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One editor removed all the secondary quotes below character portraits in Alien, https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.Alien no reason given and, this kind of trimming has a prior history it seems https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.DragonAgeIICompanions , is this proper fromat / a customary thing to do or just a personal whim from the editor?
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Now, I'm working on a Works page for The Condemned, and I know Work Pages Are A Free Launch, but I'm thinking to myself if the work summary I've made is okay or if it has some bashing in it...
The Condemned was a 2007 American action film written and directed by Scott Wiper which takes a different look at the repeated plot of people fighting to the death for everyone to see. However, the look may not be as "perfect" as one may see, considering how they have "10 people fight, 9 people die, you get to watch!" on their poster, and yet much of the movie is filled with people complaining on how this isn't right.
I may need some help with the summary and making it seem presentable if it is.
Edited by Psyga315openNo Title Film
Deusirae 76 keeps on removing The one with openings to all the James Bond film pages without any context as to why he is doing this. See his editing history here.
Is what he's doing the right thing or should it all be reverted?
Edited by JRPicturesopenNo Title Film
I'm trying to figure out if a particular scene happened in both film and comic versions of V for Vendetta. I own the movie but not the comic.
The scene in question is the part where Finch learns about the Larkhill facility by digging through the tax records from the era. We know it happened in the movie, but was it in the book?
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In the film section of Exact Time to Failure, the 1st example has a title, but the next one has no name of the work listed, no potholes, and the only hints are the work above and the phrase "also used in the first movie". Can someone name the work so I can fix it?
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Alright, we have a bit of a problem. There's two pages describing the same movie. What's the best solution?
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Why do so many people list The Three Stooges trope examples under Live-Action TV, when they were originally film?
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Rebochan just made a very rude remark after a ymmv was shoehorned in main and -subsequently removed- in Cool as Ice (invoked tag... and I couldn't care less for the so called movie, but hey, that Snark Bait needed some cleanup because it was readded)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.CoolAsIce
Edited by TrollBrutalopenNo Title Film
AutoTrooper42 cut a large amount from the character page of Wreck It Ralph with no reason. If someone could talk to him and revert it if only just for there to be a concensus first.
Edited by TropesofknowledgeopenNo Title Film
Is there an unwritten (or maybe even a written) rule about adding the "Too Dumb to Live" trope to horror/slasher film pages? I just got finished watching Jason X again, and I wanted to add some tropes to the page while they're fresh in my head. In all fairness, even just one sentence for each dumb character under the TDTL entry would take up a lot of space— also, the reason I ask is because I suspect it might be considered unwise to add it, since there's no TDTL entry on the pages of some movies where it DEFINITELY applies.
Should I not add it since it's so common in horror movies?
Edited by RayAP19openNo Title Film
Does anyone know why The Secret of NIMH is locked? It seems to have a history that wasn't deleted but it still doesn't show up.
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I recently created an article on the WWII film series Why We Fight. It currently has 10 wicks; what's a good amount of wicks to set as a goal for a a work? And, as an aside, how else could the page be improved?
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I'm watching Friday The13th Part VI Jason Lives for the millionth time, and it just hit me:
Is it just me, or does Harry Manfredini's score for Part VI sound suspiciously like the first few notes of the musical piece that accompanies the opening scene of Kubrick's Shininig?
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In Laconic.The Cabin In The Woods, there's a spoilered laconic that goes to the namespace "True Laconic". TrueLaconic.The Cabin In The Woods. Is this acceptable? Should I move the "true laconic" into the normal laconic under spoilers?
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In a Little Rascals short, Froggy is making a speech on the radio and blows out two microphones within the first couple of words because they can't handle his low, froglike voice. He goes to a third and speaks in an aritifically high voice, and that one doesn't break.
What trope would this go under? It doesn't quite match Glass-Shattering Sound, Make Me Wanna Shout, or Gale-Force Sound. Kind of like Mirror-Cracking Ugly, but for a voice.
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Film
And now I'm this person using Ask The Tropers for everything, but I don't know how to proceed with this.
On Star Trek Into Darkness, just about any trope regarding the Indian Khan being played by the British Benedict Cumberbatch is getting routinely deleted with no given reasons by multiple tropers. This includes What The Hell Casting Agency, Unfortunate Implications, and Values Dissonance. It appears Unfortunate Implications has been part of an ongoing Edit War on the page since its inception, based on the page history.
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Can you please navigate the subpages that use "/Films Animated", "/Films Animation" or "/Films — Live-Action" as their titles and move them to "Animated Films" or "Live Action Films"? Tiggers Are Great split them off in the wrong way.
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Yar. I has this question. The Dark Knight Saga has been split so each film has its own page, which is great and all, but now its headscratchers page has no reason to stay under the trilogy's wing. Only The Dark Knight Rises has its own Headscratchers page, while Batman Begins links to The Dark Knight Saga Batman Begins. Is there anyway to remove the redirect so it can be simply Headscratchers/BatmanBegins? Same goes for The Dark Knight's headscratchers page.
Edited by Tuckerscreator