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NOTE: Edited with OP's permission.

Edited by Mrph1 on Oct 22nd 2024 at 8:06:39 PM

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#27301: Sep 23rd 2021 at 1:20:11 AM

Ghost wicks and redirect are dealt with. If memory serves the RWBY shipping wars are a chronic issue and not something tied to a specific time period, so I am inclined to decline the unlock request.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Malady (X-Troper)
#27302: Sep 23rd 2021 at 1:35:15 PM

Hands On Hips as a redirect to Dynamic Akimbo? Or does it have to be Fists On Hips?


Eldari Saga is making a ghost wick to TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior.

Edited by Malady on Sep 23rd 2021 at 4:55:11 AM

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PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#27303: Sep 24th 2021 at 3:11:28 PM

Administrivia.TLP Guidelines has an extra colon after “Contribute by Replying to the Thread”.

ClementJ64 Since: May, 2012
#27305: Sep 24th 2021 at 8:08:59 PM

Can someone please create a redirect for Sdrawkcab Alias, Sdrawkcab Name, and Sdrawkcab Speech called Ananym Alias, Ananym Name, and Ananym Speech as an ananym is the technical word for a word arranged in reverse order?

Edited by ClementJ64 on Sep 24th 2021 at 8:24:16 AM

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#27306: Sep 25th 2021 at 12:20:44 AM

Done to here, but I question the need for the redirects in ^, they don't seem to be terms people would search for.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#27307: Sep 25th 2021 at 5:22:20 AM

This is very belated, but could we replace the description of Naughty Tentacles with the one I suggested here? It was agreed in the thread that it would be an improvement, but no action was taken.

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
costanton11 Since: Mar, 2016
#27308: Sep 25th 2021 at 8:20:48 AM

Can you lock Characters.Media, as according to the recent cuts page, it's been recreated and cut nine times?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#27309: Sep 25th 2021 at 9:14:12 AM

Done and done.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#27310: Sep 25th 2021 at 9:54:18 AM

In this post in the TRS thread that renamed Wimpification back to Ukefication, it was requested that Ukefication be unlocked; if I'm not mistaken, Administrivia.Locked Pages at least used to say that the reason it was previously locked was to enforce the now-undone rename to Wimpification.

Regardless of whether unlocking the page is doable, there was also this mod post from crazysamaritan saying Fandom Uke and Fandom Submissive (which were other names from the rename crowner) would be redirects to Ukefication, but the redirects haven't been made yet.

I got a rock for Halloween.
Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#27311: Sep 25th 2021 at 4:39:18 PM

Regarding the Characters.RWBY Team RWBY lock, I just want to flag that Septimus Heap opened a sandbox of the page in response to a request from a troper a while back, so that the page could be updated for the most recent volume of the show.

That volume has finished and the sandbox is still open. I've suggested on the RWBY short-term clean-up thread that perhaps we should fix the wall of text issues and then send it back here for the mods to replace the live page with it. Given the length of time it's been sitting around, open, with no one sending it back to the mods makes me uncomfortable (I've flagged it a few times with the RWBY troping community; no-one's been in a rush to send it back, but if it stays open indefinitely, it effectively becomes a lock circumvention; in fairness, it hasn't attracted any problem troping, so far). However, if it's okay, it really could do with a wall of text clean up before moving everything over to the live page and tossing away the sandbox.

The sandbox is here.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Sep 25th 2021 at 12:43:54 PM

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
costanton11 Since: Mar, 2016
#27312: Sep 25th 2021 at 8:23:11 PM

On NeverLiveItDown.Star Wars, please remove the following example, as it doesn't explain why it's an unfair exaggeration:

  • Captain Phasma has had it rough so far as the new Boba Fett of the sequel franchise due to lack of screen-time, and doing almost nothing of note that would be deemed badass. She was already having trouble living down her failure to live up to the pre-release The Force Awakens hype that was generated for the character where the result is her easily getting captured by Finn, Han and Chewie to force her to turn off the shields for Starkiller Base. Then Last Jedi comes around, and she's only around for one sequence where she puts up a fight against Finn, but ends up getting ousted by a sneak attack at the last second that causes her to fall into an abyss of ship explosions. At the very least, fans that follow the Expanded Universe may see her as Rescued from the Scrappy Heap after reading the Phasma novel, as it turns out she doesn't care about the First Order, she just wants to survive and doesn't care who she has to walk all over to achieve her goals.

ClementJ64 Since: May, 2012
#27313: Sep 25th 2021 at 8:32:33 PM

@Septimus Heap The reason why I asked for the need to include redirects for Sdrawkcab Alias, Sdrawkcab Name, and Sdrawkcab Speech called Ananym Alias, Ananym Name, and Ananym Speech because for one, it's easier to spell "ananym" than it is to spell "sdrawkcab" plus it is also easier to pronounce, and most importantly it's good to have the option of having the redirects around just in case people do search up those tropes under that name. I mean I'm not suggesting anyone to rename the articles but to add an alternate name for them.

Edited by ClementJ64 on Sep 25th 2021 at 8:32:59 AM

Tabs Since: Jan, 2001
#27314: Sep 25th 2021 at 9:21:14 PM

Crazy Wall and Evidence Board as redirects for String Theory? Both are terms used offsite (among numerous others).

Theriocephalus Amateur Veteran from gimme a map and a moment and I can tell you Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Amateur Veteran
#27315: Sep 25th 2021 at 10:49:06 PM

[up]Yeah, I'd say that those also definitely seem more intuitive as well.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#27317: Sep 26th 2021 at 12:37:38 AM

Unlock, deletion and most redirects done. I stand by my reason for not adding the backwards redirects - redirects are for searchability and visibility and I don't see how these would help.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MasterN Berserk Button: misusing Berserk Button from Florida- I mean Unova Since: Aug, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#27318: Sep 26th 2021 at 5:50:45 AM

In Monster.Video Games G To P, for the Psychonauts 2 entry, replace the Big Bad pothole in “Gristol Malik” with Overlord Jr., and in the sentence “As a child, Gristol enjoyed his decadent lifestyle and had zero concern for the suffering of his countrymen at the hands of Maligula”, add at the end “, fully supportive of her drowning non-violent protestors and once ordering her to do the same to enemy soldiers”.

Edited by MasterN on Sep 26th 2021 at 5:51:07 AM

One of these days, all of you will accept me as your supreme overlord.
Malady (X-Troper)
#27319: Sep 26th 2021 at 6:51:02 AM

Sub Tropes to Sub-Trope so we can Custom Title "Sub-Tropes" instead of using "[[SubTrope Sub-Tropes]]" or something?

Edited by Malady on Sep 26th 2021 at 6:51:10 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!
#27320: Sep 26th 2021 at 7:14:17 AM

[up] We typically don't do plural redirects.

2025: the year it all ends?
Malady (X-Troper)
#27321: Sep 26th 2021 at 7:59:51 AM

Typically, but this case is a bit different because of the Custom Title?

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rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#27322: Sep 26th 2021 at 11:06:28 AM

Requesting that Evil Fox be redirected to Foul Fox.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
EpicLinkSam Since: Feb, 2017
#27323: Sep 27th 2021 at 11:05:23 AM

Requesting this addition to DEATH BATTLE! in the Season 8 folder.

  • Goku Black vs Reverse-Flash was ultimately a Foregone Conclusion. While Black's attacks could reach quintillions of times faster than light, Thawne is a Flash, who casually reaches immeasurable and incalculable speeds on a dime. Thawne also had the power advantage, thanks to generating enough energy to counter the destruction of the DC Universe, which would make him at least over 70 million times stronger than Black. While both were practically immortal to time related deaths, Black's immunity was thanks to his Time Ring. Thawne's case of immortality only ended when Barry reset his timeline, which Black lacks the ability to do. With his absurd speed advantage, and expertise in time travel, he'd eventually figure out to destroy the Time Ring, leaving Black open for any hax related kill (phasing, aging, etc). Not only did Thawne have the advantage in every point that mattered, DEATH BATTLE normally says something along the lines of how running the match over multiple times lets both sides win a few matches. They don't here, because Black lacked a way to even feasibly win.

Edited by EpicLinkSam on Sep 27th 2021 at 11:05:44 AM

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#27324: Sep 27th 2021 at 12:41:53 PM

[up] Pretty sure you need to discuss that here first.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#27325: Sep 27th 2021 at 2:47:40 PM

Please swap the following:

Edited by ACW on Sep 27th 2021 at 5:47:54 AM


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