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Yes. Claiming to have jurisdiction over all pages related to a work on this site just because you're the creator or a team member is an extremely blatant violation of this policy.
"If you spent as much time fightin' as ye did hidin', maybe this wouldn't have happened!"
Thanks for informing me. I didn't want to act without making sure first just in case.
Also, as a rule of thumb in the future, any edits to moments or YMMV subpages made by someone with ties to the work in question (team member, creator, etc.) should be nixed immediately as a violation of the policy.
"If you spent as much time fightin' as ye did hidin', maybe this wouldn't have happened!"
Eeyup.
We've had this discussion with content creators that have accounts here after they've pulled this shit of trying lord over their work pages before and two rules apply:
1)The Fic May Be Yours, but the Trope Page Is Ours dictates that being the creator doesn't give you any kind of authority over your works work page.
2)Creators are FORBIDDEN from adding or removing YMMV tropes on their own works pages. You can only add or edit objective tropes based on published material on your own work pages.
Edited by shoboni
Given the size of the re-deletion in the edit history, I took the liberty of adding a null edit worth a reason explaining that it was per policies against creators troping their own works.
That way it's right at top and there's no excuse for not seeing it if they swing by anytime soon.
Edited by sgamer82
^^^ I was under the impression that the rule only applied to the actual creator of the work.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
^ The rule applies to anyone who has any personal connection to the work. They're called Audience Reactions, so you have to be part of the audience to be able to fairly judge whether something applies or not.
Edited by Zuxtron
What is considered a "personal connection" to a work? Do I have a personal connection to my friend's work?
Contributing to the process; beta reading, playing an extra, helping to record, providing criticism, etc...
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Writing to report that this team member has a large history of edits in the YMMV tab dating back to '11, if not even further back.
"If you spent as much time fightin' as ye did hidin', maybe this wouldn't have happened!"
Its hard to say, it looks like The Scrappy and Rescued from the Scrappy Heap in this YMMV page only applies to how the annotator team reacts to the characters.
In December, YMMV.The Annotated Series had its examples on The Scrappy and Rescued from the Scrappy Heap removed for various reasons as part of The Scrappy Cleanup
. The month after, troper Hurp Durp Man Guy, a part of the Annotated Series team, added the examples again with the reasoning being "As part of the Annotation Series, we run this page." Am I correct to believe this violates The Fic May Be Yours, but the Trope Page Is Ours?
Edited by BrashBuster