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On a particular page, a troper removed a listing of "Names to Run Away from Really Fast" because that page is an index. Looking it over, though, I don't see anything on the page itself that says you can't link to that page. And, indeed, there 4,640 examples to the contrary.
In any case, I can buy that the example belongs in one of the sub-categories for the page itself, but I can't find a single thing that says Names to Run Away from Really Fast can't be listed as a character trope.
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I just wanted to make sure: the Screw Yourself page, in the Fan Works section, has a few links to adultfanfiction.net. Such links are not kosher, right? Linking to NSFW sites is usually not allowed...
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This was a long time ago, so maybe the statute of limitations or whatever is up on this, but aerojockey left a rude editor's note on Characters.TheKingkillerChronicle
on June 18th last year. Specifically:
%% note
%% the entries for Felurian are deliberately lower-case, reflecting the orthography of her dialogue in the book.
%% if, for some reason, you think you would like to make everything "consistent" by capitalizing these entries,
%% please ask yourself whether you want to be "that guy" who shits on any tiny bit of fun he sees
%% thank you
While I was cleaning the page today (still needs more work), I deleted the rude part but left the rest.
Edited by DiscaropenNo Title Literature
A guy is
Edit Warring with non other than Fighteer himself in the Consider Phlebas page.
WTF.
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I was just wondering if anyone could tell me why the indexing doesn't work properly on the 5 subpages present in Woobie/Videogames. Reason I asked this is that I created a new subpage for Dark Souls, and added it to a mini-index on the media subpage. Then I find out all 4 other previous subpages have never been indexed properly either. I went out to change each subpage's page type, but to no avail. Could it be that the entire trope's indexing was wrong from the very start, given the Woobie/Videogames subpage itself is indexed under Imagelinks?
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I did something that was... probably wrong, but I don't think it really was. Either way, probably best to post here and explain myself.
There's a trope called Breakup Breakout.
It had a redirect called The Jannetty, which was deleted today.
I recreated it - I was reading the site, saw it redlinked, checked the forums for discussion, found none, assumed it had been deleted via oversight of some sort, and then after recreating it thought to check the cutlist (which I rarely go near), where I saw that it had been cutlisted by a guy whose reason was "Unused. had a couple wicks but they suggested misuse."
There was no misuse, however - at least not what I think of as misuse. It was helping rather than causing a problem, so even if it was technically against some rule or other, its presence was helping the wiki rather than harming it, and I'll explain why.
The Jannetty was named after Marty Jannetty, a guy who was on the bad end of a Breakup Breakout situation. Since being created a few years ago (and as I mentioned, never causing any problems nor any misuse), it has been used exclusively on Professional Wrestling character pages to refer to wrestlers who did not go on to success following a breakup. It redirected to Breakup Breakout because Breakup Breakout described the symptom adequately.
In other words, it was beneficial, caused no problems, and shouldn't have been deleted.
That being said if there's consensus it shouldn't exist, it's not my wiki. I recreated it without prior discussion because I thought it had been deleted in error, not because I don't know how to behave on TV Tropes.
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menotti
never seems to put a space right after a coma ("Then when he was upgraded to Paperinik New Adventures he got the Pi-kar which not only can fly,but it's ironclad,can repair itself,change form to be disguided and has too many features to be listed here."
). I'm going to fix several of the punctuation mistakes, but I'm worried he/she might not realize what's wrong.
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Is it okay if I make a Self-Demonstrating Article (character page) for Cartman from South Park?
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Back on February 3rd, I had natterfied MyTai over a piece of natter he/she had written on That Man Is Dead. But between yesterday and today, the troper is still inserting natter. See for yourself
.
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There's no specific person here and I don't know if I'm the only one seeing this, but it seems each of the Ultimate Spider-Man pages are starting to attract negative opinions and tropes. I say this because myself and several others have removed several tropes in the Main/Non-YMMV pages that come across as assumptions or "under-analysed". In other words, something that can be easily debated. For example, some have noted Spider-man is a [[Troll]] in the series because he jokes a lot and "dumbs himself down", which leads me to question "Wouldn't that make all comic reliefs a troll?"
I hope I'm not coming across as overly defensive towards the show. I understand that a lot of people don't like it, and I wouldn't go as far as to deny any legitimate fault it has. Though I can mostly see when it's just negativity for the sake of minor venting from the editors.
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Thought I'd bring this up here.
There was a whole discussion in which I participated regarding an entry siberia 82
had added under Game of Thrones regarding Heartwarming in Hindsight, which Captain Crawdad had deleted and brought to Discussion:
- In the Seven Kingdoms, marriage ceremonies end with the groom putting his cloak, bearing his house colours, around his bride, making her a part of his family. In Season 3, Loras talks about his boyhood dream of marrying a bride cloaked in beautiful green and gold brocade. Earlier in the show, Renly showed up at Loras' joust wearing a green brocade cloak, essentially copying the wedding tradition. Even after he marries Margaery, Renly continues to dress himself in Tyrell colours (e.g. the gold crown and armour). By his fashion choices, it's clear that Renly saw himself as Loras' "wife."
While the color observation seems to have been correct, I and others were arguing that Siberia 82 should put this kind of entry under WMG or Analysis, since it is speculative, as the producers'/costumer's intent is not known.
Well, I saw that siberia 82 had added this under Game of Thrones:
- Renly wears black clothing throughout Season 1 (black is one of colours of House Baratheon), but he sports a green brocade cloak (green is one of the colours of House Tyrell) when he watches Loras joust as a subtle way of showing his affection and support for the man he loves. Renly is essentially copying the Westerosi wedding practice of the bride being draped in a cloak featuring the colours of her husband's sigil, so his richly decorative green cape is a symbol of his commitment to Loras. Awww, how romantic!
I don't think that something can count as Heartwarming when it is not clear whether this was even intended (it's quite plausible, but it is also plausible Renly just wanted to wear something colorful for the Tourney- and in the books, he's described as looking to wear green and yellow, so it could just be the show being somewhat faithful to that).
Thoughts?
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On a very repeated basis, redmon has violated the guidelines of Example Indentation, and in each case I've tried to fix the issues, and even explained him/her via PM how examples should be sorted. No dice, and I really don't want to spend the rest of the day fixing the issues the trope is dropping despite being advised twice about formatting and the like; see for yourself
.
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I don't know what to say for this, whether it's allowed or not.
From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S4 E9 "Pinkie Apple Pie"
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Why my userpage doesn't have the "Contributor's Page" banner or the Contributors index?
EDIT: I can't even edit the Contributors index to add myself.
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A quick question. We have two pages for the same show right now: Web Video work FPS Russia and Creator FPSRussia. At the moment, I'm only aware of FPS Russia (the creator) having the single self-titled show. With the single show, should he have a separate Creator page? They're sharing the same tropes, if we got all the relevant examples written up on both pages we'd basically have two copies of the same page.
Otherwise, it needs some Wiki Magic. I'll cross-wick and reformat some stuff once I have a better idea of what to do with the pages.
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Sometimes it seems like every other or every third mention I come across of the Joker from Batman is potholed to SelfDemonstrating.The Joker. It bugs me tremendously, but that's not a good reason to removed the potholes.
Is there a good reason or guideline to remove that pothole?
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Since I am a brony and know I have some bias, I'm asking about there here instead doing it myself. The fandom reactions of the YMMV page seem to have become a soapbox for brony-bashing in certain areas:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic

I wanted to address the issue with using Spoiler tags to hide tropes on character sheets...so how come it's now forbidden to do that, because to me, I feel as though that tropes itself can be spoilers in my opinion.