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openSpam Review
Spam review here. It's in Vietnamese but translating it shows it's just a bot posting about Amazon.
openHelp with creating Afghan media
I ran into an issue when trying to create an Afghan media page as when I just put Afghan Media, it redirects to Trope Launch Page, so I was wondering if I should put it as Afghan Media or is there something else I am doing wrong? Let me know thanks.
openSuperman 64 Videogame
As far as I'm aware when a work gets a page here, it's supposed to be listed under it's actual title and not by any Fan Nicknames.
Yet Superman 64 appears to be violating this rule, as it's pointed out on both it's main work page and it'd trivia page, that the game is actually called The New Superman Aventures and that Superman 64 is only a Fan Nickname.
openPhoto in the examples section Film
True Lies has a photo right next to the Truth in Television example. Is this kosher? I thought photos were only supposed to go up at the top, or is that an unofficial rule?
openTroping RealLife events
Should Awesome.Pro Gaming be cut for troping real life events?
openTroper adding natter even after notifier
I sent Radiated Ronin a notifier back in February for Natter, but they are still at it.
Latest violation: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.TheBirds#edit26028845
openRude edit reason?
Claris Works edited a Transgender entry on this page with the reason "no preaching, thanks." It looks like the "preaching" is using terms such as "assigned female at birth" (edited now to say "born female"), "reassignment surgery" (now "sex change surgery"), and "identifies as male" (now simply "male.")
This seems unnecessarily rude to me, especially since it just comes down to phrasing.
Edited by iamconstantineopenProper category for humor columnists
Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes has Erma Bombeck entries for "Comedy" and "Literature." I've seen the same thing with Dave Barry elsewhere. Shouldn't "Comedy" be for standup comedians only? Or is "Literature" only for "books with a plot"?
openAbridged Series Web Original
Okay, an issue I should have asked about ages ago, but...
Does The Abridged Series examples go in the "Fan Works" folder, or fit better in "Web Videos"?
They had a tendency to be put in "Web Original", which is wrong as it shouldn't be a catch-all folder, and besides abridged series are fan works and thus not "original". But now a distinct "Web Videos" folder is more standard.
Mind you, I've seen them in "Web Animation" too.
openhow i can fix the title of this page? i already tried with the wikiword menu but it doesn't works Music
this is the page: Little Big
the name of the group is: Little Big but a previous work with the name: little, big already existed so it got renamed to that, i tried with the wikiword menu several times but that doesn't work
thanks in advance
openBulbasaur1 and WikiWords
So Bulbasaur1's edits are confusing to me. The majority of their edits have consisted of reverting Wiki Words back to their separate wordings on their respected pages. For example, every instance of Save Scumming on that page is being separated into just Save Scumming, regardless of whether the capitalization fits or not in the example.
Is there a rule that says that can't happen? Or am I missing something here?
openBiased Descriptions On Yandere Simulator's Page Videogame
I've recently made some elaborations on Yandere Simulator's YMMV page; specifically, I've added more information to the trope "Unfortunate implications", and gave some more information into the controversy surrounding the game and its creator as of late 2019 to now.I believe I was the last person to add anything to Yan Sim's pages in a while, and when I went back to it, what I had written had been erased.
If the controversies exist, they should be addressed, just like how they are in any other YMMV page for every other piece of media on this site. I've seen other games with far more innocuous controversies still show up on their pages, so why should Yandere Sim be an exception? For some reason, the YMMV page is also written with long tangents defending Yan Dev or even explicitly praising him, when I thought the pages were meant to be objective. If I'm doing something wrong or breaking any rules, please let me know.
Edit: the comments in this thread have made me realize the mistake I’ve made when writing in the trope. Thank you all for clarifying. I’ll try to edit more appropriately in the future.
Edited by CherryGirlopenZCE issue
Sigh, take a shot...
I've sent Backrolls numerous notifiers about their ZCE problems, but they just keep having them. Also, they made Fanfic.Expecto Patronum, which has no examples on it and isn't indexed.
And don't worry; the notifiers I sent were well before May even began, so I'm not exactly jumping the gun on this one and they've had plenty of time to learn.
Edited by WarJay77openWhy was KeystoneSuperpower deleted ?
I see no delete reason. I created it. Was it a mistake or did I accidentally violate a rule ?
Keystone Superpower Page link here.
openRational Fic fanfic section issues?
While I suspect the Rational Fic page needs some clean up in general, one of the weirder things on the page is that Fanfic is split into oneshot and multi-chapter sections, with the multi-chapter ones being notated as COMPLETE/ongoing/hiatus. I don't think that's normal.
open A Trope that describes when a Reboot references something from the original?
Hi, I have a question. So there's a reboot of a show that does something similar to what its original counterpart does, but spins it in a new direction to make it its own
For example: Original shows people who fight in large places don't shown any property damage. Reboot makes a mechanic so that when people fight in large places, there's a plot device that protects the real world from said property damage.
What's the proper term/trope there?
openDauntless Has a Problem
Dauntless is both the name of a Video Game and a fanfic, resulting in their shared sub-pages being a mess. How would one begin to disambiguate between the two?
Can an IP check be made on C Okama Anime 85. Their edits and username are very similar to serial ban evader DisneyAnimefan95, who has been guilty of ban evasion several times before.