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openFan community page
I just stumbled into Captalia, which is a "capslock fan-community for the series Axis Powers Hetalia, hosted on LiveJournal." It even has a "character" page with the community members, and most of the pages are filled with No Context Examples.
Is it allowed to have pages for fan communities? If it is, Manga seems like the wrong namespace for it and the page will need some cleanup.
Edited by BlackMage43openAsking for a revert Webcomic
I would like to ask for a reversion of all latest changes by Geodude6 on the page Characters.The Order Of The Stick Northern Lands.
Those changes include removing an accepted denomination and replacing it with what is basically a Fan Nickname, obfuscating things seriously for whoever isn't familiar with the comic.
I could make the changes but I'm not sure to catch everything, plus I don't want to be accused of edit warring.
Edited by StFanopenDo unaired pilots count as works? Web Original
I've been working on a Sandbox page for Doozy Bots, a cancelled American cartoon that only has a promo to its name. I feel that it's almost ready for proper launch, but I wanted to check if it's okay to make pages for a cancelled cartoon with only one promo? I remember seeing other pages on TVTropes for cancelled works, and I still want to release this as an official page for historic reasons.
openMain trope not counting as an index?
I recently created a Excuse Plot page for DEATH BATTLE!. Someone told me through a PM to put it in an index, so I just put it on the main trope page because there was already an index for it. They later responded and said I did a "half-ass job" indexing it and that I should look for another page to put it on.
So I can't put a page for a bunch of examples for a trope on the main trope page itself?
open[Stock Phrase?] Let them talk Film
I was watching Toy Story 2 clips recently and came across saw this scene [1] which reminded me of this comic strip [2]◊ and I was wondering if they're spoofs of some classic quote (e.g. "Get your hands off me you damn dirty ape").
I'm pretty sure the quote doesn't count as a stock phrase but I don't watch film so I wouldn't know.
openTwitch Plays Pokemon, Canon, and Fanon
So a little while ago we ran into an issue at the Nightmare Fuel thread over the now-cut page for NightmareFuel.Twitch Plays Pokemon, with one reason being that a lot of the examples came from fan interpretation, rather than the actual work.
However, as this comment shows, at least two tropers were campaigning to keep the page on the basis that the fanon is the work.
So that brought me to a difficult question; if the consensus was that Twitch Plays Pokemon should only have examples explicitly present in the work, then a vast majority of the page (and subpages) need to be cut or moved elsewhere. If the fanon is acceptable as part of the work, then that brings an interesting debate over what counts as being external or relevant to a work (for troping purposes).
So I guess I have two questions: Was the cut premature? And are fanon-specific examples allowed when it comes to works like this?
One thing I should make clear is that, by thread consensus, we habitually delete examples that aren't explicitly from the work themselves, such as Fridge Horror or speculation. But this is the first time a work seemed dependent on this fanon.
Edited by WarJay77open"Captain Obvious Reveal" before the Reveal Web Original
On the YMMV sub-page for Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE, Epileptic Trees has been rewritten to this;
- Captain Obvious Reveal: A couple of "mysteries" in the show were already being guessed at by fans within the first 2 episodes.
- A common theory by fans was that Hiroto's mysterious friend, Eve, is another EL-Diver like Sarah due to Hiroto finding her in a similar starry-skied dimension as the one Sarah first wakes up in, her having similar clothes, having similar abilities to "hear" the heart of gunpla, and a similar affinity with flowers.
- By the same token, another common theory was that Parviz's "respected older brother" who suggested he join GBN is Shahryar, due to them having many similar avatars, color schemes, usernames, and taste in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 based custom gunpla.
However, since said reveals haven't happened yet, I feel that this is preemptive.
openGrammar Issues in Useful Notes / Volcanoes
So I found this new Useful Notes page recently called UsefulNotes.Volcanoes, but it has a lot of grammar and spelling issues. It was created by a troper named Pickly and judging from the edit history, it appears to be created without the use of a Sandbox page to proofread sentences.
Edited by DivineFlame100opentroper having problems with English/formatting
rackham7 has a lot of problems with English and formatting. I was moving a page they made (from Prey Of Gods to The Prey of Gods) and cleaning it up a bit, but in many places the text is just incomprehensible. Looking at their edit history, they've made quite a few pages like this.
Edited by TwiddleropenMaking a page
I'm attempting to make a fanfic tv trope page for a work that I think is really good, but I don't know how to make it let aside start it. Any ideas how I can do this?
Edited by AftermathJackopenEpileptic Trees needs cleanup.
Epileptic Trees are in so need of cleanup I had no idea what it actually meant until a few minutes ago.
I don't think I've ever seen it used as a crazy theory, fan or otherwise, just for listing regular fan theories.
Even worse, many of them are not even theories at all, just a listing of a question that a theory could answer.
For an example, just look at Deltarune's Epileptic Trees.
Edited by pikachu17openFan video on a character page? Videogame
On Wolfenstein Enemies character page, on Frau Engel, there's a point below Kick The Dog that is: "A short cartoon animated by Mashed actually shows her stomping on a kitten, guts and all. It's certainly not something she'd be above doing in the canon series." There's a link to the video too.
There's the description on the video that goes by: " This video was made with the support of Bethesda Softworks, a Zeni Max Media Company."
I don't know if I should delete since it's a fan-made video and sounds like advertising, or keep since the description reads like the company paid them to make it so it's technically official. I'm leaning on delete but I don't know about this sort of stuff.
Edited by RaddishesopenSub-page with the wrong namespace Videogame
The page AlternateCharacterInterpretation.Doki Doki Literature Club was given the wrong namespace: it should be Alternative Character Interpretation. Can I recreate this page correctly and cutlist the existing one, or does this need mod approval?
openCan we find Tropes in a paragraph? Web Original
Last year I asked a friend of mine to give me a Story Synopsis for SD Gundam Ultimate Battle, and instead she gave me the entire story. I've been working on a Sandbox page for Ultimate Battle and I think it looks good, but I want to add more non-spoiler tropes before I feel it's ready to upload. I've been thinking of sharing what my friend told me about Ultimate Battle's story on Trope Finder to see if they're anymore tropes to find in there.
Would that be alright, or would something like that be too abstract?
openUnauthorized Character Page Changed?
I was wondering if it was discussed to change Characters.Senki Zesshou Symphogear? Before it was broken down per season.
openEnoch last name on Team Coulsen page Live Action TV
There has been some issue over the character Enoch on the page https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.MCUSHIELDTeamCoulson . In regards to his last name being Coltrane. At last ATT it was reverted due to no official confirmation to what his last name was. It was re-added that his last name was confirmed due to this scipt[1]. But I have searched online and have not seen any confirmation to his last name. If the script page was from an official part of AOS or the writers room would have left it at that but seeing as it is not then it can't be used as confirmation of Enoch's last name. Was going to revert but double checking just in case.
Edited by TuvokopenJust Plane Wrong just for real life planes?
Is the Just Plane Wrong trope just for real life aircraft used incorrectly in fiction or does is also include fictional aircraft that have nothing to do with real world aviation technology. I ask because the description and the majority of examples seem to indicate the former but then there are the Warhammer 40,000 examples, which are the later.
Edited by SebastianGrayopenReviews not correctly attached to their subject Live Action TV
There are many reviews attributed to a badly formatted page, such as this one (two slashes instead of one). Typically the show up on the Review Index, but not on the work's page. Is there any effort going on to correct this?
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S9 E25 "The Ending of the End – Part 2"
This relates to the debate surrounding Cozy Glow here. As Would Hurt a Child is under Evil Tropes, I question if it's an example here as:
Thoughts?