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openNo Title Webcomic
That Dude In The Suede's page has one incredibly recurring poster who doesn't use proper spelling or grammar. On the one hand, their edits are short enough that I usually just step in and clean it up afterwords, leaving "spelling/grammar" in the edit reason line. On the other, it's fairly irritating, and if I don't keep checking the errors will probably start piling up. I was wondering if it's okay to say something to him/her. I get that that's probably the job of a moderator, or it's not particularly important, which is why I haven't. Can someone tell me what proper etiquette is in this situation?
Edited by WackdopenNo Title Webcomic
I made a page for a new webcomic, The Trenches. But, it's not just a webcomic; it also has true stories from real games testers about life in the industry. I'm just wondering whether these should be included on the page, or if I should put them in a different namespace, or what. I figure if Not Always Right can have a page, these stories should be listed here too, right?
Advice?
openNo Title Webcomic
Not sure whether/how to make a proper page for Fontes' Rants, as it doesn't seem to primarily be a webcomic. Should I make the page, and if so should I put it in the Webcomic namespace?
Please excuse my ignorance.
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Awhile ago I tried to make the character page for Wayward Sons by myself. Naturally, I gave up less than halfway through, and it hasn't changed since. I'm considering trying again, but I want to know if there's some kind of guideline to this kind of thing. Last time, I just copied the character profiles from the comic itself, which was a mistake.
Also, anyone care to help out? Many hands make light work and all that...
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What's the best approach to disagreements on a page?
Basically, on the Goblins page someone added an entry for Mr. Fingers, the Lesser Finger Horror. I removed it with the reasoning that Mr. Fingers was a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere, a random encounter whom, however impactful, was quickly disposed of and had no characterization to speak of. It'd be like having an entry for the Yellow Musk Creeper or the Soulspike Devourer.
Tambov333 disagreed and re-added it, claiming Mr. Fingers was a major antagonist.
I know the rule is "two reverts = edit war", so I'm refraining from re-deleting myself right now. If I could get a consensus of some sort one way or the other, or be directed on how to achieve a consensus, it'd be appreciated.
openNo Title Webcomic
I made a forum post recently about a guy who kept deleting the https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KiwiBlitz under the name Silver Lucario. A guy banned him, and also advised that I move the page to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/KiwiBlitz Now that I did so, I'm not sure what to do with the old page. Can I somehow set it up as a redirect to the new one? Also, the same guy keeps deleting the new page as well under the new name of Melon Frost.
Thanks for any help and/or advice!
openNo Title Webcomic
A troper called ltscholarmind has been contributing some examples that... well, they seem well-meaning enough, but they're largely unintelligible and don't clearly identify what work they're from.
openNo Title Webcomic
How does one create punctuated page titles? I am looking to create a page for the Fan Webcomic ''Aki-chan's Life'' , but so far none of the relevant "how to" guides on this wiki have been useful. Is there anything that can be done, or is the punctuation of the title such that a link can not be produced on this wiki?
Edited by CodyFett
I just created Wereworld, which is completely unrelated (as far as I know) to Were World. How do I make them not share the same YMMV and Crowner tabs?