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Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2014-06-19 07:27:29

Anything in Darth Wiki does not go in YMMV pages or main articles. Anything with the Flame Bait banner also doesn't go in YMMV or main articles.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2014-06-19 07:28:48

So what about items on the F Lame Bait Index but without the Flame Bait banner? Those are the ones I'm confused about.

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2014-06-19 08:05:48

The Flame Bait banner needs to be added manually. One could ask to turn Flame Bait into an auto-banner like Trivia but before that we need to settle the question whether Flame Bait is better at Main.Flame Bait or Administrivia.Flame Bait.

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Someoneman Since: Nov, 2011
2014-06-19 08:14:49

I'd like clarification on Narm. Main.Narm has the YMMV banner at the top of the page, but the subpages have the Flame Bait banner. Does Narm qualify as YMMV or Flame Bait?

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2014-06-19 09:44:38

Previous discussion.

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Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2014-06-19 10:04:22

Ah, I forgot about that. The vote was to return Narm to YMMV instead of Darth Wiki.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2014-06-20 13:57:01

Alright, so Narm can go on YMMV, but the rest of them can't, correct?

How do we add the Flame Bait banner to Character Derailment?

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2014-06-20 14:12:50

The Flame Bait banner is scared of going to that page.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2014-06-20 15:56:48

Incidentally, I notice iansimsjam added a few items to the Character Derailment... seemingly at random (seriously, Anti-Climax Boss? Heel–Face Turn?!?)

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captainpat Since: Sep, 2010
2014-06-20 16:13:59

Does this mean we shouldn't list things like Hate Dumb and Fan Dumb on ymmv pages?

Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2014-06-20 17:17:01

Reverted and PM'ed the troper who added all those things to Character Derailment. Yes, you should not list Hate Dumb and Fan Dumb on YMMV pages.

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Elbruno Since: Nov, 2011
2014-06-22 18:42:30

Both pages still don't show the Flame Bait banner. Another troper just reverted a delete I made in YMMV.Splatoon because of this.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2014-06-22 20:50:26

Should we... remove Narm from the Flame Bait index then, if it is allowed on YMMV pages?

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2014-06-23 00:35:05

Personally, this is what I would do (all steps are separate from each other and we can do only some of them):

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Ngamer01 Since: Oct, 2010
2014-06-23 09:13:47

Well if Hate/Fan Dumb are Flame Bait now, there's going to be a need to purge about 3,000 wicks from the various YMMV articles and any other necessary page that have them even as potholes.

mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
2014-06-23 12:25:15

Wouldn't be the first time thousands of wicks have had to be scrubbed from the wiki. They tend to be multi-person jobs, but they've been done before.

tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
2014-06-23 13:13:22

I still remember the 300 or so we had to remove from Dying Like Animals <shudder>

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2014-06-23 15:07:34

Why did Hate Dumb and Fan Dumb even come up? I'm a bit surprised by this turn of events. They're not Darth Wiki, they're not on the Flame Bait index, they don't have the Flame Bait banner... I don't even know how they came up at all, let alone how it's decided that they don't belong on YMMV pages at all.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011
2014-06-23 16:11:01

captainpat seemed to have taken this topic and used it for his own initiative.

MagBas Since: Jun, 2009
2014-06-24 05:51:46

It is only a guess, but i guess that this is related with both the pages being without examples.

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
2014-06-24 12:46:12

Hate Dumb is not Flame Bait, but Hatedom is. That might be the cause of the confusion. Treat it the same as other YMMV items; don't delete entries just because you don't agree with them, but if someone adds something unnecessarily combative, you can edit it to be more neutral.

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