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Well my efforts with adding warnings about the spoiler warning to Diablo went unheeded. Mickey Frogeater has added several tropes with the names spoilered out and the entire examples spoilered out as well.
There was a warning at the top of the page saying trope names were unspoilered, a large commented out warning at the start of the page, and the edit reasons also specified it. I think mods need to tap him on the shoulder and let him know that he's been violating Spoiler Policy.
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Can a character be considered a Renaissance Man only if it's implied through an item's characteristics?
Artorias the Abysswalker (source page)
- Renaissance Man: Very strongly implied to be one due to how the True Greatsword of Artorias' damage output works: it scales greatly with Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Faith, four out of five stats that can affect a weapon's power. And in order to use it to its full potential, you need to invest heavily in all four of them.
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I've gone and removed spoiler tags from the trope names in the character page for The Last of Us with three warnings not to put them back (one at the top, one commented out and one in the edit reason). Since the last time I did this was for the Diablo page and that warning got ignored and I got no help from the mods in that instance, could a few people keep an eye on it in case someone decides to ignore the policy again?
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There's been a lot of natter of late at VideoGame.Batman Arkham Origins.
I natter-fied The Architect Writer XIII last week but he added more (and justifying edits) since then.
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Guys, I need your help here...
While fishing around for hyphenated titles that may need correction, I stumbled upon an unbelievable mess with the Dynasty Warriors characters pages.
Beyond the 10 pages noted on this very index, it happens that there is a dozen of other character pages under the same format, but with no wicks at all. Forget no indexing: no links whatsoever. Meaning that tropers or readers interested by them have no way to find them from the Dynasty Warriors pages, only through search or backtracking wicks. The list:
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Dong Zhuo Forces
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Five Tiger Generals
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Jin Famed Generals
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Jin Rulers
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Jin Strategists
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Nanman Forces
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Rulers of Wei
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Shu Famed Generals
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Shu Strategists
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Yellow Turbans
- Characters.Dynasty Warriors-The Yuan Family
The fact that they have hyphens and shouldn't is minor; I haven't checked in depth to see if the info on them is redundant elsewhere, but I wouldn't be surprised. Some of these pages have other weirdness, like having about one character on the whole subpage.
And beyond this, you should take note that there is a dozen redirects following the exact same format and linking to some other Dynasty Warriors characters pages (while not having any wicks themselves). Those I'm going to cutlist, they are useless.
My question is, is the whole thing salvageable? Is there a specific thread/forum where I should bring this? Or are so many separate subpages for only one work way over-the-top, regardless of the indexing issues?
Now if you'll excuse me, my eyes are bleeding...
Edited by StFanopenNo Title Videogame
We've got an agenda-based edit.
Removing other "possibilities" for 3rd Party series/franchises/whatever except Pac-Man is kind of ridiculous, implying no other one could be brought in. We don't even know what could be brought in.
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NedZeppelin
's been making some questionable edits. To say the least.
He turned Cloud Cuckoolander into Butt Cuckoolander on here
and here
, and changed Fox's name to "Fox McButt here
.
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Is there a trope where a merchant's pricings are way too high for beginning players, or simply way higher than it's actually worth?
Guilty of misusing Adam Smith Hates Your Guts here.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal
Do nicknames and tropes like Genre Savvy belong on YMMV?
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Just created One Way Heroics and edited the Roguelike page accordingly, but it isn't indexing for some reason.
edit: fixed. Having some trouble deciding how to trope various items like the Swordplay and Armoring scrolls, as well as the random enemy titles now.
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Need a revert on Characters.Darksiders
. megazilla reverted the ZCE cleanup without adding context.
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Onionguard is bumping years old Final Fantasy XIII reviews so he can flame other people in the comments section.
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Edit Wars going on in Twitch Plays Pokemon Crystal over AJDNNW's name.
Discussion here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=LetsPlay.TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal
and here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=LetsPlay.TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal
in the history section
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Does anyone mind If I split Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords into its own page? The main Knights of the Old Republic page really does need a split.
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Can someone help me with NameChange.Ace Attorney? It was Missing the examples from Apollo Justice, Investigations (I didn't add examples from its sequel because as it is undubbed, the changed names for characters exclusive to that game are Fan Nicknames) and Dual Destinies. I added some examples but they only cover the Defense Lawyers, Prosecutors, Detectives, other allies of the law and the culprits that were in the last three categories.
On top of that I didn't put them in scrip order by by the order listed in the character sheets.
If this isn't the right place for asking for help on this can you at least tell me what is?
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I need an urgent moderator revert on this page, as this troper
misused the domain named and promptly deleted all entries of Dark Souls, replacing them with Dark Souls II.

Final Fantasy All the Bravest recently had a massive cutdown of article content that discussed the game's poor quality and negative reception. However, the game has achieved notoriety both critically and among the fanbase, to the point Wikipedia lists it on their page for Games Notable for Negative Reception, and other games like ET for Atari and Big Rigs Racing get it just as bad or worse.
So, I'm wondering if the amount of cutting down of the page is needed, or if some of it could/should be restored.