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I want to ask this question as politely as possible: what's with the "split-up-every-page craze" of this very wiki?
- First point... I'm perfectly fine with, for example, an article having a separate Fetish Fuel article. About Fetish Fuel having a separate wiki, not so much. If we have to keep this wiki oh-so-much family-friendly, then I don't get why we still have Horror Tropes like High Octane Nightmare Fuel. The irony is... jarring, to say the least. On a lighter note, Wikia is structured way differently than this wiki, and given how much more emphasis it gives on advertisements, as well as other minor aspects, it turns out to be harder both to edit and to browse. We should have used a wiki structured exactly as Tv Tropes.
- My other point is about the removed redirects to Darth Wiki items such as Wall Banger. Redirects, among other things, can rid us of having to remember a too specific URL while editing, or to use characters such as "{". Okay, the last one is a whim of mine, but my point stands. To give you an example: this is the exact reason behind the redirect to my own article I have made. (Nonetheless, giving Tropers a separate folder is fair game to me, for obvious reasons.)
- Then there's my last point: the YMMV sub-pages. Having tropes on a separate page just adds further confusion, given how every trope can turn out to be subjective. If subjective tropes appear with a red dot instead of a black one, then why can't we simply create another section in the main article? Not to mention the ultimate wallbanger, where in the YMMV page for Dissidia Final Fantasy, some complaining under "Missed Moment Of Fanservice" got cut, with this explanation: "Pointless complaining is pointless, YMMV tab or not". "YMMV tab or not"?!? Come on! That's what a separate YMMV page is about! As far as I know, the alternate title for "Natter" is "Conversation in the main page". I don't recall a YMMV page being the same as a "Main" article, but that may be a mistake of mine like everything said in this rant.
And so, my rant is over. I'm pretty sure that you'll be able to prove how wrong all of my points are, with enough reasonable explanation. I also hope to have really been as polite as I wanted this question to be; if that's not the case, I'm ready to apologise. Just remember that everything I've said was driven by my defense towards the "just have fun feel/spirit/guidelines/premise/basis" of this very wiki. :-)
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I'll make a comment about some Animal Tropes. Most are excellent, but some of them do describe their animals in a very subjective and even unfair way. The page I've encountered that bothers me the most is that about Australian Wildlife. Here animals are treated as evil things which deserve only to be burn alive by us humans.....
Edited by MisunderstoodGuyopenNo Title
I've added YMMV.Marvel Vs Capcom 3 into my watchlist, but why there isn't any notification for any page edits for that page?
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All right hivemind, I'm calling you. We tropers are not [[4Chan Anonymous]] but frankly I feel the urge to eliminate one specific aspect of our non-collectivity: linking to troper's pages on trope pages. Specifically:
"When this troper saw Jet and Aang..."
We're not some forum with post counts, avatars, and signatures. This is a Wiki. We do have a forum where you can do those things, but please: Keep it off the Pages.
Edited by 207.206.236.173openNo Title
I have three questions about consensus, If you propose to the a change, like removing A JAFAAC picture and no troper objects of the issue
1.-How many people you need (aproving the change)?' In order to make the proposed modifications ?
2.- How many tropers must disagree in an issue for a Crowner?
3.- If a minority of tropers disagree on an issue , do we need to make a Crowner to make the changes ?
Edited by FallenLegendopenNo Title
On Meganekko, the Troper Cuchulainn has, on February 9th, removed a large chunk of examples in the Video Game folder, as well as the whole Webcomic one. He puts TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game as a justification, but it seems related to an other thing he deleted in his edit. Moreover, on first sight, the examples deleted look legit.
Is is all right to reinstall those examples? Asking, because one of the examples I just reinstalled on February 3rd got caught in that massive delete, and I don't want it looking like an Edit War.
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I'd like some details on this:
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Blue links: All works are in italic, everything else isn't. Is something like Askewniverse or Walky Verse or Discworld in italic?
Edited by AminatepopenNo Title
For some reason the main site keep redirecting me to Google whenever I bake a new cookie (I even attempted creating another alias, to no avail.
This Troper was Ravager, but currently lacks knowage. I made four posts on the forum, maybe five, all perfectly civil and within the rules. Same for the discussion of my story I was having with Sidewinder via PM (so's we didn't clutter the critique thread).
I just want to know what happened, or if my IP (there are multiple machines connected to my switch and router, but that shouldn't matter, right?) is somehow collateral damage from banning someone else?
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
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Juche4world
is a new troper, but he seems to be a anti-capitalist troll who thinks South Korea is the US's puppet.
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Is there any way to undo any edit? Because on the Whose Line Is It Anyway page, TroperKC seems to be combining Bluenose Bowdlerizer and Scunthorpe Problem, deleting whenever a-s-s appears inside a word, like H***elhoff, ***umed, and L***ie, among other 'fixes'.
Or should I just revert it manually?
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Moleman 9000 just put a whole bunch of recently removed YMMV tropes back on the Total Drama Island Character Sheet page, with an edit reason complaining about the rules.
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I noticed there was a Quotes page for So Okay It's Average, and one for So Okay [Its Average, so I tried to turn the page with the unpunctuated title into a redirect. However, now the page has a link to itself in the lower right hand corner, and one cannot access the quote page that's supposed to follow. Could someone please fix this?
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
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Sorry to be a pain, where do I go to ask what trope something would go under? I wanted to put in how Willow flaying Warran alive is treated as bad, but for many it'd be considered good or justified.

What's the official policy for natter in the YMMV pages?
Edited by AMNK