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openLeonEmbers Film
The troper LeonEmbers just deleted a good chunk of examples from the Awesome.Avengers Endgame page with a mere Edit Reason of "Nobody cares." See here.
Looking through the examples they deleted, I noticed that most of the examples this person deleted just so happened to be Awesome Moments where the superheroines got to shine. So not only is this person deleting a lot of Moments put together by other Tropers with a very weak Edit Reason, but the Moments that were deleted referred strictly to the superheroines, so this person is coming off as sexist and misogynistic. I don't know if that was their intention, but it looks a bit obvious.
openEntry Needs Fixing
Found this entry on Shout-Out Theme Naming:
- The Superjail! fanfic Extended Stay does this with the Warden and the Mistress's twins Matilda and Ethan. A review gave the author suggestions that the twins be named after the star-crossed lovers in Ethan Frome. Obviously, the author took the suggestions for the names but then added in "Elizabeth" and "Victor" for their middle names. Hmm... Considering that the twins eventually become owners of Ultraprison and Superjail, almost like coming-of-age monarchs in a kingdom, could it be that they were also named for famous real-life monarchs as well and English monarchs no less? Possibly combined with Named After Somebody Famous.
- This could possibly be an in-universe example given how close the Warden and the Mistress were to becoming star-crossed lovers themselves.
- "Elizabeth" could either refer to Henry VIII's daughter, the now-deceased mother of the current Queen of England AKA the Queen Mum, or Her Majesty the Queen herself.
- "Victor" is a masculine form of "Victoria", which was the name of the English queen who reigned from 1837 to 1901.
- "Elizabeth" and "Victor" most likely came from another pair of lovers, this time from Frankenstein. These are the first names of the infamous Doctor and his wife. His parents raised them as something like adopted siblings with the intention of two marrying each other as adults.
- Their little brother Edward is probably named after the English king who succeeded Queen Victoria after she died. Either that or he could've been named for King Henry VIII's surviving son.
Lots of speculation in this entry, for a fic that only has about 25 faves and 13 follows at this time. How should I cut down this entry? Should I first trim it of speculation, leaving only the entries that seem to be explicitly confirmed or obvious enough to be a direct reference?
open Editor with an agenda Film
Can we get a mod revert to Awesome.Avengers Endgame? Leon Embers removed most mentions of awesome moments performed by female characters, and changed the wording in others. For example, "[Thanos] putting [Captain Marvel] out of commission" became "[Thanos] putting [Captain Marvel] in her place".
ETA: The edit reason left for removal is "Nobody cares".
Upon further inspection of their edit history, I found some other red flags.
They (twice) added the following to YMMV.Clarence here and here:
Furthermore, they made an overtly transphobic edit in Heartwarming.Critical Role, link here, where they removed information about a "genderfluid" person (not familiar with the work, just quoting as I read) citing that "Nobody cares".
Edited by RoundRobinopenAdding commented-out examples
Is it allowed to add commented-out zero-context examples on the wiki pages?
It seems weird... because clearly the editors adding those know about our ZCE policy and that ZCE are not actually allowed. Yet they add those incomplete examples on the page, which only means more work for other people. Seems unfair.
One argument could be they do it with intention to edit it later themselves, but that's what the to-do list is for, or some sandbox page.
openGeneral Arnold's Apologist
This Troper is a new troper whose only edits consist of random deletions— with two of the three involving images. I sent them an edit-reason notifier, because their edits lack one, but I'm reporting them here on the chance that they're just a troll or, worse, a sock of Stormtrooper 68.
Edited by WarJay77openQuestion about edit wars
If you add back an example after asking about it in the the "Is this an example?" thread, does it count as edit warring?
openYMMV.KannazukiNoMiko page... kind of overly negative? Anime
This page. I get that it's a controversial show, but why is it that it looks like being written not by a neutral party but more like the detractors hamfisting what they don't like about the show? I've already made several edits about it, but I feel like I should rewrite in a more neutral manner.
Should I? Is the page negative enough?
The main page itself looked rather old, with a lot of ZCE's (I plan on fixing that too), so I was thinking that this was why a lot of its 'negativity' (if confirmed) went unfixed. What do you think?
openWeird example section CapitalLettersAreMagic
Instead of splitting examples by media categories, Capital Letters Are Magic splits them into Metaphysical Concepts, Races, and Other. Given that most examples fall into Other, this doesn't seem like a useful way to split the page. Also, everything under Metaphysical Concepts is a pothole that hides the work name, which is explicitly forbidden under How to Write an Example.
Permission to re-write the section into a normal examples section?
Edited by naturalironistopenAdding Tabs Like Nightmare Fuel
Hello, I am updating the page of a mobile game known as seven knights and trying to add some tabs like 'Nightmare Fuel' and 'Funny' but when I click on 'Create New' it doesn't show me the option?
Can anyone help with this?
openSubforum to use for sandbox help
I'd like to ask on the forums for help working on Sandbox.Crunchyroll. What subforum would it go in?
openUnofficial whitewashing
Murphdog 405 replaced Nessa's picture from this◊ to this◊ on Characters.Pokemon Gym Leaders Galar, even though the darker pic is the official one, as seen here. What's worse is that he's occupying the article edit screen, not letting me revert it.
Okay, he stopped locking that page. I've reverted back, though this edit seemed odd.
Edited by PiterpicheropenIndexing a page
I noticed that some tropes such as "Wanted!" Poster are indexed under The Wild West, but that page doesn't seem to be a trope index. I just launched Wild West Armadillo and, assuming that it's applicable, I'd like to add it to the same index, but I don't know how.
Edited by BluethornopenJustForFun/AvatarAndTheAirbendingFellowshipOfVampireSlayers
Avatar and the Airbending Fellowship of Vampire Slayers seems to be an old fan project existing from the old days of the wiki, overall alright despite not being edited for so long. However, the JFF page has dozens of subpages, a no-no for that type of page, all under AATAFOV/. I haven't checked all of them because there's way too many, but the ones I did check were last edited a year ago at minimum. What do we do?
openRepair Dont Respond vs Edit War
Stand Still, Stay Silent has reached a point where many entries were either written or rewritten by me at some point. One of the other tropers who sometimes edits on that work is good at spotting the Ambiguous Syntax I sometimes have due to a mix of English not being my first language and having low-key Aspergers, but can be quite bad at correctly remembering some of the story's facts.
Because of the above, my act of Repair, Don't Respond to their edit will also technically be an Edit War due to eliminating the incorrect fact frequently being enough to make the entry correct again, and changing maybe a word or two being enough to fix whichever Ambiguous Syntax the other troper had spotted in the first place. Those situations are part of the handful of cases in which I make extra-sure to put an edit reason, and the entry is always left alone after I fix it.
Having taken to lurk on this thread a lot, I'm slowly realizing that I should maybe ask for a second opinion here next time something like this happens. It happens infrequently enough that asking about each separate case will get nowhere near clogging up the thread.
This also makes me wonder what takes precedence: the troper's right to correct something that they know is objectively wrong (Repair, Don't Respond) or the need to ask for a second opinon if the repair would technically be an Edit War?
Edited by NazetrimeopenWeird Crowner Page Web Original
The crowner page for The Nostalgia Critic seems to be hacked or something (all the entries just say "test Bibble Bobble phlebotinum looks like we've got redlinking working!"). Has this already been brought up?
openProper Namespace? Web Original
I want to put one of my works on the Troper Works page. It's a series of character profiles for a fighting game, just without an actual game to play. Would that fall under the script category?
openUnreleased work trope?
Steven Universe: The Movie is unreleased as of yet. The trailer has confirmed that it will be an Animated Musical.
Said trope is being commented out, put in, and commented out again as of recent because even though the movie is a confirmed Animated Musical, the trailer it's confirmed in doesn't provide "context."
So, should it go in, or not? The trailer confirms it, but doesn't show it, so where do we go from here?
Edited by iamconstantine
After being suspended from editing for poor English back in February, Amazing Cartoon Hero was allowed to continue editing the wiki after promising to get the edits proofread on the Get Help With English Here thread.
Since then, he has repeatedly made edits using bad English to TV Tropes without running them past the Get Help With English Here thread. His edit history.
The problem edits include the following:
FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse, Jun 20th 2019
"He was so touched, he decide to give the gold to the town people."
Should be "decided". According to How to Write an Example - Write in Historical Present Tense, it actually should be "He is so touched, he decides to give the gold to the town people."
FanficRecs.DannyPhantom May 23rd 2019
"Now he and his brothers fight against the mysterious Foot Clan and their leader the Shredder in an epic battle in this first ninja but kicking season."
Should be "butt kicking".
"meet new friends, battle against their arch enemies Shredder abd Vlad Plasmius,"
Should be "and".
All his life he was known as Danny Thompson, <- comma but when the truth is revealed, he
nowbecomes part of an organisation known as the World Protection Agency that fights against DALV, <- comma an organisation determined to rule the world. Danny, <- comma along with his friend Sam Manson, his sister Jazz and Taylor Russo, <- comma work together to stop DALV and find his parents.FanficRecs.DannyPhantom May 21st 2019
"Danny and Dayla are twin brother and sister. One day they have an accident in their parents' lab, causing them to become half-ghosts. Now, <- comma with the help of their friends Sam and Tucker, they battle ghosts and deal with the pressures of high school."
"Danny and Dayla Phantom return with more phantasmic adventures! They will battle more ghosts along with Sam Manson, Tucker Foley and now the newest member of Team Phantom Andrew Knight."
^ As written, this says that they will be battling their allies.
Should be:
"Along with Sam Manson, Tucker Foley and now the newest member of Team Phantom, <- comma Andrew Knight, they will battle more ghosts. <- period
There are more, but this post is long enough already.
Edited by Arivne