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openPremature edits on Cuties Film
Technomancer02 deleted comments on Cuties asking for people to not to add certain tropes until March 9 and added a section on Overshadowed by Controversy. It's merely a few days early, but I don't think this is the first time he's had issues with that trope.
Edited by thokopenOn Thread-Approval Required Entries Videogame
Is it allowed to edit entries which need to be approved by a thread to fix typos or add wicks, or do proposals to edit such entries need to fly by the thread as well?
resolved Restoring The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass page Videogame
The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass had its page cut because it had one trope (which had zero context). I have more tropes to put there, and I was wondering if I could restore it.
openrestoring the AssPull.WorldOfWarcraft page, or at least its entries? Videogame
So, the page was deleted, with the reason given that it was "Too short to qualify".
Is there a way to restore the page or, if that is impossible, to restore its entries so that they can be moved to the Video Games page?
openJohnnyfog. AGAIN.
I started to follow the Final Fantasy X-2 page because a certain notorious ban evader seems to have an unhealthy obsession with it. And I'm pretty certain new troper Safety Dance is paxbisonica/taylorswiftscat/johnnyfog again. They exhibit the same editing pattern of serial tweaking to replace one or two words with synonyms, and also edit similar pages (Final Fantasy, Babylon Five, assorted videogames)... Requesting an IP check. Will undo their edits after confirmation.
openIs insulting general groups in reviews acceptable?
I have concerns regarding the user Codafett, where they left a negative review on Bumblebee. This wouldn't be a problem on its own, but in response to someone arguing against their review, they in response singlehandedly insulted the movie's entire viewerbase, calling them "manchildren and literal children". Feels like a real strong case of Opinion Myopia. But given that this insult is not directed at a specific person, I'd like to ask, is such behavior acceptable?
resolved Edit Reason
An entry on YMMV.Wanda Vision Episode 9 The Series Finale was removed with the edit reason "Removing complaining", but then added back (not by the original poster) with the edit reason "Re-adding Complaining". It was later removed again by another person for different reasons, but the reason for adding it back seems concerning.
Edited by costanton11openMisplaced namespace?
Consider that it's more of a genre (or even trope?), I don't think Web Original is the right namespace, is it? I mean, we have Main.Creepy Pasta, not WebOriginal.Creepy Pasta.
BTW, is it just me, or people are really insist on using Web Original namespace?
Edited by KuruniopenCertain quote moved to CashCowFranchise
About a few months ago, I suggested Simon Carey's review about FIFA 21 on where should it be placed in on the quotation page for It's the Same, Now It Sucks!. This was the quotation.
Later on, I found out it was moved from the former to Cash-Cow Franchise's quotation page. I also found out that this edit was made by a banned troper. Should I move it back or no?
open Troper making potentially agenda-biased edits
patriciovalencia117 has been making several potentially political agenda-based edits on pages. For example:
- On UsefulNotes.Boris Johnson removed a comparison of the man to Marine Le Pen,
- Replaced a portion of an entry about Tony Blair on OvershadowedByControversy.Real Life that previously said his popularity went down after weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were discovered not to exist with a new portion that said his popularity went down "among his left-leaning supporters," and
- Removed portions of an entry on the 2019 British election on LandslideElection.Real Life that criticized Theresa May, while adding a new portion that insinuated that candidate Jeremy Corbyn lost because of an alleged "socialist agenda."
And I'm sure there are more. Should we do something here?
Edited by themayorofsimpletonopenWhat to do with SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS page?
Apparently a couple weeks back, a change was made to the smallcaps formatting to make it automatically line break whenever used. I have no opinion on that in particular, but it has the side effect of destroying the GLaDOS page, which used a huge amount of smallcaps formatting as part of the joke.
What's the best way to address fixing the page? It would be a massively tedious effort to fix by hand. It seems like it deserves a vote on what action to take, whether some kind of change, rewriting from scratch, or even deletion.
open It happened again.
YMMV.Wanda Vision, Spectre Agent, Designated Villain.
- Designated Villain: Director Hayward. The audience is asked to sympathize with Wanda after she enslaved and tortured a small town and is allowed to leave with only dirty looks while Hayward is arrested at the end despite only trying to stop her to save the townsfolk.
I'm going to go request a page lock now in the Locked Pages Thread. I'm done with humanity.
Edited by SatoshiBakuraopenPacific Rim Characters
Editing the Characters page is giving the red warning that the page is too long and needs to be split, in preparing to do so I saw it had been split and reconsolidated. With a new show just debuting, seems like the page will only grow. Should it be split now?
openStub page
This page is not listed correctly and has only a brief undescriptive synopsis and incomplete stub for a description.
openPage Reversions
Hello,
Where should I ask for mods to revert pages? I'm asking because I'm looking at stuff on the Ban Evader Reversion Thread, and I found a page that only has edits from a ban evader once they showed up and hasn't been edited since they left. Should I ask on the moderator thread, the BERT thread, or the edit requests thread?
openKeeping pages separate with similar titles
So I'm thinking of making page for a Fan Fiction called Wayward but there is a comic with the same name (no relation). How would I go about making sure these two don't get lumped together.
Should note that I once made a page for a Fan Fiction before called Singularity and it got thrown on to a fanfic tap for a movie of the same name. Is it possible to get those separated.
Edited by Lord-Jaricopen Crowner in need of more votes
The TRS thread for Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons has a crowner in which none of the options are in the 2:1 ratio. Right now, the thread is clocked; if there's still insufficient concensus by the 10th, the thread will be closed.
Please do not respond to this query. If you wish to talk about it, follow the link to the thread provided.
Edited by Berrenta
The page for the American preschool animated series Powerbirds was recently cut for being created by a ban evader. While I understand the concerns regarding ban evader edits, I can tell you as someone who did a decent amount of editing for said page after it was created that there was absolutely nothing harmful on the page (no false info, not a stub with 0 tropes, etc.). Also as a result, several red links have been created by its cutting.
I put some minor discussion about it on the ban-evader reversion thread in the long-term projects forum here, and was told the best solution might be to ask a mod to restore the page (especially since I have no archived versions of the page at hand). So... can I just request for a mod to restore the page, or something...? I have literally zero experience with a situation like this, and really want the work page restored, so I'm feeling half-stumped, half-desperate at the moment.