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Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576^ oh. I didn't notice that, I wasn't looking at dates. Guess they've left, then, but would anyone like to help me clean up after them. There's also the YMMV.The Seven Realms Series issue.
(I'm sorry for the long post, but when it's really bad, it's good to have context rather than a link to edit history that people are even less likely to look through.)
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!I wonder if there could be a list of Tropers who are certified "good" or whatever... And then the ones that are focused on are the newbies and stuff... ... Do we even have a list of every troper, to even start such a thing with?
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576^ you'd have to fly that by the moderators, I'm not sure if it would be taken well. We do have The Contributors, which lists all handles, I think.
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!

The troper Poe Dameron (edit histroy
) has serious issues with making links. They never, really never, use a namespace for works; often have trouble with braces or square brackets, sometimes using both (e.g. {[Wiki Word Wiki word}]); and also types trope names out as [[TropeName Trope Name]] for some reason; there's examples of not using wiki words (e.g. typing {{lostprophets}}. Also made the page Romantic Pseudo Fantasy, which is the genre of Paranormal Romance, but complaining about it. They add Word Cruft to descriptions, and some of their edits also show taking perfectly valid examples and then adding natter to them, often defying the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgement including controversy and bias (e.g. changing "known for his extremely violent subject matter" to "extremely violent subject matter, constant [[ClusterFBomb Cluster F Bombs]] and NWordPriveleges, rampant sexism and homophobia ". There's a few cases of spoilering out entire examples and improper example indentation (only a few, but it is every instance in which they try to add a sub-bullet). They appear to have done major unapproved overhaul on the Emo Music page — like major overhaul of description and the list of bands without so much as an edit comment, including sometimes making things less informative (i.e. changing "in a diverse range of genres, from electronica to folk." to "in, well, everything") and some very not-neutral even rude/critical parts like "When people who don't like emo despite minimal exposure to the genre say that it's all about teenage self-absorption, whining about one's parents/girlfriend/life, they're actually referring to emo-pop", and also made edits to Screamo Music and Emo that have a pro-Emo bias (the remarkable thing is that there are some examples on this page of fixing wiki words and namespaces, and some examples of the opposite, and sometimes both in the same edit). They added "* Aiden's entire discography is this to AFI's, but "I Set My Friends on Fire" and "The Despair Factor" deserves a special mention." to Music.Suspiciously Similar Song, which is very close to bashing the guy. The edits to the Ian McShane page removed a ton of info from the discussion, leaving it as little more than I remember this guy from these things, nobody needs to know any more than that, and added this flame-y not-example (that seems to be bashing fans) "* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Hates ''GameOfThrones'' and its fans. For some inexplicable reason, most of the fandom doesn't mind at all." (since corrected). Changed some examples
on YMMV.Batman V Superman Dawn Of Justice to criticize(?) Ben Affleck. Changed the Absolute Cleavage example on Jennifer Lawrence from "Her outfits at public events tend to lean toward this" to "Jen is famous for her big breasts", and made a point of talking about how "huge" they are on Suppressed Mammaries, on a related note they made improper edits to Serena that appeared dubious and were literally just to add the phrase "Troubled Production" three times, and then added a write-up of the film on TroubledProduction.Film M To Z that bashes it hard (I've removed all of this). They added Emo Pop to the description of Simple Plan (pretty sure they're a bit punk rock, mostly rock), and supported this with a rude "Many people who do not listen to much Emo Music often judge the entire genre because of Simple Plan" added to the band YMMV page, toeing the line between YMMV and flat out rudeness towards the band, but outright offensive to the "people who don't listen to much emo music" that they're writing about. Made a point of Saoirse Ronan "constantly trying to make a name for herself outside of Ireland, but is unsuccessful", which is bashing and factually false (has been edited). They inexplicably deleted a bunch of Bill Nighy's filmography, and also changed the "best known for" part of the description to be less informative on what he's best known for. Their edits to Toplessness from the Back, first is adding to a Jennifer Lawrence ZCE, but adding lecherous stuff without any context, and then this "* Scottish film ''Film/NotAnotherHappyEnding'' takes this a step further. We get a tracking shot of KarenGillan's lovely, bare booty as she runs down a hallway nude. ** The same sort of thing also occurs in the DirectToVideo film ''Some Kind of Beautiful'', where the camera follows SalmaHayek's bare booty as she runs outside and jumps into a pool." which is the worst kind of incorrect example indentation and sounds so wrong. They've made some minor and what looks like agenda-based pro-Hunger Games edits on John Carter. One edit that just from the text that was already there is most definitely opinion-based and an unnecessary addition is taking this "Finally, it should be noted that, as it clearly touches upon HIGHLY sensitive issues, this film has an ''intense'' LoveItOrHateIt vibe about it." and adding "depending on your theological views and tolerance for propaganda", which is possibly a well I hate it and you should too bias (the term "tolerance" and accusing it of being propaganda) and definitely really not needed (so much better without it, so I removed it). Made natter-y and bias edits to Crunk, which were removed shortly afterwards with the note that they were natter and not neutral
. Deleted a bunch of genres from Twenty One Pilots (famously have done a bit of everything) so that it reads as if they're solidly just slightly different styles of punk rock and definitely emo. Rewrote Jared Leto to be more about (and more pro-) Thirty Seconds to Mars than his acting. Changed Ryan Reynolds' most famous role from Van Wilder to Deadpool, which might be OK, if they'd done the rest of the work and changed the rest of the paragraph to not go into describing VW (accidentally attributing it all to Deadpool) and mentioning Deadpool later, it was a simple word replacement (since changed back, has been rephrased several times to be more accurate). Made edits to Michelle Gomez that made it seem like she hadn't done anything but Doctor Who (since tidied). There's also abundant Zero Context Example adding.
I'd send message notifiers, but only a few of their edits don't send up red flags looking through them, so it seems like too much of a habit. Some of their edits are innocuous, but most are clearly breaking many rules of the wiki — doesn't seem like a vandal, just someone who doesn't know how to use the wiki, what the keeping it cool and clean rules are, or what's actually useful/good (see their rewriting, adding, and removing that actively makes examples and descriptions worse).
Unrelated to it, their edit history also showed up that there's a YMMV.The Seven Realms Series page with only one example on it — a Complete Monster instance that doesn't appear was approved through the thread.
in short: Poe Dameron is not keeping it cool or clean, can't format, and frequently changes things to the point of making their pages worse, and overhauled Emo Music without notice or even edit notes. There's also a Complete Monster example at YMMV.The Seven Realms Series that doesn't appear to be approved.
Edited by lakingsif