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openEdit warring over quotation marks
Turquoise Owl is one troper with the habit of putting quotation marks inside the links for linking to series episodes. This is a minor thing, but it has been established in a few ATT threads that quotation marks should be kept outside the link, just like italic marks. (I know because I was in the habit of putting quote marks inside a long while ago, and I had to change my habit following the consensus.)
I had already messaged Turquoise Owl about this 3 months ago (I checked) to explain that to him, but I felt he wasn't taking it seriously. Now I have the confirmation, since this troper started an edit-war over this very thing on the pages Funny.Star Wars The Clone Wars and WhatCouldHaveBeen.Star Wars The Clone Wars.
Asking for a mod revert on this two pages.
PS: To any mod reading, please check the thread, I may be wrong but we might have a ban evasion case.
Edited by StFanopenEdit War Film
ritzoreo has sullied the name of two delicious snacks by restoring an example they wrote of Fandom Rivalry on Trivia.Sonic The Hedgehog 2020 that was deleted half a day ago, concerning a rivalry with Birds of Prey (2020), which we've established doesn't count. They also just didn't put the Fandom Rivalry wick in, as if that was the main problem.
openI may have violated FiveP.
Sometime ago, I added an entry on a trope's page listing the porn site Vamp You as averting that trope. Today, I found out about Five P and I'm curious if the entry should be deleted.
Edited by BKelly95open Edit War
ritzoreo has tried to put the same example on the Sonic movie trivia page three times. The first time under dueling works, which got removed by Anddrix. The second under fandom rivalry, removed again by Anddrix. The third attempt was not attached to anything.
Edited by Chytusopen What cartoon/tv show is it?
I remember that the story is about this city that in one episode is infested by giant wasps... And in another by giant alligators that live in the sewers... And also in the intro there are wasps and all sort of giant animals... Please help mee.
openHaving problems with a rude user Videogame
A while ago I reported that the user, Rombustier, was being unprofessional if rather rude about his editing messages, particularly towards mine. Here was the thread I had previously made on this issue.
After a while, he went dormant, so I assumed that he would have put it behind me as I had. He's returned, and it seems that out of the five or so people who edit the articles on Criminal Case.
For a few examples, on March 22nd 2020 at 1:37:31 AM, he corrected an edit where I had accidentally put a spoiler tag within a spoiler tag, which isn't a mistake I normally do at all. Rombustier decided to write "spoiler tags within spoiler tags. really?". Just today, at 6:13:05 PM, he corrected another edit of mine with "wing? where?", referring to the fact that I had misspelled "ring". Both of these happened here.
I'm worried that I might get told that I don't have a sense of humor and that I'm blind to sarcasm. Thing is, I'm not. I'm fine with humor, its just that Rombustier's rubs off on me the wrong way. I have messaged him to tone it down, but it hasn't worked. I feel that its better if I brought it here to bring attention to it, rather than end up allowing things to get out of hand.
Thanks.
openSplitting the Useful Note on the Romani
The Useful Note on the Romani looks big, especially the sections for literature, live-action films, live-action TV, tabletop games, and video games. Is it allowed to split such an article even if it's a Useful Note?
Edited by IukaSylvieopen Possible Edit War on VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 and VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD Videogame
I would like to request an Edit Lock for the Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog CD pages. The pages are constantly getting reverted by a troper named Eagle 70 who insists on readding completely non-canon information about the games to it over and over again despite my attempts to correct it—specifically, insisting that Sonic's World (thats the official name given by Sega) is called Mobius in the main series games like it was in the old cartoons or comics, all based on a comment in an interview about Sonic the Hedgehog 2 that Yuji Naka made long ago. Sega does not consider Mobius canon to the games or any current Sonic media now, and whatever Yuji Naka may have said is irrelevant now, especially since 'another' Word of God (Takashi Lizuka, one of the original Sonic Team staff who still works with Sega to this day) has deliberately avoided giving a name to the world Sonic lives in. I have also asked Ian Flynn (who works directly with Sega now as the head writer on the IDW Sonic comics, giving him Word of God status) about this on his Twitter, and he verified that Mobius is absolutely not canon to the games. Saying Mobius is still canon to the games because of some cherrypicked comment Naka (who hasn't been involved with the Sonic franchise since 2006) made decades ago (also note that Naka does not speak english and its more than likely what he said was misinterpreted/mistranslated) is like saying Lauren Faust's Word of God is still canon to the MLP show after she left it, even though many things happened since she left that flat out contradict many of her statements. At any rate, even if he 'did' say that and mean that, it does not apply to canon anymore regardless—Sega themselves and at least two of the series biggest contributors have discredited that idea, and absolutely no other staff of the series have verified the "Mobius" concept ever being canon to the games. Also, if one reads any of the japanese (canon) backstory for Sonic, not once is the word Mobius ever spoken—only Earth is mentioned. At any rate, I strongly believe the pages should be locked (at least temporarily) to prevent any further vandalism or a potential Edit War about this trivial matter. Does this sound like a good idea?
Edited by PrinzenickopenEdit warring over the type of ending (MAJOR RE3Remake Spoilers) Videogame
So there is a disagreement over the type of ending RE 3 Remake has. It went from Downer to Bittersweet, justification being that the ending is not totally bleak. I changed it to Ray of Hope because it's still a sad ending, but it then changed back to Bittersweet.
If my understanding is correct, Bittersweet is a happy ending that isn't perfect while Ray of Hope would be a Downer Ending if it wasn't for the chance that things could get better.
Happy things
- The heroes live on to keep fighting
- The villains are dead
Sad things
- The heroes failed to save the city resulting in its destruction, along with the deaths of all its inhabitants.
- The parties responsible for all the chaos receive no comeuppance by the end of the game, and the heroes have no concrete plan for taking them down
- Jill and Carlos barely escape with their lives and end the game angry and heartbroken. The same can't be said for Brad, Mikhail and Tyrell because they all died trying to help them save the city.
The game does not end happily, tragic music plays over the nuclear blast as Jill laments about the destructiveness of humanity's greed. The sad stuff carries greater weight than the happy stuff, which is why I think Ray of Hope is a much better fit.
Thoughts?
Edited by BenbeastedopenPossible edit war/ban evader?
I noticed that ColonelBox deleted the entry for Contested Sequel in the Resident Evil 2 Remake without giving a reason.
Could they be bigbossbalrog?
Edited by PowogaopenObject shows
Is it OK to make a works page based on the countless object shows. I mean there are so many of them that they can its own page
openZero-Effort TLP
TLP that's based on a meme, without examples, without even a description, except "Up For Grabs".
Edited by Chabal2openIs this misuse of Aerith and Bob?
Some people add examples for Aerith and Bob for unusual, but real, names mixed in with common names (e.g. Theodora and Bob). Is this legit? I thought that Aerith and Bob was for made-up names mixed in with real names.
openDisney/ and Discworld/ namespaces
I know that they are depreciated namespaces but was the rationale of the Disney Animated Canon and the Discworld novels getting their own namespaces in the first place?
openIndividual Role Association Pages
Is it possible to give a Long Runner like Bleach or A Certain Magical Index to get it's own page?
Edited by MalleoWeegeeopenTRS for splitting tropes? Videogame
Is it appropriate to start a TRS thread if I think a trope should be split into two separate tropes? If so, which reason should I pick, since splitting isn't one of the ones given?
The trope in question is Full Motion Video. The trope, as it is, covers two distinct topics: cutscenes that happen to be live-action in an otherwise normal game that uses graphics and animation, and Interactive Movies which exclusively use live-action sets and actors. It also talks about pre-rendered cutscenes, which is a topic that isn't even exclusive to Interactive Movies.
The description flip-flops back-and-forth to which it's talking about, and the examples are a jumbled-up mess that can't seem to decide if it's an index or a actual trope page.
Edited by PrimisopenWhat's the point of happy tearjerker?
I don't get what's the use of happy tear jerker. I mean they count as heartwarming right? I found some examples using this words on some page.
openFashion-Victim Hero?
I just wonder, since it must have been asked before, why there is no trope for heroes who fall fashion victim? Sure, it may be hard to tell where the line goes from an okay average superhero-suit (like in the comics) to one that actually makes it hard to take them seriously. But there has been times where they fall fashion victim even by their standards.
Like Batman, Robin and Batgirl from Batman & Robin.
Ofcourse, im not suggesting any new trope, im just wondering what reason it wasn’t done. Maybe it was removed or something?
Edited by Enigmatic_Mastermind
The tropes listed on Omnipresent Tropes seem be a shortlist only since the related pages reveal many more examples.