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Disabled Means Helpless Troper Tales still appears under the Related list for Disabled Means Helpless. However, the page doesn't exist so it can't go through the cutlist.
Another Edit War in YMMV.SuperSmashBrosUltimate Videogame
Waxing Name removed several of the They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character entries added by various other people over the past week while noting "Complaining about uses of characters that aren't in the game is not a valid use of They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character." in a comment.
AK 47 Productions re-added them with the edit reason "Considering the game's Everyone is Here slogan, these are all rather valid examples." despite not correcting them to remove the whining entries.
Edited by GunarmDyne
Establishing shot of a bar Film
Whenever characters are in a bar with waitress service, it must be shown to be so by having an establishing shot of a waitress walk by the camera carrying an order of drinks on a tray.
There's usually some male gaze going on, since the waitress is shown from the knees up with generally low-cut outfits.
What's the name of this trope? If it doesn't have a name, can anyone suggest one?
Possible Characters/CrashBandicoot page split.
So I've been going over the Characters.Crash Bandicoot page, and it's come to my attention that we may need to split it into smaller pages since there's so many characters that it's getting tricky to find them all, and it's getting so big the page starts lagging whenever all the folders are open. However, I'm not sure what the best way to split the characters up would be.
Edited by N8han11
Improper captialization
Where's the tool for putting down pages that have miscapitalized namespaces, etc.?
OEL Manga: Manga or Comic Book?
Are OEL Manga considered Manga or Comic Books? The vast majority of them are listed under Comic Book/, but a handful are listed under Manga/. Given the only difference between Manga and Comic Books by definition are the language and country of origin, I figure it should be Comic Book but I've seen people argue otherwise, particular if the work reads right-to-left as a Manga would.
Noting that I started moving an OEL Manga from the Manga/ to the Comic Book/ namespace but I'm pausing for further discussion; I received no replies here
or here.
Blodynhue
Blodynhue's only edits consist of making a new page at Quotes/Tropes about...well, let's just say there's a lot wrong with the page, including grammar and the like (not to mention some colorful language on the page). Methinks it might just be a troll?
In any case, I'm adding the page to the cutlist as we speak.
order of the stick ymmv Webcomic
So, Miko Miyazaki's listed as a designated villain. I believe that the example is inaccurate. It clearly misrepresents elements from the story to try and absolve her of responsibility. Most egregiously, it tries to blame Shojo and Roy for not "explaining the situation" and for leaving her out of the loop regarding Shojo's schemes despite the fact that she's clearly gone off the deep end and isn't known to listen to reason, thus giving them plenty of reason not to tell her anything. I think we should delete the example but St Fan said to bring it up here first. So, what do you think?
Are both YMMV tropes?
I hope this is the right place to ask, I was wondering: why does Signature Scene have the YMMV banner but Signature Line doesn't? Is the latter a ymmv trope anyways or does it belong on the main page?
Links to disambiguations
Okay... maybe this idea is going to be shot down in flames as not doable, but hear me out...
I've been checking the links on the page Film.The Avengers every month or so to weed out the un-disambiguated links, and despite sending a message to every editor that have recently added a link to this disambiguation, half a dozen new links show up every month from different editors.
I think it's a global problem for many pages in the Ambiguity Index: they are gathering wick faster than those are corrected.
So, here's my modest proposal: could we tag every Disambiguation page as a permanent red link? That would be, logical since they aren't supposed to be linked to, and would seriously reduce the number of those links, at least from tropers actually checking their edits.
Do you guys have objections? Could it be done?
Troper with multiple issues.
There's this troper called IKEZE-KISAMA who's exhibited several issues present across most of their edits: natter, Wall Of Texts (often motivated by shipping [the example also has him putting a trivia trope in the YMMV section]), violating the no general examples rule (and the latter has him calling a writer an "entitled asshole" in the edit reason), and some really odd sentence structuring in general. I've sent him some Grammar and Natter P Ms, but I think he needs to be brought in for a talk.
Disambiguation question
If a work shares its name with its first entry and is ineligible for Franchise/, and later sequels are unnumberednote , is it safe to say the first entry should usually be disambiguated by year if possible?
(This is intended as a general question, not a question pertaining to any specific work.)
Adaptational Skimpiness (plus bumping another thread)
Is there a possible trope that serves as an inversion of Adaptational Modesty? Hotter and Sexier really covers the setting. I'm wondering if there is a trope for it or if I'll have to launch one?
Unrelated note: Wanted to bump this thread up since no one has seen it.
Misuse?
The trope Big Little Brother was removed from Jaune's entry on the RWBY character page with this edit reason "Trope misuse. He's a man and she's a woman. It's natural at this point for him to be taller." And now I'm curious.
There's nothing on the trope page that seems to indicate younger brother/older sister pairs are exempt, it just says it's more normal for it to be the case.
KH3 Content Leak
I'm hearing word that Kingdom Hearts 3 was leaked a month early. If that's the case, we may have to keep an eye on the relevant pages and make sure nobody adds spoilers early.
Edited by HarpieSiren
Lists of articles and books at the end of Useful Notes pages?
I noticed that on Useful Notes.Abuse, there is a list of online articles about abuse and a list of books about abuse. Is that a thing with Useful Notes pages? I wrote the page Useful Notes.Bees, should I include a list of articles and books about bees?
Logged Out Without Logging Out
Is there a glitch where you can be logged out without logging out? I didn't log out but when I went online I was logged out. I didn't delete my cookies or log out, though. Maybe it was a glitch on my console's part, but I've never had that happen before.
Edit: I'm guessing it was maybe on my part as I haven't noticed anything weird since.
Edited by Pichu-kun
Is this an example of this trope?
Something I've never been clear on: If I want to know if a given scenario fits as a certain trope, do I ask here or at the Trope Finder?
VLD issues Western Animation
YMMV.Voltron Legendary Defender is currently exploding right now as the eighth and final season was released today. There's tons of speculative troping on the page, shipping wars, backlash, and backlash against the backlash. i think a lock may be needed, at least until things cool down some.
Edited by lalalei2001
Which specific 'Frenemy' link?
Long story short, the redirect for 'Frenemy' ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrenemyTropes ) has too many links for me too look though, so I'm hoping someone more versed in tropes can help me at least make my list to look though smaller.
Which frenemy trope(s) can be summarized with "You may be an insufferable jerk, but you're MY insufferable jerk."?
Darius Riggs
troper Darius Riggs keeps edit warring and ignoring my edit reasons.
He did it here about Howard's mom being a "Nice Girl" (see 30 October edits) and I started a discussion about it.
And now he's doing it again here about Bugs's Adaptational Personality Change, see my edit reason on June 10th, but he keeps deleting the part about Bugs being more pessimistic in this show
Editor with grammar problems
And there's that subject line again. hunter0413 is the problematic editor this time; their edits include constant shifts between past and present tense, missing punctuation, Word Cruft galore... and some of the results are so incomprehensible I've had to delete them. I've sent a grammar notifier but wonder if more action is necessary.
Really a character? Western Animation
Characters.Felix The Cat Joe Oriolo Felix The Cat Characters includes the Magic Bag of Tricks. Can the Magic Bag of Tricks really be considered a character?