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It seems someone's been adding examples pertaining to Selfie at the top of example lists, even if the lists are already alphabetized. While there's little risk of it happening with Selfie again for obvious reasons, whatever troper did this might do this again with some other series in the future.
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Can somebody do something about the troper, "merlinxchick"? Regularly clogs up pages by adding literally HUNDREDS of unnecessary tropes that don't fit proper definitions. Check out this page to see what I mean: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/BigBrother16
I sent her a PM, she either ignored or didn't see it.
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I need a second opinion about parts of Characters.Casualty and also the main CASUAL+Y page. I've been (slowly) editing and changing bits for a while, but because I'm not familiar with earlier seasons of the show I'm not sure how useful the tropes relating to the minor characters (and I mean seriously minor, to the point that it seems to me they're just extras) are. Am I misreading this, or is it a case of Fan Myopia that can be cut back?
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On the page Characters.The Walking Dead TV Show Abrahams Group, Eugene was listed on back in Nov 2014 as Too Dumb to Live, which was misusing the trope (as explained here
; TLDR version is that the sabotage didn't kill him nor did it have a reasonable expectation of doing so, as most cars don't normally flip over when their engine dies). It's gone through several dances with that and the more appropriate trope What An Idiot, which I edited it to on Dec 7, 2014, with an edit reason pointing to the discussion page where I explained why WAI applied and not TDTL.
Fast forward to Jan 22, 2015, and Chris116, who had been responsible for earlier changes back to TDTL when it didn't apply, went and changed it back to TDTL without leaving an edit reason or popping into the discussion page.
(full edit history for the page)
(I know the edit warring should have been brought up earlier, but it didn't occur to me then, and then with the change-over for the site there was the issue of my being unable to log into this account due to the e-mail bug that kept me from getting the PW reset message.)
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About a week ago, I cutlisted Series/TNG and Series/DS9, both of them no-inbound initialism redirects to work pages. In addition, the Main/ namespace for both initialisms are part of the Permanent Red Link Club.
The cut requests for both were declined because both still had wicks that hadn't been cleaned up, so I thought nothing of this. But while going through a routine wick cleanup, I noticed that an unusual number of wicks for Series/TNG were examples related to Star Trek Online. Is it possible the wicks came from a single editor?
(TNG is not a wikiword but DS9 is, which means all wicks to the former are intentional, while a few wicks to the latter were likely part of a botched cleanup that added Series/ to the wikiword without realizing it was an initialism.)
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Little delayed, but need a revert on Funny.The Almighty Johnsons, Heartwarming.The Almighty Johnsons, and TearJerker.The Almighty Johnsons. Tropers.jkrfan7 removed the episode organization with no explanation.
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ranulf13 changed most of my edits on the Teen Wolf YMMV page to the old wordy complaining, and added some new passive aggressive stuff which largely seems to be concerned with bashing one particular actress and character. Does that make them a Wiki Vandal? If not, is there anything I can do about this?
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I am trying to remember the name of an 80's TV show - it's driving me mad... Approximately 1985/86 - Two guys - partners - cops / detectives. One dressed vintage/rockabilly style - one was more modern/trendy. I feel like the modern guy was black but I am not 100% sure...??
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I'm just checking, but is the split to folders at the top of the page something that's ok or should have they been split off to separate sub-pages instead? Also this series is a bit infamous (it's a love it or hate it deal), so I also want to know if this page maybe is too complainy.
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Edit war on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The "Centipede" Group; I refuse to involve myself, but danielle is clearly in the wrong, continuing to remove examples without explanation. Possible sockpuppet? Must investigate further.
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For some reason Series.The A Team has as an alternate name "Ptitleb01h4k3e".
What's up with that?
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atomic89 went and nuked a bunch of examples from Ward's entry on the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. character page without explanation. Among other things, this also caused the Evil Counterpart example to make less sense.
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Could a mod look at the Big WHY?! ykttw
and make a ruling as to whether or not it's a Stock Phrase?
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Recap.Star Trek The Original Series seems to be oddly sarcastic ("Shockingly, an Red Shirt falls down and gets boo-boo") and frequently contains first person asides ("Yeah, I don't get it either") I haven't seen most of the series and I don't feel comfortable trying to fix all of them, but does anyone know why they're written like that? Is it lifted from some other recap somewhere else?
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Someone just added a paragraph to the descriptive text on Series/Space1999, about how a U.S. Supreme Court decision listed "reruns of Space 1999" as a form of torture (along with things such as electric shocks and water torture).
While it's amusing that the show's hatedom extends all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, this is hardly the kind of comments that belong on a show's main page, which is supposed to be objective, isn't it? We don't usually even mention critical reception from serious critics on a work's main page, and even less so quotes of gushing fans or snide haters.
We've been through a couple of rounds of clearing the complaining from this page before (for a forty-year old show, it sure seems to have a strong hatedom), but now it's starting to reappear. I'm inclined to remove this but I'd thought I'd check here first to avoid starting an edit war.
Also, I have a question: this is kind of an amusing anecdote, but where does it belong? On the Trivia page, the Quotes page, or on the Darth Wiki? Or nowhere at all?
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Should Sesame Street have their own section on the "Broken Base'' page under the Live Action section? The only controversy between the fans that I could think of that could go on that page without causing too much controversy on the pages is how Elmo's arrival divided the fans.
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Difference between Like Goes with Like and Token Minority Couple, please?
[Edited because I got the name of the 2nd trope horribly horribly wrong for some reason.]
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Can someone help me parse this example from Doctor Who S6 E3 "The Invasion"?
- Expy: Professor Watkins and his niece Isobel stand in for Professor Travers and his daughter Anne who had appeared earlier. The did not want to pay the writers of the earlier characters. Also possibly the sewer-lurking Cybermen for the subway-lurking Yeti — there's a rumour that this story was originally planned as a direct sequel to "The Web of Fear", before the writers of the two previous Yeti stories fell out with the showrunners over the editing of "The Dominators" and the IP ownership of the Quarks.
- I don't think Expy really applies here, as they are more Suspiciously Similar Substitutes. If I'm right, the whole first part of the example (Travers and Anne/Watkins and Isobel) can be removed.
- I don't know exactly what is meant by "The did not want to pay the writers of the earlier characters," but I don't believe it's accurate in any case. A BBC episode intro by the actor who plays Vaughn in the serial states that the actors who played Travers and Anne weren't available at the time the serial was filmed, so they were Put on a Bus and the parts were slightly rewritten for Watkins and Isobel instead. Can I remove that part of the example on those grounds (if the whole Travers-Anne/Watkins-Isobel shouldn't be removed entirely)?
- As for the second part, I don't know anything about the "rumour" about the writers of the earlier serial The Dominators, but accuracy aside, is the Cybermen/Yeti an example as written?
At the very least, if nothing gets removed, I'm going to separate this into two sub-bullets, since it's two separate examples.
Thanks in advance to any who reply.
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Why is the Jul i Blåfjell page locked?
[Link fixed - Septimus Heap]
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Recap.Heroes
WTH? The two episodes with recaps (Out of Time and The Second Coming) don't read anything like standard TV Tropes recaps - brief summary and list of tropes in the episode - and are more like...IDK even what to compare it to. Something Awful maybe? Or somebody's tv recap blog. Super-snarky, complainy, characters with nicknames instead of actual names (Mohidiot=Mohinder, Time Lord=Hiro, Sexchange Quicksilver=Daphne, etc.).
Should they be blanked?
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