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I made a forum post recently about a guy who kept deleting the https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KiwiBlitz under the name Silver Lucario. A guy banned him, and also advised that I move the page to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/KiwiBlitz Now that I did so, I'm not sure what to do with the old page. Can I somehow set it up as a redirect to the new one? Also, the same guy keeps deleting the new page as well under the new name of Melon Frost.
Thanks for any help and/or advice!
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What's the best approach to disagreements on a page?
Basically, on the Goblins page someone added an entry for Mr. Fingers, the Lesser Finger Horror. I removed it with the reasoning that Mr. Fingers was a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere, a random encounter whom, however impactful, was quickly disposed of and had no characterization to speak of. It'd be like having an entry for the Yellow Musk Creeper or the Soulspike Devourer.
Tambov333 disagreed and re-added it, claiming Mr. Fingers was a major antagonist.
I know the rule is "two reverts = edit war", so I'm refraining from re-deleting myself right now. If I could get a consensus of some sort one way or the other, or be directed on how to achieve a consensus, it'd be appreciated.
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Awhile ago I tried to make the character page for Wayward Sons by myself. Naturally, I gave up less than halfway through, and it hasn't changed since. I'm considering trying again, but I want to know if there's some kind of guideline to this kind of thing. Last time, I just copied the character profiles from the comic itself, which was a mistake.
Also, anyone care to help out? Many hands make light work and all that...
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I made a page for a new webcomic, The Trenches. But, it's not just a webcomic; it also has true stories from real games testers about life in the industry. I'm just wondering whether these should be included on the page, or if I should put them in a different namespace, or what. I figure if Not Always Right can have a page, these stories should be listed here too, right?
Advice?
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Not sure whether/how to make a proper page for Fontes' Rants, as it doesn't seem to primarily be a webcomic. Should I make the page, and if so should I put it in the Webcomic namespace?
Please excuse my ignorance.
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That Dude In The Suede's page has one incredibly recurring poster who doesn't use proper spelling or grammar. On the one hand, their edits are short enough that I usually just step in and clean it up afterwords, leaving "spelling/grammar" in the edit reason line. On the other, it's fairly irritating, and if I don't keep checking the errors will probably start piling up. I was wondering if it's okay to say something to him/her. I get that that's probably the job of a moderator, or it's not particularly important, which is why I haven't. Can someone tell me what proper etiquette is in this situation?
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Would a Five-Bad- (or any other) Band have as the main requirement:
ALL core members must be doing the same story at the SAME time at least ONCE all together. If three of the named five are there and then the other two are not mentioned until later, then that's NOT a Five-Bad-Band.
(The issue in question was with the Five-Bad-Band of "Eerie Cuties"— two of the named five were not part of what would be the original Core Girl Posse that would be sent to "Magick Chicks".)
From the "Eerie Cuties" page:
The Big Bad: Melissa The Dragon: Cerise The Brute: Jacqui, in a "useful-but-brainless" way. The Evil Genius: Cess The Dark Chick: Laura Though it should be noted that Cess and Laura aren't actually in Melissa's Girl Posse. Rather, the two want to replace them as the school's Alpha Bitches.
It's that last part that makes me wonder if this is a True Five Bad Band, or someone doing a fast one—since Chloe, one of the "heroic characters" was recently corrupted with an artifact and joined Cess and Laura, I'm debating if this should broken into TWO Terrible Trios:
1) Melissa, Cerise and Jacqui (aka "Hellrune Coven") 2) Chloe, Cess and Laura (aka "Three Succubi" as of the "Full Potential" and "Football Field" strips).
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Is Logic Bomb specifically for when logical paradoxes are used on computers, or can it apply to any logical paradox? Such as, in the case of Faulty Logic, building a time machine to go back in time to prevent yourself from building a time machine because you know you'll build a time machine and misuse it. It's a (hilarious) logical paradox (sort of? it's technically correct... I think?), but no computers are involved.
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Okay. So I found that based on the 8/30 update of Go Get a Roomie!, someone had added Brother–Sister Incest as a trope. I found this to be unwarranted, so I removed it (with perhaps too curt an edit summary), and it was added again soon after. When I saw this, I went to the discussion page to see if there was a note, then to the main page to see if the PM notification was up (I had thought it showed on the main page), and seeing neither, deleted it again, with the intent to start a discussion thread. I found then that the other editor had indeed written a PM, and (after it was added again) we talked over PM for a while, which ended with a declaration of the other's intent to ignore me. I don't think this is the place to get into whether it's accurate or not, but I think it's an ugly trope to be up if it even may not be accurate (in a narrative sense, not ambiguous In-Universe), I don't want to delete it a third time, and the messages I've left in the discussion section haven't yet gotten any responses. As such, I went to Administrivia/TV Tropes Customs, and found the line "Try working things out on the discussion page, via PM, or, failing that, bring the issue to Ask The Tropers." So here I am. Now what?
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kvn8907 left a decidedly rude edit reason on the WMG page for Homestar Runner: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=WMG.HomestarRunner
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I know we're not supposed to use This Troper, but does that also preclude intentional use as a joke? I've been resisting the urge to use it on Laconic.Quote To Quote Combat, where I wrote the back-to-Main link as:
- "Visit unabridged version HERE". Troper.
"Troper" would be replaced with "This Troper".
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The webcomic A Path to Greater Good was recently abandoned/rebooted as Hero Oh Hero. Should the page be updated (with a seperate list of tropes for both comics) or should HOH get its own work page?
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Not sure what to do about the page Tara And John. It's full of zero-context examples that, if disposed of, would make the page pretty much completely empty. It could be argued that one could just read through the comic itself and add context...but I looked it up and I'm not quite sure I really want to read beyond the couple I glanced at to do that.
A troper called ltscholarmind has been contributing some examples that... well, they seem well-meaning enough, but they're largely unintelligible and don't clearly identify what work they're from.