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openNo Title Anime
Eva Unit 01 un-commented a large number of ZCE tropes on the Characters.Negima Class 3 A without adding additional context with the edit reason "some tropes, I feel, don't really NEED examples". Requesting a moderator rollback the change. I also sent him a PM about the matter, so hopefully that end will be resolved shortly.
edit: He also did the same to Characters.Negima Ala Rubra.
editedit: Stand by, talking to him right now, he might fix it himself.
Edited by DiscaropenNo Title Live Action TV
Not a long time ago I added several entries to the Germans Love David Hasselhoff page (Live-Action TV sub-page). My examples were deleted with edit reason that "None of the Czech examples qualify as being more popular there than in Britain, really."
I carefully tried to give reasons why they are considered insanely popular here. There are examples similar to that on the page, e.g. Friends were never considered unpopular in the States, right? Other examples with Monty Python and Red Dwarf were left on the page untouched and it simply feels unfair. (I know a lot about that page since I was fixing its Example Indentation.)
Also, for now it is a YMMV trope. Popularity of a show at home and abroad could be measured objectively, but I would like to have equal treatment.
I would revert that myself, but I don't want to start Edit War so I thought I'd ask first.
Edited by XFlloopenNo Title Live Action TV
On The Walking Dead TV Show Main Characters, gonzalo deleted the note about not allowing Zero Context Examples and un-commented ZCE entries, after being told explicitly that wiki policy prohibited them when he previously uncommented ZCE entries (saying that they were self-evident), including being given a pointer to the thread on the subject.
Edited by NohbodyopenNo Title
I know page blanking is frowned upon because it looks like vandalism, but does it apply to a case where, for example, you come across a YMMV page for a work you're not familiar with and there's a single entry for a trope which belongs in the main page? Cutlisting in that case would be a bad idea because there's nothing wrong with the page itself, but leaving the incorrect entry there just seems wrong.
Edited by nemui10pm
openNo Title
Hi everybody!
I was planning to make a page for a very deserving site (this one: http://www.bouletcorp.com/)
and I realized I don't know whether to consider a blog or a webcomic. On one hand it's made of comics (the author is a professional comic artist), on the other there's no single plot, no characters outside the author himself, and the entries are those typical of a blog — a mix of everyday life, rants, flights of fancy and doodles. Where do you think it belongs? Can I put it on both the webcomic and blog pages?
openNo Title Videogame
Oh, I see Whitecroc already reported his own actions in Original War.
Long story short, his edits were pointless from the start. He picked already finished and mistake-proofed entries in the article and change them, creating not only language mistakes but also glaring errors toward game content. He removed or changed beyond recognition numerous tropes that are more than valid for the game, without any explanation of why doing so. When discussion was started, he didn't wait for any settlement, but just keep on editing the page, derailing it even further from the game content. Now the page is heavily vandalised, as his edits are half-made and with both language and content mistakes. Bonus point for starting the whole edit rampage under the guise of "removing grammar mistakes" and succumbing to them himself off the bat.
And I really don't see why I'm suppose to work with person who outright states that made mistakes and didn't bother to clean them up nor gives any reason why editing finished entries.
Edited by RysioPysioopenNo Title
So, how do I report someone who tells me to kill myself over PM? Guy's name is wolfafu, he even edited my troper page into some nonsense about me being a basement dweller who needed to die.
Here's the PM: Assholes like you make me lose my faith in humanity. Do the world a favor and commit suicide, dipshit. -wolfafu
Charming fellow.
Edited by SquigPieopenNo Title
Peryton put Yahweh and his angels in the LightIsNotGood.Religion page with "If Zeus is blasted, interest of fairness is demanded." as edit reason , i removed the example explaining in the edit reason that he is not evil in the religion itself, Peryton put it again with "Again, neither is Zeus. " in the edit reason.
Edited by MagBasopenNo Title Videogame
So I was browsing the Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain page and found out that the Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes page still exists. The problem being that Ground Zeroes is the prologue to The Phantom Pain and word of god says that both projects make up Metal Gear Solid V. While some third-parties are speculating that they will be seperate releases, but the trailer for the game itself shows parts from Ground Zeroes and Phantom pain in it, so there's no reason to keep the two seperated.
Where do I go to propose a merger of the two pages?
Edited by ShaokenopenNo Title Videogame
I'm editing the Character pages for Injustice Gods Among Us. Do you think that only tropes that apply to the characters that show up in the game should be listed there?
I'm talking about all the cameo characters listed in particular. Darkseid, Trigon, Atrocitus, Kilowog, Alfred, and the others.
Darkseid for starters: In his portrayal in the comics, He's one of the most powerful characters in the universe. He's worshiped as a god on his own planet and claims himself as one. He's just as powerful as he is smart, and he wants to eradicate all life in the universe.
In the game, he makes a five second cameo appearance during a stage transition where he grabs the character who gets thrown into his lair through the portal, smashes them into the ground, throws them back through the portal, and shoots his Eye Beams on the way out. That's it. Nothing that justifies any of his character backstory because he plays no importance to the story in the game.
Trigon as well. He's listed as the Big Bad for the Teen Titans. While this is true, the Teen Titans have nothing to do with the Injustice game's storyline. Trigon does show up as part of Raven's S.T.A.R. Labs missions in the game and in her super move, and deserves any tropes associated with him there, but not his entire backstory.
Alfred Pennyworth: What does being a Retired Badass who used to work at MI 6 have anything to do with his brief appearance in this series?
Yet Red Hoods Shadow insists on practically policing the page, making sure nothing gets by without his approval, and he insists that because the character is in the game, and that it is how they are portrayed in the comics, that it is justified to give these cameo characters full background tropes. Last week almost started an edit war over it, but I decided to back off to get this straightened out.
Other tropers agree on my standpoint that only tropes pertaining to the characters as they appear in the game or corresponding comic book (takes place in a seperate continuity from the rest of DC comics) should be listed.
Edited by DRCEQopenNo Title
I have a question to ask, and this seems like a good place to put it. Would I be able to include a quote from one of my liveblogs into a quotes page (if you're curious, the It Makes Sense in Context page) or would that not be allowed in the whole "shameless self promotion" thing?
Edited by Psyga315openNo Title
So what's our policy on using spoiler tags as poor-troper's trigger warnings? I try to sift through the wiki every once in a while to uphold the official "No trigger warnings except on Fanfic Recs" rule, but I've noticed that in some cases pages will have text (which does not constitute plot-spoiling revelations) spoilered out because it contains the word "rape" or references self-destructive behavior like cutting.
The Politician's Husband was an example of a page that contained a trigger warning in the work summary and spoilered "trigger text." I went ahead and removed that to bring it in line with the "no T Ws outside FFR" policy, but there's an accompanying work The Politician's Wife which, while the page lacks the explicitly-stated trigger-warning text in the summary, still contains "trigger spoilers" in the trope list.
My inclination is to remove them as their use is clearly intended simply to mask trigger-warning-related words and not to actually preserve plot, but as I'm not personally familiar with the work, I also of course don't want to accidentally ruin the plot by mistakenly unhiding a legitimate spoiler.
Can someone provide a little clarification on what to do in these cases? Kimya Dawson is another example of spoiler tags used in a non-plot context. I went ahead and removed them as well, citing the Wiki Talk discussion wherein "No warnings outside fanfic recs" was originally agreed upon and made official.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Edited by celticwhisperopenNo Title
Okay, I know of the using Darth Wiki itself for unpublished works.
Let's say, for instance, I'm making a game. If I have an actual page(or set of pages) via a website that has stuff on it about the game(for instance a moveset for each char, etc.), does this count as enough data to treat it as a Fan Game, or should it stay in Darth Wiki? I'm sure it stays in Darth Wiki till an actual demo of the game comes out, but I want to be absolutely sure.
openNo Title
Sandbox.Split Personality Tropes (edit: clarifying page) appears to not exist, yet an index for it appears at the bottom of pages, as seen on Talking to Themself, for example.
Edited by quanyailsopenNo Title
Tropers: Teh Nubkilr contributor page somehow made itself into an index. Several pages, such as Eve No Jikan have it listed at their bottoms.
Edited by ParableopenNo Title Music
Is it OK to do a Self-Demonstrating Article when it would fit the topic very well?
The reason I'm asking is that I want to make SEIKIMA-II not a redlink but a valid article about the band and tropes relating to it. I think self-demonstrating would work INCREDIBLY well here, since a huge part of SEIKIMA-II and its fandom was/is their "legend" and "mythos" about being demons from the moon who landed upon the earth.
Point being, would it be too Fan Myopia to write the article as self-demonstrating *if* as well as self-demonstrating it was accessible? I think that some hybrid of self-demonstrating + accessible is actually the only way a workable article could be made about them because they were one of the few Visual bands *never* to break character until their disbandment. (In fact, to this day, no one knows the lead singer's birth name at all - just his stage names of "His Excellency Demon Kogure" / "Demon Kakka.")
Also, the case of the page needs to be fixed for SEIKIMA-II to read Music/SEIKIMA-II.

I've tried to make two sockpuppets from the same IP address on the same day, for the sake of a Jojos Bizarre Adventure rolpelay. I now find myself unable to post on the fora: I can't put any text in the text fields. This distresses me. Is this temporary or permanent?
This is one of the sockpuppets. Normally I am The Handle
Edited by IDio