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openTroper with a history of spam
Sheiam-akanda's edit history
is entirely edits to their troper page, vandalism to Laura Bailey, and the creation of spam subpages for Laura Bailey, all seemingly to self-promote.
openExcessive AlternateCharacterInterpretation + troper with an agenda
I'm bringing this up to address an issue of a character being troped based exclusively on Alternate Character Interpretation.
The problem character is Yui Ikari and the corresponding page is here. There have been dozens of edits dating back months
rewriting the character as a Well-Intentioned Extremist and a chessmaster. The issue is you have to subscribe hard to Alternate Character Interpretation and there's now a ton of contradiction in the character page claiming what's ambiguous and what's deliberate. In a nutshell, Yui's character is never given concrete motivations; everything she does is subject to ambiguity. But a lot of these edits are taking a hardline stance toward one specific interpretation of her character that contradicts the rest of the page.
I've seen the anime and most of the tropes that have been added are, at best, problematic, and others who have also watched the anime that I've discussed the matter with agree. Some samples:
- Abusive Parents: She deliberately fakes her death, traumatizing her son and making her husband grow emotionally distant from him, and subjects him to numerous traumas. Thing is, she did it all in an effort to protect his life.
- Cruel to Be Kind: No matter how one looks at her ambiguous moral compass, she is this at the very least, seeing how she did very deliberately inflict a serious emotional trauma on her son by faking her own death right in front of him, which decisively shaped his life and psyche in a very negative direction. However, she did so to enact her plan of allowing him and the rest of humanity to get the right to choose their own fate during Instrumentality, something SEELE would have denied all of them.
- More Deadly Than the Male: In The End of Evangelion, it is made clear that she was a much more shrewd and accomplished schemer than Gendo could ever hope to be, having managed to outmanouvre SEELE even though her physical presence in the world had been severely limited for more than a decade and she only had one unambiguous ally (Fuyutsuki) on her side.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: She is not sadistic by any measure, but she is willfully cruel to the point of being on the borderline of an Anti-Hero and an Anti-Villain and has a profoundly soft, soothing voice.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her goal is to counter SEELE and The Angels and protect Shinji's life. To do this, she'll emotionally torment both her husband and son by faking her death, make said son's friend die horribly in front of his eyes by refusing to save her and temporarily glass humanity to take down SEELE's potential for regaining power.
All of these tropes are contradicted or otherwise called into question elsewhere on the page in regards to the ambiguity that surrounds most of Yui's character.
Almost every edit seems to be the work of one user, Orangutans who TBH I think is troping with an agenda. I think the culmination was when said user brought up a post
in the Magnificent Bastard cleanup thread that relied, almost exclusively, on said Alternate Character Interpretation.
Other tropers have taken issue with this before, on the page itself; back in October another user wiped a bunch of edits that were equally ambiguous and invited Orangutans to use the Discussion page
, but the offer was never taken up. The other user subsequently added this
Ambiguous Situation trope in an attempt to mollify the situation, but that trope and others like it are still being contradicted by the problem edits Orangutans has left.
Can we take a deeper look at this?
Edited by Scraggleopen Troper vandalizin’ character page. Videogame
Prest Otron has been tamperin’ Five Nights at Freddy's: First Generation, specifically the quotes. They changed them from in-game quotes to attacks on the FNAF fandom. Here is an example:
From:
To:
Dunno if they have been on other pages.
Edited by DelibirdaopenEdit war on YMMV.Punisher2022
There appears to be a rather lengthy edit war going on the YMMV page for Punisher (2022).
- On June 5th 2024, bigbossdiego rewrote a large section of the page
and removed Fanon Discontinuity. Their edit reason states that the page is incredibly biased, particularly towards one character.
- On February 22nd, Jondoe1265 made two
edits
- the first changing Broken Base to Critical Dissonance and readding Fanon Discontinuity, the second being a rewrite.
- On February 23rd, bigbossdiego undid these changes
.
- On February 24th, Jondoe1265 readded them
, claiming that the people giving the comic praise are critics who don't like The Punisher.
- About three hours later, bigbossdiego undid the changes again
, claiming that people on sites like League of Comic Geeks and Reddit enjoyed the series.
- On February 25th, Jondoe1265 reverted it back again
, accusing bigbossdiego's edits of censoring negative opinions of the work.
- Hours later, Bigbossdiego clapped back
before Jondoe reverted it again
.
The work itself seems to already be fairly divisive going off YMMV's edit history. But this is an edit war, right?
Edited by SkylaNoivernresolved HuniepopCompletionist
Huniepop Completionist has a habit of adding ROCEJ-breaking edits to pages, multiple of them having been brought up in the ROCEJ cleanup thread. One of them was a Hindsight shoehorn that amounted to "The cameo by [creator] can come across as this after their later transgressions"...but on overdrive. Even after I sent notifiers, they replied back to me today about the edit in an aggressive manner, accusing me of being wrong and not understanding the trope. I'll post the HIH entry here and let you decide if it breaks ROCEJ or not. This is from Primeval:
- The cameo by wildlife documentary host Nigel Marven in season 3: episode 4 can come across as mean spirited when in a 2025 youtube interview
Nigel cited Primeval's fall season airdate as the reason for the cancellation of Prehistoric Park which Nigel starred in.note Prehistoric Park aired in the summer in the UK which meant that children who were most likely to watch it were outside instead of inside watching tv. The show did have amazing DVD sales and was a hit overseas, but that was after it's cancellation While Nigel didn't hold any ill will towards Primeval, the cameo now comes across as a bit childish and mean as in it Nigel portrays a Jerkass TV reporter and is killed off, with it heavily being implied that the reporter is meant to be a direct caricature of Nigel himself. As if the show is gloating about ending his series and implying he's secretly a jerk off camera.
Also the rest of their edit history
and reports of there edits in the cleanup thread
for good measure.
openPossibly shoehorned fan works? Film
YMMV.K Pop Demon Hunters has a lot of links to fan works even though that should be on a separate page. Examples:
- Fandom-Specific Plot:
- A fair amount of fan art pieces (like this one
) revolves around Rumi being hesitant that Mira and Zoey would not accept them for their demon heritage...Only to have the other two fawn over her in desire and eager to see more of her. <—-I don't see any reason to link to that specific fanart except for self promotion
- A fair amount of fan art pieces (like this one
- Fanon:
- As a result of the fandom believing Jinu is not dead and gone, a popular fan canon claims that his soul now exists in Rumi's new sword. There's already a fanwork
which depicts said sword as a Talking Weapon who comforts Rumi when summoned. <—-Again, I don't see the point/relevance of linking that specific fanwork except for self promotion
- As a result of the fandom believing Jinu is not dead and gone, a popular fan canon claims that his soul now exists in Rumi's new sword. There's already a fanwork
- Friendly Fandoms:
- Many were quick to point out the similarities between Huntrix and K/DA, regarding the former as something of a Spiritual Successor considering the latter is still on hiatus. Naturally there is shipping.
<—-Crossover Ship already covers the shipping aspect, no need to add a random fanart piece
- With Transformers One for similar reasons (Transformers One released on Netflix four days beforehand) due to the surprisingly similar fun yet dark vibes, action and angst. There's even fan-made edits!
<—-Why is linking the fan edit necessary?
- With Devil May Cry, due to their similarities causing this film to be perceived as a spiritual adaptation of that franchise. Rumi is being compared to Dante because just like him, she is also a sword-wielding half-demon who hunts other demons while looking good in style, and being good at dancing. Some fanworks depict them getting along as fellow hunters if they meet
.<—-Again, it is highly unnecessary to add a fan art link when it is already explained why there is a shared fandom
- Many were quick to point out the similarities between Huntrix and K/DA, regarding the former as something of a Spiritual Successor considering the latter is still on hiatus. Naturally there is shipping.
openWeird additions to national Useful Notes pages
On 22nd April and later 5th May, following edits from January that introduced write-ups about current cabinets (yes, I know, old news), troper The Blitzerz 97 did an entire string of edits in Useful Notes pages for a long list of nations. His edits were of the same pattern: adding party affiliation of residing presidents/prime ministers (and adding those in the first place, if they were missing) and potential government. Which is weird, but mostly harmless by itself... except handful of those countries had elections campaigns going around that time, and the edits blatantly mislabeled said affiliations, especially when having to either claim someone is "independent" or any kind of left-leaning party (which many were instantly labelled commie and of course also painted red, even if that's not the party's color [which seems to be the "key"]).
I'm questioning it on two grounds: the pointlessness of such affiliations in the first place and, more importantly, how there is a clear pattern of mislabeling. Won't call it an agenda, it's too low key for that, but it's rather obvious where the political sympathies of the troper lay. That without mentioning the obvious - many of those edits are simply factually wrong.
Examples:
This really goes on and on. There were numerous edits in this vein, see more hereresolved Cutting Oddity RPG pages Videogame
Folks, it's time to face facts: Oddity is never coming out. It's been five years since the initial announcement trailer with no major updates afterwards, over 17 years since the project started development as Mother 4, and the hype for this game has all but dried up. Since all of the Mother 4 pre-release material has been made obsolete and mostly deleted from the internet, we only have one trailer and a Twitter page that is barely updated to go off of.
When I did a second clean-up (the first clean-up was mostly to remove gushing) removing anything that went off of outdated (pre-rebrand) material or Word of God (which isn't allowed), there was barely anything left. On the Characters page alone, many of the folders were blank and that was before I touched them.
Also worth noting that there were a ton of commented out examples on the Characters page which I removed (there were also a bunch on the main page too before I cut those during my first clean-up). Commenting out examples on an unreleased work in anticipation for the work's release is also not allowed.
Yes, there is gameplay footage in the trailer but it barely tells us anything other than "it's a Mother-inspired RPG." Not much of a premise, and certainly not enough to warrant a page, especially when no information regarding the story, setting, and characters have been revealed afterwards. Literally the only information we have about the setting is "It takes place in a small town in 70s America." There are ten tropes on the main page but half of them are about the Modern Mind enemy instead of the game itself or the overall setting of the game. There's no release date, and at this rate there never will be.
Taking all of this into account I feel there is no longer a viable work page. I propose a cut of Oddity's pages and the material in Oddity's main page be moved to Release Date-Less Work Descriptions in the event the game does get a release.
Edited by supernintendo128openCM/Tragic Hero crossover, misuse?
I saw these approved Complete Monsters under Tragic Hero. I know they're disqualified from Tragic Villain as evil beyond having the remorse or sympathy required, and Griffith had his Tragic Hero entry cut over this (but it could have been over how selfish/ruthless he was even before is full fall to villainy). The entries in question.
- Wish: King Magnifico is a powerful king who once genuinely wanted to keep people safe and happy from the cruel reality and is beloved by all his subjects. But his narcissism and paranoia consume him to the point he's willing to do anything to remain in control over his kingdom including alienating his beloved wife and dabbling into forbidden magic. His flaws eventually turn him into a megalomaniacal tyrant and a classic Disney villain Hated by All. A decent amount of the backlash against the movie is that it failed to portray him as sympathetically as they wanted given his nuance, so this seems misuse as unintentional. This overlaps with Fallen Hero so can be moved.
- Emperor Belos from The Owl House serves as an example. Belos' obsession with being a hero and bigotry leads to his downfall and destruction. He was the supreme ruler of the Boiling Isles for over 50 years and beloved by nearly everyone, a fantasy dream come true for any typical power-hungry despot. However, he was willing to throw that away in favor of fame as Witch Hunter General, a fringe position that doesn't exist anymore in the Human Realm. He truly had everything he ever wanted in the Boiling Isles yet was too blind to see it because of his racist, ignorant views. His refusal to see reality ultimately leads him to die in the Boiling Isles rather than his hometown of Gravesfield, Hated by All in the Demon Realm and completely forgotten in the Human Realm. His achieving supreme rulership was only ever intended as a means to enact genocide, so misuse as written.
- Characters.The Owl House Emperor Belos: The show alludes Belos' character to Macbeth for a reason. Belos' obsession with being a hero and bigotry leads to his downfall and destruction. He murders Caleb in a fit of rage, and then spend four centuries trying to make up for the sin by eliminating all "evil" witches. Despite becoming a beloved leader of the witches, Belos' obsession to become a hero of humans drives him to betray his loyal followers. By the end of the series, he loses everything and dies unmourned in the Boiling Isles, and forgotten in the Human Realm. The Macbeth allusions show it's somewhat intended, and his original goal to save Caleb was heroic despite his period-appropriate prejudice only to very badly fall. He is, or was, nuanced despite how utterly vile he became. I'd say he's a Deconstructed Character Archetype of it as he seemingly fits the archetype, but twists it by his tragic/few humanizing aspects being twisted/driving him far past the point he loses all the sympathy associated and even the notion of being heroic has decayed to pure self-delusion.
They're tragic figures, but not sympathetic ones, a distinction Tragic Villain is misleading on given the name. Does that also apply to Tragic Hero as well? Thoughts on my proposed fixes for them?
openSome odd phrasings on UsefulNotes.BDSM
So this paragraph on UsefulNotes.BDSM is worded a little oddly-
"A century later, these words had picked up some quite different and quite negative meanings. "Sadism" was used as a generic slur for being a malicious jerk or utter monster who enjoys making others suffer, while "masochism" was used as a similar slur to brand people as self-destructive. A popular excuse for refusing to help victims of Domestic Abuse was to brand them "masochists", implying that they merely pretended to not enjoy the beatings, just to get attention. These days, these creepy secondary meanings are losing power as actual sadism and masochism is becoming more and more socially accepted."
Firstly, "sadistic" and "masochistic" are slurs? This paragraph (and the one before it) is correct that "sadistic" and "masochistic" are derived from Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and initially meant only their sexual contexts, but there's this thing called "definition drift", they mean two things now. I've never heard anyone else get offended if someone talks about "a sadistic tyrant" or calls someone a masochist for continuing to watch a show long into its Seasonal Rot. Moreover, a "slur" is not just any word that isn't a compliment. I've never seen any style guide that considers any use of the words "sadistic" or "masochistic" outside of the context of a consensual relationship as offensive or outdated.
Furthermore, I don't think they're falling out of fashion as words outside of BDSM contexts. Here are two news articles from major outlets
from the past month that use these words right in their title.
We have tropes like Sadistic Choice, Soft-Spoken Sadist, Masochist's Meal, and The Masochism Tango, all of which use the quote-unquote "creepy" meanings, and no one's ever complained.
This seems like it was written by a troper with an axe to grind (a whip to crack?) and is personally offended by uses of these words outside consensual BDSM contexts, and doesn't seem like it's a common sentiment among the wider BDSM community. Permission to rewrite?
openAgenda-based editing Live Action TV
A large portion of regularmordecai’s
edits here center around the Stranger Things scene where Eleven hits Angela with a skate for bullying her (most of them are on the show’s YMMV page) and it definitely seems agenda-based as they keep pushing the message that fans shouldn’t have enjoyed that scene and exaggerating Eleven’s actions (such as calling her a school shooter despite the fact that she didn’t kill anyone). This has been going on for about ten months now and on several occasions I tried making these entries more neutral but they promptly edited them again to add additional complaints, often using weasel words to make it sound like much of the fandom agrees with them when it’s likely just their personal opinion. They recently added an entry
under the Nightmare Fuel page bashing real-life fans for thinking Angela had it coming and calling them “foolhardy”
for allegedly saying they wished they could have done the same to their bullies (and the entry is improper at any rate since the page is about the show itself, not real-life events).
resolved Edit war prevention for a problematic edit Film
madorosh removed
this example from Lady Ballers
- Broken Aesop: While a common conservative justification for the type of transphobia seen in Lady Ballers is to protect women's spaces, the film also promotes the idea that women are always physically inferior to men including at sports, which is both misogynistic and condescending and undermines the alleged "pro-woman" bent.
with the edit reason: "doesn't make sense, the characters in the film mention the biological fact that men have specific advantages over women, which in general is true. Not sure what 'transphobia' is being displayed - everything in the film is played for laughs"
I don't wanna cause an edit war, but the example was valid. The film tries to present itself as pro-women but the film very much plays on the supposed belief that men, even the weakest men apparently who are out of shape and washed out and haven't exercised in years, are more physically abled and skilled at sports than the most trained female athletes. Which very much does go against the film's supposed "feminist" message.
Again, I want to cause no edit war so I brought it here.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2resolved Troper camping on the Sonic Adventure 2 pages. Videogame
Troper L Fisher has been cutting multiple edits that portray GUN (one of the antagonists of Sonic Adventure 2) exactly as negatively as the game itself does, and making edits that partially exonerate them for committing mass murder ("but the Black Arms!"); they also tend to cut any mention that GUN was implied to be framing Sonic. While all this has been going on for a while, my personal last straw was them doing both of these recently, reducing the "Frame-Up" entry to a single sentence that isn't even accurate (Shadow didn't frame Sonic, at least not intentionally).
Not only is it extremely difficult to make edits about GUN on these pages, but I feel that this is treading uncomfortably close to apologia for real-world atrocities.
openGrammar Issues and Other Problems
Astropilgrim 1621 has a consistent issue with grammar, which can be seen both in their TLP comments
and in their normal edits
. I've sent them notifiers and have told them on the TLP itself that their grammar needs work, but they've not listened. The TLP examples are especially important here — On the wiki proper, Astro mostly just edits the media categories. It's on the TLP where their
poor
grammar
really
shines
through
.
Another TLP issue is that they often just show up demanding that certain things be "fixed", even if there's no active sponsor
, despite having been asked in the past to stop
.
I've also noticed bad indentation in a recent edit
, but I don't know if it's become a pattern yet. Notifier has been sent, though.
openDCAU Superman's personality Western Animation
Thetropemaster101 has sent me a message
about most recent edits for the character page for the Superman from the DC Animated Universe, and honestly, I have no idea what's he trying to do here.
He is very obsessed with explaining how different DCAU Superman is to his comic book counterpart, but his edits feel gratuitous at best, downright irrelevant at worst. What do I mean with this?
Superman's characterization has been all over the place in the comics, particularly in his identity as Clark Kent, but Tropemaster seems to think that the DCAU presents radical changes to Superman's portrayal.
- He is considerably less dorky as Clark Kent compared to most versions. In the comic books from the Silver Age and the Christopher Reeve movies; yes, Clark was a dorky nerd. In the John Byrne reboot and Lois & Clark, Clark is a lot more assertive.
- As mentioned above in Adaptational Angst Upgrade, this Superman is shown to be more short-termed, fearful, insecure, and cynical compared to more versions in addition to retaining his idealism. Apart from the fact that redirecting to other parts of the page is a huge no-no, Superman has struggled with some pretty dark topics throughout his history, such as political corruption, depression, loss of loved ones, detachment from humanity, etc.
- Also, like most modern versions, he prefers to be identified as Clark first in order to keep himself sane and believes Superman is a way of helping people. Again, John Byrne did it first.
I don't know. Maybe I'm just being too harsh on Tropemaster but I don't want this page to look like it's talking down to readers by explaining in excruciating detail how DCAU Superman is different from the Superman from the modern comics.
So, what do you think?
Edited by MasterHeroresolved User deleting anything related to the so-called "Soulsborne" continuity
Reginald Ogron 5 for the last couple months, against many other people has been deleting anything that regards FromSoftware as having a series in a loose continuity. Whether that be for Mythology Gag, or Spiritual Successor, or just a reference to a level in another Souls game.
This was their latest justification for a Fan Nickname entry: "Due to this game's legacy, many terms and mechanics that were translated over but retained the same identity are often referred to with their previous names. Therefore, Runes are still frequently called Souls, Sites of Grace are still bonfires, Incantations are Miracles, etc."
"Dark Souls is not Elden Ring's predecessor. I have never seen any of these terms used intentionally as a Fan Nickname, they are almost exclusively used by people who don't care about the lore enough to use the correct terms, I.E. they're just getting it wrong unintentionally."
Despite the fact the director has declared them to be in a sort of series.
He references Elden Ring in this context of "loose" continuity.
When he tried to remove the many concepts from old games that didn't make it in, but were used in Elden Ring on the trivia page, someone wrote this.
"Tropes Are Flexible and the page explanation itself explicitly says it allows for instances of recycled assets and concepts in dlc and the like. Elden Ring was advertised as a Spiritual Successor / "greatest hits" amalgamation of all the prior Soulsborne games, made by the same devs, and uses code and models that are directly lifted from the cut content of those prior entries, it absolutely falls under this umbrella."
I believe he's gone way too far, but before I revert his edits, I want to ask everyone's opinion on this question of Mythology Gag, and see whether it's actually against the site's rules?
Edited by smogmonsterresolved Troper page with heavy self-deprecation and even suicidal indentation
Smolidk's troper page is...rather worrying. It opens with "Kill me", and includes entries about the troper in question like Abusive Parents, Angst? What Angst?, Asshole Victim, an inverted case of Beautiful Sexual Assault Victim where they call themselves "absolutely hideous", and more (with one standout entry being "Death Seeker: Kill me pls").
Wasn't there a recently-passed rule that this sort of thing wasn't allowed on people's troper pages anymore because we here at TVT are not trained mental health professionals (which was also discussed here
)?
openWe've Got a Scrappy Problem Videogame
About a month ago, I deleted all the entries for The Scrappy on Criminal Case because they were clearly meant to be hated and hated badly. Here it is for reference:
- The Scrappy:
- In the 2014 Criminal Case Wiki Awards
, Miriam Young won the game's "Most Annoying Character" title (by a very huge margin) due to her cold and domineering personality, and her cruel treatment towards Amy (who, by contrast, was voted as the fan favorite). Not only that, several fans have gone as far as saying that she should be in jail instead of Duncan even though he's the Night Walker.
- Albert Tesla also qualifies, for abandoning his son, thinking himself to be Pacific Bay's God, nearly destroying it and killing fan-favorite Frank Knight when he attempts to stop him. He's even voted the game's "Most Annoying Character" of 2015.
- Sarah Bennet was voted as the "Most Annoying Character" on the 2016 Criminal Case Wiki Awards
. Rightfully so since she nearly killed Jack, killed Dupont and Natasha (regardless of her affiliation with SOMBRA, she's still Marina's mom), and nearly caused World War III.
- Horatio Rochester was voted as the "Most Annoying Character" on the 2017 Criminal Case Wiki Awards, owing to his attempt to fully control Concordia as a city-state and abolish press freedom. Moreover, unlike Justin Lawson, who was ultimately a Well-Intentioned Extremist who Jumped Off The Slippery Slope, Horatio has no redeeming qualities and is motivated by selfish and petty reasons.
- In the 2014 Criminal Case Wiki Awards
I discovered only today that three days later, user pizzasoda66 added them all back. Their reasons were, and I quote, "The description of this trope is "The fans hate this character for some reason.". Just because they're supposed to be disliked doesn't mean they're not scrappies. Why do you think they were voted as the most annoying character?"
Whether or not a character who's meant to be hated can qualify as a Scrappy anyway is a mug I don't wanna chug right now, but their description of The Scrappy as a trope is way off. It's the given explanation on the laconic page, which feels like an artifact of the past, and should be changed to add the qualifier "against the intentions of the creator". Because that being the case, again, none of these assholes are unintentionally hated.
I would go back and say this, but I'd rather not get hit with an Edit War accusation and edit banned for it. What do you guys think?
openEdit War and bad examples Live Action TV
The user Crunchy Crunch
keeps adding [[ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.ArrowverseSTARLabs
incorrect examples]] to Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost's entry on the Arrowverse: S.T.A.R. Labs
page. Either the examples are blatantly incorrect, a clear example of entry pimping for the character, tremendous Square Peg Round Trope, using different trope names to say the same thing, overexplaining/Purple Prose, or contradicting the example in the middle, making it redundant. They've also edited Barry Allen's
page with the same misinformation to make it seem like they have a romantic connection. When I removed the examples and explained why it was wrong (they seem fairly new to the site and probably don't know about the Edit War rules), they just put them back. I P Med them and they seemed to understand, but then they just started adding them back again. I tried to message them again but the system wasn't working (?), so I removed the examples again and said that if they did it again I would report them, which they're still ignoring. I'm aware that I added to the Edit War and I'm cool with being suspended myself if needs be.

BrianKT
has made some deletions on The Simpsons S7 E5 "Lisa the Vegetarian" that I find very questionable. The examples are Broken Aesop, Hypocrite and (on the YMMV page) Don't Shoot the Message, all of which refer to Apu talking to Lisa about how to respect other people's beliefs (the episode revolved around Lisa becoming a vegetarian, and Apu revealing he secretly serves customers tofu dogs instead of hot dogs).
BrianKT deleted all examples referring to it on the basis that "he's not forcing them on other people, and what they don't know won't hurt them".
I disagree with this assessment and restored the examples on the basis that Apu is a Hypocrite since he isn't practicing what he preaches: he tells Lisa to respect other people's beliefs and not actively force them to stop eating meat, yet he himself doesn't respect other people's beliefs since he's secretly selling them tofu dogs instead of hot dogs; if he respected other people's rights to eat meat, he would sell them the meat they paid for instead of what amounts to lying to their faces. Just because he's not vocal and in-your-face about it like Lisa is does not mean he isn't still forcing his beliefs. The "what they don't know won't hurt them" reasoning is also disagreeable since a deleted entry on BrokenAesop.The Simpsons points out that a customer could be allergic to soy, which definitely would hurt them if they ate a tofu dog while thinking it was a hot dog.
BrianKT then deleted the examples again (I didn't add the original examples, merely restored them, so he's reverse-Edit Warring: delete-add-delete [but if I'm edit-warring too, my bad]) and linked to the Removing complaining thread
as the edit reason; I went there to check, and it turns out he didn't actually get approval from the thread before deleting the examples.
Should the examples stay up, or was he justified in deleting them? I'm not sure of how to resolve this, so I'm asking here.
Edited by N8han11