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openQuotes from a Troper Page
So, I'm not sure what to do here, but I just found Quotes.They Call Me Tomu, which is connected to Tropers.They Call Me Tomu. This appears to be a quotes page for a Troper. I assume this is a relic of the past, right? Cause disregarding what's on it (as offensive as some of it may be, it's pretty safe to say it's meant to be ironic), if I understand correctly the only pages a Troper is allowed to have a Tropers/, Sandbox/, and Troper Wall/. What to do here??
Edited by STARCRUSHER99openSystem Troper Wall
Apparently Silver Crown created TroperWall.System (a troper wall for the mod system that reverts pages) back in December 2021 with themselves as the sole contributor.
While amusing, is this allowed, or no?
Edited by themayorofsimpletonopenTroperWall/Request
Should TroperWall.Request be cut (the irony), or we're fine keeping it for fun? request isn't an actual troper, it's just a notification system of the Cut List.
open [Resolved] Cutting banned troper's page?
UFOYeah has added Sandbox.A Random Page and TroperWall.A Random Page to the Cut List. As I've been told
, we do that with ban evaders and not bounced users, and I don't recall how we actually handle it.
openClicking CreateNew on Your Troper Wall
Doing this because I don't want to do a stupid and make something weird, but what exactly happens if I click Create New while on my Troper Wall page? Do I just add to my Troper Wall the same way you do a Works page, or do I make a works page that way?
I've debated doing it to add subpages to the Troper Wall because I wanted to trope my fanfiction without giving it a works page (because it's way too green and in-dev to even have one, and I want full control of it because I use it as a writing resource to keep ideas and plots together) but if it makes a work page, I don't want to do it and find out and then have to go through the process of deleting something done via dumb idea.
openTroper wall?
I have noticed that Ultimatum has a "Troper wall" page, Ultimatum, where people posts vandalisms. I had not seen any such pages elsewhere, and there is no index. Is this a valid page?
openTropers only get Sandbox, Tropers and TroperWall, right?
Tropers only get Sandbox, Tropers and Troper Wall, right?
Fdiaperhead has Characters.Fdiaperhead and Quotes.Fdiaperhead...
What to do, since he hasn't edited in 9 months
?
openWhat subpages are Tropers/ allowed to have?
As far as I know, Tropers are only allowed to have Tropers/, Troper Wall/, and Sandbox/ pages. Is this still the case?
I've just been seeing a lot more tropers with, say, Quotes/ or Characters/ sub-pages and want to make sure what's allowed now.
openAdvanced-level bullets working now?
I'm not sure if this should be a bug report or what, but as seen on my Troper Wall under the comment from yellowturtle, apparently you can do at least six levels of bullets now? I haven't tried to go any further than 6.
Interestingly, although they were entered with 3 and then 4 and then 5 and then 6 asterisks, when you view the page source or edit screen, you only see three asterisks on the deeper-level bullets. Despite that, they display as fourth- and fifth- and sixth-level bullets.
Is this a bug or a new feature? I seem to remember fourth-and-deeper-level bullets didn't used to display properly, they would simply display as third-level bullets.
openNo Title
Reporting some vandalism. While running through the No Page Type List to set up Podcast.The Thrilling Adventure Hour as a work, I came across TroperWall.Yasmin Perry, whose only edit is by Stolen_Moment
which reads, and I quote:
Vandalism ahoy.
ur a big butt
There's also similar edits in TroperWall.Br Ah Ia N 1. Though now I'm wondering if I'm missing something here, since I've never seen teh Troper Wall namespace before.
Edited by sgamer82

Back in January, there was an ATT thread that moved to delete the list of films on Literature.One Thousand And One Movies You Must See Before You Die for potential copyright infringement, with Tabs actually deleting the list (courtesy link to page history
). jamespolk made a null edit protesting the decision in the edit reason and arguing that it constituted fair use, but only went as far as expressing a hope that the list might be restored some day (and copy/pasting the list to their Troper Wall/ page).
Well, last week, editor TompaDompa
(whose troper page identifies them as the original creator of the page)note decided to restore the list with the edit reason "Agree with the previous editor. Should be no more of a problem than listing the Academy Award winners and nominees, which we also do (though the show itself is obviously copyrighted)." As near as I can tell, this was not discussed anywhere (the Discussion page is empty, and I can't find anything in either ATT or the forums).
Should the list be re-deleted? And if so, is there a suitable notifier to send TompaDompa?