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openRemoving one page and returning another. Web Original
I think https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ProtonJon/
should return as it shows the personalities the co-coms use when commentating. They have been noted by Jon to act differently at cons. The personalities they show here are clearly in entertainer mode. Even his cat, Bagel, is usually not that desperate for attention as Jon usually doesn't talk to himself or ignore Bagel outside streams.
But I think https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HoYay/TheRunawayGuys
should be removed. Jon finds it really creepy, and Chugga, while playing it up (because he thinks it's what the fan base wants), has admitted to finding it creepy too. They are real people with feelings, not some fictional characters you can play with the emotions of. Some people even got mad at Jon for dating Lucah because of this which is unacceptable.
openWebsite Problem!! Web Original
Hey, the website is giving me all kinds of redirects, both on Android mobile and desktop
openNES Godzilla namespace Web Original
It appears that the NES Godzilla Creepypasta is under the Literature/ namespace rather than the WebOriginal/ namespace, and that the WebOriginal/ redirect was cut. Seeing how this is a web original story, and that other creepypastas are classified under the WebOriginal/ namespace, shouldn't the whole page be moved there instead?
openMany new, questionable pages in wrong namespaces Web Original
A multitude of new pages in the wrong namespaces have been made recently, with several appearing to be created by the people that made the works.
luigiman2201 created JustForFun.The Multi Nation Guys, which is a Let's Play group that has only recorded two videos since 2017 according to the page and was founded by luigiman.
BlueSectorMirage and luigiman have also made JustForFun.Nintendo Mirage, a page for a Discord server they curated that I'm unsure what, if any, space it should fall under.
Webcomic.Dr Frost which should be in Web Animation and has links to a cartoon pirate site in the description, also having a DrFrost.Dr Frost namespace.
open How do I make videos appear on forum posts? Web Original
I want to share a video on a forum post, but all I can do is links. What's the secret trick that I'm missing?
openRepetitive Deletion and Re-submission Issues Web Original
In a moment of emotion, I deleted a couple of entries I made on some Wild Mass Guessing pages, deeming them "dumb". It's not the first time I did something like this either, and it's something I would like to improve upon. I want to add them back onto their pages, but since I already did something like this before, I'm afraid people will get annoyed by me constantly deleting my submissions and then changing my mind and putting them back in. Will people mind if I re-upload my submissions?
open How do I cross my comment? Web Original
On other social media websites, there is a way to put a line across what you typed. How do you do that on TVTropes?
openDoug Walker subpages Web Original
I saw the TearJerker.Doug Walker page had been recently edited. Since it's a Creator namespace, doesn't that mean they don't get subpages? Should they be cut?
openNo Title Web Original
PerpetualJellyfish
made an edit on YMMV.Death Battle saying that the way one character died was meant to make their fans angry. MasterHero
removed their edit because it was biased. PerpetualJellyfish went back and readded it, added more nattery edits, and removed parts of the page that tried to give a more neutral stance on the fight's outcome, with this edit reason:
openTakotsubo Namespace Web Original
I had moved the Takotsubo page from WebOriginal/ from Literature/ on Jan 2017, since this namespace is depreciated and Web Original fictions should be in Literature, as far as I know.
I just noticed that, in Mar 2017, troper FuzzyBoots moved it back to WebOriginal/. I'd like to know where to stand over this fact, and exactly what namespace should be used.
I'll send a PM to FuzzyBoots toward this thread.
openWhich entry to keep? Web Original
Two different tropers have added the same CMOF to this ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/AchievementHunterLetsPlayAndThingsToDoIn
) page (the last two entries under Gmod) which one should be kept? The first one or the more detailed one?
openMaking a new Creator Page Web Original
I want to make a page on this deviantart user called "Kaemantis"
who has made a lot of FriendshipIsMagic fanworks. She's quite well known and I think she deserves mention here but problem is, I have no darn idea how to make a whole new page for her. Can anyone help me out here?
openCan Pages be Made for Twitter ARGs? Web Original
Recently, a horror story on Twitter called The Sun Vanished was created. It's told post by post, similar to an ARG. There's a lot of interesting things in it, and I feel like it'd be unfortunate not to give it a page. But is it possible?
resolved Request to merge a fanfic series into one page Web Original
The Makings of Team CRME (a series of five RWBY fanfics) should probably be merged on one page, instead of the five pages that currently exist. The whole series comes out to only 94,000 words, so having six work pages is overkill and screams "entry pimping" to me.
Because the individual fic pages are going to be cut anyway as part of the "miscapitalised namespaces" effort, would it make sense to merge the whole thing into one page when recreating it?
Edited by bwburke94resolved TV Shows on DVD Web Original
Website.TV Shows On DVD needs a head-to-toe update, in the wake of these news
. (Not to mention, the YMMV page consists of nothing but a Trivia Trope...)
openRegarding Website/Pixiv search tags. Web Original
It seems that after applying links for the Pixiv work page's "troped tags" section, the search tag function doesn't seem to work in Pixiv because all the Japanese texts are automatically converted to unicode, nor can the tags be linked to Pixiv dictionary. It's not just mine, but it also happens to other links. Is there anything I can do? Or should all the listed tropes be converted into only about the site itself?
Edited by MhazardopenImproper use of custom titles? Web Original
Are custom titles allowed to add extra words? WebAnimation.Neko Sugar Girls has the custom title Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls. Is that okay, or should we move the page to WebAnimation.Nyan Neko Sugar Girls?
Edited by Mickoonsley19

Mitchell 2000
's first edits to this wiki were rather sloppy, with bad punctuation, inconsistent capitalization, run-ons, and what was essentially the same example written twice. After I deleted them, he sent me a somewhat snippy PM plus a bogus issue notifier, then proceeded to put all his examples back just as sloppy as before.
Edited by Sammettik