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openEdit warring troper on TheScrappy entry Anime
*sigh* This page again. TheTrailblazerCritic keeps restoring an entry placed under The Scrappy in YMMV.Attack On Titan that was repeatedly deemed by the Scrappy cleanup thread to be an immediate cut since it uses words like "borderline". Mod intervention is needed.
Edited by AnoBakaDesuopenproblematic 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 jjjj2openMuur's at it again Anime
Remember how Muur has a history of Righting Great Wrongs with Digimon names? Well, dude's at it again. Here, he's added "Blind Idiot" Translation because the official translators changed the Japanese "Brachimon" into "Brachiomon". For context: The Digimon in question is based on the Brachiosaurus, and it's hardly a "blind idiot" translation to intentionally change the name so that it's more reminiscent of the dinosaur the thing is based on.
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopenTransphobic edits in Transgender.AnimeAndManga Anime
The user Immortan Loli deleted an example from Transgender.Anime And Manga (I'm not familiar with the work, so I don't know how accurate it is) with the reason "Absolutely false. The author refers to Felix as male. Please do not spread misinformation or speculation, thank you. ALSO FUCK [slur]".
This appears to be their first edit since 2017, so I'm going to assume there was some sort of agenda involved.
openTroper 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-YuukiopenPossible shipping agenda Anime
About Naruto, no less. As if the Shipping Wars of old weren't enough....
Anyway. bunbun666 is new to the site and their edits so far are additions to ShipTease.Naruto and cleansing Characters.Naruto Sakura Haruno of "negative" tropes.
I smell a shipping agenda.
Edit: Fixed the links; they should be working now. Edited by RoundRobin
openTroper removing many examples of character shilling without edit reason Anime
Badguy2014 has been removing several seemingly valid examples in the page Character Shilling without an edit reason.
I've sent them a PM but they've yet to reply.
EDIT: They seem to also be removing several Ho Yay references from examples which seem relevant, as well as any mention to sexual abuse. There seems to be an agenda here.
Edited by matruzopenConflicting entries on YMMV.MyHeroAcademia Anime
- Americans Hate Tingle:
- Mineta is reasonably popular in Japan, reaching 17th place on the first popularity poll, but many Western fans loathe him with a passion thanks to him being an obnoxious, cowardly, and tasteless idiot whose Dirty Kid antics are a walking sexual harassment suit waiting to happen, and are wondering why the hell it hasn't gotten him expelled, because creeping on women the way he does is taken extremely seriously in American high schools. Most of them are praying for the day where he either 1) turns evil, 2) dies, or 3) turns evil and then dies so he could be replaced in Class 1-A by Shinso. The fact that Horikoshi has openly admitted Mineta is one of his favorite characters doesn't help matters either. Although even he's losing fans in Japan after his extremely inappropriate comment to Eri.
- The Scrappy: Mineta has a sizable hatedom and tends to rank low on popularity polls. This seems to be attributed to his perverted antics, which to a lot of fans comes across as annoying and/or gross rather than funny, and his arrogant attitude and looking down on others (like Todoroki or Bakugo) despite bringing nothing substantial to anything himself. There's also the fact that his character is painfully underdeveloped compared to others, yet, Horikoshi confessed that he is one of his favorite characters, due to being easy and fun to draw, so he tends to get a lot of screentime and page-time compared to other "side characters" in the class. It doesn't help that he's had virtually zero plot relevance at all since his introduction and has very little character development or exploration in the class. Many fans desperately wish (and write Fix Fic where) he leaves Class 1-A and is replaced by Shinso.
The Scrappy and Americans Hate Tingle are mutally exclusive, so one of these entries have to go. The last paragraph in Americans Hate Tingle implies that he's gotten hate in Japan after the Eri incident, but dosen't say anything if he has recovered from that since then, or if it was a temporary thing.
I'm asking here to get a consensus on what to do, I also asked here.
openNeon Genesis Evangelion character edits Anime
Concerns have been raised regarding the most recent edits on the NGE characters page.
First, they changed the spellings of Toji to Touji and Soryu to Soryuu. Now, I'm not keeping up on what the latest official English translations are, so maybe this is correct, and maybe it isn't.
But the real concerning edits were the unilateral deletions of any Fanservice related tropes, as well as removing a Spell My Name With An S entry from Asuka's section, all done without any edit reason, which stinks of Seguir trying to impose their own biases on the page.
Bringing it here for troper consensus on what should be done.
openSandbox.MagnificentBastardDrafts Anime
Tropers/hittheassassin has a history of editing other tropers entries without permission even after multiple PMs and public requests to stop. I can undo the edits they've done but this is becoming tiresome and looking over the options for their edit, I seem limited to merely sending them a PM about an edit issue, which they have a history of not responding to. I can't find a way to holler their edit so is there another venue by which some manner of redress can be made so I don't have to keep manually doing this?
openBiased edits on page Anime
On the Sk8 the Infinity page, there was some biased information heavily favoring the ship Reki/Langa. I edited out that stuff last night and told them to add it to YMMV, because the ship isn't canon yet and might not become canon. So far all there's been is typical sports anime fanservice. Today someone added it back saying:
"langa's "ambiguously gay" isn't THAT ambiguous despite being placed under there for now (especially for anime which have to work around censors) so Power of Love fits (he essentially gasps and blushes when asked if he likes reki [question assumed by him], then realizes the "feeling" that makes him fly in ep9). if he suddenly goes "actually no homo bro" out loud in-series it'd be better filed under power of friendship. (unless tvtr doesn't list, ex., nge's kaworu under romantic tropes... he's only Very Heavily implied to be a love interest of shinji.) the power of love + mythical motifs is about his feelings, not reki's. ia the "romantic-tinged" was pretty ham"
I strongly disagree with this. Also another biased thing they put in the page was: "While it's It's apparent that Reki feels as if he can't reach Langa (and the star), unknowingly to Reki and Langa and the increasing tension that builds between them over it, for Langa, the star likely stands for Reki himself)."
For Langa the star didn't hold any significance. It was just a graffiti target on the wall that he could do a cool skateboarding trick with. Reki was the one who worked himself up about the star trying to reach it while Langa wasn't around.
Is there anything I can do? I don't want to be involved in an edit war, but this stuff is just flat out wrong. The user perona keeps edit warring and adding incorrect info to the page.
Edited by sakanoopenEdit warring in YMMV Dragon Ball Super Anime
I removed a bunch of entries from the YMMV page of the Granolah's arc from Dragon Ball Super, since they were violations of policy (adding a Broken Base entry just days after the arc had ended, for example, alongside a It Was His Sled entry, and an Audience-Alienating Ending entry when the entire arc is days old). I also removed some entries that read as too much complaining instead of actually showing an audience reaction, particularly concerning Narm, Ass Pull, Franchise Original Sin and Fan-Disliked Explanation.
troper AMassiveOvereditor (Which originally added most of these entries) added a bunch of entries back, with the exception of the entries that negated policy. What should be done in this case? I feel that rather than reflecting the views of the audience itself, the page just merely centers on the views of this specific troper. Not to say that there isn't examples of Narm and Ass Pull (I left some of those and after some days I thought that maybe I should have added back the Black Frieza entry in Ass Pull), but I feel that the page as a whole is too negative, which is a common problem in the Dragon Ball Super manga pages.
Edited by Edgar81539openGetting rid of Shipping Bias / Reporting two tropers Anime
If you guys don't mind, this is a twofer post that actually goes hand-in-hand. Also, I apologize in advance because this is a long post, but I need to give a lot of information so that you'll understand where I'm going with this.
So I already called for RandomX to be reported in my previous ATT post, for, among a lot of reasons, shipping bias. I saw shipping bias in their Naruto entry for First Kiss. On August 14th, matruz removed the shipping bias and provided an Edit Reason explaining why it was removed—to paraphrase, "because saving someone's life with CPR does not equate to a kiss, and as an experienced medical ninja Sakura had to have performed CPR on other subjects before Naruto in order to perfect the procedure, so Naruto is not her First Kiss." Also, it's long since been confirmed in the manga and from post-series interviews with creator Masashi Kishimoto himself that Sakura loves Sasuke and not Naruto, and Naruto rejected Sakura in Chapter 469 of the manga. When Sakura performed CPR on him during the War, about 200 chapters after Chapter 469, she was trying to save his life, not trying to kiss him, so it comes off as more of a friendship moment than a romantic one; plus, Naruto wasn't conscious when she performed CPR on him, so it wasn't mutual. Naruto is shown kissing only two people in Canon: Sasuke in Chapter 3 (both he and Sasuke are visibly shown to not enjoy it, due it being an Accidental Kiss), and Hinata in The Last: Naruto the Movie (which is explicitly the first canon movie of the franchise—an advertisement that was published with the final two manga chapters officially called the movie "Chapter 699.5". Here's the proof). Regarding the kiss with Hinata, Naruto initiates it and is visibly shown enjoying giving her The Big Damn Kiss at the end of the movie, so that was his First Kiss with a girl and also his first mutual and romantic kiss. Based on these facts that I related directly from canon events (and I even provided the manga chapters and the advertisement picture as proof), I agreed with matruz's Edit Reason to remove the shipping bias. However, on September 5th, Trustworthy69 re-inserted the shipping bias that matruz removed, and gave no Edit Reason explaining why it was re-inserted. Edit Reason or not, that is an Edit War on Trustworthy69's part.
Not only that, but I also see shipping bias in Falling into His Arms and Kiss of Life, from EarsplittingLepidopteran. For Falling into His Arms, the description states that it's a very romantic trope, but EarsplittingLepidopteran deleted the Minato/Kushina example (which was romantic) and inserted Naruto saving Sakura and being stabbed by her poisoned kunai (which was not romantic. This event also occurred in Chapter 484, 15 chapters after Naruto rejected Sakura, which makes it even less romantic), and then the way this person worded their completely blanked-out spoiler-tag entry (which is not allowed, according to Handling Spoilers) sounds like shipping bias, so it did not employ neutral wording. The Kiss of Life Naruto entry written by EarsplittingLepidopteran also claims the First Kiss issue, but as I explained in my previous paragraph, and as matruz's Edit Reason stated in the Ship Tease Anime and Manga page and in First Kiss, an experienced medical ninja would have performed and perfected the CPR procedure long before Naruto, so he was not her First Kiss, and she loves Sasuke and was trying to save Naruto's life, but he was unconscious and he already rejected her in Chapter 469, so it was not mutual. Also, Naruto finally woke up from unconsciousness not from Sakura's CPR, but rather from the Sage of Six Paths giving Naruto his powers; this was shown in Chapters 671 and 672. Therefore, the Kiss of Life Naruto entry is not a valid example.
Getting to the point of my post, based on what I have said: 1) The Naruto entries for First Kiss, Falling into His Arms, and Kiss of Life should be reworded to be neutral and display no shipping bias, or even some entries should be removed because they do not follow the criteria from the trope's description(s). 2) If this has not been done already, EarsplittingLepidopteran should be called in/reported for shipping bias and lack of neutral wording, and Trustworthy69 should be called in/reported for shipping bias, lack of neutral wording, and Edit Warring.
Here's the edit history for the aforementioned three tropes: Falling Into His Arms, First Kiss, and Kiss Of Life.
Here's the edit history for EarsplittingLepidopteran, and here's the edit history for Trustworthy69.
I will not do anything with those three aforementioned tropes until I get feedback from a more knowledgeable troper and/or a moderator.
Edited by mouschilightopenUncertain Audience entry Anime
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.ZombieLandSaga#edit34189202
This Uncertain Audience entry was added to the Zombie Land Saga page; I could just be biased because I like the show, but something about this entry feels kinda off to me. It also gets weirdly in-depth over the female character's bust sizes despite the show being really light on fanservice compared to similar anime.
open Questionable notes Anime
On Characters.Yu Gi Oh Arc V Yuya Counterparts, I found these notes:
- For the sake of consistency, please pay attention to First-Name Basis and Last-Name Basis, and don't use dub names without context to the dub.
- Using the OCG or TCG version of card names is fine.
Both of these note are worrisome since it violates a rule I've seen elsewhere regarding dub names vs original. Said rule establishes that we prioritize dub names if such a dub exists. In this case, YuGiOh Arc-V does have an English dub.
The notes were added to that page as part of a transfer from a page split. Tropers.Fsdfsdfsd made the transfer.
Are these notes kosher?
Edited by TheNerfGuyopenMy Hero Academia character page split against consensus Anime
The My Hero Academia thread agreed in June to merge My Hero Academia Top Ten Ranked Heroes with My Hero Academia - Other Heroes due to the potential for spoilers and the fact that it'd have to be reorganized if the ranks change. But it looks like Aukefi split it off again in August, apparently without consulting anybody. Shouldn't it be re-merged, possibly giving Endeavor his own page?
openTroper needing a tap on the shoulder? Anime
Kakashi 9029 is a recently created account whose only contribution to the wiki so far is... questionable, to say the least. Here's their edit history.
Personally, I smell a complainer with an agenda —or just a plain old vandal.
Sent them a Word Cruft notifier (because I honestly wasn't sure which one to use).
Edited by RoundRobinopenIs this Bowdlerization? Anime
There is a troper who on more than one occasion has made edits that are solely to remove the word "queer."
Admittedly, as someone who uses the word for myself, I'm sensitive to the issue and the ridiculously new controversy around the term, but the word means something specific, and appears to be an allowed word on this wiki, so I don't believe it should simply be removed.
open Bleach YMMV folders Anime
Remind me if YMMV.Bleach being sorted by characters is because of some organizational decision, as it's the only page I've ever seen like this.
Edited by Amonimus
I found Healinfine's passive-aggressive response to nombretomado's request to improve their proposed addition to Double Standard a bit concerning, so I checked out their recent edits. There's not many, but it shows a like for the Pretty Cure series and complaining about Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Their edit for BrokenAesop.Anime And Manga is incorrectly indented, and I'm not so sure their edit for UnintentionallyUnsympathetic.Anime And Manga is okay either. Does this fit the behaviour of anyone that's been recently banned?
Edited by homogenized