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openAdding pictures Print Comic
I'm making a page for the Spider-Man story Evil That Men Do. How do I add pictures please?
openAre these neccessary?
On Mooning and Skinnydipping, there are warnings advising the reader to not do the action in real life, as it can cause a criminal conviction which can lead up to sex offender registration.
While those cases can happen, I'm wondering if those warnings are necessary.
Edited by PrincessPandaTropeopenCapcom vs. Everyone? Videogame
Capcom vs. is nominally about the series of video games, but it lists and explains every single instance where Capcom characters have crossed over with anyone. Including a lawsuit, which isn't even an actual crossover. This can't be kosher, right?
Edited by DragonRangeropenWeird page with Fanfic namespace
So here's a page: FanFic.The Complete Works Of Krystalynne Riddle Cullen. It has a miscapitalised namespace, but more importantly, the content is really weird. It's written in the first person and it has style issues (it uses emoticons for instance). Overall, it looks like something that people would add to their Tropers/ page, but if anyone wants to trope their own work, they need to comply to our guidelines.
Should it be cutlisted?
EDIT: On the second glance, this looks like a troll article and I think it should be burned with fire.
Edited by XFlloopenShould this TLP be discarded?
Throwing in a question to ask my fine Tropers. My TLP is called Gun-derwater, and I created it about a month ago. It only has 1 hat despite multiple comments from people offering examples and help. Since I posted about the possibility of discarding the post, I wonder if the TLP should be discarded straight-up, or if I should let it stay for another month. Thanks!
openCan Complete Monsters have the Go Karting With Bowser trope? Videogame
Recently in Mario Kart Tour, Luigi's Mansion's King Boo is going to be added to Mario Kart Tour. It's stated that LM King Boo is a Complete Monster (unless LM 3 goes a different route) and since G Kw B is a friendly trope, doesn't this take him out of Complete Monster territory?
openEarly Release/Leak
A My Little Pony Equestria Girls special aired early in another country, it does not seem to have been a leak or accident, as it is still available on streaming. The English version of the special was leaked earlier this month, too.
Is it acceptable to make a page for the special now, and if so, can we include content from the English version or just the foreign?
openPossible ban evader
Is there any chance that ladyofthelibrary is a sock of maedar? Here is their edit history.
Both do edit a lot, and both do use parabombing. In fact, when their Lady Jane Grey account was removing their own prabombing, they did so only via replacing the parentheses with commas.
They also added two completely spoiler-tagged examples to Insecticide (Page history); it has not been dealt with.
I've notified them on each of this other issues, but the only thing they've actually "fixed" was the edit on The Call at Night, and their edits to VerySpecialEpisode.Live Action TV and Tearjerker.Captain Underpants.
These are issues that maedar has had in the past.
Edited by TheNerfGuyopenNo Title
Which title should Ninin Ga Shinobuden be moved to: Ninja Nonsense The Legend Of Shinobu' or Ninja Nonsense'? I don't know which is the correct full title.
openWhat is Foe Yay
I was trying to find an official definition for Foe Yay, but the actual page for it contains not only no clear definition, but no actual trope description at all. Why is this?
Edited by TheMountainKingopenHoYay page of MLP - FIM Western Animation
In HoYay page of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, wouldn't it be better move Equestria Girls'contents to an apposite page? Are two separate universe with different version of the characters.
Edited by glucoopen"This Troper" example on JoinTheArmyTheySaid
This was added to "Join the Army," They Said by TMB:
- This troper attended a conference with a European army officer to discuss military recruiting. His Ministry of Defense spent millions on a high-tech flashy commercial with guns and pyrotechnics which completely fell flat. His Minister of Defense then watched an American commercial where a handful of soldiers gradually walked into frame at an airport to a standing applause. The Minister jumped up and exclaimed "We need that! It's simple, invoked patriotic feelings, and probably cost nothing!" The officer was speechless when I informed him that technically it was a beer commercial.
Reword to remove the "this troper" or remove the example entirely?
openWho?
UsefulNotes.Operation Rainfall
This page is very stubby and hasn't been edited in 4 years, and I'm wondering if it's pageworthy at all. Any input?
openHelp creating an index for a Fan Rec page Anime
I created a fan rec page for Bungou Stray Dogs but it says it needs to be indexed. I understand that but when I attempted to add it alphabetically to the page, it kept appearing in red. Can you help me?
openCreating new pages, but don't know what catagory Web Original
I want to create a new pages for two really popular Team Fortress 2 Youtubers, Lazypurple and Soundsmith. At this point, they deserve their own pages due to the number of content and extremely hilarious videos they've posted that should be split from the Team Fortress 2 Funny page. The problem is, I don't know which catagory they would fall under. Would they fall under the "Web Video" catagory? "Youtube"? "Web Creator"? Or just "Creator"?
Edited by Falconpunch100openNo Title
I'm sorry to bother you, but some of Excelsior 123's recent edits concering the cancellation of Ready Jet Go! seem a bit... overly complaint. I'm particularly concerned about their edits to the YMMV page here
Again, sorry if this has already been delt with, but I figured it might need to be brought to your attention.
openShoehorning
I'm not entirely sure if Square Peg, Round Trope should be locked for others to edit, since there are more tropes not on the list that tend to get misused. I've seen plenty of examples of Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever (which is an inversion of The Incredible Shrinking Man, where a character grows bigger and has no way of returning to normal) being used for 1) creatures that are already gigantic to begin with, 2) characters that can change their size at will, which is Sizeshifter, and 3) normal sized characters playing around in a model city.
opentrying to make a "Awesome Music" section for Arjun: The Warrior Prince
Hi there. i am working on arjun: the warrior prince wiki page here on tv tropes and i want to add a "awesome music" section. so i go to the button "create new", but i can't find it in the list. how do i make one?
Q1997 has slipped under everyone's radar and has been making lots of serial tweaks for the past month, all punctuated by inexcusably poor grammar. I don't think I should bother sending a holler since they've done quite a bit of damage.