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Troper with shipping and character bashing issues
The troper Shipman 27
has been repeatdly adding natter and bashing of the character Iris as well as her relationship with the protagonist on the ymmv page of The Flash (2014). They've repatdly complained as shown by the ymmv page's history.
Trope formatting/coding
I'm looking around for a specific page with clear instructions on how to code/format links and labels when adding to a trope, but I'm unable to find one.
Specifically, I want to add an example to the "Bamboo Technology" trope. In it, I want the name of the movie to link to its own TV Tropes page, but since it's also an example of "It was all just a dream" I want to include a "see also" reference to that trope.
Does anyone know if such a "how to" page exists?
Long story short
Shouldn't "To Make a Long Story Short" be just "Long Story Short"?
Locked Page
The New '10s seems to be locked. The most recent edit was expanding Power Tattoo.
Editor with formatting, indentation, grammar problems
Editor teachzebra has assorted editing issues. The most prevalent is never formatting the name of a trope at the beginning of a trope entry properly (neither using CamelCase nor using double curly braces for single words, so that the name of the trope doesn't actually function as a link), but they also have problems with Example Indentation in Trope Lists (see their most recent edit to YMMV.Dead Poets Society for just one example) and the English language (particularly commas and beginning entries with capital letters). I haven't sent any notifiers yet as I'm not sure there's a suitable one for their most persistent editing mistake (is there a "bad formatting" notifier?).
Locked Page
Is there any reason Into the Breach is locked? There doesn't seem to be any unusual activity on it.
How do I make a crowner?
There's a mild-mannered title dispute over the draft currently titled Taking the Fight Outside. How do I make a crowner so people can vote on the title?
Also, starting from this comment, there's a question of how No New Stock Phrases influences the need or lack thereof to change the draft name.
Amen Break? Music
Here are a couple things I've noticed with the page Amen Break:
- The page consists almost entirely of zero-context examples. One of the examples listed is "DE-SIRE alternative - "Trip Machine PhoeniX", which doesn't explain how or where the amen break is used in the song.
- It might not be in the correct namespace. Generally, lists of every appearance of a song go in the Music/ namespace. Examples: Ode to Joy, Pachelbel's Canon, Ride of the Valkyries, The Cancan Song. Should we move Amen Break to the Music/ namespace, or is it fine in the Main/ namespace?
Mystery Theater
I am trying to find a TV show from the 60s called Mystery theater that had a skull as it's poster ad. It was kind of like the Twilight Zone. I remember one show where these monsters come out of the ocean and into this town killing people. One of them sees a mannequin in a store window and reaches for it and gets its hand cut off. Later when they examine the hand, they see it is made up of worms and other soot from the bottom of the ocean. Every time I try to look this up, I am bombarded with Mystery Science Theater 3000, and that's not it. Thanks!
Survivor Theme Film
There's this form of survivor scenarios that I can't stop thinking of where two soldiers from opposing factions must work together in order to survive. What kind of trope is it and what movies have that like Into the White.
Print Screen
I keep forgetting how to do this, so someone please tell me how I can screencap something on my computer and then upload the image onto Social Media websites. I'm having a "paused at the right moment" moment.
pictures for characters
I'm planning on putting an image up for a character on MCU Criminals&Terrorists, do I need to propose it to an image pikin' thread first?
Edited by papyru30
Korrasami and First Girl Wins Western Animation
I'm on a Lo K editing kick right now. Korra and Asami are listed in both First Girl Wins and Last Girl Wins, as Asami is the first girl her own age Korra meets, but the last of her potential love interests. But both tropes are listed as unisex, in which the "Girl" in the title actually just means "potential love interest". Doesn't that just make them a straight example of Last Girl Wins?
Dethroning Moment
The DethroningMoment.Modern Family page only has one example. Should it be merged to the Live Action TV page?
Troper doesn't reply to PM
I'm having an editing dispute with Artemis Style on Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, and I have tried to send them a PM regarding this issue, but they haven't responded. What should I do?
Product Placement Live Action TV
Hello my name is Giles and I had a question about product placement .
I'm working on a show and I have an old atari arcade and wanted to use it on camera, how do I go about making sure its okay, I don't want to get sued . How do I get permission if I need it?
Magic Doll with ability to freeze time? Anime
As far as I remember, this anime is quite old. What i do remember is two kids - a boy and a girl i think. Girl gets kidnapped somehow into a different dimension and boy can only go looking for her with the help of a magic doll. This doll (i think white, with 2 X or buttons instead of eyes?) has a hammer and it can freeze time and teleport the boy to the other dimension to look for the girl. This is only doable for a short period of time, before they have to return to the main universe, where the doll will unfreeze time. Usually, they would have to get back to the main world just as they would find the girl, so they never had enough time to rescue her. Any idea?
Recap Page Anime
I was wondering if that's okay to add a recap page for Hugtto Pre Cure...
Trope page
How do you put in a link to the trope page from the trope you are referring to
Edited by arienstorum
Artistic License Physics?
From The Last Jedi
- Artistic License – Physics:
- The Republic cruiser manages to get just out of effective range of the First Order flagship's weapons, and then the two ships match velocities for a large chunk of the movie, rather than constantly accelerating as they would in Real Life.
This scene would make sense if they matched acceleration. If so, they would be able to keep a constant distance from each other until they ran out of fuel letting them catch up looking from their perspective like it stopped. Was there any dialog from this scene specially mentioning velocity? I only remember mentioning speed and distances which would fall under the acceleration thing.
Same franchise, different continuities, only one characters page.
WesternAnimation.DC Super Hero Girls is probably going to have its own Characters page after it airs, but currently the page is for WebAnimation.DC Super Hero Girls. How should this be solved? Move WesternAnimation.DC Super Hero Girls back to WesternAnimation.DC Super Hero Girls 2018? Make the current Characters page into a Disambiguate page and split them per year?
Is this a correct usage of Deconstruction?
On the page "Great White Hunter", I found an entry that states that Bungalow Bill is a Deconstruction of the trope. However, having listened to the song itself, I am not so sure it fits. Does Deconstruction fit this trope?
Troper with an agenda
GeekyBinka is routinely editing to remove references to females characters' gender. It seems that at best they have an agenda about removing any notion about how some tropes are usually applied more (or differently) to women than men or vice versa, or at worst they might be on some MRA mission. This includes deleting parts of Trope description that are in the Main namespace.
- SoYouWantTo.Avoid Unfortunate Implications: Deleted sentences from the trope description referencing misogyny and sexism, and deleted instances of the word "male", without edit reason.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Deleted a sentence referencing women from the trope description, without edit reason.
- Gamer Chick: Deleted a sentence referencing women from the trope description, without edit reason.
- Magical Negro: Deleted a sentence from the trope description about female counterparts of the trope, without edit reason.
- Dude, Not Funny!: Deleted an entry referencing misogyny, without edit reason.
- YMMV.The Little Mermaid: Deleted an entry with edit reason "Women are not a minority!"
- N-Word Privileges: Deleted an entry with edit reason "Women are not a minority!"
- YMMV.Pocahontas: Deleted an entry with edit reason "Women are not a minority!"
- Characters.Wreck It Ralph Other Characters: Deleted an entry with edit reason "We shouldn't make a big deal out of her gender".
- Bait-and-Switch Lesbians: Deleted an example about a character possibly being gay, without edit reason.
Crack Pairings in The Legend of Korra Western Animation
I recently removed an entry on Crack Pairing which listed Korrasami as a Crack Pairing, but it was quickly back up. The editor said that the pairing was "a fandom joke" in the first two seasons, but is that actually true? My understanding was that it was just another ship, one that no one really believed would be canon, but not significantly more ridiculous than any other. It's only in hindsight that its early incarnations gained any significance. And looked at objectively, even in season one its not any more absurd than any other slash ship, and not nearly enough to count as crack.
International productions on US-based creator pages
I made a work page yesterday and I want to put it on its original channel's creator page/index, but said channel is US-based and all of the works listed aired in the US. This work only aired on its European divisions, and while other works that originated from and aired only on its international divisions have pages, none of them are acknowledged on the creator page. Would the preferred course of action be to put the international and domestic productions on the same list, put them in separate sections, or make different creator pages for the international divisions?