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How does one launch an index? I'm preparing to launch a YKTTW on Resurrection Tropes, but I'm not quite sure how to do it.
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Another editor with sub-optimal grammar on the loose: surtrnoir
Seems to have several good edits in him and good intentions, but as it is every one of his edits will have to be cleaned up by someone. I PMed him, but since he might take a month to reply for all I know, in the meanwhile we need to clean up after him and keep an eye on any new edits he makes.
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New troper here, please bear with me. :) I wanted to add the trope All My Circuits to the work page for Barney's Version, but I notice it has a very strange URL... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleh790movp
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If a trope applies to a character's personality, should it be listed on the main page as well as the character sheet?
I'm asking because the people on the Final Fantasy VI page aren't agreeing with each other.
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Newspaper Comic, specifically Beetle Bailey. While reading the article, they mention that Bailey's never had his helmet removed or his eyes shown in the regular comics. I could swear that I remember reading a strip where Sarge lifted the helmet, revealing not only Bailey's eyes (looking rather defiant), but something anti-war written across his forehead, possible a peace sign. I'm likely conflating this with someone else's work, but I figured I'd make an appeal to see if anyone else remembers this and/or can locate it.
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The user hombad26 might be running a bowdlerizer, but zerky is not sure. One of his/her edits on February 28th on a WMG page seems to have wiped a whole bunch of stuff from the page, for example the "sex" from "sexuality", "panty" from Panty And Stocking With Garterbelt, the word "terror" and for some odd reason, "thumbs".
Some of it has already been reverted, so zerky apologizes if this has already been brought up.
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Made Of Win protocol question. If someone posts something along the lines of "One to everyone involved in..." as is often the case, does the tally get updated? If so, do you just add one to every relevant party you can find in the edit history, or do you divide it by that many people, or what?
I'm suspecting the tally just stays as is, but I haven't heard this for sure, and if I'm due 1/3 of a point I don't want to miss it :P
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SotiCoto has made some inflammatory remarks on Disproportionate Retribution, The Evils of Free Will and the Path of Inspiration pages.
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On the Just A Face And A Caption disscussion page, there's a nasty little Tropers Law comment on the bottom.
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Might want to watch T Beholder .
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouCanPanicNow 's history shows why. He popped But You Screw One Goat into the section about sexual minorities with a "don't delete, improve," which looked quite like he was comparing homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender, and intersex to bestiality.
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I reverted lppdf's vandalization of someones entry on the ArtemisFowl JBM page. Should anything else be done?
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Kind of a weird query- 206.209.101. 220 has been doing this odd thing where he/she will post all these examples (not sure if valid or not, but I suspect not) on the Discussion page, invariably with all these exclamation marks after them.
I posted a sarcastic reply to one instance of this a couple weeks back (forget the page), but my comment was something like "Nice to know, anonymous troper."
Maybe someone could contact them to let them know you're supposed to use the pages themselves to add examples/tell them how ot add examples correctly?
We have a troper by the name of ipratropium who keeps trying to make an article on Walking. Yes, the activity. It got cut twice for being People Sit On Chairs, can anything be done?