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openMovie suggestion Film
Has anyone consider adding the tropes for The Owners, starring Maisie Williams?
Edited by SeptimusHeapopenMoving a page Western Animation
I made a mistake with the page WesternAnimation.Likeaballs when it should be WesternAnimation.The Likeaballs - any way to move it to the correct title and preserve page history?
Edited by Merseyuser1openUser uncommenting out ZCEs, other stuff
Walkerstar has been editing SweetDreamsFuel.Western Animation to move all preschool cartoons on the list under one bullet. Not only does this seem like a violation of Example Indentation in Trope Lists, some of the examples that have been moved under this bullet were ZCEs that have since been uncommented out during the move. Should something be done?
Edited by themayorofsimpletonopenYMMV thread
Should there be a thread for determining which tropes should have the YMMV banner?
openWouldHurtAChild and WouldntHurtAChild question
I've been wondering about the distinction between hurting and killing and which trope would apply. If there's a character who's absolutely fine with hitting children, but will refuse to actually kill them, would that mean they'd fall under both tropes, or only one of them?
openIcyslicey666 and Potty Emergency
Icyslicey666's only edits consist of going onto this page and changing every instance of the word "pee" with something else (like urinate or wee-wee).
Their two edit reasons attached to said edits were Any words or word combinations that could cause sin to some of the world including me. and Any unneeded shows that can come with secret bad messages, and words that could come as a bad excuse to life for other countries.
Soooo...maybe a troll? I don't know, but the page will need to be cleaned up after them.
openApple and Onion Laconic? Western Animation
Are Laconics approved by other tropers in an overall... consensus sort of thing? I don't feel like Apple & Onion has a good Laconic considering it compares it to something else that I believe has a dissimilar tone in my opinion? It's probably YMMV but I feel like it should rely less on another show in the Laconic.
openQuestionable WMGs
Recently, I have come across a few WMG pages/entries that may go against the rules.
- The Mysterious Mr. Enter. Most of the entries are about his reviews and what he'll review next, which is fine. However, there are a couple that are based on him as a person. The first WMG in particular is downright absurd, considering it's talking about a real life personnote by contrast, the "Mr. Enter will turn into an enter keyboard button" entry seems to be referring to his avatar, not him as a person.
- Perfect Hair Forever only has one entry, and it's about the show being brought back for another season (or at least more episodes). While WMG guesses are supposed to be about what happens in the work itself, this one skirts the line a bit, although the reason given seems to lean more into the "not allowed" territory; it basically says the show may get more episodes just to fill more Adult Swim timeslots. Speaking of which...
- Adult Swim is the one that really stuck out. Entries about Adult Swim execs take the piss out of anime, blaming Adult Swim for both Cartoon Network's downfall and a bomb scare, and guessing Adult Swim's schedule in the years to come (which may go against WMG rules, but is comparatively tame compared to some of the other entries).
open Dropped A Bridge On Him vs Undignified Death
What are the difference between the trope Dropped a Bridge on Him and Undignified Death? A lot of times I saw that it tends to be similar. Has there been an example of a Dropped a Bridge on Him that sounded at least dignified, or an Undignified Death that does not come too sudden like a bridge drop?
Thanks.
Edited by ChrisXopenWhat to name this page?
I'm considering making a page for a Christmas movie called...well, that's the issue at hand here. It has two different names, and not just because of weird localization. This is a movie that technically exist in two forms: One with gay parents for the main character, and one with straight parents. Those two versions have different titles: Too Cool For Christmas and A Very Cool Christmas. Besides those differences, the films are shot-for-shot identical, or at least as identical as they could get.
If I were to make a page for this film, how would I go about naming it? Would it be based on which title came first? If I do it that way, it's Too Cool For Christmas.
openplace to put WIP crap! Music
Hey dudes/dudettes, I'm trying to work on some pages for bands that lack a Tv T page. Is there a place to write these on the wiki instead of a word processor?
open2nd example permission.
I want to add a 2nd example of a trope to a YMMV page, what special permission do I need?
openMy age and b-day
Is it totally okay to reveal my actual age and my birthday here? I made a decision that which I could not lie about my age or my birthday.
openon create my own Troper Page
Is it possible to create my own Troper page like Troper/Synchronicity have?
openLinks to Potentially Harmful Sites
I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post this, but I'm not sure where to do so. Every now and then I come across quotes in certain tropes that, while they technically might fit (some being at best corner cases), they are from very obscure fringe internet sources, often extremely religious in nature.
For example, the Cheerleader's Are Evil trope has only one quote in it's quote page which comes from a conservative preacher's typed sermon, with a link to the website which the sermon was posted (which looks like it's from Y2K). The Ethical Slut quote page on the other hand has several quotes, but a lot of them are from similar source's and sites, with most the quotes being only tangentially related to the trope in question. The worst offender I have noticed in recent days is a quote on Attention Whore that (while technically could fit the trope) links to a site where the writer of said quote peddles their religious conspiracy theories about the Illuminati.
I honestly haven't contributed much to the site and I don't want to step on any toes in case of rules I am unaware of. Should something be done in cases like this?
Edited by TheElcorSpectreopenTwo Franchise/ pages for the same franchise
I discovered Franchise.Phile Verse and Franchise.The Xfiles for the same franchise, so I wish to merge the two to make one more complete page
I'll do all the work, is there a preference for which one becomes the franchise page and which one will be redirected to the other?
Edited by jormis29openTroper keeps changing images without discussion
~lexii has a history of image changes without starting threads in Image Pickin.
- This edit for The Crown (2016), ignoring a linked IP thread that reverted that specific image (I sent them a notifier for this one)
- This thread for Femme Fatalons
- This thread for Regal Ringlets
- This thread for The Beautiful Elite
resolved Opening a TRS thread
I started a TRS thread the other day, and I checked the wicks to find evidence of misuse, but it's still not open despite the subforum not being at the thread cap. What else should I do?
What should be done when a work may belong in an index but there is no page for it yet? Of course, the ideal thing would be to create the page, add tropes and index it, but before that... add it to the index as a red link, add it as plain and unlinked text, or leave it out until it is created?