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openPicture Western Animation
hoggardhigh reverted the SpongeBob SquarePants picture without permission.
Edited by Mickoonsley19openInconsistency?
The 24-Hour Trope Clock page is a bit inconsistent as it says normal/average people wake up after sunrise, but then it says that kids get woken up for breakfast just before sunrise.
openLarge edits to the description and examples with no reason?
So, I was browsing the Cute Monster Girl page and noticed that a large amount of the description, including links to subtropes had been deleted. I looked through the edit history and found that the parts of the description had been deleted by a troper named Narbon with no reason given. Was there a TRS thread over this page or something of the like? If so, can someone please link it to me? If there is none, would I be allowed to put back the description?
openDoing good? Videogame
Um, am I doing this right? I'm new to this whole wiki deal...
Edited by NikoNikoopen comedy skit: spontaneous human combustion Live Action TV
i remember a skit years and years ago (80s or 90s) that joked about human spontaneous combustion. the only part i can vividly remember is a guy with a walker who had a buzzing smoke detector on his back, desperately trying to reach a lake or pond. he doesn’t make it and explodes. i thought it was monty python for years, but nothing comes up. i can’t find any video or still shots. i thought also maybe it was on the HBO series not necessarily the news, but that was mostly political humor and still nothing comes up in search. does this ring any bells? i’ve been trying to find it since youtube came out in 2005!
- THIS MIGHT BE IN THE WRONG PLACE**
openNosebleed
I know that Nosebleed is about a trope where a character gets a nosebleed when aroused. But, I don't even know why there seems to be a recurring problem to the title. To me it sounds too chairs-y and generalizing, and I sometimes mistake it for a Super-Trope to Psychic Nosebleed and Deadly Nosebleed. Plus the page image is showing signs of artifacting.
There are also different cultural shorthands when it comes to nosebleeds. A nosebleed in Japan means lust and arousal, but in my country, having a nosebleed means that you get overwhelmed by eloquent speaking, such as this (pardon the quality). There had been 3 TRS threads here, here, and here years ago around this issue, but none of which were resolved due to the lack of misuse at the time. And the other wiki's article on nosebleed is primarily on the medical side of nosebleeds.
TL;DR, Nosebleed sounds too generalizing, and I sometimes mistake it for a Super-Trope. Perhaps a small rename of it would suffice, such as Erotic Nosebleed, or something else.
Edited by alnair20aug93openRegarding gendered redirects, again
Hello. There seems to be a problem regarding the Calling the Old Man Out redirect for the female version, Calling the Old Woman Out. Past discussions have determined that redirects can be used for the appropriate gender. However, a relatively new troper, Ariachus, has been changing the redirects in the actual trope name listings regardless of which gender (while I agree with the pothole redirects). Here are a few examples.
While I’ve opened up a discussion about it to avoid an Edit War, what’s the best option to proceed in this case? Thanks.
Edited by gjjonesopenIndentation
Here's another one.
Shawn_Allen, history here, doesn't seem to understand indentation rules, despite notifiers.
I've sent at least 2 notifiers before today, where I sent the third.
Edited by WarJay77openDoes an Extra "The" deserves a Redirect or even a Move? Anime
Currently, the title of Daily Lives of High School Boys complies with the "most recent official translation" criteria, since it is the title used by two anime licensees.
However, earlier this year, Kodansha Comics announced they have licensed the manga, except when the news release linked above refers it under the title of The Daily Lives of High School Boys (emphasis mine).
While, of course, I don't know what's the title they eventually use; but suppose they actually use the title with a "the"—does that extra "the" justify a redirect or even a move?
openWeird edit reason on Adventures of Link: Nightmare Fuel page
I was looking at the history of the Zelda II: The Adventure of Link and I viewed a huge example deleted with only the edit reason being "GAME OVER. RETURN OF GANON (ruining your dreams)." I get that the spoilers are off in NF pages, but what exactly is "ruining your dreams" supposed to mean? Was this discussed in the cleanup page? Otherwise, I find it a bit weird/almost like an agenda of some sort.
openWeird
Noticed a weird edit made by new troper thanks1739 on Fight Scene, where they deleted the description, replaced it with "N-word N-word" (using the actual word) and then reverted their own edit afterward. Just felt like I should bring it to attention.
Edited by WarJay77openMarianne Live Action TV
I'd like to create a page for the recent series Marianne but there's already a totally unrelated movie with that title.
Is it better to create it under Series.Marianne or Series.Marianne 2019?
open Useful Notes for the 2000s
Should The Oughts be renamed as Turn of the Millennium? I keep getting confused and a bit quite hassled about the Turn of the Millennium having no Useful Notes page, while The Oughts —the alternate name for the 2000s— has.
Update: Pardon for bumping a year-old thread, but I created a TRS thread HERE.
Edited by alnair20aug93openWhat should be done with Blog/ScaramouchesAttic ?
The page itself simply says "Page is currently under construction.", and was last edited in 2017. It seems that it once had some actual content, but it was written by the creator of the work itself, and no one else. Should it get taken to the cut list, or should an earlier version of it be restored? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Blog/ScaramouchesAttic
Edited by PowogaopenPotential problems with CommonKnowledge/SpiderMan and CommonKnowledge/XMen
Has anybody taken a look at the Common Knowledge sub-pages for Spider-Man and X-Men lately? Both of those pages have a lot of examples that seem pretty questionable.
As I understand it, Common Knowledge just means "A common factual misconception about a work of fiction that's widely believed by the general public". But a lot of the entries on both of those pages (in addition to being massively overwritten) touch on obscure stuff that only the most devoted fans would really know or care about; stuff like Steve Ditko's career history, and behind-the-scenes politics at Marvel Comics.
The "Wider Marvel Universe" folder on the X-Men page is especially troubling. It seems like it started when someone tried to point out that the X-Men are more involved with the wider Marvel Universe than a lot of people assume, but then there are a bunch of giant-sized paragraphs explaining (in great detail) that they really aren't involved with the wider Marvel Universe that much—meaning that the misconception isn't really a misconception. Even the very first entry in that folder describes that opinion as "badly contextualized and poorly premised", which sounds more like an argument or a personal opinion than like someone just stating a simple fact.
I worry that some users might be using those pages as a platform for editorializing and flaunting their knowledge of obscure trivia, and it might be leading to a lot of off-topic and overwritten entries, which make the pages a lot harder to follow.
Does anybody have any thoughts on how to improve them?
Edited by friscokid182openAccidentally nuked Sneeze Interruption on TLP
This is the wrong place to post this, right? Been away from this part of the site for a while and clicked on the wrong button(s) by accident. Where do I ask to get it restored?
Edited by UnsungopenTrope Redirect? Web Original
This page has the following trope;
- Unfortunate Names: Gyan's Formula Triple K, a spray that causes siblings to fight with each other, is written in the manga as "KKK". While the acronym is meant to be short for the phrase "Kyoudai ga kanarazu kenka suru"note "Siblings will inevidibly fight", English speaking readers might be offended by it.
While I feel that the move would require some rewriting, does anyone think that this description would fit Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle better?
Does anyone else think that maybe we should rename the Bitch in Sheep's Clothing trope? I'm aware that would probably take a lot of work, but I've been kind of uncomfortable with the title for a while.