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openNo Title Literature
How do I ask for troper attention to a work? as far as I can tell, I am the only one who has done any work on The Spellmonger Series in almost a year. It needs more work, but I can't do it all by myself
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I love the Tear Jerker Pages. They are amazing...until you find self insertions aka Troper Tales. Seriously, I would remove them but I want to be sure if its kosher. Also some TT like entries are so ingrained we are bound to just do away with some of the examples entirely. So I wanna ask before I do anything.
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The third paragraph of The Abridged Series contains a violation of Examples Are Not Recent that I don't know how to fix by myself.
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Is it generally accepted that A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing refers specifically to characters passing themselves off as nicer or more harmless than they are? The laconic right now is very broad - just "Character hides their true self" - and the one paragraph of trope description on the page is not a lot of help. I'd like to fix it (because I was spending some time looking for an "obfuscating niceness" kind of trope and realized this is probably it).
(I haven't changed anything yet, but separate issue: it's littered with ZCE and misplaced Ass in a Lion Skin literal examples.)
Edited by LythandeopenNo Title
Alberich
has uncommented all Zero Context Examples
on Lohengrin with the edit reason "If you think the examples need more context, add it yourself."
Can a mod talk to him, please?
Edited by LordGroopenNo Title
Question: the fact that some (real-life) persons see something as Unfortunate Implications can be itself an example of Unfortunate Implications? I am questioning this because of the recent edit war between Purr Elise and Eagal.
openNo Title Western Animation
I asked a question in the Ed Edd n Eddy character's page discussion, but I never got an answer and I don't know where else to ask. Should we moved to Ship Tease trope in the 'all three Eds' folder, since it has to do with all three of them?
Also...I'll be blunt. In the E En E Ho Yay page should we make a folder in the page involving all three of the Eds(like they did with say the South Park Ho Yay page? I'd do it myself, but I wanted to play the safe side and ask.
Ah, while I'm here, I'll also ask this. Should we also put Single Woman Seeks Good Man in Nazz's character section, since she shown hints of liking Edd(May I have this Ed?) or should it remain in the Ship Tease example?
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I noted the following Franchise Original Sin example in Pokémon (Anime):
"Looking at the entire anime, one of the main driving forces of its Periphery Hatedom is the fact that the anime takes too much liberty in defying the in game mechanics, but Kanto is often exempt from this hate due to Nostalgia Filter. What we have to remember is that breaking of in game mechanics was a tradition that started right from the moment Pikachu was able to defeat Brock's Rock/Ground type Pokemon with Electric attacks."
My question is about the mention of Periphery Hatedom. And the fact that the example in question links itself to it.
Edited by MagBasopenNo Title Anime
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Anime.WhenMarnieWasThere&more=t
Is Bait-and-Switch Lesbians really a non-YMMV trope? it seems too opinionated to be on a main page like this. It was actually the first entry posted on the page itself, before the trope was even made! :\
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Posting this here for opinions and to avoid Edit Warring.
A while back, I changed an entry in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire to remove the use of a Fan Nickname (EVs) and replace it with the official term (base stats). Karjam P just reverted it because base stats refers to a different mechanic... that has no official name and is technically a Fan Nickname itself when used to refer to said mechanic.
I was under the impression that wiki policy has us use official terms over Fan Nicknames whenever possible, especially since this Fan Nickname is used by official materials for something else. Thoughts?
Bulbapedia article for reference to the EV mechanic (officially base stats)
and what the fans call base stats.
openNo Title Film
I apologize for the unusually poor style in the example for Twilight: Los Angeles I left on Keep Circulating the Tapes; right now, I feel screwed over due to not just my DVD recorder refusing to capture it at all but also PowerDirector dropping frames on an attempted recording of the last broadcast for the foreseeable future. Times like these, I really wish my favorite programs would be released on DVD. I also apologize if I'm not making any sense; I feel so angry about the situation, I don't know if I'm even making sense to MYSELF.
openNo Title Live Action TV
So given the number of Netflix original series and the like... what separates Live-Action TV from a Web Video?
Just seems odd to me that these series get listed as Live-Action TV even though they never come onto the TV itself. From the Web Video page: please note that, to fall under Web Video, a work must have first been posted or be available primarily on the Internet. A television program that's rebroadcast on the network's website or You Tube should still be listed under Live-Action TV and use the Series namespace. By that criteria, Netflix original series should go under Web Video (Netflix, after all).
openNo Title Videogame
Someone keeps trying to shoehorn A Nazi by Any Other Name into the Garrosh section, despite Warcraft's orcs being pretty much inspired by myths of Vikings, and Mongolian Hordes, and otherwise not fitting the trope as defined on the A Nazi by Any Other Name page which states that examples that believe themselves to be a Master Race, but don't otherwise partake in of other Nazi ideology or imagery shouldn't be listed as an example.
This same individual keeps trying to rewrite the Garithos entry to paint him as a Noble Bigot, and Kael'thas entry to say he was evil all along despite Metzen, the writer himself, saying Kael'thas was a tragic character, and that Garithos racism drove him to villainy. The Individual continually insults Metzen on his reasons for editing.
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Whoops. I screwed up with the edit lock and accidentally deleted two things from Final Fantasy XIV - Antagonists. I'd put them back myself, but one of them seems to be a massive spoiler that I really don't want to look at until I've cleared the new expansion's storyline and experienced it for myself. Would someone mind making that fix?
openNo Title Literature
Looking for an opinion on certain creator edits before I, er, make some -
By and large, I figured the best policy creator-wise would be to leave the work page alone, myself, being obviously biased and, well, it's for the readers to decide what's appropriate to put there.
But here's the case I'm wondering about: what about errors on matters of fact (i.e., not opinions or views about the work, but statements about things described therein that directly contradict the work itself). I get people finding the books through the trope page and would rather not have 'em potentially doing so under false pretenses, so...
Cool? Not cool? Other thoughts?
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Is there any sort of penalty for launching a YKTTW without adequate hats? It's Vapor Queen, which has been discussed here before for having an incredibly dense description and no examples. The description is now slightly less dense and there are a handful of examples, but the only wicks are indexes and overall I can't really say that its brief stint in YKTTW polished it much. Admittedly I personally promised the sponsor that I would give their YKTTW a more conclusive concrit session than I did, but it was published before I could get around to it!
I'd just go ahead and message the sponsor myself, but it would be the second time I've done it — the first time was to tell them to make a YKTTW instead of just launching a page — and I would kind of like some official guidance on this before telling them again that the page should be taken down and banished back to YKTTW, especially as they, y'know, tried to give YKTTW a shot and apparently just didn't really enjoy the introduction of a review board into what is ostensibly a freely-editable wiki.
Please advise.
Edited by calmestofdovesopenNo Title
How does the Self-Demonstration subpage work? I saw it the other day on some trope page and would like to apply it now to Sound-Effect Bleep which could really use a clean up on the main page. How do I accomplish this?

Are there any rules or guidelines for creating new trope pages for Fan Fictions? That is, are there any requirements of the Fan Fiction itself, in regards to length, popularity, or anything of the sort?