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Okay, I've been wondering about this for a while. Am I the only one who remembers namespace buttons for Referenced by…, Trope Co, and Useful Notes that were implemented for a very brief amount of time a few months ago?
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Alice Twilight
page blanked Netherworld Chronicles. I suspect this is a creator trying to remove their own work, given that it's pretty much the only one they've ever edited.
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There seems to be a (sort of) duplication of pages. There's a AxisPowersHetalia.South And Southeast Asia, as well as an AxisPowersHetalia.South And South Eastern Asia. The images used are different, though, and the latter hasn't been indexed.
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How do we request a title change for a work page, and a redirect, when a serial work changes its name without rebooting into a new series? (The work in question is the webcomic Heavenly Nostrils, which the Go Comics syndicate yesterday renamed Phoebe and Her Unicorn.)
Edited by AliceMacheropenNo Title Webcomic
I'm worried. Someone removed my Goku versus Superman DMOS for Death Battle. His excuse was that it had too many caps and italics, never mind OTHER tropes doing the EXACT SAME THING. Anyway, I reposted, but removed the italics and the caps, but now I'm afraid he's going to delete it AGAIN. Isn't DMOS supposed to be OPINION? He says my only complaint was that Goku lost, but that is MY right to say if I consider that a Dethroning Moment of Suck, isn't it? And I see lots of DMOS around that are far less specific than mine, and yet he STILL deleted!
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ComicBook.PS 238 Though in the Comic Book name space, is cropping in Webcomic sections as well. Since it started in print before being going online, which section should it be under?
I only ask because Webcomic.Girl Genius is also an example of something that started in print, but is now online.
Edited by TheUnsquishedopenNo Title Webcomic
Hello,
I've been working on the work page of Zebra Girl for a while now. Recently I decided to create a "characters" page for it (here
).
Since this is the first time I'm doing this, I met two problems, and I seek your wisdom and input in order to improve the pages:
- I moved several tropes to the "characters" page. However, I'm not exactly sure what is the actual policy when it comes to tropes which can be listed both on the main page and on the characters page (for YMMV or Trivia tropes, it's easy, the website itself warns the editor if some of those aren't in the right section). Should I do my best to keep those tropes listed on both pages if possible and writing more detailled examples on the characters page? Should I not bother with listing a trope in the main page if it can be listed on a characters page, or is it the other way around?
- Spoilers. The comic is over 15 years old, and some events of the story affected the plot greatly (namely, Sandra going nuts, becoming an evil and cruel demon and hurting everyone for her own pleasure, including her former friends; it takes a rather long story arc for her to realize what she has done and become The Atoner... kinda. On a side note, the cast page of the webcomic doesn't hide this fact). It is not exactly a Foregone Conclusion, but everything prior to this led to this specific turn of events, and a good part of the tropes refer to this. So I'm beginning to wonder if I should just remove any spoiler tags related to this, in order to make the articles easier to read.
Thank you in advance for your time and advices.
Edited by NonoRobotopenNo Title Webcomic
We have resolved that a work that would otherwise be a webcomic would be using the Manga/ namespace if it receives an anime adaptation. But does this prevent indexing the work concerned in Main.Webcomics, or one of its sub-lists?
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1240 UFP is removing the markings from commented out Zero Context Examples on Zoophobia, without bothering to fix any of the examples.
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Another Blindsprings issue. There is some Natter and Example Indentation violations in the Moral Event Horizon entry (to give an example of how bad it is, the entry is styled like a Profressional Wrestling Match)
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Editor Ross N has sparked the start of an edit war on Characters.The Order Of The Stick The Order Of The Scribble.
The issue at hand is the trope Non-Standard Character Design, which I have seen widely misused plenty of times already, so I'd like some opinions about its exact scope.
From its description, it applies to character designs that clearly stand out with the rest of the art style, making it almost appear like it is from another work. However, some editors insist in using for "slight variation over the standard design," even though it is still obvious which work they belong to.
Edited by StFanopenNo Title Webcomic
I'm looking at a trope entry in a work page that's basically 4 parts natter and "arguably" to 1 part actual trope. I have no idea how to salvage what bits of actual information are stuck in the natter parts.
Am I justified in just pulling the whole entry, natter and all, to the discussion page so it can be sorted out by committee?
(For the record, it's the Double Standard entry in Schlock Mercenary)
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Looking for a third opinion in Characters.Gunnerkrigg Court Annies Inner Circle discussion section.
Does Renard's refusal to speak with Anthony constitute Poor Communication Kills?
Trope requires on characters breaking previously established characterization to keep a problem going, Idiot Ball a la mode, when normal communication would resolve the problem post haste.
I argue that it does, as Renard's shown that he'll do all kinds of things he hates doing, in this case speak with Anthony, a man he hates, for his loved ones, in this case Antimony.
425599167 says it doesn't because Renard is doing it on purpose and the trope doesn't count if the character is intentionally withholding information.
Contested entry:
- Poor Communication Kills: The given reason Anthony separated Renard and Annie is that he believes Renard is a danger to her and is unwilling to accept second-hand accounts to the contrary but Renard has made no attempt to make his case, or even interact with Anthony at all, despite several weeks spent alone with him in total silence and at least two attempts by Anthony to speak with him. Considering Renard has previously shown he'll do things he doesn't like for those he loves, speaking civilly with someone he hates for Annie's sake shouldn't be that big a sacrifice.
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Stjepan Sejic's web-based fancomic Twitch will be published as an official comic book in Fall 2015 under the name Switch. Can this page be moved to ComicBook/Switch?
Edited by RjinswandopenNo Title Webcomic
SugarWiki/Watchmen seems to be like some kind of hoax or joke. That alleged "Saturday Morning Watchmen" show never existed, it's just a parody made for You Tube, mixing the dark Watchmen with the light style of 80's animated shows. It claims to be a 80's animated show, but it really isn't (see here
).
What should be done with a page like this? Should we rewrite it somehow to clarify what it really is? Does it make sense to have a page for a mere you tube video? Should we delete it? Should we link it somewhere else in the watchmen related pages? Should we leave it as it is?
Edited by GrigorII

This is kind of an odd one in that I know what the trope is, and what it was called. I remember there being an opposite trope to Girl on Girl Is Hot called Guy On Guy Is Ew, talking about how since most writers are straight males, girl on girl is more common than guy on guy. Only it seems to have vanished. Was the trope deleted, am I misremembering the name, or is this a case of the Mandela Effect?
(Told to post this here)