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openDeleting a trope from a work page Live Action TV
I find myself very reluctant to just delete something someone else posted, but while watching the work and reading its tropes page side-by-side I realized an entry was wrong. Posting an additional comment with a correction would be natter. Should I just delete it, or ask a moderator to do so, or what is the right thing?
The page is the Doctor Who recap page "The Green Death" and reads:
- Toxic, Inc.: We never find out what Global Chemicals does make other than toxic waste.
While watching the episode I saw we do indeed find out what Global Chemicals makes: it’s an oil refinery with a new process that produces 25% more usable fuel from each barrel of crude oil. The new process however produces more toxic waste as a by-product (where the extra mass comes from is not discussed).
openIs this a trope or a one-off? Live Action TV
I'm struck by a particular character in Sea Quest DSV, named General Guzmano, who's played by Luis Guzman - it's strange to me that he plays a minor character with such a strangely similar name to his own, but... NOT appearing as himself(?)
Came here looking for the trope name and some more examples, but found nothing :-(... Maybe this isn't a typical enough thing to have a name? Maybe it's not even a trope kind of thing? I'd love to know
openDetective with a Twist? Live Action TV
I've seen a lot of shows & movies where the main character is a cop/detective/'helps the police' who is a ghost, vampire, zombie, android, dog, dinosaur, immortal, Satan, and many, many more. How would you classify this trope? I think it isn't quite the same as "Wunza Plot" or "They Fight Crime!" since it's specifically regarding the character herself as a sort of "detective with a twist" type rather than her relationship with another different, possibly more normal character (although that does often play a role).
Edit: I stumbled onto the page for "The Exotic Detective" which I think is the answer I was looking for.
Edited by kedarguruopenNo Title Live Action TV
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 Live Action TV
Regarding reality TV shows, are we allowed to trope entries that are not explicitly shown on the screen itself, but news from other sources?
resolved No Title Live Action TV
It seems someone's been adding examples pertaining to Selfie at the top of example lists, even if the lists are already alphabetized. While there's little risk of it happening with Selfie again for obvious reasons, whatever troper did this might do this again with some other series in the future.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Edit war on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The "Centipede" Group; I refuse to involve myself, but danielle is clearly in the wrong, continuing to remove examples without explanation. Possible sockpuppet? Must investigate further.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Ever since Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S02E08, "The Things We Bury", was broadcast, there are some like myself who believe Daniel Whitehall is a Complete Monster solely based on his actions in that episode. However, unlike those others, I have shown a perfect willingness to wait until his time on the show ends and have even helped remove his example until the proper time.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Would it count as Harsher in Hindsight if the creators blatantly meant for something to have meaning, but only after a certain reveal?
The point I'm referring to is from Series.Jane The Virgin. One woman uses her husband's frozen sperm to try to inseminate herself. At the time, it seems like a desperate attempt to get him to stay with her.
However, later on it's revealed she's a golddigger and it's just an attempt to keep him long enough for their prenup to kick in, thus giving her his money.
Still later on, it's revealed that it's his only sample and the only chance he'll ever have at having a child.
Is it Harsher in Hindsight when the creator intends for it to be harsher?
openNo Title Live Action TV
I just launched AuctionKings and I wanted to put an image up.
I've read through the Administrivia pages, but I'm still not 100% clear on what's acceptable. How do I tell if an image is legal for us to use?
I'll also take any general feedback on the page itself. Feel free to make updates yourself or suggest them to me.
openNo Title Live Action TV
I am a bit confused by the fact that the Creator.Adam West and SelfDemonstrating.Adam West pages are absolutely identical. Is there a point?
openNo Title Live Action TV
Over at the Game of Thrones S4E9: "The Watchers on the Wall" recap page we have troper mfarah ignoring a request to bring a contentious example to the discussion page and continuing to edit war. To give history to this; I thought the Idiot Ball examples were wrong for a variety of reasons listed in the edit reason and deleted them initially, mfarah added them back in with an edit reason responding with some arguments that weren't convincing. I commented them all out and pulled it to the discussion page, where the verdict was universally to cut them. mfarah just uncommented them without even looking at the discussion page.
Can a mod step in so this doesn't devolve into a full-out edit war? As it stands myself, Troll Brutal, Larkman and Hodor all weighed in on the discussion page and supported cutting it, mfarah is the only one pushing to keep them and can't be bothered to bring it to discussion.
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 Live Action TV
I moved a Boardwalk Empire
character from one category to another because his change of "camp" constitutes a season 4 spoiler by itself and is generally agreed not to do that for the current/last aired season out of courtesy in the indexes (like with the houses in Game of Thrones, where allegiances are spoilers and it was discussed that moving them around under their master houses defeats the purpose of the categories in the first place), so anyway I put the character in another
factually correct and less revealing category. All with edit reasons and all, but editor Mickey Doyle
, who moved the character there
in the first place, has reverted the correction without any edit reason or discussion whatsoever.
So It's up to me to sort it out? (It's a bit painful to articulate P Ms with people who don't use edit reasons, he should be the one justifying the changes, perhaps you can help me out here) Maybe this informal courtesy is not really sanctioned and characters pages can be spoilers-off.
edit : PM sent
Edited by TrollBrutalopenNo Title Live Action TV
Not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but how do you redirect a work page located in Main to a proper namespace? El Chavo Del Ocho would go under Live Action TV (it's a Mexican sitcom), but I never made a redirect myself so I'm dubious about how to do it here. Thanks in advance.
openNo 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 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
This can apply to other mediums as well, but I'm editing the character entry for Antonio from the cast of Power Rangers Samurai. Specificially, I'm adding the Iaijutsu Practitioner trope. Reading the Iaijutsu Practitioner page, I just discovered the existence of the Blade Spam trope as well (a Sub-Trope of Spam Attack), all of which apply to the character. Would I just list the Blade Spam subtrope by itself alphabetically (in the "B" section), or would I use the following format (in the "S" section)?:
Thanks in advance for the clarification.
Edited by fenyx4openNo Title Live Action TV
Okay, the WMG section for the TV horror-drama, Supernatural, is getting excessively crowded, with no order to any of the WMG.
I want to do folders (which I know how to make) or redirects to new pages (which I don't know how to do) for different categories, but I'm not kidding when I call that thing huge and disorganized. I don't have the time (in real life or in the short amount allowed for edit sessions) to do all that by myself, so I'm requesting backup/help/divine intervention from anybody willing.
Please?
P.S. I'd also like to know if I'm even allowed to do that.

Myself and another troper are having difficulty reaching consensus regarding definitions of Anti-Villain or {{Wild Card)) in relations to Ward. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Characters.MCUHYDRALeadership
the debate has reached agreements on some definitions and stuck on others. Both are us agree to disagree in the most polite of ways but both seeking closure. We both have given what we feel are good points just trying to reach consensus.
Edited by Tuvok