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StarSword Since: Sep, 2011
2013-06-17 09:23:02

Dozerfleet Comics brings up a few hits on Google but they seem to all be for the same guy as the Stationery Voyagers thing. We're not the only place he's entry-pimped; he's actually gone so far as to create two blogs and a wikia.

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Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2013-06-17 12:00:16

So he's got manuals but not the actual work?

If I remember correctly, if there isn't an extant work, it goes under Unfinished and doesn't get trope page entries. Am I correct, partly correct, or flat out wrong? :p

Edited by Candi Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
RoseAndHeather (Edited uphill both ways)
2013-06-17 13:21:49

Correct about unfinished works! Whether or not it is one, I can't say.

I serve at the pleasure of President Pritchart.
Terrie Since: Apr, 2011
2013-06-17 14:22:04

A couple of his works seem to actually exist, and he seems to trying to meld them into one big universe, though it's not clear (possibly even to him) if the projects are comics, or books, of tv shows, etc. However, even with the existing works, he seems to have shoved in tropes and entries for parts that are planned, but not yet created. I say delete it, since 1) there's a ton of (mostly political) natter that doesn't belong here, and 2) it doesn't seem to be a work that exists yet.

Also, looks like he's got another unpublished work up at LWWRitzed that needs to be moved to the Darth Wiki.

Edited by Terrie
nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010
2013-06-17 22:36:21

Given past discussions (and attempts to find any evidence that these things exist), I'm not sure why this even needed to be asked. Delete the sucker.

Lightflame Since: Jan, 2010
2013-06-18 06:04:49

Why is the guy not banned? He's been adding all sorts of homophobic content and putting things that don't exist yet in namespaces for official things. I got edit banned once for putting an imaginary work in a namespace for a real work.

"Oh great! Let's pile up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them!"
Terrie Since: Apr, 2011
2013-06-18 06:09:30

He has been banned. It's just that before he was banned, he pretty much inundated the wiki with entry pimping.

Hodor Since: Dec, 1969
2013-06-18 07:46:46

@Nrjxll- Good point. Not sure why I didn't just delete it. I suppose I wanted to ask just to be safe and also partly wondered whether I should bother moving it to an Unpublished Works page.

Edited by Hodor Edit, edit, edit, edit the wiki
Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2013-06-18 08:20:40

... so that we could see the stuff again and laugh at how abysmal it is?

Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.
Discar Since: Jun, 2009
2013-06-18 10:03:59

For some reason I feel like Ciem Webcomic Series is one of those nonexistent works of his. Is that right, or am I remembering something completely different?

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
MattStriker Since: Jun, 2012
2013-06-18 10:17:43

That one actually seems to sort-of partially exist: http://modthesims.info/article.php?t=337623

No, I'm not going to dig through that to find out how MUCH of it exists :P.

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2013-06-18 10:19:23

Yeah, pretty sure that's the only reason it wasn't cut with the rest.

EDIT: Good lord, I forgot how sad this was. Are we certain this isn't brilliant performance art?

Edited by Larkmarn Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.
Terrie Since: Apr, 2011
2013-06-18 14:03:39

Only if he's trying to top Joaquin Phoenix's attempt in I'm Still Here. I mean, I ran across an entry on Urban Dictionary from this guy. It's a little insane, honestly.

chizz Since: Nov, 2010
2013-06-19 19:41:05

Regarding the Ciem webcomic, from what I could find out it seems that even though his wiki has entries for both Ciem 2 and Ciem 3, only the first one actually exists. At some point the sequels were apparently going to be included in something called Classic Gerosha (which I'm not entirely sure exists either), but then it was called off too. It's all rather confusing mess so all this is just slightly educated guessing.

I better burn its face so I'll look normal.
Terrie Since: Apr, 2011
2013-06-20 07:43:06

His work is such a mashup of things that actually exist and things in perpetual planning that there's not much way to tell which is which. He has quotes up on this wiki for works that he never wrote, only outlined! But unless the mods give us permission to cutlist all that junk, or go on a deleting spree of the portions that can not be verified to actually exist, I don't think we have any choice but to leave it.

He also has a huge list of characters on Captain Ersatz, most of which I know from removing his entry-pimping elsewhere on the wiki, are not even actual examples of the trope. I'm inclined to delete the whole entry, because based on his very long history of shoehorning in of examples, I suspect that none of them are correct. But I want to check and seem if anyone thinks they should be kept. E.g. he claims that his Grey Champion (described above) is an Ersatz of Captain America.

Edited by Terrie
nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010
2013-06-20 12:45:47

Again, this should not even be slightly confusing. The vast majority of his stuff does not appear to exist, and there's so many problems with it anyway, that there is no reason I can conceive of to not delete any examples you find outside of the Darth Wiki.

Edited by nrjxll
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