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laserviking42 Since: Oct, 2015
2nd May, 2021 05:31:17 AM

Regardless of the accuracy of the tropes in question, completely spoilered out examples are a big no-no.

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Arctimon Since: Nov, 2009
2nd May, 2021 08:19:08 AM

Silicon hasn't edited since last year, and they are the author of that page, as stated on their troper page.

That being said, the page is riddled with ZC Es and just generally bad writing. I'm tempted to parse it down just to see how much will be left when all the clean up ends.

EDIT: The link doesn't work for me either, and upon further inspection, that link goes to a website where the book is available for purchase, so as of right now there is nothing that can verify any of the tropes on the page. Should the page not be cut, then?

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Walkinshadows Since: Jun, 2012
2nd May, 2021 08:36:41 AM

I think this is the correct link, but I actually don't really want to go through 100+ tropes to see if they're all correct and add context to them.

Arctimon Since: Nov, 2009
2nd May, 2021 08:53:36 AM

They also made this page, which is just a caption and a very blurry picture. I'm going to go cutlist that.

The status of the page aside, this person's edits have a lot of grammar issues. I'll send them a notifier in a bit just to say we did it. Probably won't respond since they haven't been active in a year, but who knows?

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Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2nd May, 2021 11:04:10 AM

Putting tropes not actually found within the work is forbidden. So:

  1. Putting tropes that haven't happened yet is forbidden
  2. Putting tropes that can only be confirmed by the author is forbidden

Unless anyone's willing to hand-correct the all-white entries, I suggest the strip spoilers tool.

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Serac Since: Mar, 2016
2nd May, 2021 11:47:12 AM

I removed all of the spoilered out unreleased tropes and gave the usual treatment to the zero-context examples.

Arctimon Since: Nov, 2009
2nd May, 2021 02:09:18 PM

The problem is that the author was invoking Word of God for some of the entries...even though Word of God doesn't appear on the page at all, so I have no idea how they're invoking it.

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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2nd May, 2021 02:18:47 PM

If they're the author, I assume they think that just saying it themselves counts as Word of God.

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Arctimon Since: Nov, 2009
2nd May, 2021 02:36:03 PM

Well, I've sent them a PM. As I said before, they haven't edited since June, so who knows if they'll respond?

I also removed the link in the description since it's dead.

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