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openA Case of ROCEJ?
Just now I Wiki Walked to …And That Little Girl Was Me and noted the following entry in the "Real Life" folder.
- During the second night of the first Democratic Debates in 2019, Kamala Harris attacked Joe Biden over his previous opposition to desegregation busing, telling the story of a young girl who was part of busing, before Name Dropping this trope to the surprise of Biden and everyone else. After the debate, analysts considered this moment to be one of the best highlights of the debate.
On the one hand, this is a legitimate invocation of the trope. On the other, the recentness of that debate makes me wonder if I should remove it in the name of the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment.
Figured I would get a second or third opinion before acting on it.
openBreaking Up A Character Page?
I have done extensive work on the "Fables" (the DC/Vertigo series) entry, and recently, I encountered the "Warning: This article is too long. It needs to be broken into multiple pages." alert on the Edit page for "Characters". I am of course willing to comply, and intend to do so by breaking up the Characters into subsections like "Fabletown Citizens", "The Wolf Clan", "The Empire" and such, but I have no idea how to go about it. Can someone lay out to me the exact mechanics of creating subpages, subsections and whatnot?
openLinks and fan works?
So apparently it's against the rules, or at least frowned upon, to link to the same page twice on a single page. However, on trope articles, what do I do when a trope is used by both a work and a fanfiction of the same work?
openSpam in review comments
Two comments with canned sentences and a link:
open Kid's show about two twin girls and their robot dog Western Animation
Hello~ I wanted to know what was the bame of that show I've watched when I was 5 years old~ I remember it was from around 1990's or from the early 2000's... This show was Canadian if I remember and it was about two twin women with blonde hair and red dressses, they we're pretty glamorous and would travel all around the world (mostly with an air plane) if I remember right the had a male companion not sure if he was 20 years old or an old man, I don't remember right, but a big hint here is that those girls we're based of off real celebrities, two Canadian twins and the show itself started the intro with the real actresses getting inside an air plane , and then, they transformed into cartoon girls. I remember they had a Scootish dog type that was a robot and would do lots of things and also talk. The girls we're drawn quite realistic not like Johnny Test, Gravity Falls, Princess Star or any other modern western cartoons, this was more detailed and the animation was pretty good~... I even remember one episode where the girls got scared of how popular robot dogs became, that all the children had abandoned their pets to buy robot puppied and I remember the girls to be quite upset, and they dealed with a golden retriever (If I remember right) to find his home and convince the owner to get rid of the robot dog and take care of him instead~... I remember that this episode quite weirded me out since the girls themselves owned a robot dog~.. anyway, I hope you people do remember this show because I really want to know the name of it~♪
openWhen the StartScreen doesn't exist, at least on first load?
When the Start Screen doesn't exist, at least on first load?
Like, loading the game sends you directly into the action? Like for Braid...
Start Screen doesn't wick there...
open Need help finding an old tv show from approx 12 yrs ago
Help me find this tv show. It was about a kid whose favorite tv show disappears when he forgets to hand in science project. There's some time jumping involved
openRenaming HM The Queen?
Okay, so Queen Elizabeth II's useful notes page is currently titled HM The Queen.
The title seems kind of vague, and it doesn't match up with the format we use for most other monarchs. Support or object for renaming the page just Elizabeth II?
openRecent additions to WhatAnIdiot.StarWars Film
There were some lengthy additions to WhatAnIdiot.Star Wars recently. Long story short, they were nitpicking on insignificant details. I trimmed some of them down and removed a the rest as misuses of WaI, only for another troper to restore them.
Could someone else get a look at the page? I'll admit, I am getting annoyed at all the "fans" bringing their negativity to the Star Wars pages, so I'm rather quick to reach for the axe. It'd be nice to have another opinion.
openMove Stingray to Series, since it disambigs Series.
Move Stingray to Series, since it disambigs Series.
open Disturbing TV show Film
There was a disturbing TV show that I once watched when I was a child but I cannot remember its name. The only thing I can remember from the show is at the end of one of the episodes, a uv light was shone in a bedroom and bloody hand prints (in green) could be seen all over the bedroom walls. I know earlier in the episode this bedroom had been shown in the daytime and no evidence of anything sinister could be seen. This scene has stuck with me for over 20 years and I would really like to find out which TV show is responsible for this vivid and disturbing memory.
openTroper with grammar issues
InsanePryomanic's edits demonstrate questionable grammar, as seen in pages like Characters.YuGiOh VRAINS.
Sent a notifier, but for the time being, can I please get a revert on the edit for that page? (EDIT: made the changes myself already)
Edited by Tenma-YuukiopenGrammar
So I just cleaned up Dangan Ronpa: Seekers of a New World, which had a lot of grammar issues. I did some digging and found that the culprit was one The Immortal Angel Newton, who is still making wiki edits with grammar mistakes four years later. I sent a notifier, but with how long this has been going on, I think stronger action is necessary.
Specifically, I've noticed run-on sentences, tense confusion, and they're/there/their confusion, among other issues, and I only looked at a few recent edits (and the page, of course, which had a lot of similar errors).
Edit: Here are some examples:
- This most recent edit uses the wrong tense ("possess" instead of "possessed"), has multiple examples where commas are missing where they should be added, and...well, some ZCEs, for good measure.
- this edit is a big ol' run-on sentence, and some words seem to be missing, oddly.
- Comma missing, and a trope not being wicked.
- More run-on sentences.
- Nattery run-on sentence...
openStarbound YMMV Page Locked? Videogame
I can't help but bring this up as the page is locked and the Administrivia.Locked Pages index dosen't list the reason why.
Edited by nombretomadoopen Excessive (?) gushing Film
Awesome.Avengers Endgame features several paragraphs of gushing over the movie breaking every box office record and becoming the highest grossing movie ever. To wit:
- The film's box office performance has been nothing short of astounding:
- Most box office prognosticators were cautiously optimistic that it could break $300 million opening weekend in the US, which would handily break Infinity War's record of $257 million, in and of itself a staggeringly high amount of money. It completely obliterated everyone's expectations by making $357 million, $100 million more than its predecessor. Barring some ridiculous future inflation, it's hard to imagine a future movie breaking the box office record by a 9-figure sum.
- Endgame became the first movie ever to gross one billion (with a "B") dollars in its opening week! $1.2B to be exact, which is almost double what Infinity War did on its opening. This also makes it the second entertainment product to do so, outside of Grand Theft Auto V.note And of course, being a AAA video game which costs $60 rather than just the cost of a movie ticket, GTA V has a massive unfair advantage there. To put simply, it became the highest grossing movie of 2019 and the 18th-highest grossing movie of all time in four days, and it's even more impressive when one takes the film's heavy Continuity Lock-Out into account.
- As of its opening Sunday (28 April 2019), Endgame broke 144 records.
- It became the highest grossing import movie in China ever in just a week. It hit $500 million there the Thursday after release, blowing past the original record holder The Fate of the Furious's $392 million total haul.
- After just 12 days into its worldwide release, Endgame not only surpassed $2 billion (becoming the second comic book movie to do so), but also blew past Avengers: Infinity War, The Force Awakens, and James Cameron's Titanic to become the second-highest grossing movie of all time. In turn, this makes the MCU the first franchise to have two $2 billion grossing movies under their belt, unadjusted for inflation.note If you do adjust for inflation, then it's second only to Star Wars, but it's still impressive either way.
- Crossing over with Heartwarming, Cameron himself, a man infamous to MCU fans for his comments about "superhero fatigue", congratulated Marvel Studios for surpassing Titanic:
@JimCameron: An Iceberg sank the real Titanic. It took the Avengers to sink my Titanic. Everyone here at Lightstorm Entertainment salutes your amazing achievement. You've shown that the movie industry is not only alive and well, it's bigger than ever!
- Crossing over with Heartwarming, Cameron himself, a man infamous to MCU fans for his comments about "superhero fatigue", congratulated Marvel Studios for surpassing Titanic:
- In 20 days, it grossed 2.5 billion. The only other film that achieved this was Avatar, and it took 72 days to get to that point.
- Then 89 days after release (July 20th, 2019), Endgame went above and beyond any other record it's broken prior to this point, and officially surpassed Avatar as the highest-grossing movie of all time.note worldwide, not adjusted for inflation, and the first sequel to do so. The last few weeks prior to this achievement were nail-biting, because even with the re-release in theaters it was clear that it'd be a photo finish either way... and yet it happened regardless. In fact, it happened with such perfect timing that Kevin Feige himself got to announce it during the Marvel panel at San Diego Comic Con. You'd swear it was pre-ordained from the heavens to work out this way.
- Once again, Cameron congratulates Marvel Studios for passing Avatar:
@JimCameron: Oel Ngati Kameie, I see you Marvel. Congratulations to Avengers Endgame becoming the new box office king!
- Once again, Cameron congratulates Marvel Studios for passing Avatar:
Do we really need all that info?
openIndexing Web Original
So i've created a couple new pages and have been trying to add them to their specific indexes, but I can't find the index that they belong too. Like I've been trying to add the Web Video/fan works page to the fanfiction index, but I can't find the fanfiction index itself because everytime I go to the its index, it is just the overview page of what fanfiction is. I feel like i'm doing something wrong. Please help
openDoes This Manga Actually Exist?
I just found the page Mirabili Felis (it has a description and nothing else). Out of curiosity, I looked up the manga title, and I can't find anything talking about it except for the page here.
(Please tell me if this is the wrong place to bring this up.)
openWhere to crosswick?
Crosswicking Magical Sensory Effect, and there's an example I'm stuck on:
- The Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel, Blood and Fog reveals that a magic user can eventually gain a scent that accompanies their spells over time. The novels Big Bad Jack the Ripper for example smells like strawberries and cream.
Being for a novel that doesn't have a page, where do I add this example? I can't add it to the actual series page if it's a non-canon book, right?
openWhy is Creator.GerryAnderson, a redirect to Supermarionation?
Why is Creator.Gerry Anderson, a redirect to Main.Supermarionation?
Which is now a redirect to UsefulNotes.Supermarionation?
Edited by Malady
A question from YMMV.My Little Pony Equestria Girls:
This seems too soon to call since: 1. Two days since the announcement seems too little time for there to have been a surge. 2. ALL fics set afterward are now Continuation Fics by definition so is that trope worthy (even if it had a proper ending they're be a surge)? 3. Cancelled is a stronger term than the official statement (it likely is but that's speculation). Thoughts?
I've also asked Is this an example? but have yet to hear back.
Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught