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openBorderline Edit War on Andrzej Sapkowski Literature
The trope section of Creator.Andrzej Sapkowski is in large parts dedicated to bashing the author for various grievances that seem mostly to revolve around the author's negative commentary resp. legal battles regarding various adaptations of his works, and the author supposedly generally being an avaricious hypocrite (source: TV Tropes).
While the entire page could certainly need a big clean-up, an almost-Edit War has lately ignited over the following example of Disowned Adaptation:
- The Hexer movie. Sapkowski euphemistically expressed his negative opinion about the film: "I can answer only with a single word, an obscene, albeit a short one". What he carefully "forgets" to mention nowadays is the big pile of money he so eagerly took for selling the rights for adaptation and then started slandering the production the moment he realized there will be no second tranche of money. While the film is a disaster, Sapkowski is doing his best over the years to pretend he didn't help make it in such form in the first place.
Recently troper Revolutionary_Jack removed the last sentence of the entry, with the, in my opinion very reasonable, edit reason that
The deletion was restored (with a slight expansion regarding the author's "messy and utterly pointless copyright battle") by Dratewka. I myself got then involved by cutting everything after Sapkowski's statement on the movie, on the grounds of it not actually belonging there in the first place.
Dratewka has again reverted the example, the only change being a further expansion in form of a lengthy note, the point of which seems to be the argument that the author is to be blamed for the movie being bad. Edit reason:
Courtesy link to the edit history.
I'd be glad for other tropers or a mod to weigh in.
Edited by LordGroopenWriting a New Page Literature
There's this fanfic on fimfiction that I read called "Shattering a Heart of Darkness" and I would like to create a page on this site about it but I don't know how.
Edited by nombretomadoopenEdit war over an unapproved complete monster entry Literature
The troper Uzi has added multiple complete monster entries without visiting the thread first. As demonstrated by the unapproved addition of a CM entry for the already downvoted Sophia lamb. In one of these cases The lost world they even Edit Warred and readded it after removal. This work was also on the never again list as well.
openYMMV Page for Aristophanes Literature
I note that the YMMV page for this creator has been erased in the past.
However, in the absence of pages for many of his lesser works, his Creator page doubles as a trope page for each of them, and further, I note that his fellow ancient Greek playwrights all do have YMMV pages. Can this page be recreated?
I was hoping to add the following.
- Vindicated by History: Aristophanes rarely proved a favorite of the contests in his own time (The Knights, a patriotic play that skewered his lifelong nemesis Cleon is a rare exception), but in modern times he is about the only Greek comedian most people who aren't scholars of the period have heard of, or laughed at, today. Having been one of the few whose work has survived the ages probably helps.
openImpossible task Literature
Hi i would like to know who wrote the article on the topic of Impossible Tasks link https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImpossibleTask
openComplaining on World War Z, requesting revert Literature
Can we get a revert on the giant chunk of complaining left on World War Z, left by azbyc15243?
openShould light novels go under literature? Literature
So I've seen light novel folders be inconsistently applied on Tropes pages. Sometimes they're in literature, other times they're in their own folder. Do we have a policy for this?
openHair made of starlight Literature
Can anyone supply additional information about “Hair made of Starlight,” a literature example listed under “Kaleidoscope Hair” and “I just want to be loved” Tropes? I have not been able to track this title down anywhere. Is it a valid example? The Trope “I just want to be Loved” describes it as “ Rapunzel meets Arabian Nights.”
Thanks for your help!
openHow can I create a new media page? Literature
I want to create a media page for a book series but I can't see anywhere any button along the lines of "create a new media page".
openBreaking a Redirect Literature
I'm trying to separate Thank You for Smoking (the book) from Thank You for Smoking (the movie), as the two works are sufficiently different to warrant separate work pages, but I can't access the redirect from the literature page. How do I do it?
Edited by StrixObscuroopenProblem edits on Nightmarefuel.{{Worm}} Literature
On May 14th, The troper Redpiller Man 777 added an edit to the nightmare fuel page for Worm.
Due to issues with this edit, I brought it up in the Nightmare Fuel cleanup thread. My first post is here, and the following posts show other people agreeing to cut it, so I did.
Today, the edit was re-added by the same troper, with the edit reason "Wildbow makes it canon. This story makes it absolutely clear that the author has a clear idea of what Sleeper is, and how impossible he is to defeat."
I know cutting this again would pull me into an edit war too, so where do I go from here?
Edited by LibraryseraphopenWhere to link for a work Literature
I want to add an example to The Social Expert for a character from Warhammer 40k. Here's the problem.
- The character is omnipresent in the setting
- The scene that I want to use specifically as an example comes from a book, that we don't have a page specifically for
- The book itself is a combination of game rules and storyline (my example is from the storyline part)
Should I link to Warhammer 40,000 or to the book itself as a redlink? Should the example be under Literature or Tabletop Game?
openLiterature/TheCurseOfTheBlueFigurine: Rename to Literature/JohnnyDixon? Literature
I don't want a repeat of the Gamebooks fiasco, so I'll ask here first. The Curse of the Blue Figurine is only the name of the first book; the actual series is Johnny Dixon. Should it be renamed to the latter?
openNo Title Literature
Is there a place on the wiki for putting works to make them available to the public?
openAnthology indices Literature
I noticed that the Science Fiction and Fantasy literature indices are getting pretty long. I don't know if this is the right place to propose this, but it's the best I know of, so I was wondering if short story anthologies in at least those genres, and possibly others, could perhaps get their own index pages. It would certainly help with the length issues.
openPossible vandal? Literature
There's been a troper by the name of Frag Wall who's been around for a little while, and they keep adding ZeroContextExamples to Cormac McCarthy pages, and has created a few stub pages that have since been deleted. Normally, I'd let it slide, but what makes me suspicious is that one of these stubs originally started with "Suttree is shit", which leads me to believe they're deliberately vandalizing the wiki. If I'm wrong, feel free to disregard this.
opencreating Literature
I have a question and it's important. how do you create a page for a fanfiction that's in the recommendation fanfics?
openMerging Series NF pages into one Literature
For Nightmare Fuel cleanup, I don't think The Stormlight Archive and Discworld need individual pages for each book. Last time I tried cutlisting the Stormlight Archives pages to merge them into one, the cut was turned down and I'm not sure why. What should I do?
I have good to believe that a couple of "tropers" named Tropes/Flynnbulwinter and Tropers/darkelfwizard has been using the site as self-promotion for their indie fantasy book series,Anthologies of Ullord as Nikki Flynn and Edwin Dantes.
In the Ullord main work page, you could see in the edit history, that these people edited the pages themselves and putting elements in the trope pages.
They have not seem to stop, with them editing their own pages months ago. The Anthologies of Ullord are basic paint-by-numbers fantasy, which make this situation more odd. A troper suggested this to me after the High Crate "event."
I hope you would respond in kind,
S.V.