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.)
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Wait, was "Change display to" part of the requested custom title?
the Retromancer
Testing. Six Teen is custom titled correctly but wicks don't show it.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
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Could this be the capitalization bug again?
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The internal title doesn't capitalize the T, so 6teen?
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
the Retromancer
Oh I see, it was a single-word title (a wick spelled it as two)
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I meant Change display from The Lordz O Flys to The Lordz o' Flys. Sorry about the the grammatical errors.
Too busy reading to hear you
The official English translation of Claudine doesn't use the ellipses or exclamation point. As such, they should be removed from the custom title.
Edited by Oratel on Sep 4th 2022 at 3:31:39 PM
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the Retromancer
Felels like a Localization question, but I confirm it's spelled as Claudine in English release and just nobody knew that until now. Feel free to edit the custom title and making a note regarding it in the work description.
Edited by Amonimus on Sep 4th 2022 at 10:35:28 PM
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Captain of USS Bajor
X1999's custom title X/1999 is not displaying on the wiki.
{{Manga/X 1999}}
Film.Amelie uses a custom title to display its original French name (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) instead of the name used for its official English release (Amélie). It seems that someone already tried to change it to Amélie, but it's currently pending approval.
Pinball cleanup thread
That's fixed.
The Moron
Relic Of The Future's custom titling isn't displaying right - the O and the T should be (it's displaying right on the page itself, but not when linked to)
Edited by STARCRUSHER99 on Sep 10th 2022 at 9:28:23 AM
That's the custom title bug. No known fix at this time, unfortunately.
Checking the auto-disambiguator shows that all the pages have the right capitalization, so there's nothing more to be done here for now.
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
I'd like to request removing the trailing punctuation from Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!, *Bleep*-dammit!, Gosh Dang It to Heck!, and Questioning Title?.
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
I would second this.
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
I'm okay with removing the first, but the other three seem appropriate to the title names. Especially Questioning Title?.
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Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
Don't need to shout [❗️]ing obscenities to make comedy out of [❗️]ing censoring them.
As for Questioning Title?... I agree this is more debatable, but the trope is about asking a question in the title, not simply using a particular punctuation mark (the description singles out Who Framed Roger Rabbit as an example that avoids it due to Hollywood superstition), and simply adding a question mark doesn't make the title self-demonstrating.
Edited by Noaqiyeum on Sep 16th 2022 at 3:53:17 PM
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
Exclamations, not obscenities. The words are exclamations, and it isn't comedic for them to be exclamations. Because they're exclamations, the appropriate way to punctuate them is with an exclamation mark. I don't understand why comedy is being mentioned. I'm not aware of any joke related to the punctuation here.
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Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
Because both *Bleep*-dammit! and Gosh Dang It to Heck! are tropes about the censorship of obscenity and profanity. The former is specifically comedic and the latter frequently so.
(And neither title is inherently exclamatory. They're both interjections, dammit, and whether they're set apart with commas rather than exclamation marks depends on the intended tone of the speaker. Since it's easier to add punctuation to a link than to remove it, it makes more sense for both to be trailing-mark-free by default.)
Finally, there's the general aesthetic point that related tropes are often listed together, separated by commas to make it clear where each wikiword starts and ends, and the enforced use of constructions like '!,' and '?,' is disruptive to the flow of thought.
Edited by Noaqiyeum on Sep 17th 2022 at 7:21:17 PM
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Captain of USS Bajor
God-Created Canon Foreigner's hyphen ("God-Created") is not showing up on the wiki.
It's tied to the capitalization Main.Godcreated Canon Foreigner: Godcreated Canon Foreigner
I have a question: Tropers.Ninja 857142 is custom-titled as "Ninja of Light". I know that custom titles generally shouldn't be radically different from the wikiword, but is that allowed for a troper page?
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Lost in Space
No, it is not, and it should be removed.
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~Mechanicalman 450 — your attempt to change TheLordzOFlys to
Edited by crazysamaritan on Sep 10th 2022 at 1:27:18 PM
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