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This thread is for requesting edits or unlocks to Locked Pages or for requesting locks. It can also be used for technical requests to moderators such as:

  • creating new pages in the Main/ and other restricted namespaces without going through Trope Launch Pad
  • moving discussion pages
  • moving reviews

Please keep the following guidelines in mind:

  1. Check Locked Pages and Permanent Red Link Club first. They can provide guidance on what are good and bad requests.
  2. Include working links in your request to the page(s) in question.
  3. If asking for edits, state your changes exactly as they should appear on the page, including proper Example Indentation, namespacing, and pothole and quote formatting. And make sure that what you want to add is actually a valid example.
  4. We do not edit archived articles, even to correct links.
  5. If you need to have the capitalization of a page title or namespace of a work fixed, ask here.
  6. If you need to remove a ghost wick, go here.
  7. To request a page to be moved along with its history, go here.
  8. Some locked pages have ongoing cleanup threads, like Complete Monster (Thread), Five-Man Band (Thread), and Magnificent Bastard (Thread). Other than purely technical requests, edits to these pages ought to be discussed in these threads first.
  9. Also, we do not do direct edits (other than changing wicks) to Magnificent Bastard or Complete Monster example lists. Rather, you need to do the edit to a sandbox page that follows the format Sandbox.Magnificent Bastard<Name of the example subpage> and Sandbox.Monster<Name of the example subpage> (e.g for Monster.Disney it's Sandbox.Monster Disney) and ask for it to be swapped in on Saturday for Magnificent Bastard and on Monday for Complete Monster.
  10. Inappropriate pages that keep being recreated, pages banned under The Content Policy and subpages that are disallowed (like Headscratchers pages for tropes) are valid reasons for requesting page locks.

NOTE: Edited with OP's permission.

Edited by Twiddler on Aug 6th 2023 at 11:53:14 AM

Scooter007 Security Supervisor from United States Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Security Supervisor
#926: Aug 8th 2011 at 4:49:46 PM

I've got a sandbox writeup right here for Attack Of The Giant Leeches.

Welcome To The World You Live In
Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#927: Aug 8th 2011 at 5:03:34 PM

It shouldn't be on that page. It should be in the appropriate Name Space.

Fight smart, not fair.
Camacan from Australiatown Since: Jan, 2001
#928: Aug 8th 2011 at 8:14:04 PM

Zyxzy: Done, but in future please provide correct markup that can just be slotted in. Can't see Forgotten Realms anywhere on the page. Quite a few of those were links to the wrong namespace e.g. Crime and Punishment is in the Literature namespace, not Main. Some other errors, like Fable for Fable II.

choone: Again, we need a finished example with markup. There are several issues here: we need linked work name in italics to provide context. All-capitals for emphasis looks like a chatroom message whereas this is an article. Entries that start "this isn't really an example but" aren't a good idea: please stick to unambiguous examples. More info on How To Write An Example. Not a Five-Man Band, so I'm not going to add that one.

Scooter007: You don't have to ask before putting up a work page. Deboss is right: it will go here; Attack of the Giant Leeches. Sandboxing before putting a work page up is optional but there's nothing wrong at all with getting the article polished before posting it.

Some comments: Work titles go in italics, even when bold, and there are a few Example Indentation issues. One entry sub-lists created with a double star aren't on: put all the sub-examples in the double star list if you are using one and use the \\\\ paragraph break markup if a long example needs paragraphs: we don't indent paragraphs with a double star. All the tropes get their own top-level entry. Overall, it looks good.

edited 8th Aug '11 8:30:53 PM by Camacan

DeathNoteFan Since: Oct, 2010
#929: Aug 9th 2011 at 6:17:42 PM

Moog Magister in Monster Allergy is a Complete Monster and it goes to the Western Animation. He appears in season 2 and is a real piece of work. In his debut, he vaporizes an Anguane witch for saying about how monsters would be used as ingredients for potions, and the Anguanes (even Emily) are afraid of him doing that. Then, he puts Bombolo under his control to disable the defenses in the Armory, and tries to kill the children Tamers, including Zick, whom he just try to strangle with an energy attack on his neck. Next, Moog turns Zick into a monster with a potion so that he would be captured by his own friends and locked up in a Dom Box where it's suffocating. He then kidnaps him and sends him in a illusion that takes place years later to get to the Armory. Lastly, he kills Emily after she brings him Hector Sinistro, finding her no use.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#930: Aug 9th 2011 at 6:29:43 PM

Oh wow, there's thread for everything!

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Insignificant Since: Dec, 1969
#931: Aug 10th 2011 at 6:00:48 PM

Wario World's article has been moved to the Video Game namespace, therefore I would like to make the old page in the Main namespace a redirect to the new one. However, for reasons beyond my knowledge, the old page was locked. This causes problems finding the new article with the search engine, since the old page is the one that appears.

edited 10th Aug '11 6:01:24 PM by Insignificant

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
nuclearneo577 from My computer. Since: Dec, 2009
#933: Aug 11th 2011 at 1:49:03 AM

TroperTales.Lolicon is still showing up as blue on Permanent Red Link Club when it's written as Lolicon, so can it be null edited and cut again? And it's blue here too? Odd.

edited 11th Aug '11 1:49:37 AM by nuclearneo577

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#934: Aug 11th 2011 at 6:10:40 AM

That's a tech problem and I am not sure it's worthwhile to play games with the cutlist just to work around it.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Grif Since: Jan, 2001
#935: Aug 11th 2011 at 10:37:08 AM

Edit for The Lonely Island. You Shall Not Pass!: Space Olympics: "As you file to your escape pods, I'll distract the alien hordes. And as I stare death in the face I know my sins will take me to Hell.

edited 11th Aug '11 10:40:01 AM by Grif

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
majohe Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#937: Aug 13th 2011 at 6:52:07 AM

Hey, is it possible for some edits on the John Cena page? The Miz, The Rock and CM Punk are current Arch-Enemy to Cena, Miz was for while in early 2011, Rock has become a constant since his return and Punk and Cena are feuding over who is the rightful WWE Champion. That's the only I can think of right now

edited 13th Aug '11 6:57:00 AM by majohe

romanmyth Back in da New Yawk Groove from UTC: -05:00 Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: How YOU doin'?
Back in da New Yawk Groove
#938: Aug 13th 2011 at 1:14:52 PM

According to Administrivia / About Images And Copyright, on the first bullet:

"If there is a copyright symbol © on the part of work shown, it need needs to be made clear that there is more of the work, or it looks like we're claiming the copyright. Which would be bad."

Would someone kindly remove the unneeded "double-need" inside this when they have the chance? Or... bold-it, make it emphasized, pour wiki love into it, but otherwise make it look less like a tangle?

edited 13th Aug '11 1:15:35 PM by romanmyth

Pokedy Poke-poke
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#940: Aug 15th 2011 at 12:10:27 PM

I'm sick of dealing with the John Cena article in this thread. I'm going to unlock it and hand it back to the raving pro wrestling fans, who will undoubtedly crap all over it again and give me some more folks to ban. Yes, I'm in that kind of mood.

edited 15th Aug '11 12:11:36 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Firestorm Nudist Snake from Just Chillin Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Noddin' my head like yeah
Nudist Snake
#941: Aug 15th 2011 at 1:44:11 PM

I've talked about this in the "Please unlock a locked, cut page" thread. But could someone put back that Panty quote on the Panty And Stocking With Garterbelt page? I know about the "Only one quote per page" rule. But, I know you can have exceptions, you need to have both quotes on there for the juxtaposition, the clashing tone between Garterbelt's serious opening narration and Panty's Cluster F-Bomb.

If that won't be acceptable, can we just remove the Garterbelt quote then? Because there's no point for having it on the page if it's going to be there by itself.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#942: Aug 15th 2011 at 1:46:38 PM

I changed the quote format to make it clear that it's juxtaposed dialogue, rather than two independent quotes. Hopefully that works.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Firestorm Nudist Snake from Just Chillin Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Noddin' my head like yeah
captainpat Since: Sep, 2010
#944: Aug 15th 2011 at 4:30:54 PM

Is there anything we can do for works with Fetish Fuel pages? I'm doing a wick cleanup for Most Common Super Power and a lot of fetishfuel pages are showing when a go to the related to section.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#945: Aug 15th 2011 at 5:36:33 PM

If they were cut, then them showing up on Related To is an artifact of the system and nothing to worry about.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
SpellBlade Since: Dec, 1969
#946: Aug 15th 2011 at 9:47:29 PM

The squick page has an Example As Thesis / spoiler that needs to go.

I have no idea who these characters are but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they're related.

nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
nuclearneo577 from My computer. Since: Dec, 2009
Oransel Since: Jul, 2011
#949: Aug 16th 2011 at 3:40:17 AM

Please unlock Face of Mankind page, so I can write it in normal way.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009

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