TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Ask The Tropers

Go To

Have a question about how the TVTropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help. It's not for everything, though. For a list of all the resources for your questions, click here. You can also go to this Directory thread for ongoing cleanup projects.

Ask the Tropers:

Trope Related Question:

Make Private (For security bugs or stuff only for moderators)

bowserbros Since: May, 2014
2023-02-25 20:59:01

It already is an edit war on eulenvulen's part, as they're the one who both added the quote and re-added it after it was removed.


For reference, here is the edit where they added it, here is the edit where it was reverted, and here is the one where they re-added it.
Another thing to note is their edit history, which consists of one edit on Adorkable.Anime And Manga from last December followed by serial tweaking of Franchise.Super Mario Bros on Tuesday and today. IIRC serial tweaking isn't against the rules in and of itself, but this edit history combined with the edit war raises suspicions.

Edited by bowserbros Be kind.
harryhenry Since: Jan, 2012
2023-02-25 21:00:04

Checking the edit history they also tried changing the image caption to the Super Show theme, though they changed that back as well.

Excessive-Menace (Fifth Year at Tropey's)
2023-02-25 21:10:29

I prefer the original quotes as well. The new one just reeks of "hype fueled editing" to me.

SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMY
homogenized Since: Oct, 2009
2023-02-25 21:10:38

^^^ Could be they're just really hyped about the movie and said hype compelled them dust off the account they made. If so then they're letting their hype cloud their judgment leading them to make a mess, but it's not necessarily malicious.

Edited by homogenized
bowserbros Since: May, 2014
2023-02-25 21:37:46

^Fair point. In that case, the edit warring and serial tweaking are the only issues at hand.

Be kind.
MasterHero Since: Aug, 2014
2023-02-26 10:34:58

Can't we just add the old quotes back. They're informative enough on their own and aren't necessarily hype-fueled.

AegisP Since: Oct, 2014
2023-02-26 10:51:53

I vote to reverse the edits as well! The old quotes were better!

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
MyFinalEdits (Spin-off Series)
2023-02-26 11:03:50

I support a revert as well. Quote changes are handled and discussed in the Page Quote discussion thread in the forums, and I don't think the trope consulted about this page there.

135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311
Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2023-02-26 11:39:53

Suspended eulenvulen for edit warring

MasterHero Since: Aug, 2014
2023-02-26 11:52:33

Already reverted the changes.

Just you know, I want to believe that eulenvulen didn't change the quotes out of malice, but at the end of the day, hype is a dangerous beast.

I already know how this thing goes: editor changes an old quote, visitors like the change, interest in the page grows. Later, the allure of the change wears off and peope want the old quote back and wonder what was the point of changing it.

This might be the nostalgia in me talking, but I don't see the point something that was working just fine.

Top