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openAn user with an agenda regarding Dragon Ball and Latin America.
Greetings.
I want to inform the moderators about user Gentilernandez. For a good while, Gentil has been writing unsourced claims all related to the Latin American fanbase and Dragon Ball. I don't know what to think of this user, as many of their edits are inoffensive but others are based on hoaxes.
First added in December 2018, then in February of 2019, they wrote this entry on Creator Backlash:
- Between the harassment and the Spaniard dub being bashed back and forth by the Latin-American fans, all of the Latin American cast of Dragon Ball lost their love for the franchise entirely. Albeit, this won't prevent them from dubbing the series in any way because they need the money.
This was deleted by yours truly. There was no source for this statement anywhere on the web, and when he provided two, it was 1) a post by a user named Darklord 97 on the Spanish-speaking website 3Djuegos, which is a forum, and 2) a video by who-knows where with a person claiming to be Ricardo Brust's (Broly's VA in Lat Am) son. When we spoke in PM, he told me Lalo Garza (the director of the Mexican dub) said these claims on his youtube channel, yet I waited a few hours and I haven't received a message with a single source.
On October of 2018, they published this entry on Artist Disillusionment:
- Akira Toriyama confess that he is ashamed of Dragon Ball being exported outside of Japan, because unlike the rest of the world, Japan fanbase invert Broken Base.
This was deleted by me because the source he provided was, interestingly enough, the by the same user on 3Djuegos. The post has a fake interview with Akira Toriyama, where the user used Google Translate to make it seem real. Obviously is false and is out of character for Toriyama (a known Reclusive Artist), and doesn't even provide the name or number of the magazine this was written.
This isn't the first time they have done this. In an entry by user James Justin on Dragon Ball Fighter Z, James wrote that the game didn't receive a Latin American dub. On August 2018, Gentil added the following to the entry:
- Justified in the Latin American dub. According to Bandai Namco, they have been bashing the Spaniards dubs non-stop for a decade and they decided not to give a Latin-American Spanish dub as a punishment.
I deleted the entry that time too, although providing my commentary (mostly rumors, as the director of Dragon Ball Super is a controversial guy). He provided another source from 3Djuegos, and guess what? the post is done by the same user, Darklord 97. This was deleted by user Viewtiful Vrony on the ground that the information was obviously false.
Other edits of the user likewise look for the opportunity to bash the Hispanic fandom. I feel like I should have reported this, as I fear Gentil is Darklord 07 and is spreading misinformation on purpose, even if other edits of them are inoffensive.
Edited by Tomodachiopen ImageLinks/Tropes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ImageLinks/Tropes has no image links. What does this page have to do with image links? It just has a website about... speed testing?
Edited by FriedBakaopenShould OOCIsSeriousBusiness, technically be OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness?
Should O.O.C. Is Serious Business, technically be Out of Character Is Serious Business?
Because we usually don't use contractions in page names?
But, it's kept because of inertia and having 8K wicks in its favor and stuff?
openIs this misuse?
People have been using She Is All Grown Up for all instances of little girls getting older.
openFormatting on index page
Some indexes have Laconic-esque short summaries of the tropes on them, like Costume Tropes for instance.
Laws and Formulas has all of these in italics, unlike any other I've seen. Is there a reason for this, or should it be changed? Kinda annoying to read.
openUnilateral Image Changes in Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsRecurringCharacters
Troper Grojfan has unilaterally changed the images on Characters.Sponge Bob Square Pants Recurring Characters without going on the Image Pickin' threads for a discussion first. I already PMed them about it earlier today and they agreed to stop (only adding new images for characters who don't have them), but now I would like someone to revert the new images back into the old ones please? I tried doing it myself, but the original image URLs were lost in their other slew of edits, making them confusing to find.
Courtesy link here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.SpongebobSquarepantsRecurringCharacters
Edited by DivineFlame100open Why isnt my slash-link working on an index page?
Series/Gerbert is a new page I made and I'm afraid it isn't linking properly on the Puppet Shows index in the Hand Puppets folder. I do not know what is wrong as I formatted it properly...
openPage cut Film
Uhhh ... so, I just found out that there's a page for The Ranger 2018, but I made a separate page earlier, The Ranger. I'd like to get it cut.
resolved recap page not being made Western Animation
I've been working on making recap pages for episodes of The Emperor's New School. However, when I make one for The Emperors New School S 1 E 20 The Yzma The Stole Kuzcoween Monster Masquerade, it doesn't appear even after I hit save. the link becomes blue on the recap home, but the page itself says the article doesn't exist. Anybody else having this problem?
openPublic domain animation page Western Animation
On the PD Animation page some of the folders include lost cartoons that can't be linked to, and because of how old they are it's very unlikely copies of them will ever turn up. Is it okay to delete most of these lost works from the folders since they take up too much space in an overall large page?
openState of Sonic CD 2011 port? Videogame
I was having a bit of a back and forth between Dere in the P Ms because he thinks the 2011 port of Sonic CD is objectively a Porting Disaster, and deleted Polished Port section a couple of months back from its YMMV, even though it was an opinion that it was better. He was citing the amount of bugs in the game to be a Porting Disaster, but from what I’ve experienced in the Sonic community, barely anyone I’ve seen seems to have been hindered by these bugs (including my own personal experience). In fact, they seem to prefer the 2011 version for its widescreen and extra features. I’ve decided to bring this here because I just wanted opinions on what item to put it in.
Btw, how do you pothole a troper’s name?
Edited by PlasmaPoweropenIs this tropable or should I just add examples to BiggerIsBetter?
I'm bringing this here from the Trope Finder because there's a debate developing.
I was thinking of a possible new trope: large body parts used as a visual shorthand for a character's ability (e.g. large eyes —> acute vision, large ears —> Super-Hearing, and the like. My Brain Is Big and Bigger Is Better in Bed would be subtropes).
I asked the Trope Finder if we already have this (page here), and one side is saying "That's just Bigger Is Better, add your examples there" and the other says "Bigger Is Better is an index, not a trope. It should not contain examples".
I've been told the Trope Finder is not the place to debate whether Bigger Is Better doubles as a trope or not, so I came here to ask the hive mind. What do you guys think?
Thanks in advance!
openLily Orchard - Overshadowed by Controversy Web Original
Someone has added an "Overshadowed by Controversy" sub page to Lily Orchard which contains political ramblings, real life drama, and an entry that would be more suited to "Broken Base" on the YMMV page. Most of these entries are things that have been removed from her page in the past for being against TV Tropes rules as well as the reason the main pages were locked to begin with.
And the Trope is being used rather liberally to begin with
Edited by morpmorpopenDifferent uses of AlternativeCharacterInterpretation
So I've seen two different uses of Alternative Character Interpretation: How a character is often seen by fans, and how a fanwork depicts a character. For example, an entry for the first meaning might look like this:
- Some fans think that Bob is a Casanova Wannabe, due to his status as a Chick Magnet mostly being an Informed Ability.
And for the second meaning:
- Bob is reimagined is a hopeless Casanova Wannabe here rather than the Chick Magnet he is in canon.
In the case of the second meaning, does the entry go under the main page (since it's an invoked example), or does it remain on the YMMV page?
openHow do I change a page's title now that the offical release is out Literature
Common Sense Of A Dukes Daughter was localized in the United States as Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter by Seven Seas from which I was introduced to the series from. How do I change the name? I almost thought the series didn't have a trope page when I tried to look for it under its localization name.
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?