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openMod Revert
Can a mod revert the most recent edit on LightNovel.Shonen Onmyouji? Despite the page literally being littered in warnings and having two ZCE warnings, the most recent editor, Soupyscience7, undid the ZCE markup... a year ago, so IDK if a notifier will do anything of use.
Edited by WarJay77openWrong namespace?
During cleanup, I found Literature.Now Blooms The Tudor Rose. The description seemed a bit rambling and I noticed there's no mention of its author or publication date (the author is actually there on the page; it's just buried). Is Literature/ namespace okay for this sort of text published on forum? Namespace mentions that it's also used for eBooks and Web Serial Novels. I'm not sure the text falls into that category.
openAsHimself or AsHerself?
The trope page for As Himself adds "a.k.a. As Herself" to the page title.
I know that many tropes have an "official" name which uses the male gender, with a female redirect for the obvious reasons. Does that mean that the male version takes precedence?
I'm asking because there's an example on NYPD Blue which originally referred to one woman appearing as herself, and it was accordingly headed "As Herself". But now a second example has been added under the same heading, this time about a man. So there's one male and one female example under the heading "As Herself".
What's wiki policy about this? Should the heading be kept or changed to "As Himself"? None is really better than the other. I'm inclined to leave it as is, but I'm wondering if "As Herself" counts as a redirect and, as such, shouldn't be used unless it's necessary to avoid confusion?
openHot Scoop
I remember we had a trope for attractive reporters called "Hot Scoop" that now redirects to Hollywood Beauty Standards. But we still have similar concept tropes for other professions like Fair Cop, Hot Scientist, Biker Babe, Hot Librarian, Hello, Attorney!, Good-Looking Privates, Hospital Hottie, Sexy Stewardess, Firemen Are Hot. So why was Hot Scoop singled out? Looking at the history, it was merged in 2018 per TRS, but I couldn't find any thread about it.
I don't even see the logic of it turning into a "Hollywood" Beauty Standard, reporters aren't linked to Hollywood and TV Tropes covers far more media than ones produced by Hollywood.
Edited by BlackMage43openNo Title
Can jossed and Epileptic Trees be used for prerelease beliefs? For example, Trivia.Pokemon Sword And Shield and YMMV.Pokemon Sword And Shield do.
openPost Number
I remember in the old UI, there is a small number next to each forum post, denoting which nth post it is. Is there a way to make it appear again in the current UI?
I'm asking because in Image Pickin', people often refer to image suggestions with post numbers, so "suggestion 2.1" refers to second post, first image. While finding the second post is easy, finding, say, the twelfth post isn't.
openReal Life examples in Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy
There's currently five Real Life countries examples of the Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy (listed under the "Other" folder), each of them listing particular figures that whoever wrote them believe fit roles such as The Emperor, Right Hand Man, The General, etc. I'm wondering whether this violates troping real life examples, especially as this trope page is for villainous organizations.
Edited by megarockmanopenIs there a forum where I could plead/discuss to rename certain pages?
I tried finding one here but couldn't. Aren't there "special forums" here (like the one where people get suspended are taken to) for that? Would appreciate if someone links me there.
openMay I create a page for the anime Onmyou Taisenki? Anime
Onmyou Taisenki is one of my favorites, it's an anime by Studio Sunrise from 2004. It's based on a manga which I have not yet finished but so far it's great. The manga is also a totally different story (basically a prequel to the anime with a different protagonist). I noticed that the anime series had a TV tropes page for a time, that was apparently taken down for having poor grammar, a trope thats ZCE and not specifying the medium. While in all honesty I am not sure what the acronym ZCE means, I am confident I could do a better job than the previous creator of the TV Tropes page. I would like to make a page for the anime, and with your permission perhaps one for the manga as well when I finish it. As I said I'm very fond of this series, and I've been helping it to try and get more well known here in the west with my fanart. So, it'd mean a lot to me to do this. This will be my first ever interaction with the site although I've been browsing TV tropes for years, so I will do my best!
Edited by NanimationsopenNo Real Life quotes?
Can't Take Criticism is No Real Life Examples, Please! and we've cut RL quotes about No RL trope before. Including those pertaining to this exact individual. So cut or what?
openFranchise folder question
I was browsing the franchise entry for Dracula and noticed that unlike, say, Yu-Gi-Oh!, all the folders are out of order. Should the Dracula folders be fixed to go Anime > Comics > Films etc.?
Edited by lalalei2001openReaching for nationalities in Captain Flamingo Western Animation
I realize this isn't a well known show, but I feel that the editor is grasping at straws for birthdays and nationalities for the characters. Some examples I found:
- Milo is half-Japanese.
- Lizbeth is Chinese-Filipino and is born on Mischief Night.
- Max is born on Rememberance Day.
- It even says that the cartoon is Canadian-Filipino produced on the work's main page.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/CaptainFlamingo
Edited by PsychopulseopenWhere should this example be moved to?
I stumbled upon AwesomeMusic.Jimmy Olsen while cleaning up Ear Worm examples. The page has only one example, and it's a song that's not actually from the work the page is about. The example should probably be moved to another Awesome Music subpage, but I'm not sure which one.
openPotential edit war warning Live Action TV
Critter Keeper is edit-warring on the Doctor Who S38 E1/E2 "Spyfall" page over what appears to me to be an overreaction to a disagreement between Commonwealth and American grammar on the Mythology Gag entry: they can't seem to handle "inconsistencies" without the comma inside.
PS: I personally find that particular piece of American grammar to be a skin-crawling eyesore, but this is (semi-)serious.
Edited by nombretomadoopenTalk Page Formating
Is there a way to remove the random apostrophes that appear in discussion pages sometimes?
openPrincess Jasmine's Age Western Animation
A while back, I deleted a Values Dissonance entry on Aladdin's YMMV page stating Princess Jasmine to be 15 years old, as I had stumbled across a piece of trivia on Jasmine's page on the Disney Wiki saying she was going to be fifteen and that the Sultan would say that she's got to be married by her sixteenth birthday in an early story concept for the movie, but Jeffery Katzenberg nixed it because he worried about sending the wrong message by showing a fifteen year old girl getting married. It then linked to a book titled Aladdin: The Making of an Animated Film, a book that talks about the movie's development, as its source. More recently, a fellow troper added a Fanon entry to the movie's YMMV page mentioning this exact information. However, Queen Of Swords just deleted it and re-added the Values Dissonance entry while linking to two articles as a source. One of which is a blog that says "although several of the princesses ages were never actually stated in the films, researchers have used aspects from the movies, interviews with members from the Disney corporation, and a general sense of how girls act at certain ages to compile enough data to at least guess at these ages"; from my point of view, this blog never provides any actual sources of their own to back up this claim apart from hearsay, and they even state that it's more of an estimation rather than a concrete answer. The other one links to a Buzzfeed article which itself links to the Disney Princess page on the Disney Wiki, stating that that's where their ages are found. However, I looked, and there's nothing there. Suffice it to say, I don't really consider these valid sources to back up the idea that Jasmine is 15, and I personally trust what a book, that talks about the movie's development and the people working on the movie while going into great detail about each of those things, has to say over what these people on the Internet have to say. I would delete the Values Dissonance example again and re-add fearlessnikki's Fanon entry, but I don't want to risk starting an Edit War.
Any thoughts?
openWhere is the restored proposal?
Some days ago I proposed an index on Trope Launch Pad, about an index for creators involved with Sonic the Hedgehog. I deleted it because of reasons, but wanted to restore it, so yesterday I did.
However, I can't see it around. Did I accidentally erased it or something?
How do you create a page?