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The Trailing punctuation in trope custom titles thread, as well as many, many discussions over the past ten and a half years, have made it obvious that we need a centralized discussion thread for page titles. I intend for this thread to be a place to both discuss titles and request they be changed.

(If you're looking to capitalize an existing wikiword, there's a different thread for that. Custom titles are tied to capitalization, so if you need to both recapitalize and custom-title a wikiword, do the capitalization first to avoid a bug in that regard.)


Custom titles must not be used for the following scenarios:

  • Replacing words with symbols or numbers, unless those are part of the official title of the work. A classic case is changing "and" to "&". Only do this if the original title of the work uses that symbol.
    • One specific exception is when a trope title is expressed as a mathematical formula; for example: 2 + Torture = 5. However, Beauty Equals Goodness is not a valid case for substitution.
  • Adding trailing punctuation to the end of a trope name. For work titles, it's acceptable if and only if the punctuation is part of the official title; for example: Airplane!. For tropes, they need to make sense in a sentence and we should not force the writer to use a pothole to remove punctuation. Common offenders include exclamation points and ellipses.
    • Quoted punctuation is allowed. For example: Big "NO!" encloses its punctuation in quotation marks, so it doesn't disrupt a sentence.
  • Adding words that are not present in the WikiWord title.
  • Transliterating titles into other alphabets. This is primarily an English language wiki. We may note a translated work's original name in its original alphabet (e.g. Arabic or Japanese) within the work page text, but the title should be in the Latin alphabet.

(Mod edit 16 Jan 2025 to add guidance)

Edited by Mrph1 on Jan 16th 2025 at 4:38:33 PM

crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
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#401: Aug 29th 2022 at 6:21:43 PM

How to Move a Page will be useful there.

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Fu-Manchu Doctor from Secret Fortress of Fu Manchu Since: Jul, 2022 Relationship Status: Betrayed by Delilah
Doctor
#402: Aug 30th 2022 at 3:56:26 AM

I wanted to change the title of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Themookmaker to the "The Mook Maker" (and yes, it is the title of the web novel) It basically just add spaces and capitalizes letters. So far no luck.

KUnlimited Since: Sep, 2020
#404: Aug 31st 2022 at 4:09:47 AM

So for some reason, all custom titles are now gone. I don't know if it's only like that for me, but when I try to submit a title, it just says "Sorry, we do not have a wikiword for: [title]".

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#406: Aug 31st 2022 at 4:45:57 AM

Most custom titles should be fixed now, but we're looking at a few outliers.

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#407: Aug 31st 2022 at 4:15:24 PM

Ryūsei Nakao

Found another broken custom title.

Edited by Excessive-Menace on Aug 31st 2022 at 4:16:02 AM

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#409: Aug 31st 2022 at 4:22:23 PM

[up] Fixed by resubmitting.

[up][up] What is that diacritic supposed to be? Try resubmitting with the correct character.

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TheTropper Good freakin' griefer from Allentown (Unitroper) Relationship Status: On the fine, fine line
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#410: Aug 31st 2022 at 4:36:32 PM

Fixing Ryōtarō Okiayu broken title.

Also, someone added a heart symbol to Excel♡Saga. Definitely wasn't there a while back.

Your receipt. You can keep the freakin' change.
crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
#411: Aug 31st 2022 at 4:45:22 PM

[up][up] The problem is that the system removes the character now. It's a two-step process for me to get them corrected.


EDIT: [up] Probably due to the numerous product images that have the heart symbol in the title.

[down] Fixed.

Edited by crazysamaritan on Aug 31st 2022 at 10:05:48 AM

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gjjones Musician/Composer from South Wales, New York Since: Jul, 2016
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#412: Aug 31st 2022 at 6:50:40 PM

Looks like Tōru Ōhira's custom title page is also glitched.

Edited by gjjones on Aug 31st 2022 at 9:51:29 AM

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bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#413: Aug 31st 2022 at 7:30:56 PM

It's been fixed.

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#414: Aug 31st 2022 at 8:08:45 PM

So "InspectorZenigata" is coming up as Inspector Zenigata, as though the redirect was custom-titled - and Series.Inspector Zenigata is coming up as, well, Inspector Zenigata. I made an ATT about it and was told to report it here - what can be done here?

[down] Much appreciated, thanks! Love the new pic btw

Edited by STARCRUSHER99 on Aug 31st 2022 at 11:39:58 AM

crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
#415: Aug 31st 2022 at 8:34:56 PM

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Vandagyre I think I just got AC team loyalty from Dacardia (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
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#416: Sep 1st 2022 at 10:33:02 AM

Fanfic.My Immortal is somehow displaying the custom title of its fan remake (My) Immortal: The Web Series, and should not have a custom title at all.

Cave Johnson, we're done here.
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#417: Sep 1st 2022 at 10:37:03 AM

Maybe someone submitted a custom title for the redirect WebVideo.My Immortal for no good reason.

Edited by Amonimus on Sep 1st 2022 at 8:37:30 PM

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
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#419: Sep 1st 2022 at 5:01:26 PM

Opening Japanese Voice Actors and Ctrl+F for &# would reveal a bunch of these.

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jormis29 Since: Mar, 2012
#420: Sep 1st 2022 at 7:52:19 PM

Creator.Dark Horse is showing as "Dark Horse — A Five Score Tale From The Dresden File" even though there is no work page for that

StarSword Captain of USS Bajor from somewhere in deep space Since: Sep, 2011
Captain of USS Bajor
#421: Sep 1st 2022 at 9:58:52 PM

Xanatos Gambit inexplicably acquired a hyphen.

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KUnlimited Since: Sep, 2020
#422: Sep 2nd 2022 at 3:18:29 AM

Another broken custom title: Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (it's supposed to be an ō). Is there a way for the regular editors to fix titles with macrons, or is it mod-only?

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crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
#423: Sep 2nd 2022 at 6:13:55 AM

Regular editors can re-submit the custom title. The problem with the glitch is that one of the patches had over-compensated for the problem, allowing certain abuses of the title through. I had thought that only some special characters were affected, but I'm gradually becoming convinced that it might've messed up all of them.

Either way, regular editors can help by merely re-submitting the proper title. I, or another moderator, will go through them and approve/modify as needed.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#424: Sep 2nd 2022 at 7:40:34 AM

Oddly enough, Twilight was unaffected by the custom title reversion bug, despite fitting all the prerequisites.

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crazysamaritan NaNo 4328 / 50,000 from Lupin III Since: Apr, 2010
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
#425: Sep 2nd 2022 at 8:04:54 AM

Eh? No, it doesn't/didn't fit all the glitch prerequisites.

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