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Justified cut?
Should Gotham be sent to the cut list? Since it was made back in 2015 no one has added any fics to it, making it basically just a placeholder.
Edited by AkibaPurple
Editing a standard display title Western Animation
May a moderator please help me with this by editing the Battle of Christophsis arc's standard display title via changing it to just Christophsis arc so that the alteration is visible on other pages that do not use custom titles (such as the Following and New Edits)? I would like for the standard title to be accurate to the websites and videos that present this arc with this title and consistent with another recap page that has a similar premise (Ryloth arc).
Long Runners
Does a work need to be still be going on approximately or after its 10th anniversary date in order to make the minimum 10 years for Long-Runners, or does it just need to still be going on or finished that year to count?
Ex. X work started on June 6, 2009, and is still going on as of February 2019, or ended then.
Edited by rmctagg09
Editing the standard display title of a page
Is is possible for someone to completely alter the standard display title of a page? I want to change the title of a recap page that is on the cutlist (please change Battle of Christophsis Arc to just Christophsis Arc) so that it can be accurate to the websites and videos that present this arc with this title and consistent with another recap page that has a similar premise (Ryloth arc). Is a moderator able to please drastically edit the standard display title of a page so that the alteration is visible on other pages that do not use custom titles (such as the Following and New Edits)?
Edited by Thetropemaster101
Making a work more visible
How does one go about making a work page more visible to this wiki so that more people supply tropes for it?
I suspect advertisement in SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel
Here's the latest entry added today by PrincessPandaTrope.
- TeeTurtle
is probably the cutest merchandising line ever. Its Ridiculously Cute Critters will make your eyes twinkle in a nanosecond, not to mention its adorable takes on its licenses.
Am I only one who think it's an advertisement in Paper-Thin Disguise of cuteness gushing?
Harry Potter poster images Film
Recently there were some new images added to the Harry Potter film pages, replacing the original images on the top-right of each page. Although I wasn't the one who originally added them, I was actually in favour of these new images. However, the pages were all reverted for being an undiscussed change. Where would I go to open up a discussion about this?
Editor with agenda notice
From what I can tell, arrgh seems to be blatantly pushing a very obvious political agenda on the wiki. Going through his history, he's made a number of edits on tropes like The Horseshoe Effect, Missing White Woman Syndrome and Analysis.Men Are The Expendable Gender that are extremely partisan in nature.
On the subject of that that last one, I've long felt that that page needs a chainsaw to it, as it's become a magnet for EXTREMELY questionable content for years now.
Edited by NubianSatyress
YMMV subpage additions
AM_NK has been adding links to every single other subpage to YMMV pages, which gets ridiculously long when there's a lot of them and unnecessary when there's a few of them, especially since they're alreayd on the banners.
IE, over on YMMV.Jump Force there's "See also: Fridge | Funny Moments | Scrappy Mechanic | Unexpected Character".
Over on YMMV.Mortal Kombat 11, it's "Main page | MK 1 | MK 2 | MK 3 | MK 4 | Deadly Alliance | Deception | Armageddon | MK vs. DC Universe | MK 9 | MKX | MK 11
Spinoffs: MKM: Sub-Zero | Special Forces | Shaolin Monk
Non-videogame media: Mortal Kombat: The Movie | The Journey Begins | Annihilation | Conquest | Defenders Of The Realm | Malibu Comics | Legacy | Rebirth
Series-wide pages: And The Fandom Rejoiced | Complete Monster | Ensemble Darkhorse | Hilarious In Hindsight | Nausea Fuel | The Scrappy | The Woobie
Game-specific pages: Fridge | Nightmare Fuel"
Did they get permission before doing this, and is it allowed in general?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=AM_NK
Look down the sights trope Live Action TV
When a character is handed a gun or picks one up they will often hold it up and look down the sights. Does this trope have a name?
Useful Notes as Tropes in a work list
This isn't kosher, right? I've come across a few examples of Useful Notes being used as tropes on work / creator pages, such as this one currently on Narcissu.
- Japanese Christians: Chihiro and Himeko are Catholic, though Himeko claims to be only a "fake Catholic"; her struggle to resolve her crisis of faith before she dies is a major part of her storyline.
Delete?
Edited by WarJay77
Edit war on The Dragon Prince Western Animation
There's an edit war on The Dragon Prince over the Bury Your Gays example. Voxkun has readded it twice.
Jumping The Shark YMMV
A troper PM'd me about why I deleted a Jumping the Shark entry from a YMMV page if it's a YMMV trope. I explained it's because it In-Universe Examples Only and No Real Life Examples, Please!, but that got me thinking, why is it still YMMV then? We removed Dude, Not Funny! from YMMV once we decided it in-universe only.
Should we remove Jumping the Shark from YMMV since there's still confusion over it?
Radio / True Capitalist probably should be purged like the Alex Jones page Radio
First of all, what he does is not a persona. He really means what he says. Second of all, he has been banned from Gab for hate speech, specifically death threats. He will tell you himself that that was the reason. https://web.archive.org/web/20190121192457/https://ghost.report/2018/12/13/message-from-ghost-is-it-the-last/
problematic edits Anime
Troper RAHDRON added very complainy edits such as Eight Deadly Words to YMMV.Fullmetal Alchemist under the 2003 folder and other edits to YMMV.Fullmetal Alchemist The Conqueror Of Shamballa. Looking at their edit history they seem to not like the original anime and the followup movie. Judging by what they wrote, they shoehorned in a lot of complaints they made on DethroningMoment.Fullmetal Alchemist.
Edited by jjjj2
Direct Me To The Trope Page
I actually forgot about something. Since we deleted Counterpart Comparison from TV Tropes, where are most of the examples go? Or which is the page that also hosted this kind of examples especially on both characters from different series or different works?
Zero content
I may have gone on a rampage a little bit when editing the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character page but there were some many entries that were like half assed and a few that were okay but still needed a little more info. For example these two: Am I wrong that I think there should be more than that in the entry? I'm sorry that I keep second guessing myself but I have been on this site for years so I know that Zero content is a prevalent problem and I don't want to be wrong.
Troper with editing issues Anime
aliastheabnormal has issues with their edits including grammar and sub-bullet point misuse.
Sent a notifier, but received no response.
Edited by Tenma-Yuuki
Edit War on Voodoo Shark
I noticed there's been an edit war on the Voodoo Shark page. It started when Emberfist added some poorly formatted entries for a few Star Wars examples, specifically for The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Star Wars Rebels. The entries were removed due to being poor examples, but Emberfist added them back without discussion, and claimed that they still count despite the counter-arguments.
Page for works referencing TV Tropes?
Do we have one?
Zero content
I know what the answer is gonna be but I wanted to double check. Simply putting the character's names as examples for tropes is zero content, right? Let me give you two examples I saw and tell me if I'm right that they are zero content.
- Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa: Mr and Mrs. Drake.
- Five-Man Band:
- The Leader: Riley
- The Lancer: Sledge
- The Smart Guy: Stokey
- The Big Guy: Bando
- The Chick: Delilah
- Kid-Appeal Character: Spike
TLP not letting me submit a trope that doesn't seem to have been submitted already
I was looking into launching a trope entitled "Video Game Cruelty Reward" to act as an inverse to Video Game Cruelty Punishment. However, when I tried to submit, I was only informed that "That working trope name and namespace is already in use."
Except a casual perusal of TLP and currently existing tropes brought up nothing with that name. Am I missing something?
Question About Tropes in Character and Main Work Sheets
Recently, I've moved a bunch of character-related tropes (ex. Brilliant But Lazy, Girly Girl) from a work's main page to its character sheet. Since they've been transferred, should the tropes be removed from the main page of the work? It feels redundant to have them on both sheets, but I don't want to make any removals if they're not needed.
Specific One piece episode? Anime
Hi. I'm looking for a certain one piece episode that won't get out of my head. In the episode episode Chopper fell overboard. He was saved by Robin, she used her devil fruit powers to grab him before he fell into the sea (I thought for sure Luffy would streth and grab him, but Robin came to the the rescue). And they were in the air, maybe flying or falling, or maybe something like a seaking knocked them out of the sea. The thing is, I remember that scene really clearly, but I don't remember which episode it was. And I would really like to see that episode again. I also THINK Robin called Chopper "Chopper" and not "Doctor-san", so it might've taken place after enies lobby, maybe even after the timeskip. I cannot say. I also don't know if this scene was from an ordinary episode or a tv-special or a movie, but I suppose it was from the anime. Please, please, please help me find this!
Removing a page from the Cutlist
May someone please remove Recap / Star Wars The Clone Wars Battle Of Christophsis Arc from the cutlist? I believe that its standard display title is being edited and shortened.
Edited by Thetropemaster101