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openNo Title Literature
Trivia is allowed on a work's main page if it's In-Universe. Does the opposite apply? I.e., a trope going on the Trivia tab if it's out of universe?
Specifically, from Earth's Children this is listed as a trope:
- Moral Guardians: Due to its unabashed sexuality, including Ayla being raped by Broud, the book has been frequently banned.
openNo Title Literature
While obviously not necessary, is it appropriate to list the titles of individual novels of a novel series in that series's work page, hidden under a folder? This assumes the individual novels does not currently warrant separate work pages.
openNo Title Literature
I was surprised at how few tropes the Maze Runner series had, until I tried to add one myself and found out many more of them are there, just hidden, with this message at the top of the individual edit pages:
"Zero Context Example entries are NOT allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them."
What's the point of this? I've never seen it on any other pages I read or edited. Some of the "commented out" tropes DO have examples, and even if they don't, sometimes it's not even necessary because you can tell that someone is an Action Girl without listing every single Action Girly thing she's ever done. Can this be removed?
Edited by TheMoonopenNo Title Literature
Paul A added a line some time ago to Vernor Vinge about Zones of Thought being a "series, which has three books so far".
I changed it to "trilogy" with the edit reason "...a three-book 'series' is a Trilogy," because, well, there are three books, and I'm not aware of any hard plans for a fourth book. There is a short story that takes place in the same universe and shares at least one character, but there are only three novels.
I went into the page to make an unrelated edit and noticed that PaulA had reverted my edit with the edit reason "The Zones of Thought series is not a trilogy, it's a series that doesn't have a fourth book *yet*."
Just looking for an outside opinion on the matter. I consulted the page for Trilogy and it didn't really tell me anything I don't already know.
Edited by SolipSchismopenNo Title Literature
I'm a little confused as to what constitutes The 'Verse. Is it simply multiple works that share a universe? If an author writes 30 books and they are all in the same fictional universe, is it The 'Verse?
open LunaRaven Literature
Lunar Raven
has just today uncommented a bunch of Zero Context Examples on the ymmv
and character pages
for Divergent and the character page
for The Maze Runner, as well as moving the spoilers so that they are covering the name of the tropes listed.
openyoucanthandlethishandle Literature
youcanthandlethishandle
is deleted numerous examples on the character page
for The Mortal Instruments without providing a valid edit reason, having attempted the same thing on the main page
– including deleting Zero Context Examples rather than expanding them, as well as deleting a headscratcher
.
openCreating a Page Literature
I'm new here to TV tropes and I'm wondering if I could make a page about one of my stories. I know I can't do the YMMV but I still want to see if I can make the page.
open Reversion request for creator page Literature
Creator.Robert A Heinlein had many of its intentional red links for stories currently without pages removed, and quotation marks around short story titles replaced by italics, in an edit on March 5th.
I've sent a PM to the editor in question to point out the issues, but I would like to ask for a reversal to the previous version of the page, given the extent of the changes made.
Edited by NohbodyopenTitles of Star Wars books Literature
Most articles for Star Wars literature only use the book's title without appending the Star Wars supertitle, but some with shorter titles do, such as Star Wars: Tarkin and Star Wars: Aftermath. I can see how Aftermath would be ambiguous without the supertitle, but Tarkin seems unlikely to be confused for anything else. Shatterpoint is an example of a short title that doesn't use the supertitle.
Point is, I'm planning to make a page for Star Wars: Kenobi. Should I use the full title or just Kenobi? Of note, Literature.Kenobi has three red wicks already but Literature.Star Wars Kenobi has none. Of course, whichever title I don't use can be a redirect.
Edited by HeraldAlberichopen Does anyone know who wrote the short story "The Dumpster"? Literature
It's mentioned in Downer Ending/Literature and Be Careful What You Wish For tropes. After reading the synopses, I really want to read the story, but whoever added it to the pages didn't include any details such as author or character names and a Google search turned up nothing.
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place, but I'm not sure where else to post it. Any help would be gratefully received.
open Romeo and Juliet's deaths Literature
Which character played the biggest role in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet and how so?
openRiordan Mythological Universe Literature
I was wondering if it might be good to create an umbrella page for the mythology stories by Rick Riordan since it's up to three mythologies by now and they are shown to exist all together in the same 'verse.
openHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Literature
I see several tropes listed on the Literature page that are essentially dependent on later books in the series. For instance, there is an example listed under Ironic Echo that is actually from the 7th book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in which a line from the first book is Ironically Echoed. Similarly, there is an example listed under Generation Xerox that is actually found in Book 7, in which the generation from the first book is being Xeroxed.
That's wrong, isn't it? Those examples are appropriate for Book 7 but not Book 1.
EDIT: Also a lot of natter in Moral Guardians.
Edited by galliumopen Fanart for works page images Literature
I'm planning to make a page for a work of literature. The official book covers are all pretty minimal and wouldn't look good on the page. I've seen a really kickass piece of fanart (a portrait of the main character) that I'd like to use if I can get the creator's permission. Is there any policy that would oppose this?
openAn Elegy for the Still-Living Literature
I've been lurking on this site for almost a year now, and this page has caused me to finally create an account. I was intrigued by the book, but a search has turned up no information about it *at all* outside this wiki: no website, no stores selling it, no forum discussions, not even the name of the author. Is it possible that the page is some sort of elaborate ruse? Given the supposed subject material, perhaps the book transcends such petty things as reality. Anyway, does anyone have any information besides what is already present of the page?
openYoung Adult Literature Literature
While a work can have multiple demographics, Young Adult Literature stated, "[c]urrently, Young Adult is mostly a marketing concept[...]". Does that mean a Children's Literature work marketed to 10-12 is not also Young Adult, despite content-wise the work in question have elements of Young Adult as discussed in that article's lead?
openOdd Trope Organizing Literature
Addergoole has its tropes formated in a way I haven't seen before: they're separated into two folders, "Character Tropes" and "Plot Tropes".
Should it be left like that, or should I get rid of the folders and alphabetize them all together?
Edited by Orbiting

Penguin Factory deleted all the prices in the Vaporware page on April 17, 2015; that is, any number starting with a $ or followed by the word "dollars" were erased. I'm guessing that's some kind of cloud-to-butt type plugin rather than actual malice. Numbers which weren't prices were left intact.
User History.
Edited by randomsurfer