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openExample removal Videogame
Somebody has removed all the Expy entries from the Persona 5 character pages. While some examples have been moved to the new Foil page, many are still missing. Same goes for the Composite Character entries. I can't find the edit that deleted them all. What should I do?
EDIT: I just found the edits and it claimed that "you can't be an expy of multiple characters".
EDIT 2: Apparently both Expy and Foil are subjects of rampant misuse in serious need of cleaning up and we may need TLP for that.
Edited by LermisopenNo Title
At what point do we disambiguate works with the same name so they don't share subpages, if they're in different media namespaces already? Is it just something that gets done whenever someone feels like doing it?
Edited by wingedcatgirlopenCritical Research Failure
Have we officially decided to dewick Critical Research Failure and make it In-Universe Examples Only? I feel like we should, since it gets so much misuse. (I looked through the TRS thread, but it doesn't look like they've decided to do so.)
Edited by MrMediaGuy2open Crediting without a source.
On the Pokemon Masters character page, I've noticed people are crediting roles to specific voice actors when, upon visiting twitter, there has been zero confirmation on the part of the V As. I've already had to remove one of these but, like hydra heads, two more have cropped up in its stead. I really want to avoid an edit war but I don't want to leave this alone, either. What do you suggest I do?
openPossible ban evasion.
Would someone do an IP check on Tropers.Bluewaystreet 1243 and compare it to Tropers.Stella Meredith? The former started editing on the 31st of August while the latter was suspended on at least the 30th.
Both tropers have done a fair number of edits on Hartman Hips.
Here are their respective edit histories: Blueway and Stella.
openNo Title
Completely Missing The Point still has over a thousand wicks, despite the name change being eight years old now. Should we make a short-term projects thread for dewicking it?
Edited by wingedcatgirlopenStrange new editor
Stella Meredith is a new troper, so this makes me feel a bit uneasy, but their edit history so far is...weird.
- On YMMV.Jack David Hopkins, they only changed some example text, but also randomly broke up an Anvillicious example so that part of it was under Unforunate Implications...unalphabetized, of course. Because of the changes made to the text, I haven't reverted this yet.
- On Characters.A Bugs Life, they changed an Everythings Better With Princesses example to The Woman Wearing The Queenly Mask (again without re-alphabetizing) and deleted a Hartman Hips example for no apparent reason.
- A lot of moments of them just rewriting and deleting bits of an example's text, such as on Dead Unicorn Trope, YMMV.Rugrats In Paris or YMMV.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. Not inherently bad, but combined with the other stuff it does make me a little wary.
- They straight up re-wrote the Hartman Hips description. Like, they didn't change the meaning, but what they did there is still a pretty significant change that could use a mod revert. ...Oh, same thing on All Girls Like Ponies- not as big a change, but still a good chunk of the page arbitrarily re-written.
- Deleted the Angry Birds example on Accidental Aesop and seriously cut down the Incredibles example.
That would be all their edits. I...yeah.
openQuestion regarding quotes
Hi. I have a quick question: is it kosher to put all caps for any quote in general?
Edited by gjjonesopenRed Letter Media/Mr. Plinkett Reviews Split Web Original
RedLetterMedia has dedicated pages for most of its shows except for the Mr. Plinkett Reviews, which take up a significant chunk of the page's example section. Since the Plinkett reviews are what launched RLM's popularity in the first place and the other noteworthy series from RLM have their own pages, I find it odd that Mr. Plinkett Reviews doesn't have its own page. I'm considering splitting the Red Letter media page and moving the Plinkett Reviews examples onto their own page. Thoughts?
openJust launched JapaneseVideoGameCreators. Overlaps with VideoGameCreators. Handle how?
Just launched Japanese Video Game Creators. There's overlap with Video Game Creators. How do I handle this?
Delete overlaps from Video Game Creators? ... Just did that.
Leave them?
Figure out how to better mention the new list in the old list...? How is it currently? I'm not happy with how the infobox is placed...
I guess I make it first in code, so everything else goes around it?
Edited by MaladyopenCreating an individual character page Print Comic
I was thinking of creating a Comic Book page for the Thing because Reed, Sue, and Johnny each have their own individual pages. However, I do not know how to create one. Would anyone be willing to guide me?
openInaccurate Tv Tropes Info
Found this on "Evil Dead (2013)":
"The bathroom sequence. We are first treated to a terrifying scene of Olivia getting possessed, in which she suddenly freezes out of nowhere as the demon takes over her body. It cuts away to Eric, who checks on her after a bit, to find the bathroom pitch dark and the light flickering like a strobe. We hear a sound of slicing; Eric finds Olivia hunched over in the shower, and she turns to reveal she had cut off her entire cheek from lip to ear with a piece of glass. What follows is a gruesome 2 minute brawl that involves said piece of glass, a syringe, and a broken piece of toilet that Eric uses to finally bash Olivia's brains in. Olivia's body then twitches violently on the ground as she dies, after which the camera pans to a view of her crotch, with her panties stained wet with the urine her body excreted as she died. And this is a mild version of what comes later."
The things is, based on the few scenes I watched, the scene in question seems to be depicted incorrectly: Olivia's body does not twitch after Eric bashes the head into a bloody mess, and in fact, the camera actually pans away from Olivia instead of to a certain part of Olivia.
The thing is, though, I don't own the whole movie, and neither am I an expert on this stuff, so I would like if someone who was an expert on this stuff to help look at it and edit the info to be more accurate.
openIndex needed
There is an index needed for The Initiation of Sarah and for Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina 1 E 1 October Country
Edited by nombretomadoopenHas it aired?
"My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S9 E22 "Growing Up is Hard to Do"" was said to have aired in China on the 30th But it's been a day but I can't find anything to suggest it aired, and I've heard Australia canceled their early releases.
Has it aired? There's stuff I want to add or remove depending.
UPDATE: China has pulled the early airings from it's schedule. I'm going to assume it wasn't aired unless I hear anything.
Edited by Ferot_DreadnaughtopenHwaetGrimmalkin
HwaetGrimmalkin changed nearly every properly indented multi-example trope listing in A Bride's Story to have the first example on the same line as the trope, changed the single Foregone Conclusion example from properly using line breaks to separate the paragraphs to using bullets to separate the paragraphs, and added Biseinen and Hunk together on the same line separated by a slash.
I've only encountered this Troper just this once, have already sent an Example Indentation notifier, and tried to fix the page, but with such a large change to a page I thought it would be good to report it.
Edited by homogenizedopenEdit War as a trope Western Animation
Can I list Edit War (it has a main redirect btw, but don't cut it) as if it were a trope on a work's page? Because I feel inclined to add this to The Cleveland Show:
- Edit War: In "All You Can Eat", Cleveland lists his Slop Poppers formula on Wikipedia (with the account "Popperkingcleve42" as having 52 calories. But then an account named "Truepopperking33" (who later turns out to be a fat redheaded kid) edits the calories to 48. Then Cleveland reverts that to 52, but then Truepopperking33 changes it back to 48. Afterwards, the two engage in an escalating Flame War.
openBi warrior of light from Final Fantasy XIV Videogame
In FFXIV, does the 'Bi the Way' trope apply to the Warrior of light, in the sense that they are able perform the ceremony of eternal bonding (getting married) with any other player character, regardless of gender?
openYMMV page feels too Negative
Since it is YMMV, obviously, some page tones will feel more positive or negative (a YMMV for a universally hated work would also feel negative).
That said:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/SpidersAndMagicRiseOfSpiderMane
I wonder if this page could use some editing to feel less negative.
Ghost in the Machine uses masculine pronouns in its description. id like to rewrite it to use gender-neutral pronouns instead, but am worried this could be considered Righting Great Wrongs. i think it's ok, because a) it's not an example and thus has no reality to correspond to and b) it doesn't actually affect the content of the description at all. i just wanted to get some opinions first.
Edited by razorrozar7