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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
I see the Awesomeness.
Ack, I took a look at that page and did some basic corrections. A number of the sentences don't have punctuation, the wikiwords were all curly bracketed, and examples don't follow normal example indentation. I got down to about "I" before my eyes crossed.
Fight smart, not fair.
Hm?
@Madrugada: He said it was from a performance of Cats he saw. Xander was the actor and Rum Tum Tugger was the name of the character, if I understand correctly.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Zzzzzzzzzz
That doesn't make any sense. There are neither characters called "Aves" or any Crocodile Men in Cats. And there's no fart jokes, either.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Lucha Libre goddess
Hey I would like the following Ykttw revised if possible. I tried to fix as many mistakes as I found. But I want to be sure!
edited 13th Sep '11 5:39:21 AM by FallenLegend
Make your hearth shine through the darkest night; let it transform hate into kindness, evil into justice, and loneliness into love.
Hm?
@Madrugada: Hey, I have no idea. That's just what I got form the post. Guess we'll have to wait for Rockhopper to show up again.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Sorry I have not been here in a while, My computer was on the fritz.
Anyway, I Rockhopper, am a girl not a boy and about the preformance of CATS I saw, the actors name wasn't spelled Xandir it was spelled Zander, so I thought it was not that uncommon a name.
OK I'm sorry I am such a scatterbrain, I am going to ask if this would be the correct way to do it. (I'm going to use a different trope)
Delicious Fruit Pies: In Space Beasts during a chase seen, Big Bad Bimbolurlina stops chasing the Fellowship crew for....Delicious Big Johnny's Ham Sandwiches
Is that how I should do it?
Zzzzzzzzzz
Yes, that's how to do it. Except it would be a "chase scene" not a "chase seen" and you want Space Beasts italicized.
edited 15th Sep '11 2:11:42 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
OK...I'm slowly getting better.
How do I put things in Italics?
Drop-Dead Cynical
Use double apostrophes.
''This'' becomes This.
EDIT: And I didn't realize how much that looked like quote marks. Don't use quote marks, that doesn't work.
edited 15th Sep '11 2:19:57 PM by JackAlsworth
Zzzzzzzzzz
^^ Yes, you are getting better.![[awesome]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minis/award_star_gold_3.png "[awesome]"){kind=small}
Do you want that example plugged in in the trope page?
edited 15th Sep '11 2:34:31 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Ah...I see
And yes I would like it plugged into the trope's page
Let me see if I can put this to practice
The Power of Love; In {{Space Beasts}} The Power of Love is what drives the plot, The Prophecy that sets the plot in motion states, 'If a virgin human male loves a humanimal female with all his heart and his loses his virginity to her, then the universe will be altered and all intelligent beings will become equal.'
edited 15th Sep '11 3:04:38 PM by Rockhopper
Drop-Dead Cynical
I can't do the funny color thing like Maddy because I'm not a wiki wizard, but let's see if I can still help.
- The semicolon should be a colon.
- You don't need to use the {{ }} markup, it's generally more efficient just to use the Wiki Word (although both are acceptable). If you do use the {{ }} markup, the italic markings have to be on the outside.
- The comma after "plot" should be a period.
- "His" should be "he".
Everything else looks pretty good. Nice work!
Thank you
Zzzzzzzzzz
I've added both Power of Love and Delicious Fruit Pies to both the Space Beasts page and the appropriate trope pages.
edited 15th Sep '11 3:56:53 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Thank you very much
Zzzzzzzzzz
Take a look at those three pages to see how I tweaked it to fit the page best.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I see the Awesomeness.
If you're one of the primary contributors to the page, you should remember to put periods at the end of the sentences.
Fight smart, not fair.
Zzzzzzzzzz
Did I miss that? Oooops.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I see the Awesomeness.
I got a good ways down before I stopped. There were also no Wiki Word on that page before I got there. The only reason I know that is because somebody tried to curly bracket an apostrophe in the O'hara or whatever.
Fight smart, not fair.
Lucha Libre goddess
I guess posting link to four long artiles was a bit too overwhelming. Should I only ask specific grammar issues?
Make your hearth shine through the darkest night; let it transform hate into kindness, evil into justice, and loneliness into love.
OK I'm going to make another try
Badass Adorable: In Space Beasts in the the Sequel series featuring the Spin-Offspring Most of the main character's children are surprisingly competent despite never being in battle before. The main contenders for most Badass Adorable child are Zander and Matoaka's daughter Amalthia, Edward and Minsk's son Demetri, Ichabod and Marzipan's daughter Kitty and Falco and Rose's daughter Garuda.
I see the Awesomeness.
In Space Beasts [in the the] Sequel series featuring the Spin Offspring Most of the main character's children are surprisingly competent despite never being in battle before. The main contenders for most Badass Adorable child are Zander and Matoaka's daughter Amalthia, Edward and Minsk's son Demetri, Ichabod and Marzipan's daughter Kitty and Falco and Rose's daughter Garuda.
Should be closer to:
In Space Beasts, the sequel series featuring the Spin-Offspring, most of the main character's children are competent despite never being in battle before. [rest of text]
Fight smart, not fair.
Hi
Also: [...] Ichabod and Marzipan's daughter Kitty, and [...]
edited 21st Sep '11 8:01:51 PM by Willbyr
Boiled and Mashed
Small change to Deboss's post, mostly to make it sound less awkward.
In the sequel series of (to?) Space Beasts featuring the Spin-Offspring, most of the main character's children are competent despite never having been in battle before. [rest of text]
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^ Shoo. Shoo, you.
Page-topper, of course.
So, Rockhopper, which work is that example from?
edited 11th Sep '11 4:40:12 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.