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openCowbo yBebop At His Computer: The Nostalgia Critic Web Original
If we edited out all the instances of Critical Research Failure, can we re-upload the Cowboy BeBop at His Computer page for The Nostalgia Critic?
openHelp editing a Characters page Western Animation
Almost every folder in DCAMU: Flashpoint Timeline is completely blank, save for a few that have an image of the corresponding character. The main problem with this page is that 90% of the characters listed on it are basically cameos, who have no characterization, lines or even more than 5 seconds of screen time.
I intend to cutlist it after moving the few tropes there to the work's page, but I want to make sure that I wouldn't be breaking any rules by doing so. Or should I just leave the page in its current state?
openAbout VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2? Videogame
Phantasy Star Online 2 hasn’t been translated until ill recently, and fans had to rely on a Fan Translation until then. It’s still using the fan-translated terms right now. Is it alright to put up a commented-out note on the main page saying to use official translations like a lot of the anime work pages do?
openConversationInTheMainPage or not?
What Happened to the Mouse? entries on Redwall:
- What Happened to the Mouse?:
- What happened to Sneezewort and Lousewort? After they ditch the Rapscallions, they're only mentioned one more time in The Long Patrol. After that it seemed like even the author forgot about them.
- What happened to Tazzin and Scummy? Were they killed by Triss, Sagax, and their army of Redwallers, or did they escape to safety?
- They never did mention what happened to Weilmark Scaut...
- Lord Brocktree suffers a case of this when one of the enemy commanders decides to pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here and deserts with around 300 of his troops in tow. Said contingent of fully armed, trained vermin marches away and right out of the plot, never to appear again.
- The kingdom that Rakkety Tam served was said to be menaced constantly by vermin. However, when Tamm — who was arguably the only thing keeping them away — leaves, nobody ever mentions it again.
- Just re-read it. Considering that it was at the end of the book, I think that I can correctly conclude that, with it being within the borders of Salamandastron as was told to Rakkety Tam and Wild Doogy Plumm by the Badger Ruler, Melesme, nobeast should be worried about any vermin. There's also the fact that they must have told her what happened when they stopped there for 6 days after getting out of their oath.
- What about the twelve guards that were guarding the Vole family in Cluny's camp? After Matthias rescued the voles, the guards as punishment were imprisoned without food and water until further notice. Never mentioned again... either when Cluny recovered he personally executed them, which was implied he would have done in the first place, they were pardoned, or they starved to death.
- What on earth happened to Binta the fox who had ran off after Fibbler killed her mate Thwip? Is she alive or dead? Did she die offscreen from the injures Fibbler gave her? Is she in hiding grieving over Thwip? Is she trying to tend her wounds? Did some other beast kill her offscreen? Seriously what happened? She just runs off and is never mentioned or seen again!
I was going to remove the 3-point one for first-person troping, but I wonder if some of the others should be removed or reworded, as they seem Conversation In The Main Page-ish.
openThis work page needs help
I just found TabletopGame.Heroes Haven TTRPG Community while curating Bi The Way wicks, and it has a lot of problems. First, it should be in Darth Wiki/ unless a link to the Discord server is provided, in which case it should be moved to Roleplay/. Also, the page has poor grammar, there's a lot of first person writing in the first folder, and the third folder consists almost entirely of "examples" that say "This is a trope" as their context.
openMedics n' Mages
Does anyone think Shoot the Medic First is more of a Sub-Trope to Shoot the Mage First? The latter is generally about targeting high-priority opponents most capable of putting you at a serious disadvantage if not taken down early (which I expanded upon in the description). The former is kind of the same but with medic/support-type characters.
openAborted Arc misuse?
On My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S9 E21 "Daring Doubt", What Happened to the Mouse? was replaced with the following:
- Aborted Arc: Daring Do's reputation. Early on, her fans have turned on her and her identity due to the events in the episode, but it's never brought up again, even when A.K. Yearling is co-writing a book with Caballeron.
I question this as: 1. A single standalone episode doesn't seem long enough to set up an arc, which take multiple episodes and need that long for the circumstances that cause it to be dropped to manifest (unless Word of God is that it was an intended plot dropped). 2. What Happened to the Mouse? seems to fit better as Daring's reputation was never meant to be a plot, just the means to kick of the intended plot of learning to get both sides of the story (and given how Easily Forgiven things in this series are it seems unfair to assume her bad rep stayed).
This seems more like They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot and complaining about treating it as unimportant then the reputation part being intended as a greater arc. Change back to What Happened to the Mouse??
openScrewed-up fridge page?
Fridge.Yo Gabba Gabba is a bit ranty and disorganised, to put it nicely.
openNumerous editing issues
MainManJ has shown several issues, particularly in their most recent various edits:
- They have demonstrated indentation issues and other formatting issues (such as spacing issues, spelling issues, grammar issues, etc.), as shown in their most recent edits to Pandering to the Base, ArmedWithCanon.Comic Books, and Headscratchers.Digimon Adventure.
- They have inserted a lot of Sinkholes (specifically chained sinkholes), as shown in their most recent edits to Pandering to the Base.
- They do not Pothole correctly, as shown in their most recent edits to So Unfunny, It's Funny, Yo-Yo Plot Point, and Pandering to the Base.
- They also somehow Edit Warred with themselves on Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear: added an item, then deleted it, then re-added it, and then re-deleted it, all on June 17th.
- Looking at their edit history, when they do make edits here, they have a tendency to be a Serial Tweaker, as early as 2012 and particularly as of late.
openAdding an, "Awesome Music," Page Videogame
Hello and good evening to you all! For some time now, I was curious about something regarding adding additional content to the Dante's Inferno (2010) page; The game comes with quite an amazing soundtrack, and it felt rather inappropriate to not include it! However, when I tried to add a new page, I noticed that the option wasn't available!
If it isn't too much trouble, would it be possible for someone to please elucidate on how one is able to accomplish this? It would be very much appreciated!!!
Thank you all for your time, and have a wonderful day/night!
Sincerely,
The_Taming_Interpreter
Edited by The_Taming_InterpreteropenWeird troper
Guscraft has a myriad of problems.
- TLP: He's made at least two zero-effort TL Ps that are already existing tropes: Same Game, Different Design and Early Export For You!
- Most of his edits are to Wiki.Dream Fiction Wiki. Taking a look at the page, not only is it a stub (I sent a notifier yesterday, he's been active but hasn't done anything to destub it), the description is a mess.
- He also weirdly added it to Fiction, meaning it's the only work page on that entire page.
- Also his adding it to Fanon is a ZCE and he put it at the top of the Web Original folder, which is just rude.
- Also just take a look at the YMMV page: YMMV.Dream Fiction Wiki.
- I brought it up in the TLP Crash Rescue thread as well. If he doesn't fix it in a couple days then I'm adding it to the cutlist.
- He also has issues with English. Edits that aren't wrong are still awkward.
- He also added this example to Screwed By The Lawyers, but did it by inserting it in an only vaguely related bullet. The bullet it was under specifically referred to Nintendo taking action against two specific ROM sites (which are the two bullets beneath the example he added), completely breaking the example.
openFridge logic vs headscratchers
What is the difference between these two things? There doesn’t seem to be any to me, and even Fridge Logic recommends going to the headscratcher pages to discuss.
openKarma Houdini
Does Karma Houdini also applies to characters who do good but are never rewarded ?
openNo Title
Why is Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch in-universe examples only, while its inverse Praising Shows You Don't Watch is not? They are basically the same, but one is about praising and the other is complaining, so it seems weird that one would be in-universe only, while the other is not.
open Jesus in the Pantheon
Would it cause any problem or Controversy if a version of Jesus were to be part of the Trope Pantheon? Especially for Mods.
Edited by WhirlRXopenNew Review needed Anime
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13374894/1/The-new-Empire
The above link is to a great fic that explores a very unused idea of Bleach.
What if Ichigo became a ruler? In this fic Ichigo becomes the Quincy Emperor.
openSmallville Season 11 Live Action TV
Since the comics are evidentally canon per Crisis on Infinite Earths, should relevant tropes be added to the pages?
openFamous Last Words
I noticed some people have said that Famous Last Words is too broad and often includes numerous examples of "things people happened to say before they died." I admit, I myself have added such examples. Is there an official rule on what can be included?
openAbout Fetish Fuel
I have a doubt.
Since Fetish Fuel cannot have entries and wicks both on its own page and on YMMV pages.
Can that trope be removed from the Audience Reactions list?
Mr Hyper Nova blanked Equestreality Protogonists.