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I have kind of a weird question. I just deleted an example that had been deleted before where someone wanted to list God under Evilly Affable- the descriptor was written as Yah weh. I unfortunately can't remember off the top of my head, but I've seen this kind of shoehorned example a lot lately. Is it the same troper doing this on different names or IP addresses?
Edited by JordanopenNo Title
Would it be a good idea to maybe mark an example or trope in an article as "under debate" or something if it's being contested in the discussion page? I notice that few people tend to frequent the discussion pages, and on many occasions I have to wait months before someone replies to me contesting an example. If such contested examples could be marked somehow, I think that would speed up the process and get it to work better.
(Would this even be possible?)
Edited by FoolsEditAccountopenNo Title
There seems to be some edit warring in the Your Mileage May Vary page of all places, mainly when it comes to if there should be an examples list. The original note was:
No examples, please. This descriptor applies to literally everything. No matter how universal the affection for something may seem, there is someone, somewhere who doesn't care for it. The only way to cover all the possible examples would be to write "Everything ever," so examples aren't necessary.
...but nuclearneo577 keeps changing it to make it literal by making a examples list that only says "everything ever", which is unnecessary. He even noted in one of his edits when i reverted his previous one, quoting: "Stop writing a Take That at me for making it funny." I even noted in the discussion page that this is unnecessary, but he doesn't seem to be stopping. Can we get a resolution for this?
Edited by GundamforceopenNo Title
As Wikipedia gains popularity, there are more and more Wiki Vandals in modern media. Should the trope be rewritten a bit to allow examples?
openNo Title Anime
I've seen Pinwheels used in several Anime to indicate that something spooky is going on, or about to happen. Examples include normally non-spooky shows like Aria. Does anybody know what significance Pinwheels, especially pinwheels turning without apparent wind, might have in the Japanese culture?
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The people on the Award Snub discussion page are whining at the examples purge.
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I just added a listing for "a work's examples page" to What Page Types Mean. Can someone who has the power to do so update the "set page type" tool to match?
openNo Title Western Animation
What's the best way to handle season-episode references in examples?
Wakfu just started its second season, and inevitably examples are going to have to differentiate between the happenings in seasons 1 and 2. Currently, examples just refer to "episode x" because until today there was only one season that the episodes could have belonged to.
Replacing every instance of "episode x" with "episode x of season y" is a very long and redundant way to type it, and replacing them with the actual episode titles could cause confusion over title translations (the show is French). Some form of shorthand would be best, but there are a lot of ways to do that (syex? y-x?) and I haven't been able to find any examples of the preferred season-episode shorthand on this wiki.
openNo Title Anime
Is there a trope for guys walking around—especially down the road—with both hands behind the head? (1) Naruto has been shown doing this. (2) Mugen in Samurai Champloo. (3) Ginta in Bleach (tho not dowm the road). Given the examples, it seems to be emblematic of a certain personality, maybe unconventional or casual or...?
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I'm being extra dumb today, but can anyone tell me what the difference is between Reverse Cerebus Syndrome and Denser and Wackier because I'm not sure where to place an example and they both seem kinda the same to me. I know it is probably obvious, today is just one of those slow brain days for me.
Edited by CrypticMirroropenNo Title
Is there already a trope for the unrare video game and movie phenomena where, having played/watched the game/movie for many hours with no idea of what the heck is going on the game suddenly dumps the plot on you all at once? And uneloquently, with no build up, just sort of By The Way as if you already knew it? I guess it seems kind of like an Ass Pull but is it a trope in its own right?
(My example being Chrono Cross where after you go through more than half the game with only a vague idea of what the heck is expected of you until the ghost children just idly and off-handedly tell you some pretty significant plot details as if they were giving you directions to the local bakery.)
openNo Title Live Action TV
I know there's a war on YMMV tropes on the main page at the moment. What if they were the Trope Namer? Badass Decay\Spikeification and "Funny Aneurysm" Moment being listed on the Buffy main page, for example?
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Just a quick question, would Artix Entertainment games (i.e. AdventureQuest, DragonFable, MechQuest, AdventureQuest Worlds, WarpForce, EpicDuel, HeroSmash) be categorised under "Video Games" or "Web Original" under examples for tropes?
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I'm sure this has happened elsewhere, but this is the example I found.
Todd In The Shadows
Check the Line for Brain Bleach, both for the Main entry and the source.
On the source, during editing, and on-history, it reads
-->'''Todd: [[{{Ptitlegf1u3pozudh8}} CAN'T... GET.... CLEAAAAAN!]]'''
In the main page, it comes out as:
- Todd: This! Is! Sparta!
openNo Title Literature
Ok Folks I am looking for some other tropers who know about the series Death Lands and can add to the page. As it stands right now. I have gleaned a few random examples from around the site and the rest is from my reading the first novel. Any help fleshing out the page would be nice.
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On Meganekko, the Troper Cuchulainn has, on February 9th, removed a large chunk of examples in the Video Game folder, as well as the whole Webcomic one. He puts TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game as a justification, but it seems related to an other thing he deleted in his edit. Moreover, on first sight, the examples deleted look legit.
Is is all right to reinstall those examples? Asking, because one of the examples I just reinstalled on February 3rd got caught in that massive delete, and I don't want it looking like an Edit War.
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All right hivemind, I'm calling you. We tropers are not [[4Chan Anonymous]] but frankly I feel the urge to eliminate one specific aspect of our non-collectivity: linking to troper's pages on trope pages. Specifically:
"When this troper saw Jet and Aang..."
We're not some forum with post counts, avatars, and signatures. This is a Wiki. We do have a forum where you can do those things, but please: Keep it off the Pages.
Edited by 207.206.236.173openNo Title
I want to ask this question as politely as possible: what's with the "split-up-every-page craze" of this very wiki?
- First point... I'm perfectly fine with, for example, an article having a separate Fetish Fuel article. About Fetish Fuel having a separate wiki, not so much. If we have to keep this wiki oh-so-much family-friendly, then I don't get why we still have Horror Tropes like High Octane Nightmare Fuel. The irony is... jarring, to say the least. On a lighter note, Wikia is structured way differently than this wiki, and given how much more emphasis it gives on advertisements, as well as other minor aspects, it turns out to be harder both to edit and to browse. We should have used a wiki structured exactly as Tv Tropes.
- My other point is about the removed redirects to Darth Wiki items such as Wall Banger. Redirects, among other things, can rid us of having to remember a too specific URL while editing, or to use characters such as "{". Okay, the last one is a whim of mine, but my point stands. To give you an example: this is the exact reason behind the redirect to my own article I have made. (Nonetheless, giving Tropers a separate folder is fair game to me, for obvious reasons.)
- Then there's my last point: the YMMV sub-pages. Having tropes on a separate page just adds further confusion, given how every trope can turn out to be subjective. If subjective tropes appear with a red dot instead of a black one, then why can't we simply create another section in the main article? Not to mention the ultimate wallbanger, where in the YMMV page for Dissidia Final Fantasy, some complaining under "Missed Moment Of Fanservice" got cut, with this explanation: "Pointless complaining is pointless, YMMV tab or not". "YMMV tab or not"?!? Come on! That's what a separate YMMV page is about! As far as I know, the alternate title for "Natter" is "Conversation in the main page". I don't recall a YMMV page being the same as a "Main" article, but that may be a mistake of mine like everything said in this rant.
And so, my rant is over. I'm pretty sure that you'll be able to prove how wrong all of my points are, with enough reasonable explanation. I also hope to have really been as polite as I wanted this question to be; if that's not the case, I'm ready to apologise. Just remember that everything I've said was driven by my defense towards the "just have fun feel/spirit/guidelines/premise/basis" of this very wiki. :-)
What if a page has a bad link, but it's a locked page with no edit capabilities?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBible has Egyptian Paganism listed as a Scam Religion. Which may be true in its text, but the way the example is written makes it look like a general slam on Kemetic belief.
I found it while checking Scam Religion's wicks and was going to edit it out but... obviously, The Bible is a locked page. So will someone who can get in there zap this or fix it? Thanks!