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I admin for the Elfen Lied wiki. Does a link on the front page of the EL Wiki to Tropes Main EL page break any rules?
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Iggy Luv 333 has horrible spelling. Every entry I peeked at has at least one rather large mistake. I'd clean it all up myself, but I'm heading to bed. Clean up in aisle 4.
Edited by shimaspawnopenNo Title
There seems to be some edit warring in the Your Mileage May Vary page of all places, mainly when it comes to if there should be an examples list. The original note was:
No examples, please. This descriptor applies to literally everything. No matter how universal the affection for something may seem, there is someone, somewhere who doesn't care for it. The only way to cover all the possible examples would be to write "Everything ever," so examples aren't necessary.
...but nuclearneo577 keeps changing it to make it literal by making a examples list that only says "everything ever", which is unnecessary. He even noted in one of his edits when i reverted his previous one, quoting: "Stop writing a Take That at me for making it funny." I even noted in the discussion page that this is unnecessary, but he doesn't seem to be stopping. Can we get a resolution for this?
Edited by GundamforceopenNo Title
I noticed something strange today: I don't have any discussion pages showing up on my Watchlist. Normally I can see a good 20-30 discussion pages from articles I've following, and they were there as recently as a few days ago, but today they're gone.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
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New grammar horror identified: Random Chaos. PM'ed. Waiting for reply. Edit: Okay, that didn't go well. Ban applied.
Edited by FighteeropenNo Title
As Wikipedia gains popularity, there are more and more Wiki Vandals in modern media. Should the trope be rewritten a bit to allow examples?
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Super Saiya Man is throwing personal attacks at nuclearneo577 on the So Bad It's Horrible film page over whether or not a film should be included.
- You must have never seen the actual movie, Nuclear Neo 77. Not that I'm surprised giving your Edit Nazi tendacies.
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I'm having a major problem for reasons unknown. I have enabled spoilers to be viewed on my profile settings, but when I go to a page that has spoilers on it I still can't see it. I just got a new antivirus system, could that be the problem? If not, how the heck do I fix this?
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Regarding bluelinking and punctuation
Should I do "this" or "this"? This: Apples, bananas, oranges... or this: Apples, bananas, oranges...
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Since Big-Lipped Alligator Moment has the YMMV disclaimer/banner, shouldn't BLAM Episode have it too?
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Is there such a thing as a community namespace? I've seen it several times, and it worked really well: cleaned man page and ymmv from those memetic mutations and other similar tropes, so that main page had objective tropes, ymmv had subjective tropes, community page had tropes within the fandom community. Also the page covered notable and influential Internet resources on the subject. But I haven't seen it being mentioned on the Namespace index
Edited by Aminatep
KZN02 seems to be changing "armour" to "armor" in random work pages. He's done it twice in Ge Ne Sis and at least three times in MARDEK. I change it back every time, saying that it violates the wiki rules to change dialects, but he just seems to ignore it.
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