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openThe original heavy metal umlaut. Music
I've picked up an interesting project to do here involving filling in the gaps on a band's discography, (Blue Öyster Cult) writing Works pages for LP's which are at present redlinks or not there at all. Happy to do this.
But two questions for the tropers:
i) An LP title is properly spelt The Revölution By Night. I've set the works page up - but it's only in the form Revolution By Night, so it really needs the page name to be edited on both counts. I'm not sure how to do this - inserting an umlaut into a work page title is something that needs to be specifically requested? .
ii) Also, the band's first LP, which needs a works page, is self-titled. But this namespace is being used for all tropes to do with the band in general, as Blue Öyster Cult. Is there a workround in situations like this?
Thanks for help!
openNew works page. Music
Hi, just asking about a point of etiquette for tropers. I managed to get the formatting of the namespace right and set up the Music works page for the Blue Öyster Cult album Blue Öyster Cult (1972). While I was pulling in the detail info I needed to start the page off, I got the advisory that I'd over-run the twenty minutes and/or another troper had taken the page over in the meantime so that my edit was likely not to be kept.I periodically clicked on the "submit" button only to get the same advisory that the edit could not be accepted as another Troper had checked the page out. I left it alone, then came back some time later, clicked the right buttons and my edit was accepted by the system in its entirety. I'm just concerned that if another person had also been setting up a version of the page at the same time, I might have wiped out their work in its entirety - the page history, however, has no trace anyone else was there. (confusing!) I stress: I'm really not sure what happened there: I was editing and was then told somebody else had taken it over as my time had expired. But going into history there's no trace anyone else was ever here - or I'd have proposed blending the best of both our suggested edits, collaborating on this. If the other person is there, no slight was intended.
Edited by AgProvresolved The questionable tropes from The Living Tombstone Music
Found these from The Living Tombstone that is listed within the ymmv page here.
I believe they don’t count as YMMV tropes but maybe it could be possible to somehow alter/or change them into a different appropriate trope. Or I can just simply erase them. Any thoughts?openLinks to "Music" Music
Given that links to the disambig page Music have been showing up as green for a month now, I assume there's already been discussions on the forums about whether and where to redirect links to that page. If so, could someone please point me there?
open Safe to recreate Kaskade Music
Is it Safe to recreate The music page for Kaskade because he is an American DJ
openRecreating Ricardo Silva's page Music
Would it be safe to recreate Ricardo Silva's page? The Doblaje Wiki has a long list of his works that could easily be added into it.
openAre Musicians/Bands allowed to be Workshopped in TLP Music
So I'm planning on creating a page for John Mayer, as he currently doesn't have one yet. But this is actually my first time doing a music related main page so I'll need some help. I know shows and movies can be workshopped in the TLP, but are musicians allowed?
Edited by AudioSpeaks2openHow to add Heartwarming and Funny to Musicians Music
I have been done a lot of editing to the Sheena Easton page on here and I was going to add the Heartwarming and Funny tabs or whatever you call them, but when I click on the "Create New" function, they are not listed and I know some examples that would fit in both of those categories for her, in particular her work with Prince.
resolved Cannot find my page in "Search" Music
I recently created a new page for a band. I tried to cross-check it from the search bar, but it doesn't appear as a result. I tried sorting the results by date and added some tropes and crosswicked them, but still I can only access it from my followed pages.
open Uncertain page type Music
While doing other cleanup I came across Korean Pop Music, a page that is categorized as an index and, among other things, has an example list. All of the examples are general to the genre, but I'm not sure if this is kosher?
Additionally, I'm not sure its categorized properly either. The page reads more like a Useful Note. It does list a bunch of artists in the industry, which I suppose is what its indexing, but it's more just a list as many of the artists do not have pages on this cite.
I'm not sure what to do with this page, or if there's a thread this should be taken to.
openQuestion about a page cut Music
So I saw Tim Wilson had a Trivia page but it was cut and I see some Trivia tropes that should be in that tab but it said "Ask to make sure it's safe to recreate" what does that mean? Why would I need to "ask the tropers"?
resolved A problem writing apostrophes Music
Editing HalaCG's page I was trying to write an example with multiple works that I have to write in italics while also having to add an apostrophe and an s ('s) at the end. But the combination made it so that it ends up coming out as bold, like this:
- Cover Version: When she isn't doing an original song she will be doing a cover for one, such as Goddess of Victory: NIKKEs "The Red Hood", Reverse: 1999s "Catch You Now" or One Piece Film: Red's "New Genesis".
How do I fix this?
Edited by Rhino8888resolved What's wrong with this text that the preview shows it not working as intended ? Music
Hello,
I tried adding an example on a trope page, but the text did not work, and I don't know why. Below I will paste the relevant piece of text that doesn't work.
"* Music/Nas announced the death of Tupac Shakur"
The Tupac thing works correctly, but not the Nas one.
I do hope this isn't the wrong place to ask by the way. If so, my bad.
openNeeding help with expanding the Robert Miles page. Music
I need help adding the picture of the page and listing the tropes that relate to Robert Miles's discography.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/RobertMiles

Wanted to create a proper trope page for the band The Pillows, as the old page had no tropes so it was deleted a few years back. Just figured I'd ask because I actually want to properly trope their work as I'm a massive fan of the band.