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Main/Nuzlocke-After-Armageddon was created. While Nuzlockes are normally webcomics, this one is a fanfic and on the wrong namespace. And I don't think hyphens are used anymore.
edit: Ah, I see what happened. The creator of that page later namespaced it correctly, but someone is editing the old page.
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Matthewguy6131994 cutlisted every page for Literature/Feed, saying it's 'not needed'.
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Is there a specific spoiler policy for older works (such as 19th-century books and the like)?
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Characters.How To Train Your Dragon just got a lot of Repair, Don't Respond violations added by Socrates The Mudwing. I am not familiar enough with the subject to fix it myself, though, although I did message them.
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Characters.Discworld Wizards: Spoilers in folder names for The Librarian and the Dean. Should the spoilered parts be moved down into the entry?
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Literature.Harts Hope is a stub that needs A LOT of work. Is anyone here familiar with the title, or should the page be cutlisted?
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There is a potential edit war brewing over the Analysis page for Bookof Mormon. MAI 742 insists on using an analysis that I find insulting to Christians in general and factually inaccurate. We have had a long discussion on the subject (cf. the Discussion page for Bookof Mormon) but cannot come to a consensus. I note that neither the Bible nor the Qur'an literature pages have an analysis page. I believe it would be best if the Bookof Mormon page didn't either.
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Cant think of a trope. It's sort of like Been There, Shaped History but sort of not.
More to the effect of "A given character was present at X point in history and is mentioned to have met X historical figure".
For a relevant example: In Dangerous Spirits, Henri Trunoire was an artist in Paris in the late 1800s and studied under Fernand Cormon alongside Vincent van Gogh.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog
I think the anti-Ken Penders stuff is getting kinda ridiculous. I know the lawsuit has bearings on the reboot, but that was Archie's lawsuit.
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What is the procedure for dealing with work pages when the author has taken down the work for a rewrite? The page in question is Night Hunters.
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Should Mary Sue, God-Mode Sue, and/or Broken Base be potholed on a trope page?
Soulless Shell, Anita Blake entry.
Edit for name spelling. Do not try to type around very friendly kitties. :p
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beagel made a large number of factually incorrect edit reasons on Literature.Words Of Radiance, often with insulting edit reasons like "Did anyone even read the book?" On their own, they're very minor, but the massive number of them and the tone makes me think he needs a talking to.
edit: Oh, and natter and complaining.
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Hi, I'm working on a new Literature page (Shaman of the Undead) and I have trouble finding a proper indexes (I guess it needs about three, but so far I've got only Urban Fantasy index). Can you tell me which ones should I use?
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I'm trying to set up a new works page for a story I found, a fanfic, to be speciffic. I've been reading through the howto pages on new work's pages and collecting tropes. But I haven't found an answer... The work I'm paging is made up of a series of stories, to create a cohesive whole. Issue is, I don't know how to represent that on the page. Should I summarize the whole in the opening? And, when I get to it, should I use folder's for the seperate sections of the story's pieces' tropes? Thank you for your time and consideration.
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Is there a policy on adding tropes from works that aren't fully released but still available?
Baen books likes to put out eARCs (electronic Advance Reader Copies) of their books...unproofed, pre-release "beta" versions which cost a bit extra compared to the final product but are available months before the official release. Are they valid sources for tropes, especially given that details from them may still change before release?
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A guy is Edit Warring with non other than Fighteer himself in the Consider Phlebas page.
WTF.
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This was a long time ago, so maybe the statute of limitations or whatever is up on this, but aerojockey left a rude editor's note on Characters.TheKingkillerChronicle on June 18th last year. Specifically:
%% note
%% the entries for Felurian are deliberately lower-case, reflecting the orthography of her dialogue in the book.
%% if, for some reason, you think you would like to make everything "consistent" by capitalizing these entries,
%% please ask yourself whether you want to be "that guy" who shits on any tiny bit of fun he sees
%% thank you
While I was cleaning the page today (still needs more work), I deleted the rude part but left the rest.
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I just finished a book (The Last Kashmiri Rose), which hasn't got a page yet. This is the first in a lengthy series of mysteries starring the same character, running to eleven volumes and counting now. I haven't read any of them and don't know when I'll get copies. If I were to create a works page, would I do it in the namespace linked above until there's a works page for the rest of the series, or would I create a Detective Joe Sandilands page and leave it unfinished? (Or wait and not create a page at all at this time, or something else?)
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Got an argument in one of my YKTTWs, Tidally Locked Planet, on how to format and sort a multi-author example.
freesefan wrote:
- Until 1965, scientists believed that Mercury was tidally locked to the Sun. Many sci-fi writers, including Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Kurt Vonnegut, wrote stories featuring a tidally-locked Mercury. See The Other Wiki here. In 1965 it was determined that Mercury actually rotates three times per two Mercury years, exposing its entire surface to the Sun.
crazysamaritan wrote: From How to Write an Example, Keep it an Example, the 1965 entry isn't an example. The part about Issac Asimov's short story can stay, but here's my stab at rewriting for Real Life:
- Mercury, until 1965, was believed to be tidally-locked to the sun. Unfortunately, Science Marches On, and even otherwise lauded sciencefiction writers like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Kurt Vonnegut had written stories featuring this "fact". More about Mercury in Fiction from The Other Wiki. The change in 1965 was from radar observations that weren't possible before the invention.
free wrote: ^Yes it is an example. Clarke, Asimov, Vonnegut, and others wrote fictional stories featuring a tidally-locked Mercury. The linked page has a list. Your recommendation to move the example to Real Life is inappropriate because Mercury isn't really tidally locked.
crazy wrote: ^^^^ What you didn't read, I am now posting here:
- Keep It An Example: Making a blanket statement on the behavior of '70s Live-Action TV may be interesting information, but it technically doesn't add anything new as an example. If you feel the information is important, then add it to the description instead of the examples. Examples are about specific works and instances in them; the description is the general behavior of the trope. See Needs A Better Description.
free wrote: ^ You remain incorect. I did not provide a blanket statement, I provided a specific example—examples in literaturre of Mercury being written as a tidally locked planet—and a link to a page that has a list of specific stories. What you cut and paste does not have any relevance to what I wrote. I'm not sure how a list of fictional stories that employ a certain trope can not be viewed as examples of that trope. And, once again, you are incorrect in saying the example should be moved to Real Life, because the example is not about Real Life. Mercury is not tidally locked. The example cites instances in fictional stories.
Requesting a moderator ruling.
I have a question about The Mighty Thor subpages. the Funny, Heartwarming, and tearjerker pages are all set to The Mighty Thor, which is the comic book series. But the Awesome page redirects to Awesome/Thor, which is the title of the Thor movie, and proceeds to list comic examples anyway. What should be done?