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When is Spider-Man and Superman gonna get a self demonstrating article Literature
Question supes and spidey had one, but now they dont could this change one day?
Fan-Fiction Literature
Can You Add My Fan-Fiction To This Website? It's Non-Canon And I Made It For 7 Years.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/226295929-blackcrusader
Who Is Blackcrusader? Literature
I Kill Baddies Left And Right And I Don't Die Easily. I Play Videogames,Work With A Ragtag Band Of Misfits,Criminals And Ex-Mercenaries. Who Am I? This Answer You're Looking For Is On Here. And Yes It's Half Canon.
https://www.wattpad.com/890446641-blackcrusader-chapter-act-zero-and-introduction
Are Crosswick examples supposed to match word for word? Literature
Hey tropers! I'm pretty new, and just turned in my first edit, on Battle Couple Literature (entry for Amelia Peabody) but I have not crosswicked from the work page yet.
As I was getting ready to put in the crosswick, I realized that the examples could be a lot more laconic on the work page, as there is much more context available there. This is making me question my approach to the edit in the first place.
- Are an entry on a Trope page and the matching entry on the Work page supposed to match exactly, or can they be phrased differently?
- Irrespective of the previous question, should I be trying to trim down the examples on the trope page further? Basically, how much context is too much?
Creator page headache Literature
Hi, I'm trying to make a Creator page for the author Karen M. McManus. Because of the punctuation and code features needed to make her name appear properly, I'm having trouble figuring out how to type the link. Any help would be appreciated!
Removing a page and giving credit Literature
I need help deleting a page. This page is https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheEnlightenedSeries. I couldn't figure out how to prove that an image I posted was to be used for fair use, and tried to delete it, but now when I look it up, it's still there. Also, the page hasn't been touched by anyone except my account, and I think it takes up space anyway since barely anyone else knows about it. If it can't be deleted, could you show me how to label the image as for fair use?
Literature or Fanfic Literature
Sister Floriana is currently listed under the Fanfic namespace, as it is based on a series of drawings. However, it interprets the drawings in its own way. So should it stay in Fanfic or move to Literature?
Help! Literature
So I am very new. I'm trying to start a work page for a fanfic. I want to italicize but I don't know how to do it. I'm not tech savvy at all.
Draft articles Literature
Does TV Tropes have a section of articles for WIP entries like what wikipedia has with its Draft namespace?
Designated Hero / Villain listings in The Stranger's page Literature
In the YMMV page for book The Stranger by Albert Camus, Mersault is listed as a Designated Hero by citing that "Opinions differ whether Meursault is really a good person or not", while the prosecutor or the clergyman are Designated Villains when at least the prosecutor was demonizing Mersault because he barely mourned his mother or because he was an atheist as opposed to actually bringing up evidence about him killing the Arab man.
I don't think Camus wanted to make Mersault good or evil, since he looks more as an amoral, neutral character. For the prosecutor in his murder case, using someone's lack of crying over their mother's death or atheism is (rightfully) depicted as wrong in the book as far as I recall. The unsympathetic traits should disqualify the prosecutor from being a Designated Villain.
What tropes are unbuilt here? Literature
These are originally two bullets entries on UnbuiltTrope.Literature
- Arrowsmith has often been cited as having predicted many of the problems facing the medical profession in the modern day, including the political difficulties surrounding public health programs and the competing interests of scientists, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies, all in a time when modern medicine was still a fairly new field. (Lewis did his research when writing Arrowsmith, working with science writer Paul de Kruif to ensure accuracy to the point that de Kruif received a quarter of the royalties.)
- Elmer Gantry predicted many of the scandalous megachurch pastors and televangelists of the 20th century, the titular Gantry portrayed as a womanizing crook who destroys the lives of everybody around him and is utterly cynical about the faith, seeing it purely as a racket after deciding he could make more money as a preacher than a lawyer. Lewis was writing about the tent revivalists of the early 20th century like Billy Sunday, but the field would soon explode with the rise of radio and television; when the book was published in 1927, the radio preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was already one of the most famous Christian leaders in the US and had been caught up in a highly publicized kidnapping case.
The first one doesn't state what trope is being unbuilt, while the second one sound like it's straight example, although I found both of them to be confusing. So I would like to ask if they're really Unbuilt Trope or not?
Edited by KuruniOne name, different media Literature
Hello
First time I post here, hope I'm doing it right. I was looking at the The Others entry, and about every media there refers to a completely different opus. But when it comes to trivia or YMMV for example, there's no way to know which opus it refers to. What can be done?
Thx
Tropeless work page Literature
The Chronicles Of Gray has a decent description but no tropes or wicks. If anyone is familiar with The Lost City of Malalo (the first and only book in the series as of the page's creation), please add tropes to save the page from getting cut.
Question Regarding My Work Literature
If my work is up and accessible to the public on Wattpad, can I make a trope page here for it?
Time to Break Up Millennium Trilogy? Literature
I was looking over the The Millennium Trilogy pages recently, and it's rather hard to navigate because there's not a lot of distinction made between the books, the Swedish movies, and the American movies. I was wondering if perhaps we should separate them; the Swedish movies will remain as Millennium Trilogy, tropes and moments pertaining to the books could be moved to Lizbeth Salander (as the book series is no longer a trilogy, anyway) and the tropes pertaining to the American movies could be moved to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl in the Spider's Web, respectively. Does this make any sense?
EDIT: I see there is already a film page for Spider's Web.
Edited by StrixObscuroFinetuning Club Dumas? Literature
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Literature.TheClubDumas#latest is where I started, but then again, I just walked in and have almost _no_ idea of procedures . . .
Of my note there, I also have no idea what trope would be involved or what variation on some trope, but do know the book enough to think the comment is valid.
I'm interested in feedback or handing off to get further commentary or to get the entry updated . . . and have no idea of what internal commentary gets seen where or what comment processing queues there might be.
Thank you!
How did we wind up with a headscratchers page without a corresponding main? Literature
I was looking to see if we had a page on a novel I've read, and I found this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/TheCay . It's about that novel in question, which is about a young boy who gets stranded on a tropical island with an old black man, during a time when the latter would be expected to address the former as "boss." But if we have the headscratcher, why don't we have the main article?
Find Out Who Created A Page Literature
I was interested in the page for the book "Let's Go Play at the Adams'" and I was wondering if there was a way to find out who created the original page. I saw the change history but it doesn't seem to record the original creation. I don't know whether or not I missed something obvious but I'm new to TV Tropes and I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me.
Thanks!
No Title Literature
Vulpul appears to have spent the last 3 days making a whole bunch of Stub trope pages and indexing them on Bizarro Fiction.
Spoiling trope names Literature
For The Dresden Files. First Davilla keeps spoiling out the trope names of tropes their adding to the characters page. They keep doing this with this just one example
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Mistakenly cut page Literature
As I was browsing the Light Novels page, I saw that Idol Defense Force Hummingbird had been cut with the reason "movie007: getting rid of Light Novel namespace..." While some tropers suggested getting rid of the LightNovel/ namespace, there was never any consensus to do so, and even if there was pages would be moved to Literature/, not cut outright. I believe the page should be restored; I'm surprised that cut was even accepted.
Fanfiction that I read a year ago on youtube, and only remember parts of . Literature
IT's a jungkook x reader ff . The story is about the reader who is cold girl and she doesn't know anything about life of a normal girl since her richs parents don't let her go out and want to marry her to an abusive man. Jungkook is her somewhat cold bodyguard who saves her and teaches her the joy of life. They fall in love with each other while running away from the reader parents. It's a 2 season story.
thank you for your help.
Merging Pages Literature
There are some series that have pages for each individual work, but most of the pages are stubs. Is there some sort of guideline for when it's acceptable to create a single page for the entire series? Or does the wiki prefer keeping the individual work pages?
Agent Loki: International Man of Mayhem trope page removed Literature
Why was the trope page for the fanfic Agent Loki: International Man of Mayhem removed? The reason given says "Work existed, but wiped from the internet. There is a link to download, but without being certain of the downloading security, it's inadvisable to use." It's true that the author removed the fanfic from the internet but I see no reason why it can't still have a trope page. If a link was the problem, wouldn't it make more sense to just delete the link instead of removing the entire page?
Link to removed trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/AgentLokiInternationalManOfMayhem