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Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 30th 2025 at 11:56:51 AM

igordebraga from Brazil Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#12826: Nov 1st 2016 at 12:17:23 PM

And just to demonstrate I can uncomment right, some examples.

Chubzhac Since: Jul, 2013
#12827: Nov 1st 2016 at 4:29:54 PM

Okay, I'll try to make more detailed examples from now on.

nombretomado (Season 1) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#12828: Nov 1st 2016 at 6:39:40 PM

ClockworkFirefly and UltimateLazer, your suspensions have been lifted.

RashandFierce Dead from Demarest, New Jersey Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: In another castle
Dead
#12829: Nov 1st 2016 at 7:23:02 PM

I'm going to learn how to make detailed examples, too.

RIP RashandFierce December 24, 2015 - November 17, 2016 She shouldn't talk about little girl furries or 7 year olds crushing on toys
Dimensio Since: Oct, 2010
#12830: Nov 1st 2016 at 10:17:41 PM

I am requesting removal of my suspension. I suspect that I know the cause of my suspension, and I have disabled the browser plugin that I carelessly allowed to cause the circumstances to lead to it.

igordebraga from Brazil Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#12831: Nov 2nd 2016 at 5:42:27 AM

I'm up for never uncommenting any entry on a character page again, or only doing so if I can write at least two lines on it... if only this suspension can be solved ASAP.

RashandFierce Dead from Demarest, New Jersey Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: In another castle
Dead
#12832: Nov 2nd 2016 at 7:39:35 AM

Still suspended. I'm practicing editing pages on the All the Tropes Wikia, as well as the Internet Archive combined with my "edit HTML" bookmark.

RIP RashandFierce December 24, 2015 - November 17, 2016 She shouldn't talk about little girl furries or 7 year olds crushing on toys
igordebraga from Brazil Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#12833: Nov 2nd 2016 at 10:14:07 AM

And I am doing things on Genius, including annotations linking to TV Tropes - even if like in here, I got some reprimands/technical restrictions for bad edits which suddenly caught the moderation's eye... anyway, still hoping some day the staff is willing to pardon me.

edited 2nd Nov '16 10:15:05 AM by igordebraga

cricri3007 Since: Jul, 2014
#12834: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:37:33 AM

Can I get un-suspended, please? It's been 4 days already and I learned my lesson.

edited 2nd Nov '16 12:29:32 PM by cricri3007

Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#12835: Nov 2nd 2016 at 1:38:20 PM

Mass update, in no particular order...

~Cricri3007: Until you have used the Help with English thread to show that you can write correct examples without proofreading, we cannot restore your editing privileges.


~Igordebraga: The edits you cited of repairing ZCEs do not demonstrate understanding. Let's take Film.Spy Hard:

  • Shes Got Legs:
    • Parodied. Even the credits note "Ms. Sheridans's Stand-Out: Her Legs"
    • Played straight with Barbara Dahl.

While this is correct indentation, it is not adequate context for this trope. All examples must explain the use of the trope in such a way that a person who is familiar with neither the work nor the trope will understand what it means. For example (off the top of my head): Shes Got Legs: The camera focuses on Ms. Sheridan's ample legs throughout the film. The credits parody this by giving them a specific billing.

In the same edit, you added or uncommented Sensual Slave, Take My Hand!, and Toilet Humor, all zero-context, and I didn't even look at your grammar there. We can't accept this.


~Rashand Fierce: There continue to be problems with nearly all of your edits. As any coach would tell you, it doesn't matter how hard you practice if you're doing it wrong.

It's like you didn't even bother listening to us the first time, when we said to work on your editing. We cannot task other tropers to follow you around cleaning up your mistakes.

edited 2nd Nov '16 1:44:08 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
cricri3007 Since: Jul, 2014
#12836: Nov 2nd 2016 at 1:49:16 PM

[up] Is this enough?

edited 2nd Nov '16 1:53:56 PM by cricri3007

Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#12837: Nov 2nd 2016 at 1:52:13 PM

~Dimensio: Any plugin that performs text substitutions will vandalize the wiki as a side-effect whenever you edit articles. Since you say you've disabled it, we'll restore your editing privileges, but we won't tolerate it happening again.


~Chubzhac: So that we know you understand proper example context, please write up valid example descriptions for some of the tropes you listed on Literature.Warcraft The Last Guardian. You can refer to my post just prior for what constitutes appropriate context. Note that entire example descriptions should not be spoiler-tagged if possible, per our Handling Spoilers policy.


~Damus2300: Good question. You're on suspension number three now, and that's usually all she wrote as far as we're concerned. Your long editing history notwithstanding, we cannot continually send people to fix your mistaken ideas about what tropes mean. What promise can you make that we'd believe?

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#12838: Nov 2nd 2016 at 1:53:57 PM

[up][up] Let's see what the other tropers make of it. I can see some things I'd improve but I don't have time to attend that topic at the moment.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Chubzhac Since: Jul, 2013
#12839: Nov 2nd 2016 at 2:26:35 PM

So that's why I was suspended? Those examples were there before I edited the page. I messed with them because they were keeping my Early-Installment Weirdness example from showing up. I didn't know that they were being intentionally kept off the page.

Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#12840: Nov 2nd 2016 at 3:13:07 PM

Nor did you bother to find out, apparently. So here we are. I'll release your suspension, but we need editors who will seek out solutions, not make assumptions, okay?

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
damus2300 Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#12841: Nov 2nd 2016 at 5:19:58 PM

I don't know what else to promise to this site. Believe it or not the stuff I'm criticized for is unintentional.

igordebraga from Brazil Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#12842: Nov 2nd 2016 at 5:45:36 PM

My grammar will never be 100% given I'm not a native English speaker. But OK, I'll always seek help from the "help with English" topic oncenote  I'm released!

If that wasn't the best example, 2 cases from 22 August here and here (even if the latter wasn't uncommented), and one from 1 September here where I improved Zero Context Examples. I came to TV Tropes after Wikipedia, so I take [citation needed] seriously.

RashandFierce Dead from Demarest, New Jersey Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: In another castle
Dead
#12843: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:26:32 PM

Like I said, I'm not doing it anymore. The Bob thing is over with, I'm learning that everything I'm doing is wrong. I want to help you, not harm you. I know ZC Es are bad. That's why I'm practicing to be a better editor. Release me and I will fix my mistakes, I have been trying to help you out since December 2015 and I don't want to leave the fun of being a troper. I didn't know X Meets Y wasn't supposed to be a trope. I'm 14 and I'm just starting at this thing. I want to clean up articles again. That's what I used to do - fix grammar on pages.

RIP RashandFierce December 24, 2015 - November 17, 2016 She shouldn't talk about little girl furries or 7 year olds crushing on toys
Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#12844: Nov 3rd 2016 at 3:36:43 AM

Still waiting on the verdict on my side.

cricri3007 Since: Jul, 2014
#12845: Nov 3rd 2016 at 10:08:32 AM

@Fighteer, the problem isn't in any way with orthograph or grammar, but due to the fact I didin't precise what is evil about Reaper. Do I get un-banned?

Dimentiosdragon Psychopath hated by God and Eggman from Dimension DX Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
Psychopath hated by God and Eggman
#12846: Nov 3rd 2016 at 12:00:21 PM

I got banned for editing in first person on a non-self-explanatory character page. i thought it was a good idea at the time, due to medium awareness, but i regret it now. will you be able to... forgive me?sad

Chimi-freakin'-changas!
nombretomado (Season 1) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#12847: Nov 3rd 2016 at 8:25:15 PM

  • cricri3007, it looks good, but I'd like to see a couple more examples being cleared by the Get Help with English thread before releasing you, since this is your second grammar-related suspension.

  • damus2300, we simply aren't sure what to do with you. It may not be intentional, but as Fighteer said before we aren't going to commit the resources to tail you and clean up any mistakes. Releasing this suspension would be an exceptional case and any more violations is the end of the line and you are permanently having your editing privileges turned off. Do you understand?

  • Igordebraga, your post in the Get Help with English thread indicates that your writing still needs some work. We recognize that mistakes will be made, from non-native and native English speakers alike, but in general we should be able to expect passable grammar. Please continue to use the Get Help thread for the time being, and come back after your proposals there show improvement.

  • RashandFierce, let's take this one issue at a time, because we can't just release you based on promises when you've shown such a variety of problems.

Let's start with Zero Context Examples. All of these are your edits; all of them are lacking context. Try rewriting them:

You also need to be checking if a trope is YMMV, Flame Bait, Trivia, Just For Fun, etc. before adding it. All of these have handy headers at the top of their page that indicates where they belong.

Fix this edit, which is both Conversation On The Main Page with yourself and is badly indented:

  • This isn't early 90s CGI show with a character named Bob.
    • Plus, Junior looks like young Enzo.

We can't even consider releasing your editing privileges until you've demonstrated you know what you're doing.

Ookamikun, please fix the indentation on this to demonstrate you understand what is correct.

  • Artistic License – Physics: The shield is somehow designed to require more energy to take down than to operate, as a "safety feature." Simply turning it off doesn't seem to be an option. In addition, it doesn't even recognize the concept of overheating.
    • Completely blocking out the sun just makes the climate really hot and humid... when in actuality it would freeze over the planet- thus eradicating all plant life and ushering in a mass extinction of all life as the world's sustainable food sources all die.
      • It's even worse, they seem to think the moon does absolutely nothing. So destroying it would have no impact, right?

Dimentiosdragon, forgiveness is one thing, releasing your suspension is another. You can't use first-person in the wiki. There's also the matter of your grammar, which, as you demonstrated in your post, is subpar.

edited 3rd Nov '16 8:26:45 PM by nombretomado

Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#12848: Nov 4th 2016 at 1:56:57 AM

  • Artistic License – Physics:
    • The shield is somehow designed to require more energy to take down than to operate, as a "safety feature." Simply turning it off doesn't seem to be an option. In addition, it doesn't even recognize the concept of overheating.
    • Completely blocking out the sun just makes the climate really hot and humid... when in actuality it would freeze over the planet- thus eradicating all plant life and ushering in a mass extinction of all life as the world's sustainable food sources all die. And even worse, they seem to think the moon does absolutely nothing. So destroying it would have no impact, right?

I think the last one with third indentation is related and small enough that it could be squeezed in to the preceding indentation.

cricri3007 Since: Jul, 2014
#12849: Nov 4th 2016 at 3:58:07 AM

nombretomado, and the first one was months ago. Problem is, most of the edits I want to make now are rather small (adding a link, deleting a comma, etc,...)

[down] I am. My English is better and I'm quick to correct myself now. As I said, the only reason the mistakes on the Skyrim pages remained was that I had to go to sleep and didn't have the time to correct them.

edited 4th Nov '16 4:29:40 AM by cricri3007

Deadbeatloser22 MOD from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#12850: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:01:54 AM

The timing does not matter. The fact you have been suspended now for the same thing twice leaves us in doubt about whether you are actually learning from the suspension at all.

"Yup. That tasted purple."

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