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open No Title Film
Somewhere exists a big space, like huge dome. The surfaces crackle with static, it is interior but has a sense of being exterior, the roof may be the night sky. In this big cavernous space there may be a platform going half-way along, (Think Prof Xavier's Cerebro). This big space is some sort of mainframe that contains all knowledge, all wisdom, all the force etc. It is the mind of the Universe. Sometimes the seer may put on a headset to engage with it. If you or I put on this headset our brains would probably fry because we do not have mind power to deal with it.
I thought I'd seen this trope, this image, this device a million times in a million films but now I come to look for it I can't find many examples. Have I imagined it? Can you offer any examples? Thanks.
open No Title
NightmareFuel.Disney Animated Canon has a red link to Fantasia 2000, but there actually is a page for it. What's causing this?
openYMMV.FreeSpace Videogame
JBK 405 removed the Magnificent Bastard entry from this page without getting agreement from the cleanup thread to do so. Intending to re-add and report if an edit war by way of further deletion with discussion is done.
openSeven Knights Page
So I have been updating the seven knights page by adding more tropes, categories and images. Can someone check it out and let me know if I should edit or fix anything, maybe if "Trivia" or "Funny" needs anything corrected? (I have already asked about Nightmare Fuel)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SevenKnights
Appreciate it!
Thanks to @Mr5hogun for helping btw!
Edited by Blueforest73openIssues with grammar
It appears that there is a troper named Darklight 23 who keeps adding entries to the pages associated with the Netflix Sabrina the Teenage Witch series that have grammatical and capitalization errors in addition to not being punctuated at the end. Here is their edit history.
Edited by Thetropemaster101openIs this an example of "Painting the Medium"?
Found this entry on "Painting the Medium:
"Brendan Namron: Ace Attorney, Ace Combat: The Equestrian War, Chaotic Harmony and Sonic Generations: Friendship is Timeless include links to actual music the reader can listen to while reading the story."
Is this really an example of this trope? I feel this should be removed, and re-added to a trope that it actually fits.
Edited by DayBreakChannelopenAdvice sought
I moved an entry from Trivia.Gen Lock to its Discussion Page to query it a couple of weeks ago. Someone has responded to my post in such an angry manner that I'm not sure how to respond without making things worse.
Please would it be possible for a neutral third party to take a look at the entry I'm querying and seeing if it's a valid example?
The post is here.
openA profile picture Western Animation
Does anyone know how to upload profile pictures on this website?
openA violation Western Animation
Hello, it appears that a troper named Tork has added a few entries to the Complete Monster section of the Justice League YMMV page without discussing with us on the cleanup threat for the trope. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/JusticeLeague
Edited by Thetropemaster101openremoval of work examples.
Tightwire is removing all the examples of the work FanFic.Prison Island Break in trope pages.
openPotholed Flame Bait on Flame Bait pages.
Ferot_Dreadnaught recently deleted an Internet Backdraft pothole on Horrible.Live Action Films for being Flame Bait as of late, which is weird, considering that So Bad, It's Horrible is also Flame Bait. What is our rule on this?
Edited by OldLadyNightManopenNeed Help with a Page
So... I need help with this workpage for this page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/EveryApeAndHisBrother
So... quick story. Back before I lost access to an old account of mine, I found this page which was created by this guy who created entries and workpages for fake media. I thought that this was one of them, so I requested it be cutlisted, and it was deleted.
However, I later discovered that Every Ape and his Brother did exist in some capacity on Myspace (https://myspace.com/everyapeandhisbrother/music/songs) so I restored the page. Unfortunately, it seemed I did not do a good job because currently, the entire thing is a mess.
I have a question to ask, then: what should I do? I'm not sure if the whole thing can be reverted back anymore.
P.S. : Though it does exist on Myspace, most of the songs seem to be just written lyrics on Am I Right?.com. Would music on Am I Right?.com be considered tropable under Music?
open So, how to get a Query on Ask the Tropers deleted?
Asking, because originally, this was a blank query that I accidentally sent, and now, I am editing it into an actual query. If I accidentally send blank queries, what can I do to get them deleted?
Edited by DayBreakChannelopenLarge Edits
Out of curiosity, how are "Large Edits" quantified, exactly? I just did a huge clean-up of Characters.Destine Enormity, but it's only marked as a normal edit. Meanwhile, minor word changes to Trivia.Baby Einstein are classified as a "large edit". It doesn't really matter, but I do wonder how it works, because it seems a tad arbitrary.
openQuestion About "Better Than Canon"
So, "Better than Canon"... when should it be added to a YMMV page? Trope description states that it is a Fanon trope, so should it be added only when the fans make it clear that they believe the fanfic in question is better than Canon? Just asking, because the Trope description does not make things clear, and honestly, if it is like what I just wrote, I think this would have to be a trope where Notability actually has to be measured (like Mainstream Obscurity, for example) because in my opinion, any fics can be any fan's Better than Canon. Also, I feel like this is a Trope that could be subject to the same problems as Counterpart Comparision.
And if it has to be what fans regard as Better than Canon, should I delete all Better than Canon examples that does not show that the fans regard it as such?
Edited by DayBreakChannelopenpage needs cleanup
The description on Page Three Stunna needs a lot of cleanup, it's full of natter.
Yes, the description itself.
openAnother Troper with Indentation and Natter issues
mr3urious has issues with indentation and adding natter. I sent notifiers last year, but there's been no improvement.
Their most recent violating edit: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.LuckyTranslation#edit23407493
In the past, I've learned that YMMV pages for creators can be allowed and trivia pages for creators aren't allowed.
That said, I have a question: are Awesome, Funny, Heartwarming and Nightmare Fuel subpages allowed for creators in general, and if not, should they be taken to the Cut List?
Edited by gjjones