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openNo Title Literature
I went and did a universal replace on the page about The Neverending Story to change "Fantasia" to "Fantastica" because I didn't realize that not all editions call it that. Now I can't figure out how to change it back (I'm VERY used to Media Wiki). Halp!
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This is related to the book House Of Leaves and the disabling of strikethrough due to overuse.
In House Of Leaves, something called The Minotaur... existed, or maybe didn't, House of Leaves is kind of a strange book. But in the book's text, Minotaur usually was crossed out with strikethrough wherever it appeared.
So the disabling of strikethrough dinked up the House Of Leaves page a little bit.
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How do I add a trope for a t.v a book the book doesn't have a page.
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"Where on TV Tropes do they cover 'Unlike airport bars, spaceport bars are packed with colourful characters who all know each other'? I guess 'colourful characters' could strictly speaking fall under Amazing Technicolor Population" - Anonymous comment on "How To Write A Generic SF Novel" by Paul Mc Auley
a) Are most "spaceport bars packed with colourful characters who all know each other?" If yes, b) do any tropes talk about this? If reading, c) have you heard of the rule of three?
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Has anyone else read the Ruby Oliver books by E. Lockhart? I couldn't find a page for them.
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Anyone familiar with The Crystal Star feeling up to, well, fixing it up a bit? I've never read it myself, but there seems to be a consensus that it's pretty bad. However, the page's description really seems like a Take That! to the book, and doesn't provide much information other than that the page's writer thought that it was bad.
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Ok Folks I am looking for some other tropers who know about the series Death Lands and can add to the page. As it stands right now. I have gleaned a few random examples from around the site and the rest is from my reading the first novel. Any help fleshing out the page would be nice.
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The WMG page for Sword of Truth has become rife with Complaining About Shows You Don't Like. It's gotten to the point where over 90% of the page consists of this, and some of it is just pot shots against Terry Goodkind in WMG format. Can anything be done about this, or am I allowed to personally delete the offending entries as long as I justify it in my reason box?
Edited by GrandmasterKiramidHeadopen No Title Literature
Could we possibly add the Chaos Walking series to Literature?
Edited by kitsunegari101
Dear Hive Mind,
I've prepared a work description for 'The Collector' by John Fowles, which is said to be a trope namer for 'The Collector' trope (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCollector), but I can't add it because the work has the same name as the trope, and the trope has its own site. (Of course, I could just drop the 'the', but the problem may repeat in future.)
Some time ago I had similar problem when I was adding the entry on 'Merlin' by Robert Nye (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MerlinDarklingChildOfVirginAndDevil), because there already was the trope called Merlin (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Merlin) as well as the work with this name (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Merlin). So, I listed the book under its longer title, which is not very well-known and looks strange without punctuation.)
I couldn't find any general rule applying to such cases. Is there any?