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openQuestion Regarding My Work Literature
If my work is up and accessible to the public on Wattpad, can I make a trope page here for it?
resolved Moving character to a different page Literature
I'd like to move Shen Jiu's character profile from Characters.The Scum Villains Self Saving System Demon Realm And Other Characters over to Characters.The Scum Villains Self Saving System Four Main Sects. Currently he's just under Other Characters, but I think he should really be under the Qing Jing Peak section as he was literally the leader of said peak before his (presumed) death, at which point he exits the story. (I'm explaining this to clarify that there are no conflicting affiliations or anything so I don't know why he's been placed under Other Characters.) Am I allowed to go ahead and move him?
Edited by ZaperexopenTitle mess up Literature
I was trying to create a new page, but I messed up the title somehow, and several words in it are smashed together. I’m not sure how to fix this.
Also it keeps splitting Mc Gonagall’s name into two and making it a red link. I’m not sure how to fix this.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/HarryPotterandtheRitualofLovesMemory
Edited by wingedcatgirlresolved Validity of an example Literature
Wasn't sure where to put this, didn't seem like it belonged in "Is this an Example". I was adding something to ThenLetMeBeEvil.Literature and happened to find this:
- Fagin in Oliver Twist is such an anti-Semitic caricature that Dickens himself grew ashamed at the remonstrations of several Jewish acquaintances, mended his beliefs, and wrote much more sympathetic Jewish characters in the future. However, since Oliver Twist was so popular and has so frequently been adapted, the adapters have had to deal with the Unfortunate Implications somehow. Some of them have used this, depicting Fagin's villainy less as a stereotype and more as an understandable response to the grinding poverty and degradation he would have suffered due to the relentless classism and anti-Semitism in England in the period.
The whole example is basically complaining about Fagin being a Greedy Jew stereotype, which, fair enough! But the example
- doesn't even get to illustrating the trope until halfway through.
- isn't actually an example for the linked source material but rather about unnamed adaptations.
- is violating Examples Are Not General by not specifying any adaptations in particular.
So I think this should probably be cut. Agreed?
Edited by StarSwordopenNamespace issue regarding pages related to "Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World" Literature
I think it has to do with a namespace issue that got changed, but the book Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World seems to have some of it's pages not properly linked to it. As a result it has two YMMV pages, here and here. This is a simple enough fix, as the details exclusive to the first just needed to be moved to the second, something already taken care of. The other issue though is that the first has a Trivia page, and the characters tab redirects to the main character page.
As such, I think its best if the Trivia page be rewicked as "Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World", and the character page has the alternate title "Bleach Cannot Fear Your Own World" either flat out removed or changed to the proper namespace.
openLiterature/ACertainMagicalIndex -- Main Page review Literature
Hello, inexperienced Troper/editor here
Wanted to ask if some people could take a look at the main page for A Certain Magical Index that I've been adding to recently so that I can get a second opinion as to whether the tropes section should further be split into more folders for ease of reading (currently, only 4 folders are in use). For those familiar with this work, I also posted a question as to whether the the page should be further compartmentalized into different series (OT, NT, and GT) so that those who have only caught up to the anime aren't being bombarded with examples and spoilers from the novels, but I then realised that different tropes are used by different series, so I'm not quite sure how that'd work. Would love if people had some suggestions.
Last thing I want to ask: there's a few mentions scattered about (on said page and elsewhere) for a certain character, Kuroko Shirai, being a lesbian based on her interactions with character Mikoto. I'm wondering whether this would fall under Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment since her sexual orientation has never been outright confirmed, only alluded to. I'll leave it at that, but I am willing to explain further if more information is required.
Thanks everyone.
Edited by TheLaserSonicopenHypothetical Casting Literature
I'm wondering if I could make a Hypothetical Casting page for Once Upon a Studio: Version 2.0, with it being a full-scale reimagining of Disney's 100th anniversary short film, but I think I should ask how many credits, roughly, would be needed to accommodate that page. The credits are already listed under Fan Works, but I'm hoping to move them to a dedicated Hypothetical Casting page for the fanfic itself.
Edited by IronSpider24openEmily McIntire novels - Romance or Erotic? Literature
I've added in an author named Emily McIntire, who wrote a series of romance novels: the "Sugarlake" series (I haven't read them, though), the Never After series, and "Be Still My Heart".
I've been working on trope pages "Hooked", "Scarred" and Wretched" for the past several days after reading them. However, I'm having trouble deciding where to place them on the genre pages. While I am aware they are romance novels, the books also have graphic erotic moments.
Any suggestions on where to place these novels?
Edited by LilithArtistopenPossible Plagiarism? Literature
I just discovered that the description given for the book "Children of Blood and Bone" is very similar to that given on the Amazon page for said book.
It's not one-to-one—but many phrases are the same, or only slightly different, and overall it looks like it might be a copy (whether of the Amazon text or otherwise) that has simply been adjusted a bit.
openRed link, Creator without page Literature
Hello, tropers.
This time I'm looking to ask for help for a page with a red link to a non-existent Creator page, in One of Ours. The name Willa Cather seems to show up as a red link, indicating that there is no page for the creator (as of written).
Further information when I click on "Related" shows that this isn't the only red link, it's also found in Excited Show Title along with another red link, O Pioneers!
I know that it is likely that something is off when you see a red link in any case, but what do I do for Creator without an existing page? It is not have even been cut off at some point, but rather, never existed in the first place.
Edited by JustNormalMusicLoveropenForeign work title problem on creator page Literature
Say you're writing a page for a foreign (non-english) writer and you need to list their works. Which title should go first? Original or translated one?
Does it depend on whether the writer's works were actually translated to english or not?
open(Resolved) Editing Advice Literature
Hello all, new Troper here asking for some help.
I've recently created a page for the fantasy novel Her Crown of Fire. I have it mostly in a useable state, but I've got a couple of issues that I could use some help with.
1) The page image. I intend to use the book's front cover, but I can't seem to upload the image, nor add a caption. The help pages say that there should be an option under the "More" tab while editing, but there doesn't seem to be anything there.
2) The very last trope in the list, Wouldn't Hurt A Child. I can't seem to get the link to work using Wiki Words, and I don't know enough about the syntax used by TV Tropes to just make a hotlink manually.
Any help or advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: Link to the page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HerCrownOfFire
Edited by gravitydefyingturtleopenRedirect Light Novel to right namespace. Literature
Hi, I created a while ago the page for "Saving 80000 Gold In Another World For My Retirement" (Saving 80000 Gold In Another World For My Retirement) with the Light Novel namepsace. But I forgot that the namespace Light Novel is no longer used and it should be in the Literature namespace instead. Do I need to make a redirect for the right namespace, or it's a thing that only moderators can do? Thanks in advance.
open Articles on the Black Lagoon series (except not the anime) Literature
By this, I mean a book series by Mike Thaler about a boy named Hubie (his name isn't revealed for a while), who hallucinates or dreams that his school's faculty members, bullies and even holidays and school events are scary, only to find out they're not as bad as he first thought. It's family friendly, and the body horror is somehow utilized in a family friendly way. Although sometimes it can be perfectly macabre for the early-phasers. For instance, a kid named Freddy Jones gets burned alive in the first book! And one book even says "The rug is red. That's so the blood won't show.", proving Thaler was definitely right about the "Imagination is the most powerful nation" thing. Oh and even the teacher herself gets a dose of the horror in one book lol
I'm just curious to know if it's there in article form. And sorry if it sounds more like a review, I tend to infodump a lot lmao
Edited by GastonRabbitopen Language and indexing Literature
What are the rules concerning indexing literature from a certain country in a certain language? For instance, the page Dutch Media notes "English-language media from the Netherlands also go here. Media from Belgium or other Dutch-speaking countries are a different category." But then the page Dutch Literature says "An index of literature originally written in Dutch. This includes both works from the Netherlands and Flanders, Belgium." This seems inconsistent.
The reason this has come up for me is that I want to make a page for the recent novel Natural Law, by Solomonica de Winter, and don't know how it would be indexed. De Winter is Dutch, but she wrote the novel in English - with the first edition being published by a Dutch publisher. So what should count: the nationality of the author, the place of publication, or the language it was written in?
Edited by AlbertosaurusopenTwisted - Same title, but different stories Literature
A few days ago, I was planning on preparing a page for the latest Emily Mc Intire novel, "Twisted". However, I discovered there is another work of literature under the same name but under a different genre (sci-fi, I think) and a different story.
May I ask for advice?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Literature.TheClubDumas#latest is where I started, but then again, I just walked in and have almost _no_ idea of procedures . . .
Of my note there, I also have no idea what trope would be involved or what variation on some trope, but do know the book enough to think the comment is valid.
I'm interested in feedback or handing off to get further commentary or to get the entry updated . . . and have no idea of what internal commentary gets seen where or what comment processing queues there might be.
Thank you!