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openOdd Redirect Combination Literature
No idea where to ask this: YMMV.Shogun connects to the redirect Literature.Shogun -> Literature.AsianSaga, whereafter YMMV.AsianSaga is separate from YMMV.Shogun. Is the best play here to ensure content from YMMV.Shogun is on YMMV.AsianSaga then make the Shogun page a redirect?
openHandling spoilers in a book series Literature
Is there any specific guide or at least guidance how to handle spoilers in a book series, where twists from first tome are just impossible to keep not spoilered out in later books, because they create the very foundation for their plot? I've got a long overdue trope list for a trilogy and this is one of the last excuses for not finishing working on it since Easter - no idea how to handle spoilers for tome 1 of three, where 2 and 3 run on the stuff introduced in the first book.
openIndexing Character Pages Literature
Due to the number of characters in Red Rising and its related media, I went through and created separate pages for characters to be divided into based on the ways they're grouped in the story. However it's not showing those new pages as indexed, and despite multiple null-edits to the main parent page and the index page for characters sheets in literature titles R to U, it's not resolving the issue. What do I need to do to get those character sheets indexed under the main character page for the work?
resolved Conflict of edits occuring on American Girl (especially Character articles) Literature
I'm working on cleaning up the somewhat neglected American Girl articles here on TV Tropes, having recently moved the very long character pages to separate pages and writing the pages to fit the expectations here. I'm now removing a lot of empty examples and several tropes that don't fit the characters (and are better moved to the main article.) I've hit a wall with the Historical Character page where multiple edits I've made in good faith are being deleted, removed, and zero context examples being added repeatedly. What should I do next? I don't want to spark an edit war, but I'm getting frustrated. Thanks in advance!
open Examples "by author" Literature
For some reason, a large number of tropes have their Literature examples sorted between "by author" and "by work." Random most recent example I found: NoodleIncident.Literature. That page also has a general section, which I know is against the rules.
I don't know what started this trend, but I've seen it quite often. Is there any reason to not just reintegrate them into one example list?
Edited by Discaropen obsessive villain without looking incompetent Literature
How do I write an obsessive villain without them looking and acting incompetent? Be in revenge killing or an obsessive lover these types of villains can come across as incompetent and not as likeable or memorable. Are there ways to show the villain's motivations are understood?
openChanging an old work page Literature
Basically: there's a page, Storybro's Magically Lewd Sleepover Adventure, which points to a series with two sequels that were never catalogued since their release in 2014. I intended to expand the page with coverage of the other two, and to change the title to encompass the other two. Here's the page I put together to that end: [1]
I planned to redirect the old page to this one. Now I'm not sure if that was a misstep, both due to the age of the old page (would it be grandfathered in or something?), and due to the fact that one of the wicks to the page is admin-locked, that being 4chan. If I wanted to see this through, what are the appropriate steps to take?
Edited by dontgetthebiteopenImpending Similarly Named Work Literature
In 2020, I wrote the Web Serial Novel Literature.Behind Closed Doors. It's currently dormant but also has an alternate name: Behind Closed Doors: Parlance.
Recently, I found a physical book in the bookstore called Behind Closed Doors. I haven't read it and don't know if anyone would make a work page about it, but I wonder...
What would we do if someone wanted to make a work page for that book now? What about if I rename my work in the future? Or what if I did a medium transplant and made my work a webcomic or something, with the original work still out there?
resolved Red link removal Literature
Is there any reason why red link for The World Rose was removed from Overshadowed by Controversy: Literature page? If not, should it be restored (as far as I know, deleting those is frowned upon)? On related note, this page has no link either, but it was this way before I checked.
As far as I know, we normally encourage keeping red links for work and creator pages, to make creating and crosswicking those easier... unless there's a reason why such works/creators wouldn't be allowed to have a page (I know nothing about The World Rose beyond what's written on those pages, so I don't know whether those are forbidden from having work pages, or not; sorry if I missed an elephant in the room and the reason is listed somewhere on the pages).
Edited by AazkaalopenFix the capitalization of a new work page Literature
I just created the work page https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheInconvenientLifeofanArousingPriestess and I messed up the capitalization. Is there a way to fix that?
open Edit to locked page request Literature
"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization has a listing for Flowers in the Attic. This is factually incorrect.
That event falls under Questionable Consent but it is not "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization. Evidence for this
- Cathy later says of it, "And it wasn't any pleasure, God, not really, not any."
- In the sequel there's this Refuge in Audacity, Crosses the Line Twice moment where Chris asks to have sex again by offering to get her off this time — "Let me just once give you the pleasure I didn't before."
That listing needs to be deleted.
opencan i create a page for this? Literature
i’m working on a collaborative fiction project with people on another forum and i wanted to know if i could create a page for it, considering the fact on how only a few people know its existence
openHow to change a tile for a page Literature
Ive been trying to make a tv tropes page for a fic I like by follwing the instructions on the how to make a page. But when I was putting the tile of the fic it all shows up as one word. The tile is suppose to be An Age Gone By. But on the page it shows up as Anagegoneby. I dont see a way to fix it. Could someone help?
open Light Novel namespace remnant on Video Example Literature
Hello, tropers! So, I checked on the trope Jerkass Gods (it also appears on the Hate Sink page as it's considered the sub-trope, but the main trope is the former) and found the newest Video example of it was referring to Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy, but with the "Light Novel" namespace, which was considered a deprecated namespace, resulting in every page with the Light Novel being moved to the Literature namespace.
However, while I was expecting Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy's former Light Novel namespace page would redirect to the Literature namespace version of the page, it does not redirect at all, simply showing the message for a cut page. And as far as I know, I cannot find a method for editing the video's link so it properly redirects to TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- with the Literature namespace (I assume only the submitter of the video example, aside from moderators, can edit the video example, much like posts) - I would like to ask for a help with reviewing the problem, thank you.
openReal Life/Literature Literature
Can Real Life books (memoirs, biographies, etc) be included in the "Literature" section of a trope if they did in fact make use of the trope in question?
openDo you categorize works by authors or publishers? Literature
If a book is by a Canadian but published in the US, should that go in Canadian or American literature? Or both?
openTroper adding their own fanon to a work page Literature
Ian78668 is very much into the Alternate History story Player Two Start, having most of their edit history devoted to its work page. However, they seem to be adding their own concepts and ideas (usually about Don Bluth or Pokémon in some form) into the work page that aren't in the text itself. Even the author had to step in and take some of this out, only for them to add yet more of their own fanon. I sent them a few notifiers a while ago, and they seemed to comply at first... but just recently came back again and added yet more of their own fanon into it. Since I didn't want it to be an edit war, I sent them another notifier and bringing up the problem here.
Edited by harryhenryopen AdmiralDT8 vandalising a page. Literature
A user going by the name AdmiralDT8 has vandalised Loyalty Among Worlds and deleted the YMMV and the Trivia articles for that fanfiction. It is unknown if this is really AdmiralDT8 himself doing this or the work of a troll. If it turns out to be the former, then this is a funny case of Dear Negative Reader Profile here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/AdmiralDT8
Edited by GastonRabbit
I had a look at the YMMV section of Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? and the They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot entry seems more complaining about the premise than any neglected plot points.
Wanted input on what to do rather than get gung ho about deleting the example.EDIT: Noticed the appropriate thread. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16509479720A72263400&page=1 Best just close this already.
Edited by JustaUsername