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A user has edited back examples troping a real person's life on Muammar Gaddafi under the justification of "There are several public figures who are troped across the site. Removing years of work for the sake of enforcing something that isn't even universally enforced is silly."
The guidelines for creator pages is relatively new as I recall, so I assume that's why it's not been completed removed. Plus, even if not every page has done it, I have seen numerous pages wiped of "examples of the creator" and even locked or cut-and-locked because of failing this rule. Not to mention they could always edit those by themself.
Edited by OldManHoOhopenNo Title Anime
I noticed a duplicate example on the Savage Wolves page:
- In Inu Yasha, one of the youkai him and his group encounter is a giant, manipulated wolf and his normal-sized pack. Later they encounter a village where everyone has been slaughtered by wolves, lead by a humanoid wolf-youkai named Koga. Eventually Koga turns out a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and they (usually) get along fine with him.
A little later in the Anime and Manga folder:
- Inu Yasha: The wolf-youkai tribe was infamous for eating humans and destroying entire human villages in the process. Kouga's tribe destroyed three human villages (including Rin's village, killing everyone there including Rin herself) before Inuyasha's group was able to catch him. After that first encounter Kouga became enamoured enough of Kagome to that he stops his tribe from eating humans and from that point on he became Noble Wolf.
I haven't watched Inu Yasha, so my questions are:
- How to word the example (no reason to have two entries for the same thing)?
- What should be done with such duplicate examples in the future? What is the best place to ask for help if I am not familiar with the work in question?
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This is the first time I'm actually snitching on myself, but I think it's best for a mod to show up on the discussions page for the character sheet for the movie Frozen because I got into a heated argument with a troper regarding abusive parents ,before things get ugly fast.
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I don't usually make a big deal about grammar and spelling (and I'm sure I've made more than a few mistakes myself), but ZI Ltoid 1991 seems to have a particularly poor command of the English language.
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So this is an old issue, but there's a Spell My Name With An S disagreement on ∀ Gundam with Loran/Rolan here
. Currently the pages have been edited twice to change Loran to Rolan.
On the one hand, 90% of the time I've seen it, it's Loran, and in the one official localization of anything Turn A (thank you, Development Hell...) his name is Loran. On the other, Sinxxx points out a Retconned translation of Ple/Purus in said official source, but since that source is currently the only English translation, I'm inclined to say that we should stick with Loran. (ETA: According to the character trope page, the official site and artbooks went with Rolan, but I'm pretty sure those are in Japanese, not English.)
Personally I prefer Loran, but I know the Gundam Wiki uses Rolan. There's also an instance of the name being written Rolan in the anime itself, but L/R's have been confused before in Gundam (e.g. Mobile Fighter G Gundam's "Rock On" for "Lock On" in one episode) so I wouldn't call that hard evidence. It would probably be a good idea to settle it rather than have someone switch them all every few months.
Edited by eowynjediopenNo Title
I have forgotten the thread for reporting problem ads. Lately I have been getting this annoying auto-play ads that will play in the background or under each other even if you have stopped the previous ad or muted it. Some of the ads have false stop and sound buttons. They are flash ads making it hard to grab the info for the ad itself but they only seem to be appearing in the bottom of the pages.
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Hm... While he does prove a point in Go-Busters being labeled the Black Sheep of Tokusatsu, do you think May Incon's edits
are... good?
I ask because I'm not sure myself.
Edited by Psyga315openNo Title
We have a YKTTW right here
where the title is currently a snowclone of Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil. The trope is about portraying characters who own/sell slaves as being on a higher level of evil than other characters. So the name would seem to work since they're basically used in the same way.
There's currently debate going on about whether or not the name itself would be Flame Bait or not, because people think editors will compare the two as morally lesser or worse than each other. Given that Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil is a locked page should we avoid snowcloning that name? Asking the mods mostly who know why that page was locked.
Edited by xanderiskanderopenNo Title
Not asking for suspension since this troper is the only other constant contributor to Nanatsu No Taizai other than myself, however I kinda request for somebody more experienced and knowledgeable than me to help fellow troper 15sok in regards to his edits
. Most of it just involves grammar which I have already informed him, but I don't know what else I can do to aid him other than grammar checking his sentences.
There's also him also making some extra subpages for Nanatsu No Taizai like the monster subpage. I don't know what's the right course to deal with them but I kinda feel some of them don't warrant their own separate pages yet at least based on the number of contributors and content both from the manga itself and what is already written here. The series is still rather under-appreciated and relatively new that these few subpages at the moment seem rather superfluous rather than add wiki love. Like adding extra rooms to a house whose foundation is not yet satisfactory.
Anyone willing to help 15sok out is appreciated. I believe his edits are all in good faith but I don't think I have the experience and knowledge to properly and correctly aid him in areas beyond what I know.
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undercapacitor removed an example in Dethroning Moment/Webcomics with the following edit reason: "Removed an extremely subjective opinion that is not shared by any other MS reader I've ever met - Episode 21 is considered to be one of the coolest of the series, I myself consider it the best one, and it has helped to bring in more attention to the series and introduce new users to it. This clearly does not belong here, as the rules of this page suggest this should not be a subjective view of a small minority."
Edited by MagBasopenNo Title Videogame
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.ProfessorLaytonVSAceAttorney
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ProfessorLaytonVSAceAttorney
Issues involving raging at Layton being a Spotlight-Stealing Squad when his name is in the title of the game.
Example:
"* Dude, Not Funny!: Layton, the Spotlight-Stealing Squad of this game, calling himself a "mere side character" in the German version of the game."
" Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Even thought he's absent for a good part of the game."
Edited by lalalei2001openNo Title
Is there official policy on splitting up work pages into the different installments?
Right now, Discar and I are having a disagreement. There's a series called The Mistborn Adventures, by Brandon Sanderson. So far, only the first book in the series, The Alloy of Law, has been released. (The books aren't very long either. The Alloy of Law has about the same length as an early Harry Potter book, and the next book will be roughly the same.) The page for this series was called "The Alloy of Law", and treated this as the name of the whole series. I moved the page to "The Mistborn Adventures", fixed up its indexs, and made the Alloy of Law pages redirects to the new pages for "The Mistborn Adventures".
However, Discar says that when the second book, Shadows of Self, comes out, we have to split up the page into pages for the individual books, even though the books aren't that long and the page is only at 40K characters.
I'm arguing that we can just keep the tropes on the page together, or, if we need to, split the Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self tropes into separate folders on the Mistborn Adventures page. On the other side, Discar says that it's TV Tropes policy that each page must be split up into individual pages for the separate works within it.
Who's right here? Do we have to split up the page when the new books come out, or is it okay to keep them on the same page?
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Whoa.
We've got some serious self-vandalism that really doesn't belong as well as a heavily inflammatory attack on another troper within it.
Also, more than one angry edit since then.
In addition
, trying to get people to make other self-deprecating edits. Seems he has a misunderstanding of what the wiki is for. And it's not to take out your anger on things.
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Editor rfgamefanatic
has issues with Zero Context Examples, and Example Indentation. What really worried me though was that he put himself as an example of Bad Ass Boast on the I Wanna Be The Guy main page
complete with This Troper.
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Yet Another Spoiler Question, yes. For trope names like Dead All Along on the character page, the best thing is to move them to the Main space, right? As they can't be spoiler-tagged anymore and just having them there is a spoiler in of itself.
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Looking back, I feel we need something to promote newer formatting policies on a widespread fashion, just so we don't have to report every single policy violator and needlessly burden the moderators with something that could have been avoided.
The following policies:
- Administrivia.Zero Context Example
- Administrivia.Handling Spoilers
- Administrivia.Wick Namespace Migration
- Administrivia.Conversation In The Main Page
Need a major push, and should be way more pronounced in Administrivia.How To Write An Example, of which I believe is simply not promoted enough by itself.
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I'm not an expert in quote guidelines (I myself never added any), but one of the latest edits in A-Cup Angst enlarged way too much the top quote, almost completely taking the height of the image at the right! I'm sure not all of that dialogue is relevant to ilustrate the trope.
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So on the Batman Beyond page, Troper/Ozzie removed some entries because they are from the Batman Beyond comics based on the series and not from Batman Beyond itself. The edit reason was that they belong on their own page. Except that kind of is their page. So should the deleted entries go back up? If they don't go there, where should they go?
Edited by XSpectreGreyX

A bit of technical problem to report which I think doesn't require an entire forum.
Noticed this while looking at the Generation Xerox, but it seems that it and several other tropes listed in Literature/Overenskommelser are being indexed under Literature/Overenskommelser. Basically the literature page is acting as if it is an index page. Tried looking in the novel's page itself for the source of the problem but couldn't seem to find it at least from my perspective. Not exactly sure what's happening.