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probably stupid question regarding linking Webcomic
So an online author has both the rebooted and old versions of their sorry up online but the trope page for it only has the rebooted version linked. Can the old version be linked to the page?
About a work I made Webcomic
I would like to make a page for work I made on here. If I haven't violated any of the rules on the page (i.e. the work is tropable, i will not add subjectives/audience reactions/trivia/recommendations on the work, and I won't Entry Pimp myself), is it still considered Auto-Erotic Troping, therefore not allowing me to?
Edited by nonalienpersonyepJapanese transliteration/pronunciation help Webcomic
Satoko and Nada has this entry:
- Fainting: Satoko faints after Kevin mistakenly reads "あたり", "atari" as in "per", on a drink bottle as "atari" as in "winner" and thinks he won a contest.
Presumably there is a pronunciation difference here, but the Romanizations do not reflect it. Can someone give me some pointers?
[Resolved] Girl Genius: Secret Blueprints as Trivia? Webcomic
Trivia.Girl Genius contains info about "The Secret Blueprints". While I take these are some sort of Bonus Material, I know for sure there are a few problems with it.
- It takes 92% of the page with a 46k symbols on something not tropes or production info, and nobody touched it since 2012. It goes into excessive details describing the contents of each book, which sounds more like Recap than trivia.
- It says "also available on Girl Genius Wiki". As far as I can tell
, that was never true, unless there was another wiki.
- Some choice words and second person writing makes me wonder if it's plagiarized, which I can't confirm myself.
Any suggestions what to do here?
Edited by AmonimusAkaiShadow Webcomic
I could've swore this troper existed before today, but apparently not.
Okay, so Akai Shadow is apparently like half a day old and has four edits, and all four of them are changing the prounouns of Gigi Digi, creator of Hiimdaisy and Cucumber Quest, to she/her when just a month ago they asked to be referred to with they/them pronouns. And yes, this Tweet was linked in all of bowserbros' edits that changed the pronouns used on the page to their preferred ones.
"Characters" with no tropes attached to them Webcomic
Hello everyone,
In the characters page of Lets Play Webtoon, I noticed an intriguing issue: several characters, the "Emote-kuns", are added with no tropes attached to them, and the "characters" in question are just Anthropomorphic Personification of emotions that never get any lines, don't have facial expressions and are, more often than not, used as jokes or used to highlight an actual character's state of mind, and forgotten quickly afterwards. Furthermore, a lot of these "characters" have completely white/black entries, including their own folder name.
Basically, I think that the entire subsection of Emote-kuns should be axed, but I would like confirmation first before doing so.
Edited by NonoRobotIs This Allowed Webcomic
So I had noticed that the YMMV page for It's (Not) Your Fault had a crossed-out Canon Defilement entry added with no information on it and no edit reason added by Braz. I don't know if there is exactly anything about this in the rules but it feels weird that someone is adding this entry hidden for no reason. Again it's not like they are hiding a ZCE the entry is just being added already hidden.
Edited by Ordeaux26A new page for Beauty and the Beast Webcomic Webcomic
I have noticed that the page of Megan Kearney's Beauty and the Beast webcomic haven't been updated for years (although the comic was concluded in 2018). And also, that it is broken and can't be updated.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Webcomic.Beauty%20and%20the%20Beast
I was told on Reddit forum that means this page doesn't exist anymore, so I'm going to make a new one. Is that okay?
Launching a work page with an overlapping title Webcomic
I want to make a page for A Bittersweet Life, which ran from 2014 to 2016. It overlaps with a film of the same name. Should I call it A Bittersweet Life (2014) or A Bittersweet Life Webtoon? I've seen both types of disambiguation.
Everybody is home/Wooden Plank Studios Webcomic
I created Everyone Is Home back in July and have gotten a fair number of edits. But apparently someone else made Wooden Plank Studios (the creators of the comic) with all the tropes, timelines, etc. for the aforementioned comic. Idk if ppl just didn't realize both pages exist or something.
Edited by IkeaHanAccused of bias in my edits? Webcomic
So I'm in a bit of a pickle.
I was adding trivia entries to the Trivia section of a webcomic's article, with linked proof that the details I put really did happen, including the background behind it, and sourcing where they came from. However, a user reverted my edits, accusing me of being disingenuous and biased. I do also want to mention that one of my trivia entries with proof merely said one of the webcomic's author's tweet sounded like Trump— but the same user accused me of comparing the author themselves to Trump, and reasoned "the keyword here is 'LIKE'."
I don't want to get into an edit war with this person, I just wanted to neutrally show how the webcomic itself and its authors have been problematic with evidence. I'm not sure what to do, I never acted opinionated about it in any way.
Completed Webcomic Webcomic
For the purposes of the Completed Webcomics index, is a webcomic complete if the story has concluded but the author has stated that there will be some follow-ups?
Formatting a Funny Moments page for 500+ episodes Webcomic
I want to make a Funny Moments page for Yumi's Cells, which has 511 episodes, but I'm not sure how to go about the formatting. Among the 35 episodes I've documented, there are 1-3 bullet points each. That's too short for individual folders, but I'm concerned that the AC formatting looks a bit awkward (see the folder below).
I could try to folderize the comic in chunks. The comic does have three "parts" as far as I remember, but I don't remember the boundaries between the parts, and it could take me days to hunt for it because of the Daily Pass system. There is a print edition that divides the comic into thirteen volumes, but I don't think the typical reader would know about that.
I've included an excerpt of what I've typed to give a feel for the spacing. 35 of these make for a decent-sized page, but it might be too much if it gets into the hundreds.
- Woong asks Wook for an honest but not overly honest opinion on his outfit, a tropical print shirt and shorts. Wook responds that Woong should only wear that outfit indoors.
- After Wook mentions that Yumi erased all posts related to Woong when they broke up, Woong can't retort and tells him to Get Out!.
- When Yumi says she has a boyfriend, Woong boldly says, "No, you don't."
- Woong prepares to insult Babi, but the ex-boyfriend paradox dictates that anything he says will backfire on him too.
- Woong's lies about being happy for Yumi sound overly fancy and old-fashioned.
Recreating character page for Yumi's Cells Webcomic
Edit: I'm looking for feedback on character images now.
I want to make sure it's okay to recreate Yumi's Cells, which was apparently cut because it didn't have content.
While I'm at it, I also have a few questions about how I should handle spoilers between the characters page and the main Yumi's Cells page. Before I edited the work page, it seemed to mostly spoiler out things regarding the breakup of the second boyfriend and the existence of the third boyfriend.
- If the entry is about the main character's romance, should I put it exclusively in the relevant boyfriend's folder (e.g. a Rejected Marriage Proposal)?
- Should I keep the second boyfriend's breakup spoilered on the character page, or would that be too self-fulfilling? How about non-breakup-related things like the bait-and-switch of the proposal that turned out to be just a regular gift... which turned out to be a wedding ring?
- Should I put a spoilers-off warning on the third boyfriend? I think he has enough non-spoilery tropes about his personality to not be an all-white folder, but the spoilers on the romantic tropes might defeat the purpose.
- The work page has quite a few entries with bullet points for multiple people. If the entries have spoilers for a character that would have a folder, should I move the character's bullet point to their folder? If the entry would lose most of its bullet points that way, should I rewrite it to be more general? (e.g. rewrite the Shirtless Scene entry to say all the boyfriends have such a scene at the high point in their relationships and move the specifics to their respective folders)
- On a different note, should I put a three-trope threshold on the Cell characters before splitting them off from the humans they belong to?
Webtoon Korean-only (for now) eps? Webcomic
Recently I've had this problem of constantly being spoilered by people posting entries of stuff that have only appeared in the korean site of Webtoon Line, even their fastpass eps which are almost over 12 episodes ahead (almost 3 months ahead with weekly series) and I've wondered if there's any policy regarding the time between the localized episodes in english and the korean ones, I get that some people read korean but many of us don't and honestlt it doesn't seem very fair.
But the mods don't have a clear answer and told me to bring it up here.
So, please let me know what you think.
Name's the same Webcomic
I wanted to make a page for this webcomic called Seasons. Unfortunately, it seems there's already another completely different webcomic with the exact same name, that already has a page on this site. How do I make a separate page for it, and how do I differentiate it from the version that already exists?
Elf and Warrior edits Webcomic
It's been almost a year since I started editing Elf & Warrior. Can someone please check that page to see what needs to be fixed? Formatting, indentations, whatever you can find.
Edited by 1nightonly