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TheDiamondMinecart//DanTDM Web Original
The Diamond Minecart (AKA DANTDM, Real Name Dan Middleton) is a fairly popular Let's Play series. It features Dan, who has played several games on the channel (ROBLOX, Happy Wheels, Who's Your Daddy, etc), as well as Minecraft. Notably, his Minecraft videos have a "universe", so to speak, featuring him as a lab assistant to a villager (Dr. Trayaurus), with a dog (Grim), a friendly (if odd) mailman (Craig), and a rival (Denton). My questions: why isn't there a trope page? Do I just make a YKTTW for it, or is there something else to it?
Could someone do a character page the Angry German Kid Web Original
I'd do it myself but i'm banned from editing.
Uhhh... Web Original
I generally have no idea what's going on over at DarthWiki.Pokemon Peace Squad in general, but the Executive Meddling trope listed seems off-color, talking a lot about real-life persons and such. (The page is also maintained by the co-creator of the series, but i thought there was some rule against heavily troping your own work?)
Basically I'm just really confused.
Joe Zombie and Killing Spree Need our own Tropers Web Original
In The Title (I can't make this is too hard to me put all)
Indexing help Web Original
For those familiar with the Touhou Electronic Wind Instrument (Touhou EWI) videos, I just finished drafting a page for the series, but I'm a little confused on which indexes it would fall under since it's a Web Video series based on a video game series.
Touhou Electronic Wind Instrument
Input and help on where to index it is much appreciated. I'll work on Crosswicking after lunch.
EDIT: Found the Touhou Fan Works index. If there are any others, please let me know. Looks like I should have put the page under Web Animation instead. Where do I put in a request to get that moved?
Edited by GunarmDyneEtikaWorldNetwork Web Original
Would it be alright to be able to create a page for Etika? I'm asking because his use of "N-Words" and such might be a bit too much for the site. What do you guys think? We could just mention he says it, but not actually put it in the text. I think it would great for him to have his own TV Tropes page. After all, he is mentioned on the Da Things 1 Funny page.
Why aren't there pages for individual viners? Web Original
I'm just wondering since viners are also content creators with millions of fans, personal styles etc. Why aren't they getting the same treatment as Youtubers?
YMMV/FeministFrequency Web Original
We need to have some form of unbiased in the Feminist Frequency page. I know the whole "flame target" aspect was given. However, it's also known that her series has been very controversial, and those controversies should be at least said. There has been an effort to erase any form of criticism against her for years now, and some have been rather successful in their attempts. If you need to protect it in some way, then there can be other ways than to keep the page completely blocked and unable to be viewed by anyone.
Edited by darkpowrjdDrafts Web Original
Does a way exist for me to start listing some tropes for a website's articles, but keep the Tropes page from actually getting published until I think the list looks long enough?
Edited by dsneybufBastard1 being a jerk in the review section. Web Original
Bastard1 is misbehaving in this review comment section: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_comments.php?id=15733#listtop
Big bad Web Original
Got a story rolling around and want the big bad to be alternate reality version of the hero. What trope or tropes should I look at?
First Episode Spoilers Web Original
There's a pretty major First-Episode Spoiler in Mystery Skulls Animated: the ghost who's one of the main antagonists is Lewis, a member of the group who'd been killed by a possessed Arthur.
Until a week ago only one video was out, so it was natural to keep it under spoiler tags throughout the page. The second video just came out and the series is planned to be five to seven videos in total: how long should it stay under spoiler tags? Until the next video comes out?
Edit War Web Original
There's an edit war going on between bigbossdiego and herbiehancock2016
on the ymmv page
for Chris Stuckmann.
Possible continuation of edit war Web Original
After both warrers on YMMV.Chris Stuckmann got suspended, another troper from the discussion page tried rewriting it for a proper neutral tone, but there's a new account with no prior edits showing in history reposting the hate version (and sitting on page lock). Could the mods please check if there's something fishy going there?
Kelothan Web Original
On the New Media page for Deader Than Disco, Kelothan
changed two separate examples into one example as a first level bullet point followed by the second example as a second level bullet point, followed by adding a new example as a third level bullet point.
I sent them the private message telling them to take a look at the example indentation article and the only response I got back was "It's intentional".
TheReviewTeam Web Original
The Review Team doesn't seem to exist. There isn't even a link. I looked up everything, and no evidence for their existence was found.
Maybe a bot? Web Original
Some guy has been posting links that are completely irrelevant to the topic at hand in the reviews section: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_comments.php?id=8416#listend
I suspect that they may just be doing it as a joke, not because they are bots, but still, I don't know if that stuff should be in the comments.
Should this YTP deserve a page? Web Original
I found a YTP entitled "Mashed Bandicoot"(and it's in 2 parts), and I was wondering...does it deserve a page of it's own? It has a storyline aswell.
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdSBrTmhso8
Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayD2C0BY0I4
Why was the page for Stormfront cut? Web Original
The reason given on the page is that "we're not about troping neo-nazis," but we seem perfectly fine troping about actual nazis and other hate groups, so what makes Stormfront any different? Shouldn't we have the intellectual courage to document and discuss controversial and uncomfortable subjects?
Edited by RyonneSustable index for a web original. Web Original
I made my first page (for a youtube show named Wonder Quest) and I have no idea what index to put it in. Any suggestions?
Natter Poster Web Original
Everythingis Awful keeps re-adding huge amounts of Natter to YMMV.RWBY and is Edit Warring over it.
Edited by Karxrida