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openRemoval of HarsherInHindsight on ''YMMV/RogueOne''
Editor RicardoRenegado removed an entry of Harsher in Hindsight on YMMV.Rogue One, alleging ROCEJ. This is the entry in question:
- The destruction of Jedha is even more painful to watch given the film ended up being released during the 2016 Aleppo Offensive, one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history. Like Jedha, Aleppo involved tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the middle of an ongoing war between government and rebel forces, and the destruction of a once thriving city by a hugely powerful regime. Except Aleppo is very real and as the film makes clear, in reality War Is Hell.
Maybe it's just me, but IMHO this doesn't feel that it steps on anyone's toes, and thus is not running afoul of ROCEJ.
But what are your thoughts, anyone?
openOn Doujinshi
On a series' Fan Works page, what would a physically released doujinshi go under? Would it go under a doujinshi section? Comic Books?
openHarsher in Hindsight- Earthquakes
I keep noticing Hi H examples similar to the following.
It must be really awkward playing DDR X in Japan, when the announcer says "Is there an earthquake or something? 'Cause this party's a-crackin'!"
Is EVERY media that uses an earthquake qualify as Hi H for the disaster in Japan? It seems like ridiculous overkill.
openNo Title
Why does DethroningMoment.Death Battle exist when we can use the current text used as the cut reason, and add the page to the Permanent Red Link Club?
openVandilism in Steven Universe Western Animation
The troper Daong 123 has been deleting pages in the Steven Universe character pages. Also like the last vandal who plagued the Steven Universe pages, they called a bunch of gems rapists. I'm wondering if there is a connection with the troper whose name I've forgotten but I am almost positive the account name was Burn Rape and Pilage. As I recall that vandal was a ban evader named Papayrus who also edited the Steven Universe pages. However, I've looked at some of their older edits so and noted that they don't look out of the ordinary. They are also claiming to be hacked. Here are the pages they vandalized and a link to their troper page. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.StevenUniverseHomeworldGems https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki /article_history.php?article=Characters.Steven Universe Yellow Diamond https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.StevenUniverseGemFusions https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.StevenUniverseCrystalGems https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.StevenUniversePinkDiamond https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/DAONG123
Edited by LadyErinNYopenYouTube Poop is a genre, not a work
You Tube Poop is being treated as if it was a work, belonging to the Web Animation namespace and having its own YMMV, Trivia, etc. pages. It's not a work at all, being a genre that covers a wide variety of videos by a wide variety of authors. Shouldn't it be in the Main namespace?
openJerry Smith is forever Evil? Western Animation
I have a question about the MEH: In Interdimensional Cable 2 in Rick and Morty, Jerry Smith, one of the main characters crosses it when he tried to weasel his way out of his penis and then took Pibbles hostage when it made him look bad. So my question is does this mean that Jerry is forever evil in future episodes that date pass this episode? Even if he has good moments?
Edited by Birdy18openRouge Discards
Tropers/{{2ndBro}} keeps discarding Be Trans Not Gay. The current consensus on the Trope Launch Pad discard project thread is that it's salvageable and not to discard, with X Filo even expressing interest in it.
openFirst Person
First person ain't allowed even on subjective pages, right? Because Dutch has made a few edits of this sort, one on Heartwarming.Music, one on Fridge.The Beatles, and two on Fridge.Music. Since they're new I'll just send a notifier and clean up, but I want to make sure I'm correct about this.
Edited by WarJay77openAny reason not to turn Main.StarWars into a redirect to Franchise?
Any reason not to turn Main.Star Wars into a redirect to Franchise?
openNo Title Videogame
YMMV.Kirby Star Allies has a ton of WMG-style speculation and gushing on the True Final Boss. While a lot has been teased, there's a lot of interpretations as to who/what it is and many of the entries state one interpretation or another as fact,or gush about how much speculating has come from it. What should be done?
Edited by lalalei2001openPage for 1985's Lime Street Live Action TV
Hi I'm created a page for the 1985 action-adventure series Lime Street that is mostly remembered for being a Non-Actor Vehicle for child peace activist Samantha Reed Smith who played the elder daughter. By the way, the younger daughter character is "Margaret Ann" rather than just Margaret. Is that meant to demonstrate that they live in Virginia?
openEdit War
Regarding the status of Krystal and Fox from the Star Fox franchise, tropers Clifftothemax and Mark—Wilder are edit-warring on the character page, and have recently brought it to the Official Couple page.
Should I send some messages warning them to discuss this in, well, messages? Their dispute is getting a little hostile.
Edited by iamconstantineopenPossible ban evasion
In 2016, a Mark Wilder was permanently banned with an initial report here. Now I'm seeing a troper called "Mark—Wilder" in Edit Banned, and I recognize the name. Can an IP check at least be done?
openInverted Tropes
Can I have a specific example of what an inverted trope means (i.e. "Alice X, but someone made her Y")? I need to know because I can't distinguish this trope from Downplayed, and I know averted means when a trope isn't used and subverted is when it looks like it is gonna happen but doesn't, but I have yet to know the meaning of Inverted.
The reason I ask is because I want to know if a trope applying to an adult or teenager that typically applies to small children would be an example of Inverted (e.g. Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Alice had an immaculate childhood and is living an even cleaner adolescence course, but one episode shows her engaging in criminal behavior to gain some publicity).
openNew Account
As per the discussion where Fighteer said it was fine I made a new account to change usernames so I just wanted to post warning in case the approval process flags as the same IP address.
The staff can delete/lock this account if they wish.
Anyone can find a working link for the webcomic page Three Chords Dorks? The website is down, and Wayback Machine is no help.