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resolved Trying to avoid an edit war over a ZCE Web Original
On Characters.Battle For Dream Island TPOT Contestants, I hid a ZCE
with word cruft ("becomes this", "is especially this") for Token Evil Teammate that Enderevilherobrine added and sent notifiers to them. Today, I saw that Diamondeye 218 had unhid the example
while barely giving any context. I don't want to start an edit war, so should I hide it again?
openSML characters Web Original
For the page Super Mario Logan Main Characters, the edit page gives you a suggestion saying that it’s becoming very long and it could lead to extensive load and save times. What would help is to make multiple pages to help slower internet users. Is it okay if I give one of the characters their own page? If so, what character? If not I would like to reorganize the character pages differently since Black Yoshi, Shrek, Woody, and Toad are no longer main characters since Jeffy started appearing.
openRenaming Example Subpages – Cutlist or Redirect? Web Original
I just cutlisted two Not Always Right example subpages – Tropes M To T (which was getting long) and Tropes U To Z – so that I could rename them to Tropes M to R and Tropes S to Z respectively.
I thought that example pages counted as subpages so I thought cutlisting them was the right thing to do. In hindsight, I should have checked beforehand. It was only afterward that I wondered if they counted.
Is cutlisting them the right thing to do, or should I have just given them redirects? If not, I'll challenge my own Cut List entries for those pages.
Edited by DancouMaryuuopenIs it possible to have a VS Battles Wiki page? Web Original
I'm just wondering. We already have one for The Outskirts Battledome, which is a different VS Debating webside, and within the VS Community, the VSBW is a lot more well known.
resolved Does Suicide Mouse still count as a fanfic? Web Original
Mickey Mouse's case is... interesting. While he's not 100% out of the copyright world, his 1928's design is now in the Public Domainnote which includes more than just Steamboat Willie, as there's also the silent versions of Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho, among other commercial material. With that said, Suicide Mouse, both the OG written pasta and its (classic) recreations, clearly use the Steamboat Willie design that's now in public domain, no tricks or anything (and yes, even the one with the white gloves
count, as contrary to popular belief, 1928 Mickey does use white
◊ gloves
).
So... shouldn't it now have the Literature namespace instead of the Fanfic one (besides its alternative Web Original namespace), since it should technically be a Derivative Work?
Edited by UzarNaimBer15openthis collaborative story known by multiple tile, but which one should i use? Web Original
There is this popular tumblr collaborative story, kind of like The God of Arepo: https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Grandmother_and_The_Demon
though unlike The God Of Arepo, it doesnt have consistent title. some versions call it Anette and Todd the Demon, Grandmother and Todd, (The Adventures of) Todd and Granny and I Saw Granny Ethel with the Devil.
Which title should I use? I only put it as The Grandmother and the Demon though it's just a placeholder.
Edited by Clione67resolved BuzzBound has two pages Web Original
There are two pages for BuzzBound, one for the original and one for the sequel, both made by the same troper. I believe having a second page for Shadow of Giygas is redundant and should be merged into the original's page. My main reasoning is that there's a lot of overlap between the two works (7 out of 8 tropes on BuzzBound's page alone applies to both works). Also the ending of Shadow of Giygas suggests the series may be episodic. Thoughts?
Edited by supernintendo128openWeb animation Vs Web Original Web Original
What is the difference between Web Animation and Web Original? Because, for example, I've seen Red vs Blue listed in both categories on various trope pages. Is web animation a type of web original? I would genuinely appreciate an answer.
resolved Can I make a transcript page for a media? Web Original
I remembered every line of a skit from the You Tube channel Wizards With Guns, so can I include a dedicated page called Transcripts to transcribe the entirety of said skit? Or should I do a Quotes page?
Edited by Duy03resolved Help Web Original
How do I hide images so that they don't show for me?
All help appreciated.
openHot Ones Web Original
On the recap page Hot Ones, a few episodes mentioned are links to the episode on YouTube. Can an actual recap be made for individual episodes?
Edited by LarrytheKingresolved Edit War for AssPull entry on YMMV/MurderDrones Web Original
- Aug 29th
, Troper mousegold restored Ass Pull entry due to it being deleted without an edit reason.
Ass Pull: The end of "Dead End" has V surrounded by the Drone Sentinels cut off from everyone else. "Absolute End" has her reveal that she somehow managed to not only survive but wrangle one of them into helping her. How she did that is never explained. - Aug 29th
, I removed it for misuse due to a scene in canon implying how it happened.
Rebel: Lizzy's texts with V showed her holding one of the Sentinels in a choke hold while saying "I lived bitch", making it pretty clear she just fought them off. - Sep 1st
, Troper mousegold restored entry and expanded on it, enacting an Edit War.
Ass Pull: Absolute End revealing V survived her attempted Heroic Sacrifice. At the end of Dead End, V manages to get the red-eyed Sentinel dead to rights, but three more Sentinels appear and she loses her glasses after one of them tries to bring the elevator back up. The scene is played as if V has no way out, and cuts away with V acting resigned to her fate, a Sentinel lunging at her while she makes seemingly no attempt to fight back. The only explanation the series gives as to how V made it out of what was portrayed as seemingly impossible odds is a single image after the fact of V standing triumphant over the red-eyed Sentinel, with no details as to how she convinced the red-eyed Sentinel to work with her or escaped/killed the others, and it can feel anticlimactic considering how much of a threat the Sentinels were shown to be throughout Dead End.mousegold: I disagree that the photo explains how V survived, but I will concede that the description could use some more detail.
resolved A profession form of Fish out of Water? Web Original
As seen in this skit
, what is the trope of someone unqualified being put into a situation against their will?
What other tropes apply in this skit?
openCanon spelling vs. popular spelling Web Original
There's a character in ENigmatic Recollection named "Gonathon." That's the spelling he uses the one time he spells it in-verse
, and the spelling his actor/player uses too. However, a slight majority of the fanbase spells it "Gonathan" with a second A, and that's currently the standard on our page for the work. I used the O spelling for a couple examples, but another editor changed it to the A one. (I messaged them about it, but didn't hear back.)
I'm pretty sure policy is that we should use the canon spelling, even if there's a more popular one. But I figured I should get consensus before unilaterally changing the spelling across multiple pages.
Edited by Speedchesserresolved Is this a valid edit reason? Web Original
So hubakon1368 deleted a bunch of entries from Deconstruction Fic
and Accusation Fic
, initially citing "Example does not sufficiently explain how it applies" despite the content deleted adequately explaining how they would apply.
I asked them to elaborate on how they didn't apply (without re-adding the entries to avoid a potential edit war) and their response came in the form of adding a comment saying this: "Is it really deconstruction, when the moments the fics claims to be deconstructing are from people who have shown to unfairly criticize RWBY?"
Is this a valid edit reason when it amounts to what is basically No True Scotsman and doesn't address the original question I asked?
Edited by Psyga315resolved New troper running a plugin that changes Girl to Trans Girl Web Original
~Tom Gut is a new account, and their very first edit today
is to change two instances mentioning "Girl" in the trope to "Trans Girl", making the affected trope links invalid in the process. This seems to be a plugin, as the same edit contains a legitimate entry with no issues.
resolved Need help finding the work for this work page Web Original
WebVideo.Proxy was made in 2013 by a troper whose last edit was in 2017. It's unindexed, has only one wick on R-Rated Opening, and the description has no traces to the work's creator. Also, it's in the wrong namespace - if it's a fan-made anime, it should be in WebAnimation/.
I've tried looking for it
, but no dice note (It's a Creepypasta fan-work in an anime style titled after the common term for anyone who serves Slenderman, the results are as non-specific as they get). There's an incorrectly used review asking where to even find this work. I wonder if it should be moved to Darth or I haven't dug deep enough.

Haven't seen this kind of issue before, but on the page for Dropout: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Dropout
(What was formerly Collegehumor), all the pages have it listed as 'Drop-Out', with the hyphen and capital O. It looks like this is because the page Dropout was originally for a webcomic called Drop-Out.
But at this point, with the webcomic long-dead and Dropout consistently making content for years, the Webcomic namespace is the only valid use of that spelling. Is there a way to change it so the Creator, YMMV, Funny, etc pages all show the proper "Dropout"?