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open Necessary Recap? Live Action TV
Do we really need a Recap page for Big Brother, like the first season?
open Creator YMMV Pages
Is this page pushing the boundary between troping works associated with the creator and troping the creator himself?
openRecently launched trope too similar to already established trope
I found the recently launched Enclosed Extraterrestrials — judging from the timestamps on the comments of the TLP draft, it was hastily launched — and when I read it I immediately thought the idea was already covered by Little Green Man in a Can. Do I take this to the Trope Repair Shop?
openTitle capitalization policy
Is there an official standard for this? Everything but prepositions, articles, and conjunctions? Also, does not capitalizing a word in the title affect CamelCase when launching a TLP?
openThe old Nightmare Fuel text
I've noticed that the WMG and Funny/Awesome/Heartwarming pages have unique text for their pages. I just had two questions to ask for the former Nightmare Fuel page text before the site's overhaul: 1) What was the text/print called (text/print like Times New Roman, Verdana, Comic Sans, etc.) and 2) Will it return? (I hope so as it gave the pages an even creepier feel to it).
openForum move Web Original
Could someone move my "3D Visual Novel "The Midnight Sanctuary"" forum to the Visual Novels section, please?
openMeme Tropes
Okay, so Ascended Meme is for a meme that fans coined for a work, that wasn't in the work originally, making it into the work later. Meme Acknowledgement is when the creators acknowledge the meme outside the show. So what's trope for when something in the work goes memetic, and the work later starts referencing its memetic status?
The particular example I'm asking for is Final Fantasy XV. Ignis, the party cook, exclaims "I've come up with a new recipe!" whenever that happens. The line went memetic with the spelling "I've come up with a new recipeh". The spelling was later used in-game for Ignis' "Quick Recipeh" skill that was added with his DLC episode, and a joke in the Royal Edition release of the game includes Gladiolus prompting Ignis to use the catchphrase when they catch a new type of fish, and Ignis replies "I hate to disappoint, but I already had a recipeh in mind."
Edited by DrakeClawfangopenHow to remove a crowner entry?
I started a crowner about the title proposals for this draft, and I'm trying to delete one of the title proposals (Sparks of Love), yet there's no option to it. Reasons why I'm removing it is the title seems to be already thematically taken by Flames of Love, and it might have potential confusion with it.
I had considered striking it, yet it ended up as a blank entry after editing it), so I just add a disclaimer to it. Is simply editing it into a "Disregard this" a simple solution, or can mods only delete an entry, especially if it's a double post?
Please and thank you in advance.
PS: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15332790380A68015400&page=1#comment-1
Edited by alnair20aug93open Page name formatting. Literature
I have just created a page for You Are Dead (Sign Here Please), but the title should read "You Are Dead (Sign Here Please)". I recall there was a way to request that kind of change, but I don't remember what or where it is. Anyone got a clue?
open The New '10s
Do I feel like the page is getting long... and complain-ey? I may be not American, yet with these tropes such as Medal of Dishonor that disses Trump or sociopolitical-related tropes unlike any other decade-related tropes before it (Turn of the Millennium was a crappy decade on its own, yet there are only a few tropes that dissed Bush), and judging from the discussion section, it kinda adds more fuel to this already tense second-half-of-the-decade.
Does this page need a cleanup?
Short Term forum thread HERE
Edited by alnair20aug93openTLP not saving
I made a TLP and it won't save the changes I'm trying to make (adding the "l" to We ARE Struggling Together). It might be a length problem, since the save button only appears if I zoom out.
Wait, now it's saving the changes, but stays in the greyed-out state (and the save button is onscreen now).
Edited by Chabal2openDoes this make sense? If so, can I add it? Anime
Under the page known as Unconscious Objector, I was going to add a particular moment in the Freezing anime on episode 7. Arnett had Satellizer beaten to the point of death and then Satellizer stood back up and was able to get the upper hand on Arnett even with her being unconscious. Does that count?
openQuestion
Aside for spam and vandalism protection, I wonder why we can't edit a blank Main Page anymore? I'm adding it for Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things.
openCan we please delete this page? Web Original
As the sole editor of the CLW Entertainment page, can we please delete it? I'm not affiliated with CLW in any way, but I just want to delete the page because of recent events regarding Collin.
openSame Ban Evader
Stop me if you heard this one before
The Opposite might be another account/sockpuppet for Ultimate Lazer
open How to post on forum ?
I`m little confused on this website becouse i`m new here. Is there any chanse that i can post something on forum ?
open Does anyone know this game??? Videogame
Its been on my mind for weeks. It was a 2000's game that was in an escaped the room style. I believe it was some kind of ship they were on. There were multiple rooms and possibly multiple people.
Some key things I can recall are: -a scratch off bakkini girl poster -a schrodinger's cat book being in the game -lots of combinations with the combinations hidden around the room(s) -shapes and numbers were combinations at times -Possibly different people locked in rooms and radioing each other (maybe not but mildly sure)
That's all I can recall but it was a distinct game. Lots of grey on walls and such.
Thank you so much for any help!
Edited by nombretomadoopenWriting Minimum Videogame
Ok, I'm working on writing a So You Want To page for Danganronpa. I've got a decent amount so far, but I'd like to know what the minimum amount of information I need to have before posting is.
I know for pages on works, there has to be at least 3 trope examples, but for So You Want To pages, I don't know what the minimum is.
I've been adding wicks for a work page I made and in the process I've been alphabetizing parts of trope pages I come across, but as I was looking through forum posts on the subject it seems the general rule is to keep trope pages organized from oldest added example to newest. The thing is, said forum posts are from around 2011 at the latest, and I've noticed most newer trope pages have their examples alphabetized. Is the older standard still in effect, or has it since been changed?