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Main.Young Adult Literature seems to have stopped showing up on related pages. I think for a while it stopped indexing, too.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Literature/AllTheBrightPlaces
Edited by lalalei2001openNo Title Literature
Literature.Tom Swift and YMMV.Tom Swift both include a section on an MSTed version of one of the books, claiming it to be from Mystery Science Theater 3000. As far as I can determine it's not from the show, it's a Fan Fiction MST-ing of the book. As such it seems like the whole thing should be deleted, or at least moved to a Fan Fiction/ page. Anybody else have an opinion on this?
[1]: In the paragraph re the MST fanfic "Dale Goes Nuts!" by John Nowak and Matt Plotecher:
- This particular fanfic is less grim ... and shorter than their later MSTing of the dime novel "Tom Swift and his War Tank." [link goes to the same page as the link on our Literature.Tom Swift page]
Furthermore, the page itself has the note "This MiSTing is [c] copyright 2001 by John Nowak and Matt Plotecher."
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Literature
Do earlier drafts of works that are changed significantly when they are finalized matter for trope entries?
I'm asking because in Carrera's Legions I removed the entry for AKA47 as not being the trope, guns renamed for trademark reasons, but simply using different names for equipment that's pretty much modern day (or even recent past) equipment IN THE FUTURE!.
enderheisenberg, who added the AKA-47 entry in the first place, re-added it after my removal (Edit War in and of itself), and added the line "These were direct conversions from early drafits where the story takes part on earth." That doesn't seem like it actually makes the entry an example, but there's enough uncertainty on my part that I thought I'd ask before taking any action.
openNo Title Literature
What's the etiquette of launching a sandbox page created by another user?
The Sandbox page The Six Gun Tarot was created in 2014, but the original maker hasn't updated it since. I'd like to create a page on the wiki for The Golgotha Series, of which The Six-Gun Tarot is the first novel — is there anything I need to do first, or is it okay if I go ahead with that?
openNo Title Literature
Why does Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard page not have capitol letters in its titles? Is there a way to fix that? Does it need to be fixed?
Edited by MullonopenNo Title Literature
Jocasta uncommented several Zero Context Examples on Characters.The Mortal Instruments without expanding them or adding proper context. I’ve just finished re-commenting them out.
openNo Title Literature
In YMMV.Carreras Legions, on Aug 7 aoirann added a Critical Research Failure entry, but none of the subbullets on the entry actually qualified as a critical failure. I removed it, and left an edit reason pointing to the discussion page where I went into further detail about why I pulled it.
However, on Aug 27 he re-added the entry, without any sign of having even looked at the discussion, let alone responding to it.
Edited by NohbodyopenNo Title Literature
Ak! I was working on a forum post and clicked "save draft" but where did it go? How can I find it again?
I clicked save draft, then back button, then forward button and it was still there, then back button again, then forward button again and it was GONE replaced by an empty composition window. Do I have to recreate it from scratch?
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Literature
This one takes some background.
First, there was Mistborn: The Original Trilogy. It included magic-users called mistborn.
Next, came the book The Alloy of Law, taking place a few centuries later, at which point the mistborn have sort of died out. Originally the book was supposed to be stand alone, but was received well enough that it's getting sequels. So this new series needs a name. Someone on the fanwiki Coppermind decided to go with The Mistborn Adventures, despite the fact that there's no Word of God supporting this, and mistborn don't even appear in this book. It then spread over to our site.
So what do we do? The series has no official title besides just "Mistborn," which covers the original trilogy, this series, and a later series that will be sci-fi. Some people call it "The Wax and Wayne Series" (after the main characters), but that's not official either.
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Hi, everyone! New user here! A friend suggested I make a query to find help to sort out a little issue of mine. I, um, cannot seem to create a new page for my fanfic. I've seen couple on TV Tropes and I want to create my own, but I have no idea how to do that without a step-by-step guide. Please help!
openNo Title Literature
Characters.The Stormlight Archive has been split for size, need the subpages indexed.
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I'm trying to create a new Works page, and I'm reading through the step by step guide, but I still don't understand how to do step 1. Can anyone explain it to me?
openNo Title Literature
When scanning for The Trojan Cycle for ideas of what to add to Age of Bronze, I noticed that that article's a bit messy. There's a few ZCE's ("Aphrodite" is not enough context) and at least two examples referred to another example.
I have to attend to RL stuff, but I'd thought I post this here in case anyone else can get to it. :)
openNo Title Literature
Wanting to add an example classified as a Light Novel to a trope page. The page in question does not have a Light Novel section currently, though it does have a Literature section. So my question: is it good enough to just put it under Literature, or must I make a Light Novel section for the example?
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FanFic.Avatar The Last Alicorn: On May 8th Mugen Kagemaru added the line
- [[WMG: Some capitalization errors exist. Perhaps someone who doesn't have a busy life right now can deal with that and dump this note when they're done?]]
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I was looking to start a Works page for the web serial I'm writing. Web serial novels go in Literature according to the Namespace page, and the title is Winter's Tale. However, there is already a page at Winter's Tale. What should I use for the URL?
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I made a page for The Road Roller Rampage and I don't know which index to put it under. Can someone help me with this?
Edited by ianoliviaopenNo Title Literature
Looking for an opinion on certain creator edits before I, er, make some -
By and large, I figured the best policy creator-wise would be to leave the work page alone, myself, being obviously biased and, well, it's for the readers to decide what's appropriate to put there.
But here's the case I'm wondering about: what about errors on matters of fact (i.e., not opinions or views about the work, but statements about things described therein that directly contradict the work itself). I get people finding the books through the trope page and would rather not have 'em potentially doing so under false pretenses, so...
Cool? Not cool? Other thoughts?
Timjames98 just uncommented out a bunch of commented out Zero Context Examples on the Character page for Divergent without bothering to expand on them.