50:54 PM

i think you just get the usual "this page is under administrative lock" message, because that's all the PRLC is - articles that have been cut and locked.

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#13105: Nov 17th 2022 at 4:51:51 PM

Actually no, funnily enough, PRLC pages are glitched. You can access the edit page, but it doesn't save edits so it doesn't really make a difference lol (Fighteer let me test it when the glitch was first discovered)

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#13106: Nov 17th 2022 at 4:52:20 PM

Yeah, you just get the locked page message. PRLC pages are just cut and locked pages.

^ Well, IIRC it's certain PRLC pages not all of them because I remember testing that when it was discovered. The ones that aren't in Main/ I believe.

Edited by MacronNotes on Nov 17th 2022 at 7:54:16 AM

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#13107: Nov 17th 2022 at 4:55:16 PM

Ah I see, TY for the answers!

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#13108: Nov 17th 2022 at 4:56:36 PM

[up][up] Right, that's it. I know that NamespaceGoesHere.Title Goes Here does go to the edit screen, which is the only reason I even remember this glitch exists.

Edited by WarJay77 on Nov 17th 2022 at 8:00:18 AM

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#13109: Nov 17th 2022 at 4:58:18 PM

[up]no it doesn't, not anymore at least

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20221117_165737_002.png

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#13110: Nov 17th 2022 at 4:59:55 PM

It did when I clicked it 10 minutes ago, so...

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#13111: Nov 17th 2022 at 5:02:00 PM

This is what I got:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2022_11_17_at_80237_pm.png

Weirdly it let me edit before.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Nov 17th 2022 at 8:03:06 AM

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#13112: Nov 17th 2022 at 5:03:04 PM

Yeah, now it's giving the lock screen. It's just that the first time I tried it, it gave me the editing screen. Dunno if the mods covertly glitch-fixed in the background or something, but...

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#13113: Nov 17th 2022 at 5:04:41 PM

You can still access the edit screen via URL though.

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#13114: Nov 17th 2022 at 5:32:24 PM

Observation: Shortly after Schaffrillas Productions made a video about Free Birds, the pages for the work got the "That's right, repeat sentence" Running Gag from the review added without any potholes to the origin or any explanation whatsoever on the Memetic Mutation bullet in the YMMV page for the film. This kinda looks like Fan Myopia to me, since not everyone watches Schaffrilla's videos and thus would be confused about that recurring sentence.

Edited by Excessive-Menace on Nov 17th 2022 at 6:06:40 AM

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#13115: Nov 17th 2022 at 5:55:56 PM

[up] It was baffling to see that meme pop up so quickly on the Free Birds page. I guess Colbert Bump hits hard.

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#13116: Nov 17th 2022 at 6:25:56 PM

Well, I think it was brought up before that certain obscure works got pages because a popular review channel made a video on them.

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#13117: Nov 17th 2022 at 7:22:12 PM

The meme existed even before the video. I guess the video must have boosted it even more, which makes sense.

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#13118: Nov 17th 2022 at 7:27:34 PM

[up][up] That's an old site tradition going back to The Nostalgia Critic: Anytime he'd review a movie there'd be new examples added clearly reflecting (though not plagiarizing word-for-word) Doug's opinion on the movie. There was even an entry about this (on a page I can't remember) using Flubber as an example.

As we see with Schafrillas, this is still going on even with other reviewers/essayists.

Edited by harryhenry on Nov 18th 2022 at 4:28:16 AM

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#13119: Nov 17th 2022 at 7:37:59 PM

I both love and hate the pic on Slow-Loading Internet Image being self-demonstrating.

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#13120: Nov 17th 2022 at 8:57:59 PM

The fact we have a whole page dedicated to works that have too much complaining, but not for too much gushing.note  It kind of showed me how much of a problem the former was (and still is on occasion), and how negative leaning this site tended to be (at least back in the day).

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#13121: Nov 17th 2022 at 9:23:58 PM

I hope I'm not stepping over the limitation on discussing the Edit Banned thread, but I didn't know this rule before:

Work names should be used to create article names, with the exception of using a disambiguation for works that share a name. Writing up a description for "Work A" under "Title B" is simply unacceptable.

It hadn't occurred to me that someone might do this, and now I have the fleeting temptation to give "A-Sitting On A Gate" its own work page under the title "The Aged Aged Man".

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#13122: Nov 17th 2022 at 11:13:55 PM

This reminds me of when I've seen examples clearly inspired by a specific review. For example, the first Dies Differently in Adaptation example for Rebecca is paraphrased from Lost in Adaptation.

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#13123: Nov 18th 2022 at 12:02:21 AM

On the whole Ready Jet Go! thing, I’m surprised that its major contributor has left, especially considering their other work. I’ll miss them.

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#13124: Nov 18th 2022 at 2:12:39 AM

[up] I know, outside of the RJG thing and some rudeness issues they weren't that bad a contributor. They were the one who also initially informed us about that Super Group 2013 person and their multiple sockpuppet accounts.

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#13125: Nov 18th 2022 at 2:30:12 AM

If nothing else, the list of shady Nightmare Fuel/Complete Monster/Getting Crap Past the Radar/et cetera "examples" for kid's shows is so long (or at least was, I think there's been some real progress at pruning it down) that it feels kind of unfair to single out the one where the person responsible specifically admitted it and apologized.


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