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The WMG page for Sword of Truth has become rife with Complaining About Shows You Don't Like. It's gotten to the point where over 90% of the page consists of this, and some of it is just pot shots against Terry Goodkind in WMG format. Can anything be done about this, or am I allowed to personally delete the offending entries as long as I justify it in my reason box?
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Ok Folks I am looking for some other tropers who know about the series Death Lands and can add to the page. As it stands right now. I have gleaned a few random examples from around the site and the rest is from my reading the first novel. Any help fleshing out the page would be nice.
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Anyone familiar with The Crystal Star feeling up to, well, fixing it up a bit? I've never read it myself, but there seems to be a consensus that it's pretty bad. However, the page's description really seems like a Take That! to the book, and doesn't provide much information other than that the page's writer thought that it was bad.
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Has anyone else read the Ruby Oliver books by E. Lockhart? I couldn't find a page for them.
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"Where on TV Tropes do they cover 'Unlike airport bars, spaceport bars are packed with colourful characters who all know each other'? I guess 'colourful characters' could strictly speaking fall under Amazing Technicolor Population" - Anonymous comment on "How To Write A Generic SF Novel" by Paul Mc Auley
a) Are most "spaceport bars packed with colourful characters who all know each other?" If yes, b) do any tropes talk about this? If reading, c) have you heard of the rule of three?
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How do I add a trope for a t.v a book the book doesn't have a page.
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I went and did a universal replace on the page about The Neverending Story to change "Fantasia" to "Fantastica" because I didn't realize that not all editions call it that. Now I can't figure out how to change it back (I'm VERY used to Media Wiki). Halp!
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This is related to the book House Of Leaves and the disabling of strikethrough due to overuse.
In House Of Leaves, something called The Minotaur... existed, or maybe didn't, House of Leaves is kind of a strange book. But in the book's text, Minotaur usually was crossed out with strikethrough wherever it appeared.
So the disabling of strikethrough dinked up the House Of Leaves page a little bit.
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Dear Hive Mind,
I've prepared a work description for 'The Collector' by John Fowles, which is said to be a trope namer for 'The Collector' trope (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCollector), but I can't add it because the work has the same name as the trope, and the trope has its own site. (Of course, I could just drop the 'the', but the problem may repeat in future.)
Some time ago I had similar problem when I was adding the entry on 'Merlin' by Robert Nye (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MerlinDarklingChildOfVirginAndDevil), because there already was the trope called Merlin (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Merlin) as well as the work with this name (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Merlin). So, I listed the book under its longer title, which is not very well-known and looks strange without punctuation.)
I couldn't find any general rule applying to such cases. Is there any?
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Warrior Eowyn is repeatedly deleting Grand Admiral Thrawn from Mary Tzu. She hasn't gone to the discussion page (which so far is in favor of keeping him on the list, though I think this might be a case of Depending on the Writer.)
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So I have a question that I probably should have asked a long time ago.
tl;dr is it possible for the few tropes that were banished to Darth Wiki to be in-universe and linked on a trope page?
(long version)
I launched a trope page about a non-fiction book about professional wrestling called Ring Of Hell, and on the original version of the page, one of the tropes listed was Dethroning Moment Of Suck. This was of course before DMOS was banished to Darth Wiki and made no link.
But the reason DMOS was listed on the page is because the author of the book invoked the trope himself, and came very close to calling it out by name. He claimed that "tribute shows" for deceased wrestlers were inherently phony, inherently sleazy, and "possibly the most sickening aspect" of a wrestler's death...
I thought that "possibly the most sickening aspect" line as written by the author himself was enough to make it an in-universe example of DMOS and readded it to the page - linking directly to the Darth Wiki version of it after the main wiki redirect was deleted.
So I guess I'm asking "What do?" Is this legitimate or not, and if not is there a different trope that could be used in place of DMOS?
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Wouldn't someone agree that the Inheritance Headscratchers page has become nothing more than a hive for Complaining About Shows They Dont Like?
There's one guy there, cbast, who keeps posting Hate Dumb despite a mod having recently cleaned the page up...
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This is probably ignorant or redundant.
Daystar Eld has removed chunks from The Inheritance Cycle's Headscratchers page, as seen here. Some of the deleted portions don't seem that bad to me, but I didn't think it would be a good idea to restore them without making sure. For all I know, this was advocated as part of the effort to clean up the Head Scratchers pages, especially because Fighteer already tackled this one.
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Why is the page for The Adventures Of Archie Reynolds closed and locked, and the liveblog gone? Is it because of the mocking tone, similar to Maradonia Saga?
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I'm not sure where to post this, but I just had to express my appreciation about what an amazing, astonishing resource resource this website is. I'd bookmarked it for fun and for research. Andd then I saw...myself! I was listed as the author of the UNDEAD series, along with a description of Betsy the Vampire Queen and, purely on an unconscious level<g>, a bunch of the tropes I had infused the UNDEAD series with (Fluffy the Terrible, Our Werewolves are Different, A Chat with Satan, etc.). Finding myself here (not to mention several of my books) made my month! Thank you again!
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I wrote a review for The Stormlight Archive a while ago, but when it got moved the the literature namespace, the review disappeared. I'm assuming its still where it used to be. Can a mod move that over?
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I have a situation I want to trope, but I don't know where to put it.
In the first Ranger's apprentice book, Will and Halt are on their way to the gathering, and Halt has warned Will that Gillian will try to best his former master. When Gillian does come Halt makes no attempt to hide from Him, and Gillian thinks after all these years he has finally bested Halt, they have a short exchange about apprentices and masters, wherein Halt puts emphasis on the word apprentice, and then Will shoots an arrow into a tree a foot from Gillian's head.
It's not verbatim so it can't be the stock phrase Arn'tYouForgettingSomeone I don't know where to put it
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Longtime reader, first-time contributor here. I want to flesh out a page for a novel (the page exists but it is blank). Where do I share my ideas/rally additional contributors? Basically, what's the starting point for launching a work's page?
Could we possibly add the Chaos Walking series to Literature?
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