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open How explicit/tasteless is too much?
If I wrote a page on Naked Came the Stranger, would it get deleted by P5? If I wrote a page on My Twisted World, would it suffer an Example Sectionectomy like Zapruder Film?
Edited by Madison14openWrong namespace ?
So I stumbled upon Film.Mutafukaz whose page is reasonably well made but Uh isn't it an animated film so why is it in the film namespace. I checked and the film doesn't seem to have live action elements.
openspoiler tagging cleanup thread
Is there a thread regarding the use of spoiler tagging and if a page is using too much/not enough of it?
openThe Trivia page for Ouija
So I just glanced at the trivia page for Ouija thinking it was a trivia page for the movie, but, well, take a look at it. It seems to be a warning guide about contacting spirits or something when playing with an actual ouija board. Is this legit, a leftover from an earlier page, or what exactly?
Edited by borgjonesopenDoes Adventure Archaeologist cover people who steal cultural artifacts from living cultures?
Adventure Archaeologist mentions that most such characters are actually stealing from living tribes. Is the trope flexible enough to include, say, people who trade in artifacts of existing tribes, like those who might steal the idol of an African tribe, or raid a Native American settlement to make off with their goods? It seems like the sort of things that's becoming a bit more of a trope, recognizing that much of a museum's exhibits are items that were stolen from living tribes.
openWhat happened to Rance?
I mean, it has the most detailed character tropes in any web I tried to revisit it, now it's gone ? what happen?
openIs there a thread for adding/removing things from YMMV?
No-Damage Run has the YMMV banner (possibly because it's a subtrope of Self-Imposed Challenge), but all of the on-page examples are objective rewards that games have for completing some part of them without getting hit, and only 71 of its 594 wicks (~12%) are on YMMV pages. Is there a long-term projects thread I can take it to (like with Trivia pages), or does it need to go on Tropes Needing TRS?
openAdditions to a Music Trope Category - Heavy Mithril & Filk Music
Hello! I'm wondering what the rules are about adding examples to a trope? I know of a few bands/recordings that might be suited to be added to the Heavy Mithril category (ie. Heather Alexander's folk rock band Phoenyx,) and a few that are suited to the Filk category, which are not listed; and I also can add some information to some of the existing listings (ie. the song Julia Ecklar is best known for.) What are the criteria to determine if something is worthy of adding?
Also, I dabble in both genres myself; would it be rude to add my own stuff if I'm realistic about it? It's not very well known, but it does exist.
Thanks in advance!
openIndex for celebrities who have starred on The Simpsons Western Animation
Since a proper subpage for all of the Celebrity Voice Actor roles on The Simpsons would be very, very long, would it be possible to make that an index?
openImage not showing properly?
On Star Conflict, the image doesn't show at all after editing, but for some reason, it does when in the editor's Preview Mode.
Instead, the image's placeholder shows only https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/star_conflict.jpg. When I copy it to the browser as it is, the URL gets redirected to a bad gateway error.
But if it's just https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/star_conflict.jpg, the image loads just fine.
Sorry if it's a very odd question to ask, but it's my first time encountering this. Plus the page's source code and edit mode doesn't have the "mediaproxy" link in it at all. What's causing this problem and how to fix it?
Edited by DanteVinopenFanfic.TheMisfits... What to rename when Disambig-d?
Fanfic.The Misfits... What to rename when Disambig-d?
It's a Mega Crossover, so there's no clear source work? Call it by the author?
And move Fanfic.Warhammer 40000 The Misfits... to Fanfic.The Misfits Warhammer 40000
Because the fic's actual name always goes first, before the Disambiguation point?
...
EDIT: And Fanfic.The Misfits Warhammer 40000 was actually already a duplicate, that was cut...
No reason not to manually overwrite its history with a manual move from the current?
Edited by MaladyopenNoteworthy pages
A while back, I made the page TangledFamilyTree.Child Of The Storm, which is the very first Tangled Family Tree page dedicated to a single work in this wiki. Is this notable in any way?
EDIT:
Because the Namespace project was mentioned; the reasons for the split were:
- a LOT of examples at the time, with new entries added almost in every other chapter.
- the work has separate page for Child of the Storm and Ghosts of the Past. However, due to the nature of this trope and the examples, it is very impractical to try and split them, as the GOTP examples are a continuation of the previous ones.
- SPOILERS
openNo Title Web Original
WebVideo.Curtisthe Spaz Gamer is miscapitalised, and the page is written partially in first-person.
openEdit War
Mishmash added the following example to Legion Of Superheroes 2020:
- Continuity Snarl: This series appears to give one in the form of not having the Legion's standard preference against artificially-gained powers, hence the presence of both the aforementioned vessel of Nabu, and a Gold Lantern.
I removed it since the work is another Continuity Reboot of Legion Of Superheroes, so it's not in-contiunity with any of the previous series.
Mishmash has since then re-added the example, with only slightly different wording:
- Continuity Snarl: This series appears to give one to the Legion franchise in the form of not having the Postboot preference against artificially-gained powers, hence the presence of both the aforementioned vessel of Nabu, and a Gold Lantern.
openIs Barry Allen a Designated Hero? Print Comic
Barry Allen has earned himself quite the lengthy entry at the comic book section of Designated Hero. It reads:
"The Flash: Barry Allen, the Silver Age incarnation of the character, has largely became this upon being brought back and pushed as the main Flash.
- Upon returning, he created the Flashpoint incident while trying to undo the meddling of his arch-enemy, Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash, who had altered Barry's past to give him an angstier backstory involving his mother getting murdered. However, rather than work with other heroes who are experts on this kind of thing, like Booster Gold or even his own former protege and Superior Successor Wally West (who unlike Barry, could run through time-and-space unaided and understood their powers on a much greater level), he did this by himself, resulting in a distorted Darker and Edgier timeline. While his motivations were sympathetic, the sheer idiocy of his blunder and how easily it could have been avoided, especially as he was warned prior during the Prelude to Flashpoint about what was going to happen and did it anyway.
- When he realised what he did and undid it, the result still didn't fix his mistake, resulting in a new timeline that was still Darker and Edgier, only everyone was also Younger and Hipper on top; while Barry's life in this new timeline wasn't bad, his friends were made miserable with both marriages and people erased, including Wally West, Wally's kids, and also Jay Garrick, Jesse Chambers, and the rest of the Flash Family. Though all of this was because Executive Meddling was in play (co-publisher Dan DiDio wanted the rest of the Flash family erased due to his personal dislike of Wally West and his belief that the franchise should be simpler, as well as his preference for Darker and Edgier stories and belief that True Art Is Angsty), it essentially meant that in-universe, Barry was personally responsible for erasing his nephew and family from existence, essentially killing them, while making everyone else he knew miserable and lonely. Meanwhile, Barry in this new timeline? He was a young, happy single with a cute Adorkable girlfriend, largely beloved by his city, with nobody knowing or remembering what he did.
- The Rebirth era didn't help with this matter, even after Wally West returns. During a team-up with Batman, he discovered Wally wasn't the only forgotten speedster when he meets Jay Garrick in the Speed Force. Rather than working tirelessly to save Jay, as you would expect a hero like Barry to do, he seemingly forgets about it to instead focus on other stuff. Then, Wally has his memory of his kids restored to him, and he calls Barry out on not even informing him about other trapped speedsters; he claims he was working with Batman to investigate it off-panel, but they were clearly not sparing much time looking into this, which could have been resolved by informing Wally, who not only wasn't busy with anything thanks to having his life erased, and also understands the Speed Force to a much greater extent than Barry and would be better suited into looking into it. Then, after the two are manipulated by Hunter Zolomon, Wally has a breakdown over the memory of his kids, so Barry sends him to a mental health facility where he never visits him, trusting instead that the facility can help him. It doesn't. Meanwhile, after sending Wally away, Barry could take this as an indication he should put more focus into finding the lost speedsters, but instead, he starts a different investigation into the "Other Forces", something he could have left up to his new ally, Commander Cold while he continued searching for Jay, Jesse, and Max. While his lack of focus on this could be chalked up to not remembering the other speedsters, it still looks callous of him to know people are suffering and to do nothing, even when told these people are his family."
Okay, I gotta ask: is this valid? I know that some people still have grievances towards Barry even after the end of Comic Book/Flashpoint and I do admit that I don't have the best knowledge on Barry's history, but this entry is so long and descriptive that it comes off as opinionated writing. What do we do with this?
Edited by MasterHeroopenThis Troper
What exactly did I Love Crossovers do on Frequently Asked Questions? I saw two posts of theirs thumped and I don’t know what’s going on.
openLeftover FMV Examples Videogame
Interactive Movie used to be treated as a trope when it's actually a genre. The page is now an index, but these examples lack pages (making their inclusion on an index pointless), and some are written like trope examples (unnecessary for an index). Some of them were also canceled.
What should be done with them? AFAIK, they are still valid examples of the genre.
Edited by PrimisopenDisambig or page lock needed?
The page, Fanfic.Legacy used to refer to a Total Drama fanfic. A few years later, when someone made a page for a Frozen (2013) fanfic titled Legacy, the Total Drama fanfic was moved to a new page called Fanfic.Legacy Total Drama, and the original Fanfic.Legacy page was made a disambig. Sometime after, the disambig page was cut for alleged pointlessness, because there is a Legacy disambig page in the Main namespace.
Now, Naru Hina Fan has appropriated the Fanfic.Legacy name for a Naruto fanfic. (The new article is a stub, but one problem at a time.) This suggests that the previous Fanfic disambig was not pointless, or alternatively that the original Fanfic.Legacy page name needs to be locked. The Naruto fanfic page obviously needs to be renamed, presumably to Fanfic.Legacy Naruto, but that's just kicking the can down the road. As long as the Fanfic.Legacy name remains open and editable, it's only a matter of time before someone else erroneously puts a new fanfic page there, because "Legacy" is a StockEpisodeTitle.
Edited by GideoncrawleopenIs this "It's the Same, so It Sucks?"
So the visual novel Seduce Me has a pretty common criticism among fans and reviewers, and it's that in the first game, the different routes are basically identical between the five main romance options. Almost everything happens in the exact same way no matter which route you're on. I'm wondering if this is okay to document on the YMMV page with It's the Same, So It Sucks? Or is that trope solely for adaptations, and putting it on the page would be misuse?
Edited by iamconstantine
Is there a way for me to edit/change the description for videos I uploaded? For example, I uploaded a Mortal Kombat 11 video under Couldn't Find a Pen, but I forgot to source what game the clip comes from. Can I change it so I can properly source it?