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openAnother error
When I tried to edit Main.Rasputinian Death, I came across an error that says No Real Life Examples, Please!, even though my example was in the Video Games section.
Edited by ImSpidey2resolved Another Wrongly Locked Page
Yet another page still locked from the recent update; Gasshole is currently unavailable to edit.
openAdding a Rec to FanficRec Anime
Just wanted to know how to post recommend post in a Fanfic Rec since I thought more people should know about this Fanfic.
openAsking permission to recreate Trivia/AnnaKendrick Film
Note: This page was cut for reason: Trivia page for creator [costanton11] Creating red links in 0 articles.
Abandoning 82 inbound links.
You may want to ask in Ask The Tropers about whether it's safe to recreate.
Am I allowed to recreate it?
open Spurious locke for Recap/TalkinToonsWithRobPaulsen Recap Page Web Original
Hello,
The recap page for Talkin Toon is locked. Can I have access back to this page, please?
open Locked page
I was attempting to unmark spoilers in NightmareFuel.Ultimate Custom Night, but it appears to be locked again. Could you fix this whenever you get the time to?
open CM Quotes
Quotes.Complete Monster is locked. Did we decide to lock it like other CM pages or is it another glitch?
open Fridge page for Fallout: New Vegas is locked Videogame
There's no word in Discussion about locking the page, and I don't see a Repair Shop notification header on the page itself. Possible spurious page lock?
Edited by JAG01open Apparent Spurious Page lock on Socketed Equipment
Socketed Equipment is locked for no reason I know of, though I do not know if it was locked prior to the site update.
openTrope Unlauched?
Hi there. I'm a little confused. I recently launched a trope entitled Mawkish Mistake and it was unlauched just a moment ago. The user claimed that the title had nothing to do with what the trope described. The word Mawkish means "mawk·ish ˈmôkiSH/ adjective adjective: mawkish sentimental in a feeble or sickly way.
It can also refer to something that smells bad if memory serves. In any case, I was wondering what to do at this point. I really like the title I chose and sincerely believe that it fits perfectly. I've already indexded the trope and everything. I don't want to fight with anybody and this is by no means an attempt to start anything unsavory. I just want to know who to talk to about issues of this sort and pick a title everyone is happy with.
openHelp
Ever since the site updated, I've been having trouble editing certain pages. Multiple times, I've tried to edit Entitled to Have You and Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist, only for it to just go back to the Edit Page thing and say there was an error.
Is anyone else having such problems, or is that just me?
openPossible spam bot
Tropers/kate332 put a bizarre advertisement on the dscussion page for I Want My Beloved to Be Happy. Is this the right page for reporting them or are there other avenues?
openInexact Title Guidelines
I'm not sure to report this as a bug in the new system or not, because I don't know if it's a bug or a feature.
Prior to the new system, if you put a works title in Camel Case into a page, it would usually go to the main page for that work, even without the name space. So NoMansSky would go to VideoGame/NoMansSky.
I can understand the exceptions being when the work existed in multiple name spaces, so for example Buffy The Vampire Slayer could go to Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer or Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer, and without the name space being spelled out, the system would not know which one.
But it seems now that No Mans Sky ends up linking to an inexact title page, even though the only other NoManSky pages being sub-pages like Awesome/ or Trivia/.
Or am I remembering it wrong, and it would always go to Main/NoMansSky, and it was only pages with redirects that went to the right namespace?
What are we supposed to do about this?
1 - Report it in the update bug thread, it's an error and once it's fixed it'll behave correctly
2 - Put a redirect on works with only one major name space (so redirect Main/NoMansSky to [No Man's Sky=], and turn the main space for works with multiple major name spaces into disambiguation pages (Main/BuffyTheVampireSlayer would then say "Did you mean Series/, Film/, Videogame/ etc). I didn't know if we were supposed to use redirects for that though?
3 - Make every link exact. Every time someone enters No Mans Sky, someone needs to go in and fix it to VideoGame/NoMansSky. This seems like it's going to be a never ending task, since people may not realize that tropes and works need to have their links handled differently. It would be better to have all links be exact, but it seems like it'll be a long struggle.
4 - Don't worry about it, there is an automated process that fixes the links. I couldn't find many examples of works with inexact links, so either the tropers have been working hard to make it that way, or there is some sort of automated process that fixes it. That said, several new pages I've created definitely have this problem.
Is one of these correct, or is there some other solution to this that I'm not seeing? Thanks! (I'm also not sure if there is a trick to making line breaks in forum posts, but I put the horizontal lines in to help break up into paragraphs and hopefully make it easier to read) Edited by JonnyD
openThinking of Removing all Words of Aversion from the trope page One Steve Limit
The trope page itself states that only Aversions should be limited, due to how omnipresent this trope is, so I think I should remove all of the word "Aversion" from the page, due to how redundant it is.
open Spurious page lock on Fridge/Batman
The page for Batman ended up locked after I accidentally clicked the edit button and then went back a page without changing anything.
Edit: Possibly just a timing thing since I didn't hit cancel.
Edited by darkemystopen Dreadful Musician locked
I tried to edit the Dreadful Musician page yesterday June 29, but saving just redirected back to the edit page and now the page is locked. Please fix.
openBan Evader
First Strike might be another account/sockpuppet for Ultimate Lazer.
This is like, the fifth time he ban evades right?
Hi, so when i was Younger i used to watch this cartoon with dark colors like a bit of 'vampiresque' feel, and there was this little kid that could cross over his Mirrors to another world. In this world everything was on another side like, if a chair in his house was on his right, inside the mirror it was on his left. And for what i can remember there were monsters and he was friends with them. I tried searching on Google but i cant find it anywhere. Im getting crazy with this helpppppp
Edited by Neuza