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openEdit War on WrongGenreSavvy.FanWorks
On WrongGenreSavvy.Fan Works, troper Marcus S Lazarus added a lengthy example that fails to meet the requirement that a Wrong Genre Savvy character must get their genre knowledge from In-Universe fiction; otherwise it's too easily misused for "character is wrong about anything."
I deleted it on these grounds, and the troper restored it without alteration and with an edit reason that does not address the problem.
Cross-posting on the cleanup thread and P Ming the troper.
openTroper with a filter Web Original
Pretty sure Troper "Book cat" has an extension or something that changes "Trump" to "Drumf" so when they edit a page (in this case the main Rooster Teeth page) it changes it. I remember seeing a while back that that kind of thing is discouraged. Is that still the case?
openAnonyoyo
Can an IP check be made between Hanzheyingle and Anonyoyo?
Anonyoyo readded an attempt to shoehorn an old Counterpart Comparison between Bondrewd and Shou Tucker under Does This Remind You of Anything? in Manga.Made In Abyss, and further checking the edit history showed it had almost the exact same wording as Hanzheyingle's attempt before they further edited it. Anonyoyo started editing around the time of Hanzheyingle's suspension and Hanzheyingle never appealed.
As for the shoehorned non-example, I was the one that originally removed it so I'd like help avoiding an Edit War.
Edited by homogenizedopenNo Title Web Original
I tried indexing the recap page for Supermarioglitchy4s Super Mario 64 Bloopers and it's not working. Is there any help for that?
Edited by Ninamarie124openTroper complaining and Bias
The troper To be Continued Yes seems to be really biased and has complained about Rick roirdon's works a lot.
For some examples :
- Here they removed examples for no reason and then complained in the edit reason.
- Here they bashed the author on his own page.
- more complaining about the series.
It's not just this either.
- Here they made a bunch of grammar issues while using the paradoxical edit reason of fixing grammar.
- adding a full stop where its not needed. It's also lacking in a bit of context.
- Complained about the image change
- Hide tropes behind a spoiler which isn't allowed.
And this all from a cursory glance at their edit history. This is an amazing number of different issues.
openIvanovTroping97 edit warring? Videogame
I removed a Catharsis Factor entry he put in YMMV.The Fairly Odd Parents because it was Square Peg Round Trope. Catharsis Factor has to do with the way you relieve stress while doing something.
Here's the entry I removed:
- Catharsis Factor: Even though it was unintentional on Timmy's part, some fans found Trixie getting hurt by Timmy in "Beach Bummed!" to be rather satisfying after what she did to him in the episodes "Class Clown" and "Just the Two of Us!".
In hindsight, mentioning that the entry reading like a Take That, Scrappy! entry in the edit reason was a bad idea, because he readded it, but under Take That, Scrappy!. Even though Trixie isn't a Scrappy.
EDIT: Whoops, I put this under Video Games by accident.
EDIT 2: And I put Tootie's name instead of Trixie's. God I am off today.
Edited by PlasmaPoweropenTrope discussion
Over a year ago, I posted a query on the discussion board for the Death of a Child trope and it still hasn't been answered. I think it's a rather important question because it addresses a section which isn't present or forbidden. Is it okay to bring attention to it here?
openTropes with dialoguey names that aren't stock phrases?
So Stock Phrase basically means "a thing that's said a lot in media", but we seem to use it to mean "a trope with a name that sounds like dialogue".
However, some tropes (e.g. My Nayme Is and I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!) have dialoguey titles, but aren't cliche lines.
openShould Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar be a Useful Notes page?
He DID write a book or 2, and DID do acting roles, but he's most famous as a basketball player, and the other ones like Michael Jordan and LeBron James are Useful Notes pages.
openZero Context Example and Bullet points
When commenting out a single ZCE in a trope with two bullet points, is it better to hide the ZCE and keep the example looking like it has only one bullet point, or change so it looks like a trope with a single example and leaving the ZCE as a commented out bullet point?
To illustrate:
* Trope:
** Actual example
%% ** ZCE
or
* Trope: Actual example
%% ** ZCE
Which one is better, or correct? Edited by BlackMage43
open Characters.DanganRonpaColorfulKillers... What is this for?
Characters.Dangan Ronpa Colorful Killers... What is this for?
Oh, a cut fanfic, where this wasn't cut... Well, cutting then.
Edited by MaladyopenScarface - Discussion in CBD trope? Film
Hi folks - never posted to Ask before, so apologies if I do this wrong. The troper WELCOME_BRIGADOR and I have been talking over on the trope page for Scarface, specifically about the trope Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. W_B favors the following text as a way of providing context for the use of CBD in the work:
"Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: heavily implied with Sosa. When "bro"-saying Nuyoricans - who are NEVER white - criticize types for being fake Hispanic, it's usually types like him. He behaves very strangely around Tony, like he's ready to throw him under the bus, but never says it to his face. Compare this to the white Frank Lopez, who at least threatens him to his face, quite a couple of times, when he's upset with him. Same with Omar Suarez, also white, Germanic, Visigothic surname, as is Lopez, who was actually openly hostile to Tony the entire time."
I favor cutting most of that as hard-to-follow and not relevant to whether/how the film satisfies the trope. We talked for a bit on the Discussion page, and both agreed that we would like perspectives from a third party. Help?
Edited by IrkedopenExample that admits to not being a real example? Videogame
From Sackboy's entry on Characters.Play Station All Stars Battle Royale First Party Starter
- Creepy Doll: Minus the creepy part.
What does that mean? Is this even a valid example?
open South Park / Stan Marsh
What happened to the South Park page? Why is it called Stan Marsh? See here, South Park
Edited by annette12openWhat an Idiot misuse?
WhatAnIdiot.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic has a folder for general examples. They're redundant With Talking Is a Free Action and Forgot About His Powers. And there's these two suspect examples:
- Equestria is a land of magic. Since magic is so prevalent, it comes as no surprise that many of its villains have figured out various ways to corrupt and/or neutralize it. Given the wildly conflicting personalities present within the Mane Six, it's not always guaranteed that they will be able to utilize The Power of Friendship until after the villain has already thrashed them, destroyed the countryside, filed the paperwork, and picked out a throne to begin his rule over Equestria. You'd Think: Our little ponies would maintain a proper military instead of relying on the untrained Mane Six, and then develop and utilize both magical and non-magical weapons and defenses. For example, outfitting Canterlot with point-defense cannons to guard against attacks by airship. Or, seeing as how every single pony with the word "princess" in her name is a priority target, posting snipers and armed security guards to cover every major event involving them. Or rocket launchers (with triggers big enough for hooves to pull) to blow Anti-Magic villains to pieces. Instead: They only ever fight using magical attacks and defenses (at many points after they've already seen that magic has zero effect on that particular villain), and rely heavily on The Power of Friendship and The Power of Love to save the day after the bad guy's all but won. You'd Then Expect: For at least one villain to just knock one or more of the Mane Six out. Problem Solved, Series Over. Instead: The villains just incapacitate them or break their spirits, an impermanent solution.
The level of violence and military logic for the former to work would be impossible to implement given the shows target demographic. I don't know of any other examples where solutions too outside the tone of the show to realistically consider are considered idiotic. The latter has the same problem as...
- While the magic of friendship is incredibly powerful, Twilight herself (unlike Rarity) has little fighting skills or experience. She's the most powerful magic caster in Equestria, but she fits into the bill of Unskilled, but Strong. You'd Think: While Twilight is giving a speech about friendship, the current villain would just confront her physically, knock her out, and abduct her away from her friends and/or the Villain-Beating Artifact, leaving her completely defenseless. Problem Solved, Series Over. Instead: While Tirek, Starlight, and Sunset DO confront Twilight physically, none of them bothers with the "abduct Twilight away from her friends or instant-win artifact" part. The only ones who do capture Twilight at different points are Queen Chrysalis (who also captured everypony else of importance) and Tempest Shadow, and even then only Chrysalis actually bothered with knocking her unconscious. Even then, refer back to the above passage to see how she failed to do the same with Starlight.
Nearly all those villains were those Locked Out of the Loop who didn't know who they are or their powers worked that way. Those who did know were those with the cunning or power such they successfully dealt with them all at once rendering that irrelevant. The described examples can go under the individual episodes/work.
Should those be removed? I also asked What An Idiot cleanup but it looks fairly inactive.
openCross Wink Links Won't Work Webcomic
I'm trying to do cross wink links for The Webcomic Muted. I'm trying to put a link under the abusive parents page, but even though I put the title in like the other entries, it doesnt like to Muted's tv tropes page. What am I missing? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AbusiveParents/WebComics
open Gym tribune closes over a girl Live Action TV
There is a TV show when in a scene, a bully girl(if I remember well) goes under a tribune and someone pushes the button that closes the tribune and traps her there , she after gets a cast on her body
openLanguage specific trope
Can I put a trope that only apply to one particular translation of a media ? Like what if there was a meme that only sprouted in one specific language ? Can I put Memetic Mutation and possibly Ascended Meme even if it's not from the original language ?
Edited by jOSEFdelaville
I would like to make a page for a fanfic, but there is already a fanfic for another fandom by the same name. How do I add parenthesis to the title?