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openMultiple YMMV Images Western Animation
I was reading NightmareFuel.The Simpsons and discovered the page has multiple images. The page image is the same, but each folder now has an image of its own. Is this allowed?
openAn audience reaction trope having a PlayingWith page
So, PlayingWith.What Do You Mean Its For Kids exist.
Let's not talk about how poorly made it looks - I was about to fix it before realising something.
Aren't Playing With pages for audience reaction tropes (e.g What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?) discouraged? If so, should I cut it?
open"Undermined By Reality" Example? Live Action TV
While looking through Undermined By Reality, I came across this:
- Arrowverse:
- Pretty much any time the shows tried to project a feminist message (e.g. the Flash episode "Girl's Night Out" and most of Supergirl's time on the air) now rings hollow, following executive producer Andrew Kreisberg being fired for sexual harassment and creating a toxic work environment.
Does this still apply over three years after Kreisberg got fired? Flash and Supergirl seem to have survived just fine without him.
openWiLD's Title
I'm curious and a bit confused as to why the custom wiki word for WiLD was changed from "WiLD" (its proper rendering as the title) to just "Wild"?
openNew Work Page Videogame
Hello everyone! I'm just starting to create a new page for a work and I'm still stuck on how to do it even after reading the guides. Any help? Specifically formatting ones (e.g how to do italics, bold, external links and such)
openWhich category to put a trope example?
There is an example I want to put on a trope page that comes from a comic strip. However, that trope page does not have a category for comic strips.
Where should I put it then?
openHow to handle specific examples for ScreentimeEndingArrest
I'm fairly close to launching Screentime-Ending Arrest, which is about characters last seen being arrested. However, I was recently reminded of the "Examples Are Not General" rule. Some works (Ace Attorney, WordGirl, and especially Scooby-Doo) are currently written as general examples. I know it would be more in line with the rule to list specific examples, but I feel overwhelmed by this task. I don't know enough about these works to list every example. Each work could probably warrant its own subpage. So, what do I do? How do we go about listing specific examples of this, if we absolutely must?
EDIT: Is the Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot example too general as well?
Edited by DrNoPumaopenApex Legends Indexing? Videogame
Yamada Maya recently edited the Characters.Apex Legends page and moved everyone to different pages based on their combat category. I’m wondering if a discussion on this was made elsewhere and if the change is really necessary.
openStealth bombs?
So, my recent Trope Launch Pad entry has gotten a significant number of bombs overnight, almost matching the number of hats it has. I'm more than capable of accepting criticism, but the thing is there are no criticisms. No one has posted any comments saying why they think it's not trope-worthy.
The fact that it got such a massive number of bombs in such a short period, and with not a word as to why, is somewhat concerning to me. Is this something that happens often?
openSilly Edit War on Super Weight
Not long ago, Tropers.Bradford 46 added Charles Atlas Superpower to the Type 1 section of the Super Weight table. Not long after, I removed it for these reasons:
- It is placed awkwardly, circumventing the Note in the middle section which is designed to reduce word count (as that tends to ruin the columns' formatting).
- It is flat out incorrect. A Charles Atlas Superpower is, by definition a superpower. For those who do not know how the Super Weight table works, Type 1 characters are powerless Badass Normal characters. By definition, a Charles Atlas Superpower makes a person not normal. They are impossible feats gained through physical training.
- (Didn't mention this in the edit reason, but it's important nonetheless.) It technically doesn't belong anywhere on the chart, because Charles Atlas Superpower is the source of a power, not the limits of one. A person with a Charles Atlas Superpower can gain any powers of any scale, up to and including blowing up an entire galaxy (see Dragon Ball Z). It cannot be placed anywhere on the scale.
Moments ago, Tropers.Bradford 46 readded it to the table wholesale, offering no edit reason and ignoring the reasoning given in the edit(s) I made. Rather than remove it a second time and furthering the Edit War, I wanted to bring it here to get permission and/or reasoning why it should stay.
EDIT: I also PM'ed Tropers.Bradford 46 and linked him to this query.
Edited by NubianSatyressopenUpdating controversial part of useful notes
I was going through UsefulNotes.Greece and noticed that some of the information was outdated.
In particular, about the Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn and the fact they were declared a criminal organisation in court last year.
Now, this is an extremely important trial for us in Greece, but the subject is highly controversial, especially among people who are misinformed about the events and think that they were outlawed solely for their views, and are ignorant of the true scale of their crimes.
Should I go ahead and make the edit?
Edited by LermisopenQuestion about Painted On Pants. Videogame
I mostly see this in games, but as females usually have Painted-On Pants in games I have noticed when they wear a skirt while it doesn't apply usually through the skirt the same concept applies to their underwear that it takes the shape of what is underneath. I was wondering when the underwear takes the shape just like pants does it also apply to this trope?
openSafe to make the Godzilla vs. Kong page? Film
We got a release date and some TV spot/online commercials. Safe to make the page now or hold off till the trailer release on Sunday? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GodzillaVsKong
openDo these go on the characters page?
Read title. Troperweatherly23 moved a bunch of tropes from Friday Night Funkin' regarding the character Monster to its section in the character page, but none of them (Dummied Out, Lyrical Dissonance, Mood Whiplash, Soundtrack Dissonance, and Villain Song) are character tropes. Do they still go there?
openDelete a Redundant Works Page Anime
So last night, I created the Rise Of The Unemployed Wise Man page.
I hadn't realized that The Rise of the Unemployed Wise Man already existed.
I plan on migrating the tropes from the former to the latter, but how can I get the first one deleted?
openPedophile Whitewashing
On YMMV.South Park, H Barnill changed
- Acceptable Targets: Pedophiles receive some of the harshest treatment from the show, even when an individual's pedophilia accusations are rather dubious, such as with the "Stop Touching Me Elmo" toy from "The Black Friday Trilogy" based on the pedophilia accusations against Kevin Clash, Elmo's original voice actor and puppeteer on Sesame Street, despite that specific charge being Clash having an alleged mutual relationship with one sixteen-year-old, rather than preying on multiple young children per the classic idea of a "pedophile" in most people's heads, which the premise of the "Stop Touching Me Elmo" toy depends on in order to work.
- Acceptable Targets: While the show goes after both sides of the political spectrum, they tend to go after the left more than the right. The creators have mentioned how it's more of of them being contrarian in the industry (which tends to have liberal views) rather than having any feelings regarding leftists or strong political views in general.
There's only one reason I can think of for why anyone would try to remove the pedophile entry.
Edit: After rereading the first entry, it looks like pedophile apologia, so I can see why someone would delete it. But it's a big red flag that someone would delete the example instead of rewriting it because the core of the example—pedophiles being Acceptable Targets in South Park—is correct. concernedalien11780 is the one who wrote the original example.
Edited by Kevjro7openTrying to make a new page
Hello! I was hoping to receive some advice on how to do this. I was trying to make a TV Tropes page for a story called Blood Ties by Igornerd, a crossover between Skyrim and Naruto, and realized I had accidentally created it in the wrong section in Fanfic Recs.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/BloodTies
However, when I tried to make a new page in the proper Fanfic section, I discovered that there was already a completely different fanfiction with the exact same name.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/BloodTies
How do I go about deleting the old page, and what do I do to make the new page in the correct section while getting around the fact that there's a preexisting page for a story of the same title?
Thank you for your help, and my apologies for the inconvenience I've already caused.
openWrong trope namespace?
While cleaning up a work, I run into an entry on the main page called Associated Composer. The trope description says that it's a subtrope of a Trivia trope, and the trope itself talks about behind-the-scenes work.
By all rights, it should be Trivia, but instead it's on the "Main" namespace.
Edited by Lermis
Reception Wikis has the wrong namespace and title (should be The Reception Wikis), has most of its links screwed up by a copy and paste, and mostly consists of troping user antics.