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A Page Migration Question:
I'm getting ready to migrate the page Anime.Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu to match its English title, Haré+Guu. Two questions come up for me:
- While the titles appearance is easily customized, how do I portray it in Wikiword? At first glance one would assume Hare And Guu, but the dub itself says "Hare Guu" in its episode previews, so I assume I should go by that.
- I need to double check which came first, but i know this series has a manga, though only the anime ever came to the US. If the manga was first (and I think it was) should I migrate the page to the manga namespace?
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Quick question: Does Jerkass Has a Point only apply if it's acknowledged in-universe? A lot of the examples seem to be about fans thinking a jerkass character was right despite the narrative or creator saying otherwise, but the trope itself isn't listed under Audience Reactions so I'm inclined to think this is misuse.
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Someone please remind me—the Quotes subpage for a work should only contain quotes actually from the work itself, or quotes from supplemental material like the DVD commentary, etc., or Word of God at the least—it should not contain quotes by critics or pundits or the Riff Trax of the movie.
Correct/not correct?
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I'm just curious, I added a Dude, Not Funny! entry to the YMMV page of an article and it was removed later that day by another troper who cited as the reason that only in-universe examples are allowed to be posted. Is this true? I have seen Dude, Not Funny! EVERYWHERE on the YMMV pages of many works citing instances of the show or creator playing something really sick for laughs that the general audience didn't find amusing. Are all of those entries on all of those YMMV pages really against the rules, or did the person who removed it mistakenly read the instructions on the page itself that only in-universe examples are allowed to be posted on the main page for Dude, Not Funny! itself?
Incidentally, the troper also said the same thing regarding the trope Love It or Hate It, so while I'm at it I guess I should ask if that removal should be undone too.
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What's the rule for Self-Demonstrating stuff in regular pages again?
Because during a Wiki Walk I ran into this character sheet
. The entry for character "Nick Mallory" is written in a self-demonstrating style. It's kinda funny and I don't think it harms the page much, but I also seem to recall that there was some debate about this issue here before, so I figured I'd ask if that was legit.
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On Reed Richards Is Useless, the user swagnushammersmith added an entirely spoiler tagged example for the movie Sharknado 3. I removed the spoiler tags, on the grounds that such extensive spoiler tags generally make examples useless, and that suggested that he should rephrase the example so it can stand on its own without needing spoilers.
Now he just added the spoiler tags back, without making any other changes. I don't want to make any further changes myself to avoid an edit war, so here I am. What should be done, if anything?
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While working on the Real Life People Cleanup Project
, I came across UsefulNotes.Wilt Chamberlain. Since we do trope sports, do examples on athletes' pages that refer specifically to sports count as works, or would they still be considered troping of real life? Also, what about subjective pages for athletes that concern sports?
Also, what's the policy on tropes on pages like UsefulNotes.The World Cup? It has three subpages of them, but then again, that in itself isn't proof that they're allowed...
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Question about a possible name migration. My project this time is Manga.Daily Life With Monster Girl. Usually this is somewhat straightforward, but I'm not sure just what English title to use here. The recently started anime is on Crunchyroll
as Monster Musume Everyday Life With Monster Girls while the English version of the manga is advertised as Monster Musume, with the "Everyday Life" part as more of a subtitle (see here
◊). Though sites like Amazon & Barnes & Noble simply advertise it as Monster Musume.
My question here is which title should I use: Monster Musume by itself, Everyday Life with Monster Girls by itself, or the full title as seen on Crunchyroll?
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This time, instead of the barrage of SB 69 themed questions here and on Trope Finder I'm gonna post something else. I found this Mary Sue entry on YMMV.Himouto Umaru Chan:
- Mary Sue: Umaru. She gets whatever she wants one way or another, everyone who disagrees with her is mocked by the story and people who are not completely under her spell are seen as weird by everyone else.
- This can be disputed in a number of ways, though. While Umaru may be overly idealized (All that high fructose corn syrup going into her system and yet she's fit? Not to mention the rumors of her wealthy background, which are being backed up by recent foreshadowing), the universe does not necessarily warp itself to fit her needs all the time, and it's somewhat plausible for her situation to exist, as the comedy is derived from her acting mature outside the home and childish within it or at the arcade. She's intelligent, but she chooses to be immature anyways, in the vein of Calvin. Sometimes her own flaws hold her back from achieving her childish goals, and it is shown several times that Taihei *is* within his own power to put his foot down if he feels like it, as a surrogate parent for Umaru (holding back her pocket money and limiting her purchases, for instance, or not buying the car she wanted to get from a commercial). Furthermore, she does undergo Character Development over the course of the manga, starting to think of others before herself and realizing how much Taihei does for her, which is probably a lot more than Calvin ever experienced in his own strip. As of chapter 116, she's starting to consider abandoning her at-home persona completely. Plus, it's comedy, and Calvin isn't being called an overly idealized character either.
The Wall of Text that is the subbullet seems to reek of Justifying Edit. And I wnat opinion on what to do with this.
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Can anyone help check the content of Analysis.Musical World Hypotheses? It seems like the content was originally from the trope's WMG subpage, and was moved when the writer realized tropes aren't supposed to have WMG subpages. But I'm not too familiar with the trope itself, so I'm not sure if the entry can actually work as an analysis.
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Disney Infinity has some issues someone may need to look at. This page is full of Zero Context Examples, many characters don't have tropes, and the pictures are misaligned with the character pages. I would try to fix it myself, but I'm on a tablet right now...
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Fuel Meter of Power has... some issues. The page itself said that it should be merged with Cast from Lifespan for starters.
Can something be done here?
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Noting it here that Troper Micpaws appears to be going on some sort of bowdlerizing campaign. Several of their edits remove any mention of homophobia. Doesn't matter if it's being portrayed in a negative or positive light, if the subject comes up at all they just nix it entirely.
Examples include (in order of appearance on their edit history
, newest first):
- Removing all entries involving the video "GOD HATES POOCHYENA" from Funny.Retsupurae Slowbeef And Diabetus
- Changing "The Obligatory Swearing and homophobia" on Funny.Vinesauce to "The Obligatory Swearing" (yet oddly ignoring the subsequent sentence "Belger is renamed "Mayor Faggot" for one.")
- Removing "he makes a rather homophobic joke towards a rather androgynous boss" on a DSP Plays Skyward Sword entry on Horrible.Lets Play
- Completely removing Author's Saving Throw from YMMV.Tomodachi Life
- Removing a related mention about same-sex marriages from Awesome.Tomodachi Life.
They've done productive non-bowdlerizing edits as well in-between, so I had to dig a bit to find all that. They'd evidently be a perfectly fine Troper if it weren't for these.
The only one that appears to have been reverted is the Retsupurae one, myself being the one who reverted it; I sent a stock "no removing content from a YMMV page" PM about it (those count as YMMV pages, right?), but began wondering if that was premature and that they just moved it to another page, double-checked their edits, and discovered this repeated bowdlerization instead. So... yeah. I guess we'll have to wait to see how they respond to that PM?
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How much of Darker and Edgier is example-worthy?
I've been working on the Gravity Falls page and I'm a bit stumped as to what to do on this part, if anything, so I wanted to ask how a Darker and Edgier example should be formatted and whether this even qualifies.
First question: does Darker and Edgier have to be referring to previous incarnations of the work itself? Like, a gritty reboot of Ninja Turtles is obviously Darker and Edgier, but does "Darker and Edgier than Disney's usual fare" count?
Second question: Do examples of each individual thing that's Darker and Edgier merit their own bullet points? Right now, the example has a long list of bulleted individual elements, like separating each account of actual blood into its own example.
Darker and Edgier is a reference to the work as a whole and not a given part of it, so how should it be presented on a Work page?
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Okay now I decided to echo Karxrida's concerns about the sheer page of The Infinite Loops because I find splitting it into subpages (3 subpages for the works getting looped in + one for either The First Crash or Innortal's original snips) to be rather ideal in this case
the numbers at the bottom left read 522772 and 44 FYI and the page itself is on Overly Long Pages
The question is "Should I split the page"
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Relating to The King's Epic Adventure: Should we go ahead and make a page for Geibuchan himself/herself since there's a page for their most notable work and not the creator themselves?
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In cases like Getting Crap Past the Radar, if the Work has its own page, should the trope itself be deleted off the Work page?
It seems to me that entries like
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: Has its own page
aren't really contributing much, but I may be wrong.

Searching for 'humans series' brings up a search result which seems to contain article text, however the article itself is blank with no apparent history.