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openMore TLP Shenanigans
Another day, another problem. There are two drafts that have been recently made and have gained hats unnaturally quickly, especially considering they aren't...well...good.
Digital Piracy Is The Only Option and In the Pink and Purple.
openNo Title
Disney Conquest and its subpages are strangely formatted in general—almost all of the examples are ZCE, the Creator page tropes the real-life players, and it's only indexed on Needs Wiki Magic Love. I'm unsure what to do about it since it has several pages going, but in its current state I don't know if it can be saved.
Edited by lalalei2001openagenda-based editing
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=AlphaEdge
Removed text from The CW with the reason "removing woke crap from the page".
openIs this misuse?
I asked on Is This an Example? but it's on the next page now and no one's answered. So, here's my ITAE post, copy-pasted. I hope I'm doing the right thing:
These examples on Clueless Aesop:
- The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Ethics" is listed because, to quote, "It seems like there's an Aesop or three in there somewhere, but the whole business is so muddled that it's really hard to tell what they're going for." But that sounds more like a Lost Aesop to me.
- Also, The Big Comfy Couch is listed because apparently one episode had the moral "don't fall over with your hands in your pockets", but as far as I can tell, a Clueless Aesop isn't An Aesop that's weird, it's when the moral doesn't work due to out-of-universe events.
openTime to reach concensus Film
There was a bit of the controversy going on with the Protagonist-Centered Morality on the Spider-Man: Far From Home page and troper HighCrate pulled the contested example to the example thread. It happened at Jul 15th 12:24 AM. Two tropers replied to him there, and six hours later, at Jul 15th 6:25 AM he pulled the example back "per concensus". What kind of concensus can be reached during 6 hours when none of the people originally editing that example got the chance to be involved in the discussion? To be clear, I was not among them but I find it wrong.
The resulting example "per concensus" is factually incorrect. It states that Tony Stark "proclaimed himself a hero" for creating E.D.I.T.H. while nothing like that happened in the film. How do I delete that part when "concensus" was reached?
Edited by AsherinkaopenMispelling and lack of context Film
Troper markband added a rather confusing Brought Down to Badass entry in Darth Vader's character section. It reads…
- Downplayed. Before he was critically injured on Mustafar, Vader had the potential to become the strongest Force-user in the galaxy. While in Legends his injuries hobbled his force potential and his strength in the force to were he was stated to only have about 80% of the strength the emperor had, in canon Vader never lost the raw power he had in the force but was unable to use it to it's fullest given the precarious situation of being reliant on machinery to keep himself alive. Basically, Vader couldn't use some force powers like force lightning because they would obviously endanger the cybernetics keeping him alive and he couldn't use his full power because of the stress tolerances of his bionics. The emporer even called Vader's power "unparalleled" in the Dark Lord of the sith comic.
I had to correct it to…
- Downplayed. Before he was critically injured on Mustafar, Vader had the potential to become the most powerful Force-user in the galaxy. Even after, he was still able to use his Force powers and remained an effective Hero Killer and symbol of fear.
openRegarding the main ''Endgame'' quote Film
There seems to be an Edit War regarding the main quote for Avengers: Endgame but it primarily has to do with satisek repeatedly changing the main quote to "Part of the journey is the end." This happened four times already even after the tropers tried expanding Iron Man's initial quote.
The previous quote before the change is: "We lost. All of us. We lost friends. We lost family. We lost a part of ourselves. Today, we have a chance to take it all back. You know your teams, you know your missions. Get the stones. Get them back. One round trip each. No mistakes. No do-overs. Most of us are going somewhere we know. That doesn't mean we should know what to expect. Be careful. Look out for each other. This is the fight of our lives... and we're gonna win. Whatever it takes."
Which quote do you guys do you think best describe the movie itself? Personally, I like Captain America's quote much better.
Edited by Loekman3openIssues with Spoilers
There are massive issues with the way tropers are using spoiler tags on Characters.Bloodstained Ritual Of The Night.
Bloodstained is a game that has one massive plot twist at the end and that plot twist is later followed up by several other reveals that you can't know about without discussing the big twist first. For example, there's a character who qualifies as a Spanner in the Works, but to provide context, you have to first spoil that there was an Evil Plan, as well as who orchestrated said plan. Because the perpetrator's identity is linked to how it gets foiled.
Several tropers (Tropers.Sally 777, Tropers.Luigifan and a few others) keep either A) spoiler-tagging out the entire text of an example, B) adding so many spoiler tags that it looks like swiss cheese or C) spoiler tagging out even the trope name.
I've attempted to make several edits to fix these problems, and referring them to Handling Spoilers, but today Tropers.Sally 777 fired back with the following:
"Nubian, maybe you should read Handling Spoilers instead of nitpicking on almost everything to almost an insane degree. Some of the stuff left open can lead people to piecing together the plot without even glimpsing at the spoilers"
They did this while completely spoilering out the entire example Spanner in the Works yet again.
Edited by NubianSatyressopenTrope namer cleanup?
While browsing through the lists of trope namers, I noticed that some entries were still listed even though their name had changed and there's another folder for that. For instance, under Buffy the Vampire Slayer there's "Spikefication" and then in parentheses it says the trope has been renamed.
openPokemon controversy, valid source?
This video regarding the controversy for Pokémon Sword and Shield came out. It argues the claim that the removal of Pokémon was due do making new models was mistranslated and reported incorrectly.
Is this a valid source/claim? If so there's gonna be a few things that need reworking.
openZero-context problem
Just a heads-up: Troper 325388916 keeps uncommenting some Red Oni, Blue Oni entries on some of the The Loud House character sheets despite that these entries have no context.
His/her edit page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=325388916
Edited by HvedekornopenProblematic entry
Hollywood Magnetism has this example:
- The Legend of Zelda:
- The gimmick for the Goron Mines in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess revolves around using the Iron Boots to walk around on areas of magnetic ore in the walls. That's plausible enough. What's not is that fact that in some places the ore emits some kind of superstrong column of magnetism that will pull you onto the wall if you fall into the beam with the boots on.
- Well, plausible until you realize that even if you don't have them equipped, you still have to be carrying them, and would be subject the exact same attraction. It's the same thing with earlier games and having the boots allow you to sink in water and walk on the bottom, but once you take them off, you're magically lighter. Either that or Link's Bag of Holding is magnetically-shielded when closed, preventing the magnetic field from entering and attracting the boots while stored. Makes about as much sense as the fact that he can jump or even walk straight with those boots in his inventory, at least. Maybe it's a literal Pocket Dimension?
- The gimmick for the Goron Mines in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess revolves around using the Iron Boots to walk around on areas of magnetic ore in the walls. That's plausible enough. What's not is that fact that in some places the ore emits some kind of superstrong column of magnetism that will pull you onto the wall if you fall into the beam with the boots on.
Should the triple bullet point be commented out or even outright removed?
Edited by Chabal2resolved Launched trope?
So a trope was launched from the TLP titled "Human Raised By Fairies". I feel it is a good trope and has potential. The problem I have right now though is that it was launched with six hats and three bombs. Seems like it was improperly launched to me. Which is why I ask if a mod okay-ed this launch?
Edited by ZerukinopenScooby Doo: Return To Zombie Island Western Animation
https://mobile.twitter.com/spacekicker/status/1146127736252981248
I was wondering if a page could be created for "Scooby Doo : Return To Zombie Island", the sequel to "Scooby Doo On Zombie Island". There's a confirmed date and a writer.
openRecap/Baccano Anime
The Baccano! recap pages are... I don't even know how to describe it. The descriptions are either pitifully short or unbearably long, and there are zero tropes after them - you'd be lucky to find one or two Wiki Worded or potholed in the Wall of Text descriptions. Most of them haven't been edited in 7-8 years.
openHilariousInHindsite/AvengersEndgame
Avengers Endgame was it's own page for some time, but it seems to have been redirected to Avengers: Endgame without moving the entries back. Please return the items back if wanting to redirect.
Edited by MasterSon
Anyone know what the hell is going on with this page? It's apparently a cypher version of the Home Page, but in the French namespace.
Edited by Chabal2