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openNo Title Literature
I have an Old Shame and its character sheet and I don't see any reason to keep them on the wiki. Before the Edit Banned thread was rebooted, there was an incident where someone blanked a page for a Troper Work and was banned. They were told to use the cut list next time. I put in a request in the cut list for those two pages and they were declined. Is htere nothing I can do to remove those pages?
Edited by SnowyFoxesopenNo Title Literature
I am having something on an Edit War over a small portion on The Wheel Of Time 's character page, here over it being spoiler-chalked, dense for a bullet point, and kind of unobjectively and poorly written. I initially removed it from the page (I am pretty sure) when I was trying to fix it a while back, and another troper keeps trying to bring it back. What should I do?
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I recently noticed that all of the links in the Life and Times of Scrooge Mc Duck have all gone dead, as the website they were linking to has recently closed a few days ago(probably due to non-payment). Could someone take a look at it and fix the links, or remove them? thanks.
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I am currently writing a novel, it's a serious project that has taken several years to work on (Shown Their Work and everything) and it is currently three quarters of the way done. Now once it is completed I fully intend to have it published, and was thinking of a trope page for it. On the one hand it might generate interest and I'm only too happy to discuss my work and get feedback, I really want to get it right and put out something others will enjoy. On the other hand I don't want to come across as egotistical by making a trope page for a WIP. So what do you recommend? Should I hold off or should I make up a page for my work?
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I would like there to be a Trope Wiki section of a Canadian series call Tom and Liz Austen Mysteries. http://www.canadianauthors.net/w/wilson_eric/
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A minor Edit War going on between me and An Cat Dubh on The Talmud. An Cat Dubh has added several Flame Bait-y, rather angry additions. I sent him a PM indicating my displeasure with the tone he was trying to inject and, while I didn't delete his edits, I removed the nastier bits. He then went back and re-added a lot of it in different forms. I tried to keep what I could but much of it seemed to be downright accusatory.
I am no apologist but I don't think TV Tropes is the place for a personal soapbox of anger about an ancient text.
openNo Title Literature
Why is the entire article for "The Duchess of Malfi" deleted and locked?
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While looking up Monster Hunter International to help answer a question I noticed the entry is listed on the Main name space. Since this is a works page I was going to move it to a Literature page, swap everything over, clean up wicks etc.
However when I went to create the Literature Page for it, it was set as a redirect to the main page version. A couple things to note about the entry. It is a book series with 4 books in it. To the best of my knowledge it does not go into any other media types just paper back novels.
Is there any reason for this page to be a Main page and not under a Literature page?
If it is not supposed to be a Main page type entry for any reason, I would appreciate some mod assisstance on freeing up the Literature page.
Edit: Ok now the related to is giving a page with more conistent results. Must have been a flub on my part.
Edited by TuefelHundenIVopenNo Title Literature
Do you think it would be appropriate to recast the Rape Is Love entry on Nibelungenlied as Values Dissonance and move it to the YMMV tab, or is there a different trope that can convey a similar message? I have my copy of the book somewhere around here, so if I can find it I'll double-check the scene in question just to be sure on it. . .
openNo Title Literature
I'm new. Do I have to contribute anything to have my book listed as a troper work?
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There are two of these authors who write most of their work collaboratively, and I want to make a list of their works.
Should I make Creator pages for both of them and copy the same list onto both, or am I allowed to make one page for both of them, to reduce redundancy? I feel reluctant to only make a page for one of them.
(Another problem is that they have self-published their works under one imprint, and traditionally published with another.)
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I was thinking of making a work page for [1], but then I found out it already existed. Anyway, I did some sprucing up (namely: picture, caption, publication details) , but the thing is, it's indexed under Literature instead of Comic Book. I would gladly move it under the correct index page but, A) I'm not that good with that kind of repair work, and B) I didn't launch the page myself so, I don't think I've got that kind of authority over it. Anyway, my point is, I think it should be indexed under Comic Book, not Literature. Any thoughts?
Edited by BasterdopenNo Title Literature
The troper dawnangel14 reverted the commenting out of Zero Context Examples on the Characters.Animorphs page without providing any additional context. Requesting the mods use the reversion tool to roll it back.
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Apologies if this has already been asked and answered somewhere.
I have noticed there are Works pages concerning articles of fan fiction. What are the rules for this? (or at least, accepted best practice). Does a fan work have to be especially popular or meritorious to deserve a works page of its own? Does it have to have accepted literary excellence? I'm asuming the rule about not reccomending your own works of fan fiction applies here? (no using tvtropes for self-publicity). I'm interested as to how this works. Thanks in advance!
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I can't figure out why Emergence still claims to be unindexed, when I did put it on the Science Fiction Literature index page. What did I do wrong?
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A while back, my reviews were spammed by a now-banned troll. Most of their comments were cut, but there seems to have been a mixup with my review of Jurassic Park (the book). Not only is the troll's comment still there, but my review is completely blanked! And it doesn't show up on the work's page. What went wrong here? Any way to fix it?
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Screwed up a custom title request and asked for Fate of the Jedi to be custom-titled as FateOfTheJedi. Immediate facepalm. Can this be cancelled right away, please?
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Hi
Some time ago (sometime in middle 2012) I set up a Works page for the classic horror novel "The Devil Rides Out". I'm reasonably sure I put together a summation of the themes and ideas of the book, and noted at the end that - bizarrely - it had been turned into a stage musical. I also linked it to several other pages and I'm fairly sure I put on the index of supernatural and horror novels. I can't find a trace of it today and I'm only coming across red links to where it should be. I'm fairly sure it was deleted, so in all humility could i ask if this is so and what was the reason? As the greatest work and most important novel by the author Dennis Wheatley, and later made into a movie,I felt it merited a works page. If it was anything I did wrong, or if I offended against custom and site rules in any way, please advise me and I will try not to repeat the error in any subsequent rewrite (if necessary). Thanks!
Edited by AgProvopenNo Title Literature
I noticed that the Glen Cook article was placed in main, and decided to attempt to move it to the Creator namespace. (Glen Cook)
I changed the wicks linking to it and expanded the page to justify its inclusion; at this point, I don't think there's anything left to do except get rid of the old page somehow. My question is, do I take it to the cutlist or use a redirect? It doesn't look like it's a terribly visited page.
Also, on a similar note, I noticed that we seem to have messed up the page title for Black Company, which is supposed to contain a definite article. Is this worth fixing, either by moving or putting up a lazy redirect?
Chris Hart was massively changed, apparently by the man himself, to be nothing but an advertisement. Do I report something like that here or is there a more admin-y page?