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Yindee Since: Jul, 2016
2023-04-20 07:37:41

They'd done it to another page I encountered yesterday, but for the life of me I can't recall what it was. Will update if I find it.

Edit: VideoGame.Sonic The Hedgehog, but honestly I think it's fine. It had been a redirect to Franchise/ since 2013.

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Reymma Since: Feb, 2015
2023-04-20 09:20:40

It's actually not a bad change, I've seen this pothole being used for most of those things. But it should have been discussed.

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Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2023-04-20 10:23:54

No objections to the redirect becoming a disambig. You could send a "unilateral" notifier and attach a note that a thread exists for discussing changing redirects, or (since that thread doesn't get much traffic) just ATT works, too.

TheTropper (Unitroper)
2023-04-20 10:26:55

Looking through prettycoolguy's history they also changed VideoGame.Luigis Mansion Series to be VideoGame.Luigis Mansion while also changing the first into VideoGame.Luigis Mansion 1 and I couldn't find any discussion about changing this.

EDIT: Wrong page.

Edited by TheTropper Your receipt. You can keep the freakin' change.
prettycoolguy Since: Nov, 2010
2023-04-20 16:51:27

My apologies, I think the creation of green links made me trigger happy about making some changes I saw fit. I have done it in the past for misused redirects such as Society Marches On and Accidentally Accurate without discussing anyone else as well. It's my mistake for being so gung-ho about it without any discussion when there should be some. I promise for major former trope redirects like that in the future, I'll go ahead and consult either that thread or ATT. Once again, I apologize for the fuss.

Btw is the same true for media redirects and the like? For VideoGame.Luigis Mansion it was just a change to make it congruent with how most other game series are like on the site.

bwburke94 (Y2: Electric Boogaloo)
2023-04-20 17:58:06

^ For Luigi's Mansion, you changed the disambiguation which already existed, which means you should have taken it to the forum.

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TheTropper (Unitroper)
2023-04-20 23:40:43

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png And also, by changing the disambiguation, with changing the first title to Luigi's Mansion 1, most of the pages here are referring to the first game, not the whole series in general.

Edited by TheTropper Your receipt. You can keep the freakin' change.
prettycoolguy Since: Nov, 2010
2023-04-21 02:12:19

Understood, I apologize again. I am currently slowly changing wicks on that page if it’s any consolation.

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