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TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupBest to send them a notifier about this.
Also, they didn't add that text to the disambig, it was JonT.
Your receipt. You can keep the freakin' change.While that disambiguation page edit was actually made by someone else and not them, and they haven't posted on the forums since the 6th, the fact that they've taken this wonk to TLP after a mod put a watch on their file on the 6th, combined with the fact that they've made related edits on Creator/ pages after there was discussion about making the trope NRLEP, makes this suspicious, so I'm calling them in.
Edit: Ninja'd regarding the disambiguation page edit since it was posted while I was looking at their edit history, but the rest of this post still stands.
Edited by GastonRabbit I got a rock for Halloween.Yeah, I totally misread the history of that page so that's my bad but anyway, thanks Gaston.
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Paddywack seems to have a Single-Issue Wonk over the former trope Does Not Like Shoes. Now, I understand that the TRS effort was controversial, but they seem preoccupied with conserving examples and info we don't want or need on the wiki.
I was a little concerned when they showed up to the RL thread
contesting the fact that Prefers Going Barefoot was made NRLEP just days before, but with no substantial arguments about the trope decay issue. Looking deeper into their edits, they've still gone an added the trope to several creator pages, and while it hadn't been NRLEP at the time it does edge on real-life troping, the sort we don't want on creators pages.
Then I saw they added this
hunk of text to the disambig page with no good reason, which was later deleted by MacronNotes. It's not bad in isolation, but with the rest of the context in mind it comes off as a frankly bizarre fixation on these tropes and their usage.Edit: IGNORE, I was very wrong about this one.Finally, they made this
TLP page which, once again, is using the real life examples to the degree that the draft is almost nothing but. It includes a massive "example" that is just a list of creators who have "regularly or semi-regularly performed barefoot", which seems excessively broad and vague.
I'm not sure if this is all actually as concerning as I think it is, but it's becoming something of a wonk and they sincerely don't seem to be listening to the issues with the trope's definition or usage. None of the info seems to be fetish-based, though, so I want to dispel any notion that I'm accusing them of such activities. I just think they're overly fixated on these tropes and examples, to a degree that's beginning to worry me.
Edited by WarJay77