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Indian Media lists some actors who don't live in India, but are of Indian descent.
If the Indian Media index is for media originating in India, do these actors count or not?
Not Always Working getting too long
The main page for Not Always Working is starting to get a little on the large side (as in "This article is too long" large). Any mods available to split it up?
Unnecessary WhatAnIdiot subpage Literature
Someone recently created WhatAnIdiot.Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. It only contains two examples, where one is a questionable in-universe example and the other looks shoehorned. Should I just send the page to the Cut List?
spoilers in trope names
In Pokémon Sun and Moon Anime, i noted the following hidden text: "Please don't remove any spoiler tags for new characters until it has aired in the United States."
Following Handling Spoilers, "On Characters pages, do not ever conceal the name of a character in a folder or header. "
The name of a character is concealed, as must I act?
Edited by MagBas
Another troper making posts with bad English
Troper Saru 2019 started posting text for proofreading on Get Help With English Here
on February 14th.
However, they are not running all of their additions to TV Tropes through the thread, and some of them have bad English.
All of the following are from one day's postings: February 16th.
1. Characters/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Fitting consideraly she was the Big Bad in one arc, Karura desire for Kogarashi came from how powerful and cool he was a few years ago. But soon started falling for him from how nice he was to her despite forcing him to marry her.
Should be:
Fittingly, <- comma considering she was the Big Bad in one arc, Karura's desire for Kogarashi comes from how powerful and cool he was a few years ago. However, she soon starts falling for him because of how nice he was to her, <- comma despite her forcing him to marry her.
In an edit one minute later they correctly changed "consideraly" to "considering".
2. All of the following are from the same post.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Yuuna loves Kogarashi for his strong supportive nature over her and how patience Kogarashi can be over her bad habits.
Should be:
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Yuuna loves Kogarashi for his strong supportive nature toward her and how patient he can be with her over her bad habits.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Sagiri loves for Kogarashi comes from his strong moral and his belief over Sagiri abilities in the battlefield.
Should be:
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Sagiri's love for Kogarashi comes from his strong morals and his belief about Sagiri's abilities on the battlefield.
In a post a few minutes later they correctly changed "loves" to "love".
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Hibari at first used Kogarashi as a fake boyfriend to surpass Sagiri at something since she never had a boyfriend. Hibari eventually fell for Kogarashi when he continue to support her in the ruse for a long time and for helping her out in training and school work without complain.
Should be:
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Hibari at first used Kogarashi as a fake boyfriend to surpass Sagiri at something since she never had a boyfriend. Hibari eventually fell for Kogarashi when he continued to support her in the ruse for a long time and for helping her out in training and school work without complaint (or complaining).
Again, that's as far back as I went.
Edited by Arivne
Request to remove page quote with dead link?
I'm not sure if this is where I would ask, but Sudden Downer Ending has a quote from a Cracked article that unfortunately is no longer available on their site and I cannot locate elsewhere. Can/should it be removed altogether?
Edited by Erin582
Requesting Discussion Migration Anime
Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to ask. If so, I'll head in whatever direction I'm pointed to. Anywho...
I just finished a migration of Komi-san wa Komyushou desu to its offically announced English title of Komi Can’t Communicate. However, there are a few discussions on Characters.Komi San Wa Komyushou Desu that may warrant being moved to Characters.Komi Cant Communicate, for reference if nothing else.
While typing this, I was reminded to also check reviews and found a review in Manga.Komi San Wa Komyushou Desu that needs to be moved as well.
EDIT: Looks like the cut for the Character page went through already. Don't know if that'll prevent it. It's not vital either way, the most relevant discussion was whether or not to refer to the main character by her first name or her family name, with consensus landing on the latter since that's what's used most in-story.
Edited by sgamer82
Canceling a Cut List request
Hello. I earlier submitted Characters.Lost Main Characters to the cut list. However, it has since been turned into a redirect to the Characters.Lost page, which I actually feel is better than cutting the page outright. Could a mod decline my original cut list request please?
Edited by StardustSoldier
Creator.CeciliaDartThornton... Two wicks, one's an index... 4 years old... No works with pages...
Creator.Cecilia Dart Thornton... 4 years old... Two wicks, one's an index... No works with pages...
Cut?
Edited by Malady
Title question
Hypothetically, let's pretend there was a game titled ./,.%#^))*(/,.^!#*((*~~/,*/.~!!#(^)()(#%*%*>,/.,/., and it was only known by that one title. How would I create a page for it?
Edited by Mickoonsley19
example categorization
Do examples from a fan comic (with a page in the Webcomic namespace) go under Webcomic on a trope example list, or under Fan Works?
is this example clear?
- Affably Evil: Schoolyard bully version. Greeted Max enthusiastically, carrying no hard feelings about the day before, then casually decided to beat him up. Another time he extorted Max for fifty cents, but gave him change for a dollar.
Is it clear from the last sentence what it's describing? What happened is that Johnny (the bully) extorted Max for fifty cents, but Max only had a whole dollar, so Johnny gave him change.
Cleanup for character pages
I've been thinking this for a while I've decided to make a cleanup for character pages in order to purge them of plot tropes, tropes that lack context and tropes have no place being in a character page (Foregone Conclusion, Black and White Morality, Curbstomp Battle, etc). I'm planning to start with Superman's character page. Can anyone help me figure out which tropes belong/do not belong in his character page?
ReferencedBy subpaging is weird?
Referenced by... subpaging is weird?
Like, I have a Fan Work that is being Referenced by..., but given how ReferencedBy.Fan Works looks, I'd have to spawn a new subpage just to list it as an example, instead of just putting it in ReferencedBy.Fan Works.
Or is it just a fluke that no one's had isolated Referenced by... entries and put those examples in ReferencedBy.Fan Works?
Page Vandalism
Turbo vandalized the Final Fantasy entry by deleting it and replacing it with a homophobic message. Is there a way to quickly revert it?
How on earth do I create a subpage TearJerker for the Smallfoot Page? Film
I don’t know how do do it???
Does this count as Executive Meddling?
The PlayStation game Spider-Man 2 – Enter: Electro had the final level originally take place on the top of the World Trade Center. This is confirmed by the original level title, "Top of the World", and dialogue spoken by Peter Parker during the original cinematic prior to the final level. After the events of 9/11, the game was pulled from shelves (it had been released in North America in late August) and delayed in territories where it hadn't been released, and the level designers placed a bridge between the two towers to make the comparison to its real life counterpart less obvious. Given the fact that Activision and Vicarious Visions feared the content might have been considered "insensitive", their meddling was obvious.
Isn't this more Too Soon than anything?
Trope with Different WikiWording
The trope "Good is not Nice" appears as "Moral Asshole". See:
Is it alright if I change the WikiWord back to the original trope name?
Edited by JRads47
Five Man Band in Work Description
Is it bad form to describe characters as a Five-Man Band in the work description instead of the list of tropes? I did it with some of the work pages I wrote and it's always removed.
NarrativeTropes doesn't note it being indexed on Main.Tropes, because...
Narrative Tropes doesn't note it being indexed on Main.Tropes, because it's already on Nl.Tropes, and the system can't display both, since they have the same name?
Edited by Malady
Index Index
I find the sprawling Index-Index absolutely impossible to use. Is there another tool for browsing indeces and finding new categorizations?
Edited by TheGreatConversation
uncommenting of zero context examples
nk5prtrpma only edit is the removal of the hidden marking in some Big Bad zero context examples. Link:BigBad.Live Action Films Number To M
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer on Avengers: Endgame
I previously deleted an example of Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer from Avengers: Endgame due to the finished product not being out, and thus the example would fall under Speculative Troping. (FYI the trope is about major characters who failed to appear in pre-release material appearing in the finished product.)
Then Asherinka re-added the example, despite that doing so is pretty much speculating who will appear in the finished product.
Posting this to ATT to avoid an edit war.
Edited by Albert3105