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So...not sure where the last entry went on this sidetrack? But there's a still a blatant Take That! directed squarely at me on this page:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=YMMV.RedString
Could that possibly get cleaned up? Would have PM'd a mod, but the mods page explicitly states to post requests like that here.
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The Three Mushketeers was blanked back in January by someone named Snoruntpyro, with the edit reason "Per request. Please delete.".
Should it be restored?
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On Ansem Retort, can we get a moderator revert to the last version of the article before it was edited to remove all links to the comic?
The website went down over a week ago, and because the comic hadn't updated since December 2012, people thought it had ended and someone went through the article and cleaned out all the links to the comic. But since the site's back up the links will work but it'd be extremely tedious to manually readd all of them.
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Could some more experienced tropers than me please have a look at New First Comics? I feel this trope has some issues, but I'm not sure it's worthy of being taken to the TRS.
The description of this trope needs to be fleshed out and the definition clarified. Currently it is extremely short and way too ambiguous. The examples are quite a mess ranging from single redrawn strips over updated early chapters and recap pages to bypass a lengthy Archive Binge to complete reboots. No doubt this stems from the unclear description. Should that really all be considered the same thing? Only redrawing the artwork is a very different thing than rewriting the story. So different that I think it might be a good idea to split this into separate tropes.
In any case the description should elaborate more on the different motivations for and methods of how this is done.
Also, as troper collex mentioned in Lost And Found: "This isn't exclusive to webcomics - Hergé redrew his early Tintin stories in his later, more refined art style. He also colorized them in the process. I think Jim Davis did the same with his early Garfield strips."
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This is actually in Fan Fic. We created a trope page for a fanfic for Housepets! named Housepets! the Series. However, it does not create links for any of the ancillary pages (we have Heartwarming and Funny pages thus far), and it does not add index bars on the bottom.
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Not sure what to do about the page Tara And John. It's full of zero-context examples that, if disposed of, would make the page pretty much completely empty. It could be argued that one could just read through the comic itself and add context...but I looked it up and I'm not quite sure I really want to read beyond the couple I glanced at to do that.
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The webcomic A Path to Greater Good was recently abandoned/rebooted as Hero Oh Hero. Should the page be updated (with a seperate list of tropes for both comics) or should HOH get its own work page?
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I know we're not supposed to use This Troper, but does that also preclude intentional use as a joke? I've been resisting the urge to use it on Laconic.Quote To Quote Combat, where I wrote the back-to-Main link as:
- "Visit unabridged version HERE". Troper.
"Troper" would be replaced with "This Troper".
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kvn8907 left a decidedly rude edit reason on the WMG page for Homestar Runner: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=WMG.HomestarRunner
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Okay. So I found that based on the 8/30 update of Go Get a Roomie!, someone had added Brother–Sister Incest as a trope. I found this to be unwarranted, so I removed it (with perhaps too curt an edit summary), and it was added again soon after. When I saw this, I went to the discussion page to see if there was a note, then to the main page to see if the PM notification was up (I had thought it showed on the main page), and seeing neither, deleted it again, with the intent to start a discussion thread. I found then that the other editor had indeed written a PM, and (after it was added again) we talked over PM for a while, which ended with a declaration of the other's intent to ignore me. I don't think this is the place to get into whether it's accurate or not, but I think it's an ugly trope to be up if it even may not be accurate (in a narrative sense, not ambiguous In-Universe), I don't want to delete it a third time, and the messages I've left in the discussion section haven't yet gotten any responses. As such, I went to Administrivia/TV Tropes Customs, and found the line "Try working things out on the discussion page, via PM, or, failing that, bring the issue to Ask The Tropers." So here I am. Now what?
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Is Logic Bomb specifically for when logical paradoxes are used on computers, or can it apply to any logical paradox? Such as, in the case of Faulty Logic, building a time machine to go back in time to prevent yourself from building a time machine because you know you'll build a time machine and misuse it. It's a (hilarious) logical paradox (sort of? it's technically correct... I think?), but no computers are involved.
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Would a Five-Bad- (or any other) Band have as the main requirement:
ALL core members must be doing the same story at the SAME time at least ONCE all together. If three of the named five are there and then the other two are not mentioned until later, then that's NOT a Five-Bad-Band.
(The issue in question was with the Five-Bad-Band of "Eerie Cuties"— two of the named five were not part of what would be the original Core Girl Posse that would be sent to "Magick Chicks".)
From the "Eerie Cuties" page:
The Big Bad: Melissa The Dragon: Cerise The Brute: Jacqui, in a "useful-but-brainless" way. The Evil Genius: Cess The Dark Chick: Laura Though it should be noted that Cess and Laura aren't actually in Melissa's Girl Posse. Rather, the two want to replace them as the school's Alpha Bitches.
It's that last part that makes me wonder if this is a True Five Bad Band, or someone doing a fast one—since Chloe, one of the "heroic characters" was recently corrupted with an artifact and joined Cess and Laura, I'm debating if this should broken into TWO Terrible Trios:
1) Melissa, Cerise and Jacqui (aka "Hellrune Coven") 2) Chloe, Cess and Laura (aka "Three Succubi" as of the "Full Potential" and "Football Field" strips).
This character page had a YMMV trope on it, but no YMMV page. I created a YMMV page for it, and set the type, but it's not showing up as a button. Plus I'm not 100% sure I did it right otherwise. Help please?