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resolved Looking to create a Creator page Music
Hey, I'm looking to make a creator page for Zach Hill, a musician, and I was wondering where I should get started if I wanted to do that.
resolved Need apostrophe for page title in WebAnimation/ThomasDreamyMisadventures Web Original
"Thomas" needs to have an apostrophe at the end ("Thomas'") since that's the proper title and iirc you have to ask someone to add it since normal users can't so yeah. Thanks in advance.
Edited by N64Hylianresolved TRS crowner for Author Appeal
Hello. There is an open crowner for Author Appeal in this TRS thread
. The crowner will determine what to do with this trope.
If you'd like to vote, go here
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resolved TRS crowner for Mechanically Unusual Fighter and Mechanically Unusual Class
Hello. There is an open crowner for Mechanically Unusual Fighter and Mechanically Unusual Class in this TRS thread
. The crowner will determine what to do with these tropes.
If you'd like to vote, go here
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openDwarf Fortress and Fanon characters Videogame
Since characters from player stories are procedurally generated, should these included in Characters.Dwarf Fortress? Wouldn't that be troping let's plays? Some of the characters already belong to let's plays in work pages should these be split off into a different page? For that matter, what should be done about Armok who only appears in the title and is Chuck Cunninghammed in current versions?
openRegards to a shelved series
While exploring troper KiraKiwi's edits for anything to fix, I noticed that they are crosswicking Micronauts, a cartoon that never aired but had a ton of work that was leaked. I know write offs are infamous part of TV now but I don't know if we should note its existence, especially since there is no page.
Edit: spelling
Edited by Ayumi-chan
Local Odd Squad Connoisseur
openSplitting off a page into different work pages
So...Catch! Teenieping. It's spanned across six seasons now at this point and when I get the time and motivation I'd like to split off the current page into different pages for each season since there are more than enough tropes I could add for almost all of them (bar the sixth season, which has yet to release), in addition to doing cleanup on the current page. I'd like to get consensus for such a split, but is there a dedicated place I can do that besides ATT? I don't necessarily plan on doing it right now but I'd like to put the idea out there somewhere.
Edited by ilovewildkratts1openPage Idea Western Animation
I was thinking of a something called "Shredded Abs" where the characters have visible abdominal muscles what do you say?
openPlaying With Trivia/YMMV Cleanup?
I have been noticing a ton of Trivia and YMMV pages that have entries playing with these types of tropes, despite the fact that YMMV and Trivia tropes cannot be played with. Is there a sort of cleanup thread for this issue? If not, then I might as well consider starting one myself, since I do want to remove and fix these types of entries.
openAlternative Titles for Snowclones
Do Alternative Titles for tropes count as Snowclones? Because I'm making an alternate title to Implied Death Threat called Implied Ass Kicking Threat (for non-lethal threats).
resolved Can you make a Recap page if the work doesn't have a page yet? Videogame
I'm kicking around the idea of recapping Microid Games' Hercule Poirot games (or at least the two I know I've played, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile). However, these games don't have pages yet, and I don't know if I have what it takes to make new ones. I suppose if I could, I could whip up some pages with 10 tropes each at least, but that strikes me as kinda lame. So, would I be allowed to Recap them and maybe the pages could come later, or no?
If this means anything, there is a Complete Monster entry for the villain of "Orient" (which was pitched by me, btw).
resolved Sayaka sock?
Sorry if I'm jumping the gun, but I have a suspicion that Karinros100
is Sayaka ban evading again. They've only made one edit
, but the fact that their very first edit just so happened to be on the exact same MST3K recap page as so many of their socks does make me wonder.
openHow to add alternate titles to work pages Videogame
I noticed that many works and tropes have alternate titles such as Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! aka Project SEKAI, Pretty Cure has PreCure, etc.
I want Ensemble Stars! to have Ensemble Stars!! Basic and Ensemble Stars!! Music as alternate titles since the game is now split into two apps with different gameplay and some exclusive features. (though the West only has Music). How does one add alt titles? Is it a mods only thing?
resolved Useful Notes - AI Boom? Web Original
Just stumbled across this new page and feel like it could use some discussion. It seems to have been quietly launched a little over a week ago, in more or less its current form.
For one thing, I see a few suspicious signs that the text might be AI-generated itself; notice the em dashes, the lists of three items, "from x to y", the vague adjectives.... plus it's pretty poorly organized.
Be that as it may, it takes a weirdly hyped tone, almost self-congratulatory, and only glancingly touches on some of the huge controversies in the creative world around AI and LLMs. Obviously it's a hot-button topic that evokes strong feelings for many, including being a central point of contention in the most recent WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes... but there I go. Point being, the page as it is seems like one person's opinion that doesn't do a good enough job at taking multiple perspectives into account. It lacks a lot of specifics about the technology and the discussions around it as it exists.
That's assuming we even want/need such a page, honestly I fear Flame Bait in its future.
What do we think should be done with it: Cutlist it, expand it, find some more contributors and entry pimps to balance it out?
Edited by JeduthunopenSplitting pages for works of the same name
Where can I find the policy or procedure regarding works with the same name?
The specific case that prompts me to ask is Wayward, where there's currently a streaming miniseries, a comic book, and a videogame, all completely unrelated to each other, but which share subpages because they have the same name.
Specifically, I would like to know if it's OK for me to create a new page for the Netflix show with a redirect, or if it needs to be cleared with someone.
Edited by AzureOwl
Previously Toko WH
resolved Are Steam Community Market tips allowed in Boring But Practical? Videogame
I was thinking of adding some of the general advise traders use to Boring, but Practical but I'm not sure if that's allowed since it deals with real world money. Also not entirely sure where it would be put. I'm not sure if video games fit considering Steam itself isn't really a video game.
openIs it okay for a trope page to have too many spoiler tags?
So, I was editing the page for Simon's Book and I started to wonder if maybe I put in too many spoiler tags on the page and should I remove some of the spoiler tags on the page? Also, how often do you need to have spoiler tags on a trope page?
openImage being really big for no reason
I'm not really sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I'm currently in the process of adding images of my avatars to my troper page and I've noticed that whatever the first image in the 'Stuff about my avatars' folder is becomes really big, despite me setting the width to 100 with a mediaproxy link. Is there any way to fix this?
resolved Is it possible to fix edit reasons?
I accidentally hit “save” before I finished typing my edit reason on my latest edit. I added it later, but is there a way to fix edit reasons in case I make this mistake again?

Troper/Simpanese readded an entry in One Piece: Roger Pirates without discussing, first nor changing the entry. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.OnePieceRogerPirates&page=8#edit45728367