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The Fate Zero index list at the bottom of the page is borked up, having Walk on Water as an index, weird potholes, and the ads showing up in that space. I can't find any way of correcting it in the editing options. Would anyone care to help?
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I'm curious about exactly how one renames a trope.
Not too long ago, the F-Zero characters page needed to be split due to a large amount of characters. Recently, I had a discussion with two other tropers. For conveniences' sake, we decided to remerge a few of the smaller pages together. We'd end up with a catch-all indexing page with two subdivisions. I know how to redirect new/broken links into prexisting tropes, but if I were to redirect an older page, would I need to create a new link, transfer all of the data there, and then redirect the old page to the new one? The renaming guidelines are somewhat vague on this matter.
Also, is there by any chance a way to actually delete pages?
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This idea about adding the YMMV logo next to the links to YMMV tropes is good (probably caused by my latest edits alone, as you can see from the Troper Talk in my page), but... I've added an example of Nightmare Fuel in the Songs in the Key of Panic article, but I added it only as an example of Songs in the Key of Panic (Nightmare Fuel was just an aspect of it).
Do YMMV tropes have to be deleted from any Main article?
Edited by AlexSora89openNo Title
I was doing a Wiki Walk and thought of something reading Hitler Ate Sugar.
Hitler supported animal rights
Hitler saw Jews as animals
Therefore he would support Jewish rights
Once you put your head back together, I had two questions.
1. Is that the right way to use that logic?
2. If so, what trope could it go under?
Edited by tsstevensopenNo Title
Why are there scales next to all of the YMMV tropes, even when they're potholed?
I can see perhaps discouraging their usage, but said tropes occur in-universe as well, and that would most likely result in the well-meaning but misguided removal of their in-universe occurences.
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What should I do to fix dead (sorta) external links? You Tube videos belonging to closed accounts, or links to websites that aren't quite right. (if the address was only partially correct, like if someone linked to https://tvtropes.org/wiki/query.php?type=att instead of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?type=att for example, but obviously with another website instead) If I don't know where the image/video/page moved to, should I mark the link as dead, (in hopes that someone else might know the image/video/page and be able to provide a new link) or should I remove it entirely?
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I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but The Hunted is not being indexed into Films of the 2000s — although it was in the past.
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First of all: I'm so sorry if I've just made a problem worse.
While going through my watch list, I noticed that shows were no longer showing up as being indexed on British Series. Brit Com, Comedy Series, etc, yes, but no general British Series. I looked for discussion but couldn't find any indication that it was being made defunct.
So I went to British Series to check the page type, figuring maybe it got switched somehow. It was set to index, though. I figured it was either something on my end or perhaps a momentary glitch in the matrix. But I made the mistake of hitting 'save' instead of 'cancel'. So now the British Series page type is showing up as index+index, whatever that means. (And shows still aren't showing up as indexed there, but maybe that's something on my end?)
I don't know how to fix that. There's index markup on the page itself, maybe removing that would fix it? But I don't want to do anything else to it in case I make even more of a mess of things. I'm so sorry guys, I didn't mean to break it. If someone knows what to do, though, I'll put it right!
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I would like to contact an editor (or whoever it was who posted my work) to thank them for being so generous for caring about my freeware video game - is there a way I can privately get the contact of such a person? Who do I contact for such a request?
Thank you! Joel.
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jate88 is wondering if we could add media examples in this useful notes YKTTW ?: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=aftrd6ulyxpj29yoxnfrzd6h
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Is it considered proper/improper to remove Troper Tales entries that are A) obviously (for various reasons) not true stories, B) contrary to the theme/tone/nature of the source article, and C) inserted into the page without consideration for formatting, spelling, or grammar?
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Okay, something has crawled up Weird Raptor's arse, but for the life of me I don't know what. He's being needlessly antagonistic here, and calling out the tropers who edited his article...but there's nothing on the page history of anyone but him editing the page.
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Can I lauch this trope? Basically is a trope about characters that deconstruct Common Mary Sue Traits. But aren't Mary Sues themselves.
Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask.But I was wondering if you guys think If it would be appropiate for me to launch that trope.
Mary Sue tends to be a very controversial concept. As such there is a risk people will misinterpret my intentions. (I have already had this problem before). And I don't want to waste the time of Trope Repair Shop people.
If you guys think is inappropiate I will discard it.
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Is there anything that can be done for the Sliding Scale Of Antiheroes? There's been a ridiculous amount of Edit Warring going on recently, particularly over the placement of one particular character (Lelouch) whose type I can only guess at. But it's not just him. And the edit reasons are increasingly nasty. I'm starting to wonder if it needs the same subjective banner as Character Alignment.
So, I tried to right-justify the image and caption of When the Clock Strikes Twelve, and the caption box got stretched. How do I fix it?