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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 iamconstantineopenWhat is the most piped page on TVTropes? Web Original
I didn't exactly know how to do this properly, so I'm submitting it here.
In Layman's Terms, piping is when you post a link to another page, and it refers to the page that you linked. Which page has the most pages that link to it? Sorry if this is a bother for anyone, just curious.
I hope you all have a good day.
Edited by nombretomadoopenCancelling a Wikiword request Anime
I was looking at Creator.Funimation and found it odd that it was spelled properly, as I had always known it as FUNimation. I popped a wikiword request in but then looked down, actually read the page and saw it said previously known as FUNimation Productions and FUNimation Entertainment. Since I don't see any way to cancel the request myself, I wanted to post this so a mod would know it was a mistake on my part.
Edited by sgamer82openFollowing link in Edit History page
I tried to follow a link to here (by highlighting and clicking "go to") in the history of Joker (2019) and a message popped up saying "We now know you like to edit other people's work".
What does that mean, exactly?
openTrope question
I want to ask if Broken Aesop should be put on the YMMV page since it seems more like an Audience Reaction and has been mistakenly put there a lot of the time, but don't know what thread to propose it in. Is there a thread for deciding where existing tropes and reactions should go?
openVandalism
I was doing dewicking for Hidden Heart of Gold's TRS thread (courtesy link) and stumbled across Characters.Unsound Souls Main Characters in the list of wicks for Jerkass Façade. Cools-The-Calm vandalized the page by replacing the entire page with lorem ipsum text, and a mod revert is needed.
Edit: The vandalism was reverted, so this can be locked.
Edited by GastonRabbitopenAmulet editing issues
Over on Amulet and its subpages, motherstone is making several nattery edits with questionable grammar and capitalization issues.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=ComicBook.Amulet
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.Amulet
Edited by lalalei2001openKing of Hate Horrible page Web Original
Why was the Horrible page for The King Of Hate deleted?
openKung Fu Panda 2 Western Animation
For some reason, Kung Fu Panda 2 appears as a red link.
If you add back an example after asking about it in the the "Is this an example?" thread, does it count as edit warring?