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Not to be rude Perkeez, but when you do this you need to be able to point out specific edits. Nobody will want to dig through the page history to find examples of what you're claiming.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallAgain that is rather vague. Looking at your edit links, the second one is an actual deletion, so let's take a look:
- Restricted Rescue Operation: The plot is driven by the supers being forced underground and forbidden from using their powers to help people. Notably, there's a scene in which Mr. Incredible/Bob Parr's boss threatens to fire him if he leaves to help a man who's being robbed. In that scene he was already in trouble for teaching his customers to "penetrate the bureaucracy" of the insurance company he was working for.
Restricted Rescue Operation is about actual rescue operations (i.e. a military/para-military group going behind enemy lines to rescue people) being restricted by outside forces. The example above is actually about supers who have to hide their identities and not engage in superheroics. That deletion is valid IMO.
The fourth link has a number of deletions revolving around a character named Snug. Snug's actual presence in the movie is a phone call with Helen, the rest never made it past storyboards if I'm recalling correctly, so troping him as a character seems a little extreme.
Edited by laserviking42 I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose meThe first and third edits are trimmings, which seem fine to me on first glance.
The second edit about Restricted Rescue Operation was deleted with an explanation, which I don't really argue with. Based off of their edit reason, I can see why the example didn't fit.
I'm pretty sure we don't count deleted scenes as being tropable, so on the surface, the final edit seems legitimate. Someone may want to double-check that just to be sure.
I agree with laserviking and Arctimon and think that rva's edits are perfectly valid.
I have to concede that THIS EDIT
is a bit poorly phrased. It says that "Helen is frustrated that he's trying to prove himself with some kind of a superhero workout" which makes it sound as if that's what he's doing, and not—as the movie makes clear—only what Helen thinks he's doing. Yeah, the next sentence makes it clear what the real situation is, but still. Clunky way of phrasing things.
The YMMV deletions have thorough edit reasons that seem reasonable to me. YMMV can be deleted if it’s a misuse of a trope or premature.
As for the edits you say are unnecessary, frankly, they seem to be editing out word cruft and fixing sentences. To me, that’s not an issue. Personally, I like when someone edits my writing to clean it.
ETA: You seem to be of the opinion that no entry that doesn’t obviously violate any rules should ever be touched by anyone who didn’t add the entry, but that isn’t how a wiki works and it’s not possessive to try to improve the way a page reads, add clarifying details, or reword things more concisely.
Things that don’t violate rules can still be improved.
Wikis are collaborative writing projects. Not everyone likes those. If you don’t like how it works, that fine.
Edited by EiryuYeah, exactly. Let me put it this way: If rva makes changes purely and only for the sake of making changes, but those changes aren't hurting the sentence quality, then they aren't a problem, regardless of whether they were absolutely necessary or not.
This is a wiki, and the entire point is that as long as you don't decrease the quality of a sentence, there are no limits to the changes you're allowed to make.

Troper rva98014 has made edits on two pages that unnecesarily trim down good examples and delete valid examples. Multiple people in the past have had a problem with this troper ruining their edits. I apologise if I am being picky. Here are the edits:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=WesternAnimation.TheIncredibles#edit30749840
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=WesternAnimation.TheIncredibles#edit30748625
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=WesternAnimation.TheIncredibles#edit30748587
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.TheIncredibles#edit30748527
Edited by perkeez