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openNamespace Goes Here / Title Goes Here
Would it be possible for me to make a new Works Page with this Link?
openSpammer
Minor spam, but spam. The only edit vg2903 has made so far is to replace valid links on OffModel.Anime And Manga with...the admission page for some university.
open Sport the difference
I’m trying to find a Christmas special of a tv show called “sport the difference” circa 1990 I had taped it on vhs but have since lost it
Please help as it was the funniest sport show I’ve ever seen
openWall of text example on Danganronpa V3
The Up To Eleven example on Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is a massive Wall of Text lasting 26,989 words.
Something tells me it can be reduced a hundredfold without losing the point the example was trying to make.
resolved Using ROCEJ to cover anti-LGBT? Web Original
This is in RPC Authority's description.
In fact, most of the founders and writers of the wiki are former SCP writers themselves who left the SCP Foundation for complicated reasons that are best left undiscussed, and formed the wiki in 4chan.
Consider that the "best left undiscussed" reason is SCP wiki being pro-LGBT and yearly celebrate Pride Month, is it really covered by ROCEJ?
openWhere do we go to discuss problems with a video clip example?
I just got through watching Daffy Duck on the Non Sequitur, *Thud* page, and the clip doesn't show the "thud" part.
openIs asking for Tropers I personally know for help against the rules?
I proposed two tropes in the Trope Launch Pad. Two of my cousins have accounts here (I don't know their usernames to make a link) and I wanna ask them to vote for my proposals. Is that allowed?
Edited by RT1986open Are PMs really private?
Since I'm like, totally new here, I was wondering if the P Ms were, like, actually 100% private or if mods can intercept them?
openDarkest Hour in Ralph Breaks the Internet
bookworm11 and I have a disagreement over the "Ralph gets sad when reading troll comments" moment in Ralph Breaks The Internet being a parody of Pixar/Disney's "Darkest Hour" moments were everything gets sad. I believe it's a parody of such - minimally sad music, Mood Whiplash, the protagonist in despair - over something very silly (in this case, insulting comments), and where the real Darkest Hour comes much later. bookworm11 disagrees and eroock says that Darkest Hour must involve more than one person - but Darkest Hour cites The Epic Of Gilgamesh, where the hero's low point(s) are often constrained to him.
Edited by WELCOME_BRIGADORopenAdjusting a title
It's been a while since I was particularly active on this wiki, so somebody please remind me — how do I best go about fixing an entry that has a typo or other error in the title? Thanks in advance.
openHelp creating an index for a Fan Rec page Anime
Can you help me make a Fan Rec Index for Ren Zha Fan Pai Zi Jiu Xi Tong or otherwise known as Scum Villain Self Saving System page? I noticed it didn't have one and I have no idea how to do it myself.
Edited by Gintama200openWall of Text issue in Dork Age / Video Games
Title says it all. The DorkAge.Video Games page is becoming too bloated with Walls of Text which is making it difficult to understand the points they're getting at. I think it's time they need to be trimmed down.
openMultiple titles choice
Our current article is Young Indiana Jones, but the Wikipedia page titles it The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and also mentions The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones.
How do we determine which title is the "official" one?
openAnother wave of page vandalism from the Voltron shipping FanDumb Western Animation
Bombonn has been going about editing various Voltron pages and entries with a clear bias in favor of Keith/Lance and attempting to delegitimize those ships that are in competition with it. Although some of them aren't completely horrible on their own, some of them are (for example, the changes to Straight Gay), and on the whole it's blatantly clear that a shipping agenda is at play, including comments that are meant as attacks on real-life people. Their one non-Voltron edit to the Promare page is pretty bad too, as it suffers from a bad case of rabid fujoshi shipping goggles syndrome as well as trope misuse.
Since the account is brand new it might merit a check to see if they're a sockpuppet of any previous editors to the Voltron page who have gotten suspended.
Edited by AlleyOopopenGetting started
Uh, I found this site a couple months ago, and I have been reading it for a while, but like, I still just only now made an account, so I was like, hoping someone could refer me to where I can get tips on getting started and see the forum rules while also like, getting advice on how to work here. I was planning to use the related feature to start finding a bunch of examples of tropes not listed on the trope pages and than like, copying and pasting them, and maybe editing a few pages from works I'm familar with, but I still would like some advice and tips for being on here.
openbad grammar
I've noticed Tropers/drewpalazzolo has made many edits with major grammatical errors. their edit history dates back to September 2018. Aside from bad grammar, they also deleted some stuff without giving a reason (like their first edits on Characters.Maya The Bee and The Antagonist).
I actually deleted a whole bunch of stuff from The Antagonist last week, most or all of which was added by them. Next time I checked some of it was back.
"While Antagonist is generally a Villain, not all Antagonist are Villain because they always considered Neutral and was not in real life." (the part of this that's comprehensible is just repeating what was already there)
I haven't sent them a message yet because I'm not sure what the policy for stuff like this is. This could use some cleanup anyhow.
Can someone teach me how to edit so I can make a new Works Page?