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openRomantic Two Girl Friendship
I've noticed two types of examples of "Romantic" Two-Girl Friendship that seem problematic. The first is two women who become actual romantic partners having this trope used to describe the period before they start dating, which seems to violate the idea that this about platonic friendships that seem romantic. The other is cases where there is genuine ambiguity as to whether one or both of the girls might be romantically attracted to the other. Listing them as this trope seems to be declaring that a romantic reading is objectively false. Am I right in wanting to remove these entries?
openSlashed tropes on Ten Desires Character page Videogame
pgj1997 put slashed examples of tropes on Characters.Touhou Ten Desires, which to my understanding shouldn't be there even with the no Wiki Word markup encasing it, and when I changed that they changed it back with the reasoning of "People slash tropes all the time. Even on this very page."
Well 1) I didn't notice those examples beforehand, otherwise I would've removed them as well and 2) lots of people do edits in ways they're not supposed to, so I'm bringing it up here because I'd rather not end up in an edit war.
openShould we still use the roleplay example tabs for trope pages?
I ask as the folder is inconsistently and under used. First, and while this is not strictly a bad thing by the rules, I've really only seen Dino Attack RPG as the listed example. I looked around and there are other roleplay works pages but most are not crosswicked. The second and main reason I ask is that the folder is not consistently named and some of the given names are a little ambiguous especially as it ends up near or next to the video games folder. Names I've found for the folder from a quick look at the related tab for Dino Attack RPG; Roleplay Biker Babe, Role-Playing Games Apocalypse Wow, Roleplay with an odd space in front of it Dressed to Heal, Role Playing Games Inelegant Blubbering, and I have seen examples under the Web Original folder Holier Than Thou. While I cannot find an example at the moment I am pretty sure I have seen a tab for RPG as well, separate from video games. I would think that these examples would fit better under Web Original. While I don't know that someone should go through and sweep for all of these instances, I know I would probably clean up examples as I saw them putting them into the Web Original folder. At the very least if people think it should remain its own folder, I'd like an idea at a consistent name.
Edited by Rymyll_the_WandereropenCan't create redirect.
I'm trying to create a redirect for a trope I just launched (Mutually Unequal Relationship to Mutually Unequal Relation), but the edit button just sends me to TLP.
openLarge edit to TrailersAlwaysSpoil.Literature seems to be adding ZCEs and possibly natter?
Large edit to TrailersAlwaysSpoil.Literature by Turquoise Owl seems to be adding ZCEs and possibly natter?
Not sure though.
TrailersAlwaysSpoil.Literature History.
Edited by MaladyopenHSutherland
HSutherland edit warring here and adding natter without even an edit reason.
open"Moving comments to review"
Sophiebybophie has been creating a lot of "reviews" titled "Moving comments to review." They've posted the same "reviews" multiple times in some cases. Here's an example, and here's another example.
openSlave Harem in the Labyrinth of the Other World Anime
I was preparing to create an article based on the light novel, Isekai Meikyuu De Dorei Harem wo, aka Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of the Other World, and noticed that an existing page with the same name had been removed, and was wondering if it was safe to recreate before beginning to work on it.
Thanks.
openBlazblue Cross Tag Battle Character Page Lock
Thanks to whoever unlocked the Trivia page, but it also seems that the Character page has also been locked. Thanks again to whomever fixes this.
openBlazblue Cross Tag Battle Trvia Page Lock Videogame
Came across a bit of a problem here: It seems like the Trivia page for this game is locked. Assuming this is the right place to ask: Is there a way to unlock it? Thanks in advance.
open Clay cow punches clay kid in face? Live Action TV
Really creepy. I remember watching what was probably a short film of some sort in which this clay cow breaks into this clay kid’s bedroom (i think?) and punches him in the face. At least the punch is seen from the kid’s perspective and the screen goes black. I’m probably not remembering everything correctly but god this has been bugging me for forever. definitely not something i should’ve been watching so young lol.
open Alien spinning top? Live Action TV
My dad remembers a children’s series in the 60s about a boy at a boarding school who finds something like a spinning top that is actually an alien that grants the boy’s wishes. He doesn’t remember what it was called and would love to know! Thanks :)
openCharacter pages and tropes
If a trope is listed on a character page, does it have to be taken off the main page for a work? Or can it be listed in both pages?
open Edit War in Characters.FateGrandOrderSabers Videogame
Arha and Keyblade 333 have a dispute onto whether a certain character has Crippling Overspecialization, with Keyblade 333 the troper who originally added the trope and putting it back on the page upon deletion and Arha removing it twice because of their reasoning that the character doesn't qualify.
Edited by Nouctopen Some kind of live action Live Action TV
So, first of all, im from mexico, so this tv show may have been a retransmission. I briefly remember the intro, involving a POV rollercoaster and 2 dudes between 19-23 years old. They loved to eat a certain kind of icecream in a cup like the cornetto cup. I can tell that the show hosted some kind of home made cientific stuff or pranks i think.i used to see this show when i was like 3-4 yrs old with my older sister, im 19 years old now in 2018. I repeat this may be a retransmission.
Edited by Dantorres999openNo Title
Okay, I just stumbled on the Awards Index and realized the classification of its content is extremely heteroclite. Some pages are tropes, some are works, some are index, some are useful notes, some are creators...
What should be the exact classification of most of those pages? And if they need a namespace, what should it be?
openHow should I handle a page, for a fanfic quadrilogy. Videogame
So, I've been wanting to make a tropes page for Iceangelmkx's The Ketsueki Quadrilogy. A four part fanfic crossover series, that combines the worlds of Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken and Soul Calibur. So far the first three have been released, with the fourth one being dormant. However, since it is four fanfics, I want to make sure I handle the page right, and am a bit unsure on how to treat each story. Should I make a trope page for each individual fanfic, or just one page, with all of them together?
openEdit War in the Ducktales recap page. Western Animation
The troper Jayalaw has readded the edits of theirs that I deleted (admittedly I did delete one of them without meaning to) instead of bring this to discussion. They also have added a zero context entry and ironically deleted a trope with no explanation. Because I've had a similar experience with the troper which ended with me asking for help like I am now, I have not bothered to message them. If that is what I should do, please tell me. Otherwise here is the link for your consideration. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Recap.Ducktales2017S1E21TheSecretsOfCastleMcDuck EDIT: Just to be clear, I am not arguing the readds they made. I'm reporting them because they readded their entries without going to discussion, going through this before, the zero content and their own deletion without explanation.
Edited by LadyErinNYopenDeleted Spanish tropes
Really a question for the mods, but there’s been quite a few of the Spanish language tropes cut recently, all with the reason “miscapitalized stub that hasn’t been edited for years”... it’s not showing a name for who cutlist them, but I know that they weren’t miscapitalized, unless it was the namespace (but then they haven’t been recreated), and quite a few of the directly translated pages are only stubs because examples weren’t translated years ago when they were made. Though, the page for The Hero (El Héroe) was cut, and that wasn’t a stub at all. Can you recreate them, because it seems like they were incorrectly cut. It’s whatever has been cut recently in the Es/ namespace (but after the ones that were pages for tropes that have been cut in English, too).
Edited by lakingsif
Just launched Night and Day Duo. I moved most of the examples I took from Solar and Lunar (leaving the ones I had to edit for context reasons as the un-edited examples still fit the page; if you feel I should move the rest regardless though let me know). Now I'm at the crosswicking stage with a new question. Regarding the works that originally had their examples on Solar and Lunar, do I just go ahead and swap out Solar and Lunar for Night and Day Duo? It seems like the most reasonable thing to do but I want to be sure I'm doing it correctly.
Edit: ALSO, the page for Warframe seems to be a victim of the locking bug as there's no reason for it to be locked according to the page. I need it to be unlocked in order to crosswick an example.
Edited by WarJay77