Have a question about how the TVTropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help.
It's not for everything, though. For a list of all the resources for your questions, click here. You can also go to this Directory thread
for ongoing cleanup projects.
Ask the Tropers is for:
- • General questions about the wiki, how it works, and how to do things.
- • Reports of problems with wiki articles, or requests for help with wiki articles.
- • Reports of misbehavior or abuse by other tropers.
Ask the Tropers is not for:
- • Help identifying a trope. See TropeFinder.
- • Help identifying a work. See MediaFinder.
- • Asking if a trope example is valid. See the Trope Talk forum.
- • Proposing new tropes. See TropeLaunchPad.
- • Making bug reports. See QueryBugs.
- • Asking for new wiki features. See QueryWishlist.
- • Chatting with other tropers. See our forums.
- • Reporting problems with advertisements. See this forum topic.
- • Reporting issues on the forums. Send a Holler instead.
Ask the Tropers:
openNo Title
FunctionalMagic.Marvel Cinematic Fanfiction Universe was recently made, and it doesn't seem to fit the trope Functional Magic, being used as a roll call of spells instead.
Edited by lalalei2001openCan you use YouTube videos for video examples? Web Original
If so, how do you do it? If not, how do you upload video examples? I want to be able to utilize that feature.
openNo Title
On Badass Native, there's the description: Indigenous people tend to be, well, poor. Many indigenous people also have a tradition of war, unlike the rest of the world.
What is this supposed to be about? It doesn't exactly explain what being poor has to do with this, and it doesn't look like there's any need for sarcasm. Should this be rewritten?
openUnpublished Works
Does The Fic May Be Yours, but the Trope Page Is Ours apply to Unpublished Works? FF00FF just cutlisted two of their own pages, PSC Series and OWB Three.
resolved Administrivia / CreatorPagesInMain
Is there anything left to do with the Creator Pages In Main page, as it no longer has any examples to be moved?
openRevert request and problematic troper
bandanariolu appears to have accidentally deleted huge chunks of the Evil Brit page. I'd like to request a revert to fix the damage.
Also, their two edits on the wiki (excluding the deletion) have terrible grammar and formatting.
openDocumentary Recaps question? Live Action TV
I'm planning to write recaps for documentary series Series.Police Camera Action - which has recently been getting YouTube uploads but I have some questions on recaps.
Documentaries / shows that are focused on Real Life don't get recaps, do they, in general?
I'm not sure what's permitted or not so thought I'd ask.
openLion King is in the wrong namespace? Film
The upcoming Lion King remake is currently under the Film namespace when the movie is entirely computer generated. Shouldn't it be moved to the Western Animation namespace?
openArtistic License Physics: ... what.
Courtesy link: Artistic License – Physics
So, this page is... weird.
So the first bit is fine. It's an index of subtropes. Easy-peasy.
Then it goes into "In-Universe Examples (that don't fit into a subtrope):" which frankly... I'm not sure what it means. I would think that it would mean "a character creates a work that ignores physics for the sake of his Story Within a Story" but it just seems to be... examples of a work ignoring physics.
And then there's the third section that is just... odd. "Other Examples (that don't fit into a subtrope): Note that this is not a trope so much as a series of things that may be goofs, may be a one-time use of artistic license for Rule of Cool, or may be a "proto-trope" in its larval stages, which will one day be common enough to be a trope of its own. As such, please list examples by "type" of physics violation, so we can catch these proto-tropes as they form.
Also note that this is not a forum. If an example is actually not a violation of physics, remove it. Don't debate it here."
So I kind of fail to see how it's effectively different from the second section, just grouped into folders with jokey titles.
openProblematic TLP
This TLP has serious issues both in writeup and handling of the subject matter. Also Bold Inflation everywhere.
openYMMV as part of trope description
Are YMMV items allowed in the body text of a trope? For example, Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene. I'm dewicking and I wonder if sooner or later, someone's going to ask, "If it's in the trope description, why am I not allowed to pothole it elsewhere on the page?"
openIs there a random trope chooser to help out working on trope pages?
I'd probably want to start working on a new page someday but the problem is i would prefer to seek a sort of tool that picks a random trope out of thousands available to write a example for each one, so that it's easier to write a longer list of trope examples for a Medium page.
openPossible ban evader
Terball has a very similar editing history to Devilmansans, who was banned at the beginning of the month for poor grammar and English. I'm also beginning to suspect that they're the author of the Fanfic story they primarily edit, although I guess that's minor in the grand scheme of things.
openTop Gun Maverick? Film
Why is Top Gun: Maverick a red link? There used to be a page for it, and there's an official trailer out for it now.
openWhy does the Supertrope page not have all examples?
Why does Supertrope page have A Sample of Super Tropes And Their Sub Tropes, instead of having every example of a Supertrope?
Are there just too many to list or something?
Edited by pikachu17openSuper Mario nightmare fuel page
Why is Mario Party a red link if the page works fine?
The troper Marioguy 128 is going around all of the pages related to Splatoon 2 and deleting anything relating to it being better than the original game, or even just good in its own right, because "it's not representative of everyone's opinions." He has done nothing but add negative, complain-y edits in return. At this point I'm sick of dealing with him. Just check my last edit summary for Splatoon. Needlessly harsh, yeah, but I was frustrated.
Last year, right after the Octo Expansion came out, he made some edits to the YMMV page for Splatoon 2 so he could complain about the design of Agent 8 and the design and personality of Marina, labeling them "creepy" and "sexist". He then got into a huge spat on the Splatoon forum thread when they called him out on it, claiming that "it's not representative of everyone's opinions." (i.e. he and one or two people on other forums/streamers think so, ergo it's fact.) He's been a problem for quite some time.
Edited by Midna