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mightymewtron Since: Oct, 2012
2024-01-08 18:28:15

I've asked this question from a fanfic guest author's perspective in the past, and I believe the answer is "your pre-Promoted Fangirl examples can stay, just don't add any more YMMV/Trivia examples that apply to anything you've worked on."

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
carduinal-cyn (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-01-08 19:02:53

My old entries might be fine, but am I correct in assuming that a new edit, even if it's from the old devs, wouldn't be allowed?

Like, say I wanted to add a character page for Alice and Bob, who the old developers created and I have done nothing with during my stint as writer. Is that OK, even though that sort of edit isn't on YMMV or Trivia?

Not saying I want to do this or anything. Promise.

"I would never consider YOU a waste of personnel." — Kawarino
Arctimon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2024-01-08 19:16:53

Anything that's YMMV you shouldn't touch from this point going forward. If you're just adding things on Character/ pages, I don't think there'd be a problem with that.

carduinal-cyn (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-01-08 20:06:06

Yeah, I don't really want to touch YMMV. Somebody else on Community Dev wanted me to add tropes for the new story content we've added, but to me that feels a bit... Wrong. It's my stuff, mostly, so if I said something like, "oh, Character X is a Hate Sink", that would sort of be like Word of God, and that would be messy.

So, as long as I stick to non-YMMV tropes and it's from the original developers' work, I should be OK?

"I would never consider YOU a waste of personnel." — Kawarino
Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2024-01-08 20:28:17

If it's not your work, you can trope it normally (including YMMV and Trivia).

If it is your work:

  • You can trope non-YMMV normally.
  • You may not add YMMV, but you can fix factual errors and bring up errors/misuse for discussion.

Trivia must be based on publicly accessible information.

For more detail on the policy, see:

carduinal-cyn (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-01-08 21:20:08

It's sort of a weird grey area.

I didn't create the game, I just volunteered to write the story once the original developers stopped caring about doing it themselves.

So the story plot from a certain point on (late July 2023 to about November-ish) is mine, and some of the cards' Flavor Text is too, but the rest of the game is emphatically not my own work, and I am not claiming it as such.

Should I use the "not your work" guidelines for parts I didn't create, and then use the "your work" guidelines for parts that I did?

"I would never consider YOU a waste of personnel." — Kawarino
Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
carduinal-cyn (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-01-09 08:30:30

Thanks so much! I'll start working on updates to that page, then.

"I would never consider YOU a waste of personnel." — Kawarino
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