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This is the thread to use if you feel that the page image itself is good but the caption needs help.

If you think that both the image and the caption are poor, please make a thread in Image Pickin' for the page, and we'll work on the image and caption both at the same time.

As with other TRS and IP threads, please state your reasons and make your case in your first post. Don't make the other posters spend time trying to pry it out of you.

Edited by Willbyr on Jun 21st 2021 at 9:42:03 AM

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#401: Jan 29th 2016 at 12:29:34 AM

The caption on Lens Flare has 3 Sinkholes to the works in the picture. I think we should remove them and just leave a note in their place.

edited 29th Jan '16 12:29:40 AM by Karxrida

rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#402: Jan 29th 2016 at 3:34:23 AM

Sinkholes removed.

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#403: Feb 5th 2016 at 5:23:45 AM

UsefulNotes.Australia uses this as a caption:

"The country that kills everybody."

It references a trope (without potholing it) that now prohibits RL examples. And according to the Real Life section maintenance thread it's possible that it's a huge exaggeration, as the wildlife isn't there for the sole purpose of killing people.

Anyone got any better ideas for a caption, or should we send a Boxing Kangaroo after it?

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#404: Feb 5th 2016 at 6:09:40 AM

It needs to go, regardless of replacement.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#405: Feb 5th 2016 at 6:55:16 AM

Went ahead and axed it. Also left a comment to go here to suggest something in its place.

ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#406: Feb 5th 2016 at 9:39:37 AM

You sure you did? I'm still seeing it there.

Also noting it here that I went with Willbyr's proposed variant of my caption for The Captain. I saw at least 3 people in support of it, counting him and myself; not quite consensus, but then, I didn't update the tag to say it was.

edited 5th Feb '16 9:43:34 AM by ShadowHog

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#407: Feb 5th 2016 at 11:20:30 AM

Could have sworn that I did... Should be gone now.

dsneybuf (Not-So-Newbie)
#408: Feb 18th 2016 at 7:46:57 AM

Could I get away with trimming the caption on It's the Same, Now It Sucks! to just this?

"...this new Psycho evokes the real thing in an attempt to re-create remembered passion. — ''Ebert, who rated the remake 1.5/4."

In fact, would we even need to still include the rating, or does Ebert's insistence on calling the original "real" compared to the remake already make it clear that he hated the latter?

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#409: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:23:43 AM

[up] That's such a minimal change that I don't see the need for it. I also think the rating helps convey the trope more.

dsneybuf (Not-So-Newbie)
#410: Feb 18th 2016 at 9:45:12 AM

Well, before I edited the caption, it began with a reference to Norman Bates masturbating in the remake; I removed it while and after writing that post because I both failed to see the point of including it here, and feared that readers who never saw Psycho wouldn't really know why an explicit masturbation scene would ruin the tone.

Do you see the point of referencing it here?

edited 18th Feb '16 9:48:48 AM by dsneybuf

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#411: Feb 18th 2016 at 11:15:53 AM

Oh, okay, I didn't know it had been cut down. Ebert phrased the comment that way because, to him, the remake was the equivalent of A Date with Rosie Palms while thinking about the original...it's meant to be metaphorical. The cut-down version loses that association.

edited 18th Feb '16 11:16:52 AM by Willbyr

dsneybuf (Not-So-Newbie)
#412: Feb 18th 2016 at 11:19:32 AM

Does that mean I should put it back?

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#413: Feb 18th 2016 at 1:05:49 PM

Yeah, unless someone comes up with something better it's probably best to take it back to the original.

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#414: Mar 2nd 2016 at 10:22:46 AM

For the new pic on The Oldest Ones in the Book, I was thinking "Sometimes, the oldest ones are the book." Yea/nay?

ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#415: Mar 2nd 2016 at 12:04:28 PM

I like what you're trying to go for, but something about that particular take doesn't jive with me.

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#416: Mar 2nd 2016 at 4:13:34 PM

"Hey, I found [ancient trope] on this page!" Pick your favorite Oldest One.

edited 2nd Mar '16 4:13:55 PM by HeraldAlberich

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#417: Mar 2nd 2016 at 4:31:43 PM

What was the first trope page on the wiki? I know the place started out as a Buffy wiki so maybe that work page?

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#418: Mar 2nd 2016 at 4:34:54 PM

Gilligan Cut was the first trope page created.

edited 2nd Mar '16 4:38:53 PM by Karxrida

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#419: Mar 2nd 2016 at 9:16:16 PM

I meant something more along the lines of an iconic trope found on the Older Than Dirt index. I just didn't take the time to look through it myself.

Morgenthaler Since: Feb, 2016
#420: Mar 15th 2016 at 1:39:38 AM

For "Join the Army," They Said, something punny about Rooting for the Empire seems appropriate.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
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#423: Mar 20th 2016 at 1:58:25 PM

Yeah, I'd just cull it altogether.

Morgenthaler Since: Feb, 2016
#425: Mar 24th 2016 at 4:11:19 AM

Takes One to Kill One: I don't think we ever settled on a caption for this one, but I think it would add to the clarity. Something like "Ah, the classic vampire weaknesses: sunlight, garlic, silver, and another vamp's fist through your skull".

edited 24th Mar '16 4:14:32 AM by Morgenthaler

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

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