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Passive vs Active Voice
Does the wiki have strict grammar standards concerning the use of passive and active voice?
e.g.
Passive: "Bob was elbowed on the forehead by Alice."
Active: "Alice elbowed Bob on the forehead."
Help
I have a page that I have requisitioned for brainstorming : https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Sandbox/LogansSandbox
As I am a casual browser of this site, I would like some assistance in proofreading or suggestions based on what I have thus far.
I appreciate any help you can give.
Edited by Logerith12
Wall Of Text issue Videogame
VideoGame.Yu Gi Oh Forbidden Memories has a serious Wall of Text problem. I've tried to trim down some of the more egregious entries but they keep being added to until they're at the original length or put back in wholesale, and sending a Word Cruft notification didn't do anything.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=VideoGame.YuGiOhForbiddenMemories
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How do you put in an image on forums?
Should a Genre have a trope list at its bottom?
Should a Genre have a trope list at its bottom?
... Or, if we don't remove it, move it into the Genre description if the tropes are basically Omnipresent in the genre?
Edited by Malady
Help with grammar and format Music
Hi I'm adding another famous example to Mexicans love Speedy Gonzales
If anyone could help me format it and fix it that would help.
Heres the thing I wanted to example: ' One would think the song " Fujiyama Mama" by rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson would be hated by the Japanese with its opening line being "I've been to Nagasaki, Hiroshima too! The things I did to them baby, I can do to you!" as well as other references to the Atom Bomb, However Oddly enough it was a number one hit in Japan! It was such a hit in fact that Wanda did a tour in Japan becuse of it. This is might have to do with Japanese's love for rockabilly.
Regarding the trivia pages for film studios
As we all know, creator pages don't get trivia pages. Does this also apply to studios such as 20th Century Fox (it has a trivia page and I tried moving the tropes to the main page not too long ago, but it was reverted as it was unnecessary back on April 16; the cut was declined as a result and I've just moved the trivia items back into the main page) and, if it does, should they be removed and moved to the creator pages?
Edited by gjjones
Trope Types discourage
Is writing tropes in a type format, like Japanese Beetle Brothers and Fusion Dance seen as bad Formatting?
Random Trope Writers Strike
Not sure if this is the correct place to report this, but the random trope button can still go to Writers Strike, even though the page was cut.
Hey
Is there a trope page where the main image/quote is from Wander over Yonder?
Edited by AutisticAlivia
Creating a page Web Original
I guess technically this goes under web original because it is relating to fanfiction. I'm trying to create a page for a fanfic and I'm having difficulty because the create a page, the page has links that don't work and I'm having a difficult time using the redlink method for the same reason. I just want to create a page, can you please help me?
So Ugly it's a curse? Western Animation
Can we have a similar trope to this? I'm mean it's a problem as well.
no title
If I wanted to ask if anyone knows of any works that fit a certain description, where would I ask?
no title
Where can new namespace icons be discussed?
Plagiarized Description
I just saw that VisualNovel.Ciconia When They Cry description are similar word to word to its official summary as shown in this article. This isn't allow, right?
Main indices
Should an index in the Main namespace go through TLP, as opposed to requesting that it be created by moderators?
jerk with a heart of gold
Jerkass and Jerk with a Heart of Gold can never be added to the same character? I saw a troper cleaning up and removing one or the other because "a character can't be both". But for a long time people have been adding both Jerkass and Jerk with a Heart of Gold to the same character and it was never a problem
Edited by annette12
YMMV subpage additions
AM_NK has been adding links to every single other subpage to YMMV pages, which gets ridiculously long when there's a lot of them and unnecessary when there's a few of them, especially since they're alreayd on the banners.
IE, over on YMMV.Jump Force there's "See also: Fridge | Funny Moments | Scrappy Mechanic | Unexpected Character".
Over on YMMV.Mortal Kombat 11, it's "Main page | MK 1 | MK 2 | MK 3 | MK 4 | Deadly Alliance | Deception | Armageddon | MK vs. DC Universe | MK 9 | MKX | MK 11
Spinoffs: MKM: Sub-Zero | Special Forces | Shaolin Monk
Non-videogame media: Mortal Kombat: The Movie | The Journey Begins | Annihilation | Conquest | Defenders Of The Realm | Malibu Comics | Legacy | Rebirth
Series-wide pages: And The Fandom Rejoiced | Complete Monster | Ensemble Darkhorse | Hilarious In Hindsight | Nausea Fuel | The Scrappy | The Woobie
Game-specific pages: Fridge | Nightmare Fuel"
Did they get permission before doing this, and is it allowed in general?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=AM_NK
Might be time to rework the Moomin page. Literature
With the new CGI series now being shown in various countries including the UK, and something of a boom in the online fandom, I think it might be a good idea to expand/split the page currently located at The Moomins.
It's clearly big enough for a franchise, for one thing. There's literature, a comic strip, and both anime and western animation series, just to name some of the more significant versions (and there are many others as well.) Though, right now the only adaptation with its own page is Moomins on the Riviera; everything else is crammed onto the literature page.
Also, there's the title. All the official sources I've seen (the social media pages for the brand, merchandise, the comic strip book covers, etc.) just call the franchise Moomin, not "The Moomins".
Any thoughts on this? The current page seems like it'd be a good basis for a franchise page, so a new description might have to be written for the books specifically.
Indexes shouldn't have examples, since they're not tropes, right?
Indexes shouldn't have examples, since they're not tropes, right?
Secret Identity is typed as an Index, but has Examples...
Retype to Trope or what?
I remember asking this before... Or just thinking about it?
Edited by Malady
Editor with severe grammar problems
(Well, the subject line is a variation.) HijikataX doesn't edit very often (their last edit was in January), but their grammar is so poor that I genuinely have no idea what some of their edits are even trying to say. I haven't sent a notifier since their last edit was long enough ago, but wondered if something more than that might be needed anyway.
That Came Out Wrong vs Open Mouth, Insert Foot
I'm trying to decide which trope more accurately describes this quote:
That Came Out Wrong's description seems to imply that it is only for accidental innuendos, but the laconic does not make that specification. And Open Mouth, Insert Foot's laconic is practically identical. Which is more accurate? Or is there another trope entirely I haven't been able to find?
Edited by TheGreatConversation
YMMV trope but its In Universe only
I seen YMMV tropes but examples are in universe only. If so, should i remove any examples on YMMV pages on works?
Auto-Pm
How does one do this? I can never remember what the character sequence is, and Text Formatting Rules says nothing. Can this be added to some page, somewhere?