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Bk-notburgerking uncommented a bunch of Zero Context Examples on this page (Link goes to the article history), but without adding anything to them.
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Eggy Soulster readded Gamergate to Streisand Effect. With a horrible edit reason.
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Also on the topic of character pages, what are the rules regarding non-Characterization Tropes on character pages?
One of the character pages I've been working on has a lot of these tropes, like Alien Lunch which, while they might technically apply to the character, are not Characterization Tropes...
...it also has one character listing that rather egregiously list basically every stock phrase the character uttered in the episode in which he appeared, including I'll Kill You!, Not Worth Killing, This Cannot Be!, and You Will Be Spared.
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We might be moving toward a multi-party Edit War on DethroningMoment.Death Battle.
A little while ago Why Not Now complained about Ambar Son Of Deshar removing his entry for "Goku vs. Superman". The deleted entries were added back and then yesterday Tonathon100 deleted all of the "Goku vs. Superman" entries AGAIN, this time on the grounds that they're "sophistrous" which is not a word.
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I've just made a page for Tattoo Tropes, but for some reason, when I checked the pages for the tropes, they don't have the Tattoo Tropes index banner.
What can be done?
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RiverWhiteWolf seems to have a word-swap plug-in, based on the edit for the Memes/Tumblr page, where they replaced "SJW" with "Skeleton".
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I'm worried. Someone removed my Goku versus Superman DMOS for Death Battle. His excuse was that it had too many caps and italics, never mind OTHER tropes doing the EXACT SAME THING. Anyway, I reposted, but removed the italics and the caps, but now I'm afraid he's going to delete it AGAIN. Isn't DMOS supposed to be OPINION? He says my only complaint was that Goku lost, but that is MY right to say if I consider that a Dethroning Moment of Suck, isn't it? And I see lots of DMOS around that are far less specific than mine, and yet he STILL deleted!
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In The Waterboy, Bobby Boucher refers to his job of waterboy as "Water distribution engineer." Does this qualify as Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness?
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Could we get a revert at Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog? The page broke down again.
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In the trope list on Recap.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic S 1 E 2 Elements Of Harmony, Mike Rosoft hid the name of the trope Take My Hand! in a pothole ("Take My Hoof") after I already removed it once. I'm just mentioning it here because I don't want to start an Edit War.
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Chadtroper02 has a very difficult-to-follow grammar, often mixing up singular terminology with plural, capitalizing in the wrong places, and adding many anacoluthons.
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I has question: Would Real Men Hate Sugar be a characterization trope?
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I feel like this has been asked before, but I wanted to get clarification on it just in case.
So I know that on character pages for Anime, editors put both the Japanese name and the English (dubbed) name. What is suppose to be the protocol for the Main page?
I was browsing the Digimon Frontier page recently and found that on the Main page, it jumps between Japanese and English names between the tropes with little to no regard. Is it suppose to be consistent throughout the page or am I just making a big deal out of nothing? I don't really want to unilaterally change every name from English to Japanese or vice versa without a second opinion.
extraintrovert removed an example in Strawman Has a Point with the following edit reason: "Legacy Character is a staple of comics, how is Thor's identity being "stolen"? Other editing. ".
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