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Why is the Dr. Who page edit locked? It's not on the list, so I've got nothing. (I was going to add an example of a just-launched trope)
resolved No Title Live Action TV
Obvious question. Why is Doctor Who Audio Visuals in the Series/ namespace?
It should go in either Fanfic/ (if audio works are allowed in Fanfic/) or AudioPlay/ (if audio works are not allowed in Fanfic/) because the work is entirely audio-based.
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Apologies in advance if this isn't the right place to bring this up.
Main.The Odd Couple redirects to Theatre.The Odd Couple, which discusses the 1965 play and its 1981 Gender Flip version, along with the 1970 series and 1982's The New Odd Couple. The 2015 series is at Series.The Odd Couple.
By my understanding, Main.The Odd Couple should be a disambig page, the 1970 show should be Series.The Odd Couple 1970 and the new show Series.The Odd Couple 2015. The 1982 version could probably be thrown into the 1970 one, since it was almost all Recycled Scripts from the 70s show.
This post has been edited; originality we misidentified the year of the original play.
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Live Action TV
YMMV.Relic Hunter lists the protagonist, Sydney, as an example of a Mary Sue. There seems to be a consensus on the wiki that the protagonist can't be a Mary Sue, but I can't find anything explicitly forbidding this on the trope page. Should the example stay (somebody obviously does have the opinion that Sydney is a Mary Sue, protagonist or not) or should it be removed as Not An Example?
Edited: The same YMMV page also has a ZCE for Critical Research Failure. Is removing ZCEs from YMMV pages allowed?
Edited by GnomeTitanopenNo Title Live Action TV
Looking on the Edit history
, I noticed a comment regarding the misuse of a trope:
"Anyone who seriously thinks there's a such thing as a non-comedic running gag should be banned."
Any thoughts on this? Uncalled for? Hits the nail on the head?
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Not entirely sure what to do here
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Someone deleted a Narm entry because they disagreed with it. I restored it and said not to, and they then stripped out almost all of the context from the example. I don't think it's edit warring because his edits were very different, but I'm not sure what to do here. Especially since the example is from a very controversial episode. I understand Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment but that doesn't seem the best way to go about it.
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Wondering if this really counts as an example...
In The Andy Griffith Show, Warren Ferguson served as Andy's deputy for most of the 6th season before disappearing with absolutely no in-character explanation. (Out of character, it was because the character was unpopular and seen as a Replacement Scrappy to Barney Fife.)
The thing is, the character wasn't entirely written out. There are still occasional comments from other characters suggesting that Warren is still around and still an active deputy, he's just never seen again on camera.
So what I'm wondering is, is he really an example of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome? Or does that require a character to be written out 100%?
Edited by wrm5openNo Title Live Action TV
Edit War spotted on the tear jerker page of Game Of Thrones between snake300 and Troll Brutal (with snake300 having changed almost all the quotations at the top of the page those last 2 days, with one editing reason which could be summed up as "Screw this character, that other one that I prefer is better").
Edited by NonoRobotopenNo Title Live Action TV
Question for people who were in the Star Trek fandom back in the 80s. Was there a Fan Nickname for Chief O'Brien before he got named?
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Okay what should we keep for YMMV.The Addams Family > Series > Fanon Discontinuity. The first example or the sub-bullet below? I;m asking because I'm not certain of that sub-bullet is Natter or not and because both seems a little complainy IMO
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So given the number of Netflix original series and the like... what separates Live-Action TV from a Web Video?
Just seems odd to me that these series get listed as Live-Action TV even though they never come onto the TV itself. From the Web Video page: please note that, to fall under Web Video, a work must have first been posted or be available primarily on the Internet. A television program that's rebroadcast on the network's website or You Tube should still be listed under Live-Action TV and use the Series namespace. By that criteria, Netflix original series should go under Web Video (Netflix, after all).
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Ranwulf has been repeatedly editing out Big-Lipped Alligator Moment and in Rescued from the Scrappy Heap here
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I made a post in discussion but they never responded. Also they never gave any reason for deleting BLAM (though I do admit I don't get how the first subbullet qualifies for BLAM, none of his edit reasons have anything to do with it).
Not to mention the RFTSH entry is really poorly written.
Edited by LarkmarnopenNo Title Live Action TV
User grendalhopper appears to be responsible for the numerous grammatical errors on the Sense8 character page. I assume the correct course of action would be to message them about this, but is there an existing protocol for informing someone that...
- one shouldn't put possessive apostrophes in plurals (e.g. sensates, not sensate's)
- one shouldn't just stick a comma wherever one feels inclined to pause for mental breath
- "it's" needs an apostrophe when it's a contraction
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All right, I'm incredibly annoyed now. Someone keeps going around in the Live Action TV sections of various pages and changing (for example) entries like these:
- An episode of the mid-2000's Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place...
into these:
- Wizards of Waverly Place: An episode of this mid-2000's Disney Channel sitcom...
I understand the need to alphabetize, but this is just lazy. Who keeps doing this?
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Peridonyx uncommented a ZCE on the Charaters.Criminal Minds page. I sent a an editing issue message to them about it a few days ago. Today, they uncommented a whole bunch more ZC Es.
Edited by TerrieopenNo Title Live Action TV
Requesting reversion of Das Nordlicht 91's edit on Headscratchers.Agents Of SHIELD. It's just the one edit, but it's a big one. He did some weird things to the page—it looks normal on the surface, but paragraphs got shuffled around, with answers moved into folders asking questions that have nothing to go with them, and so on. The history's such a mess, I can't tell what actually happened, and he hasn't responded to my PM. I'm assuming it was a mistake, just copy-pasted something strangely, but he didn't leave an edit reason, so I can't say for sure.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Is it really Put on a Bus when a character's arc is by all appearances over? They've gone through the plot, they survived and they leave. I always thought Put on a Bus was more for the cases where the character would still have business in the narrative, but is written out for whatever reason.
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Now, I didn't click the link, but the phrase "Just donate" makes me pretty positive it's at best spam, if not outright malware.
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Regarding reality TV shows, are we allowed to trope entries that are not explicitly shown on the screen itself, but news from other sources?

Series.Keeping Up With The Kardashians, someone went ahead and changed pretty much every mention of Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn.
The thing is... he was never Caitlyn on the show. The show didn't touch upon her transition until the very end of the most recent season, and ended before he announced his name, etc.
And even if the show did include Caitlyn, changing mentions of Bruce in the past (specifically mentions of Olympic medals) seems... odd. I mean, if a fictional character changes their name in a work, we wouldn't retroactively change all mention of them to their new name, especially when discussing events that occurred while they had their original name.
Honestly not sure what to do, so I bring it up here.
Edited by Larkmarn