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openReal Life/Literature Literature
Can Real Life books (memoirs, biographies, etc) be included in the "Literature" section of a trope if they did in fact make use of the trope in question?
openDo you categorize works by authors or publishers? Literature
If a book is by a Canadian but published in the US, should that go in Canadian or American literature? Or both?
openTroper adding their own fanon to a work page Literature
Ian78668 is very much into the Alternate History story Player Two Start, having most of their edit history devoted to its work page. However, they seem to be adding their own concepts and ideas (usually about Don Bluth or Pokémon in some form) into the work page that aren't in the text itself. Even the author had to step in and take some of this out, only for them to add yet more of their own fanon. I sent them a few notifiers a while ago, and they seemed to comply at first... but just recently came back again and added yet more of their own fanon into it. Since I didn't want it to be an edit war, I sent them another notifier and bringing up the problem here.
Edited by harryhenryopen AdmiralDT8 vandalising a page. Literature
A user going by the name AdmiralDT8 has vandalised Loyalty Among Worlds and deleted the YMMV and the Trivia articles for that fanfiction. It is unknown if this is really AdmiralDT8 himself doing this or the work of a troll. If it turns out to be the former, then this is a funny case of Dear Negative Reader Profile here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/AdmiralDT8
Edited by GastonRabbitopenCreating new pages Literature
Hey...so I'm trying to create a new page about a book series. I looked up the instructions, but I still don't see anything that will help me create the page. Any suggestions?
openRequiring assitance for a Halo fanfic series page Literature
Long story short, it involves the Natalie Cooper series you can read on fanfiction.net. Link here: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/446883/ilmiopassato
Similar to other pages dedicated to well-known Halo fanfics, I've made a page dedicated to the series: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/HaloTheNatalieCooperSeries
However, with how extensive the series is and trying to dip my water into adding a whole index of trope examples and other tabs for characters/heartwarming/tear-jerker/etc.., it's clear that this is more than just a one-man work.
So, if anyone here has read the series or is at least familiar with Halo fanfics, I'm willing to ask for assistance.
openDueling works Literature
Is a Trivia trope. However, I keep stumbling on it in the YMMV section (most recently for The Guns of the South), where people use it to discuss fandom stances on works. Is that misuse, something allowed or should it simply be moved to Trivia? Especially since those from YMMV are rarely about the actual application of the trope (two things coming out around the same time and having to fight for the same audience).
openWhat title should this be Literature
Here's something interesting. I'm planning to make a page for a Paranormal Romance series. The trilogy of books was published first under the title of bloodline vampires
The whole thing was omnibused and published together after all three were out as court of the vampire queen.
Which would be more appropriate to put the page under ?
openDrinking Game for The Clique Literature
So, upon checking DrinkingGame.The Clique, I say it needs a bit of a cleanup, doesn't it? Or a cut? Anyway, suggestions on the Drinking Game Cleanup Thread.
openReference? Literature
Hi in the benedetto character page it says that there is a musical adaptation of the count of monte cristo where he's a pretty boy tenor type. ¿What version is that?
Edited by NatitoonfanopenWhat kind of page to create? Literature
There are numerous examples about Robert Fulghum's works (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and "sequels"), but there is no page to link them to. Should we... A. Put everything on a Robert Fulghum Creator page and forward the names for all books to it? B. Make a All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarden literature page and forward the names of the other books to it?
It's not really a "series" because these aren't novels, they're compilations of essays on a variety of topics (some autobiographical, some philosophical, some just fanboy gushing, some commentary on modern life, some stories related by others, etc.). No narrative (although there are a few essays that are sequels to earlier ones), so I'm not sure that it counts as traditional Literature. In libraries the books are usually put in the Humor section of Nonfiction.
openAnyone here read the Natalie Cooper series? Might need assistance. Literature
To explain, it's a Halo fanfic saga written by an author named ilmiopassato. I've made a page for it since December last year, though with the saga being 8-stories long, it'd be a huge workload adding trope examples and plenty of tabs for the page by myself.
I'll link the page for the saga here: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/446883/ilmiopassato
If any tropers here have read the series and are willing to help, shoot me a DM as soon as possible.
Edited by Hawkster94openEditing Etiquette for Large-Scale Edits Literature
Having recently caught up to the English release of a particular Light Novel, I went to its TV Tropes page and noticed it was quite lacking, and figured I'd help fill it out myself as the series isn't very popular.
However, rather than make edits in pieces I decided to make a copy of the latest version of the main page and work on it over time little by little with google docs; automatically saved, backed up and easier to keep track of changes or notes that way.
The question being, when I finish at some point and start moving the changes over to the main page, would it be preferable to do so in batches with appropriate Editing Reasons? I fear if I just slapped the revamped main page edits into the site at once, a mod could think I'm messing around and I definitely don't want to give that impression.
I'm going to take a few days at minimum on this little project anyway.
openThe Golden Daughter Literature
I don't believe that this is a real book. Nothing about it is showing up when I google it which is odd for something that's supposed to be a "Cult Horror Novel".
openMissing option Literature
I would like to create a Tearjerker entry for Neal Stephenson's Anathem, but when I hit the + icon, Tearjerker is not one of the options. Is there a way I can get it to come up?
openCharacter page for a series seperates tropes by book Literature
The Locked Tomb Main separates the tropes for the two main characters (Gideon and Harrow) in sections for each book in the series (ex, Gideon in general, Gideon in book one, Gideon in book 2, etc.), instead of one big list for the each character throughout the series. Since the page is already spoilers-off, is it okay if I merge the sections together so we just have one section per character?
openQuote source? Literature
On the YMMV page for Animal Farm, the Common Knowledge entry quotes Orwell as saying that Snowball would have ruined the farm through his delusions of grandeur had he won the power struggle. I've tried to find a source for this but can't find any evidence of Orwell saying it, and it sounds more like what the CIA said about the character when they demanded he receive Adaptational Villainy in the animated film. Can anyone find a source for this quote?
Edited by Javertshark13openIs this allowed ? Literature
Over on Big Bad literature. Omegaman has been adding example albeit rather using their macmillion links over their names ?
openDoes this fanfic example even exist? Literature
So, in the "The Reason You Suck" Speech page, specifically the section for crossover fanfics, there are two fics that confuse me: Fire & Ice, a crossover between Frozen and The Hobbit, and The Transformers My Little Pony Crossover 2, a crossover between... well, you know. Now, if you look at the examples each fic gives, you'll notice that both speeches are practically the same thing, even ending on the whole "You will die for wasting my time". Now, the thing that confuses me is that, whereas the MLP/Transformers fic has a link to the fic itself, Fire & Ice doesn't, so I have no idea to confirm whether or not it exists.
Hello, tropers! So, I checked on the trope Jerkass Gods (it also appears on the Hate Sink page as it's considered the sub-trope, but the main trope is the former) and found the newest Video example of it was referring to Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy, but with the "Light Novel" namespace, which was considered a deprecated namespace, resulting in every page with the Light Novel being moved to the Literature namespace.
However, while I was expecting Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy's former Light Novel namespace page would redirect to the Literature namespace version of the page, it does not redirect at all, simply showing the message for a cut page. And as far as I know, I cannot find a method for editing the video's link so it properly redirects to TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- with the Literature namespace (I assume only the submitter of the video example, aside from moderators, can edit the video example, much like posts) - I would like to ask for a help with reviewing the problem, thank you.