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openEdit war
Minor edit war occuring on this Developer's Foresight page for the Fire Emblem series. BigKlingy added an example here, and it was later deleted by Midna for being misuse. BigKlingy has just re-added the example word-for-word, saying that it counts.
Edited by iamconstantineopenYet another questionable work page...
The kind of stuff you can find while TRS-ing.
Webcomic.Realmwalker - formatting problems and ZCE on the main page aside, the intro proudly proclaims it's made by the creator him(?) self...
...and has a Fridge subpage. Do we have a rule for making Fridge pages of your own work again?
Creator haven't been posting ever since Nov. 2021, not sure what do do about this
Edited by RobertTYLopen Is there a sort of trope for a dead body being in better shape than it should be? Live Action TV
In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital", the victim is killed by being beaten to death with an oxygen tank, which the killer not only hits him with, but slams it down on his head after the victim falls. Yet when we see the victim's body, the man's head is in pretty good shape. Is there a trope for that?
openTally Hall Music
So, I'm a little unsure with what to do for Tally Hall. After the band broke up in 2011, some of them went on to do new music projects. Rob Cantor has an album, Not a Trampoline (2014), and a few unreleased songs that are still troped on the Tally Hall page (such as "Cuckoo"). He also recorded four songs for a musical that never happened. I don't think these are likely to be continued, but there might be enough material for an individual Rob Cantor page about his songs (Not a Trampoline and then other ones he's done like "Nobody Else Quite Like You", "Country Good", "Christian Bale is at Your Party" — his "Shia LaBeouf" Live is a single song with its own article).
There's also Miracle Musical (2012), a band formed by Joe Hawley that includes some Tally Hall members (some songs, like "Time Machine" and "The Mind Electric" date back to Tally Hall's earlier days but were remastered here), and "The Mind Electric" is troped on the Tally Hall page. They only have one album that has a lot of different interpretations, but it also includes guest artists who weren't in Tally Hall. Furthering this, there's also a Joe Hawley solo album called Joe Hawley Joe Hawley (2016).
Personally, I think Rob Cantor could be split off because he's done a decent amount of stuff on his own. Miracle Musical might be distinct enough for its own page.
openRandom review bumping.
I've been noticing Idiosyncratic has been bumping years old, nearing decade-old, reviews lately, with comments that seem rather pointless or bring up a long-ended debate:
This one warns against a flame war that never happened, while this one is an entirely blank submission. I've seen a few complaints in the response comments for these pointless bumps, but it feels like it's been happening more and more, specifically for reviews that already had contested cases in the reviews when they were reviewed.
openRenaming as redirect Anime
I want to rename Yuusha ga Shinda! to The Legendary Hero Is Dead! since that's the official English title, the title used on Wikipedia, and the name of the upcoming adaptation. I don't think changing the wicks would be difficult since there's only 18. However, I can't move the page content to a new page since the one I want is already a redirect.
openTroping content with restricted access?
I'm working on drafting a page for a Fan Verse and have run into an issue with how the main creator presents the related content. While the fanfic they're writing for it is publicly accessible, their Tumblr (which contains additional content for the 'verse) cannot be viewed without making an account with the site.
How should I go about troping content that is only available on the creator's Tumblr?
openTroper adds natter/justifying edits
Jake has issues with adding natter and such even after I sent a notifier.
Here's their most recent violation:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.PatchworkMap#edit32943535
Edited by bitemytailopenAnother ban evading account
Hello once again. It looks like sayaka83564 is back once more, this time as izabel831 (the troper's history is here). They share a similar interest with FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman and Fairy Tail among others.
Given that, can someone please look into this matter? Thanks.
Edited by gjjonesopenNo Title Videogame
~Elias Q Funtybunt deleted this from The Stanley Parable:
- Indecisive Parody: In the Ultra Deluxe version, a large part of the new content is spent on the Narrator discussing the idea of sequels and how tacking on random, disconnected gags onto the already existing content does not substitute a good sequel. But then the game gives you the Bucket of Reassurance and spends most of its new content on reusing the existing paths and endings to make bucket-themed variations of them, effectively falling smack-dab into the pitfall it was previously mocking.
Their edit reason?
While I appreciate the reference to Raphael, the example as written seems to be exactly what an Indecisive Parody is, and the edit reason comes off as a largely opinion-based reason to axe it.
Also, are Troper pings (the forum ones) working on these Query pages now? I've seen a few Tropers and even mods use the markup, but at some point people stopped saying "hey that doesn't work here", and if this update was mentioned only on the Forums, I barely use them lmao
openWhat's up with Administrivia.CharacterSheetTemplate?
I was poking around through the template pages, which I only learned about today, and I noticed that Character Sheet Template is... odd. The other pages are what they adversative themselves as, templates for creating a specific type page, but this one seems to be a very abortive or fragmentary attempt at creating a specific work's character page — a character's name, a description, and two trope examples, without actually having an template to work off of.
openTitle Tropes and repetition
A question I want to clarify about how to list examples of Similarly Named Works in Title Tropes. Obviously if a work's title fit a particular Title Trope, a different work that shares the same title would fit under the same trope (e.g. both Tangled the 2001 thriller movie and Tangled the 2010 Disney Animated Canon entry are both examples of One-Word Title). But would it be preferable to list the different works multiple times, making them redundant, or should they be lumped together even if they aren't really related to each other.
Edited by AdeptopenRule of thumb
In my time editing on this site, I’ve noticed that some character trope entries are written differently than their entry on the trope itself. I expected them to be a simple copy and paste but they're not. Are we supposed to write like this or can we just copy paste?
openWeird Folder Organisation
On Throwing Off the Disability, the Live Action TV folder is soft split into "General" and "By Series" categories. There's only one general example, and it seems to run foul of Examples Are Not General. No other folders are treated like this. Can this be removed?
openPlayingWith added to cut/disambiguated trope
PlayingWith.Absentee Actor was just created today despite Absentee Actor being turned into a disambiguation by TRS which deemed it not trope worthy. I don't think you can play with a trope that is not a trope, and the page is counter to that we voted to remove the trope and should be in the process of cutting examples.
Should the Playing With page be cut?
open Content on Here Claiming Teens as Young as 13 Can Be Pedophiles
I came across a post on here claiming that teenagers under the age of 18 can be pedophiles (even though they are equally capable of being targeted since teens are minors themselves just like young children). I assume "teenagers" here means as young as 13.
Why don't the community users here realize how damaging it is to apply such a label to a 13-year-old child? Okay, I wouldn't have problems with 13-year-olds (who are attracted to much younger children that is) being labeled as pedophiles if they *also* realized that kids *younger than* 13 can also be pedophiles and that 13 is not a magic number all because it's the first that ends in "teen" (especially considering "teenager" is a recent word in the history of the English language and the semantics and linguistics of the numeric system have nothing to do with development).
I'm dead serious, this community sees such a huge dividing line between 12/13 in viewing a 12-year-old as an innocent little child and a 13-year-old as a full-blown Hormone-Addled Teenager, simply because one age ends in teen and the other doesn't. It's why, in my opinion, society needs to start using "adolescent" instead of teenager/teen/teenage/preteen/tween, because they lump 13-year-olds in the same developmental category as 17-year-olds and segregate them from 12-year-olds and think 12-year-olds are completely categorically separate from 13-year-olds and more in line with 9-year-olds.
I hope the community realizes that 12/13 are in the same legal category unlike 17/18 or 20/21.
Edited by TurboplateopenDead links
Where can I ask about dead links? Many times I find links to videos that have either been deleted or are now private. Is there any dedicated forum thread for this?
openRambo edit war
thatsnumberwang added this Unintentionally Unsympathetic entry to Rambo: Last Blood last year. This year (more specifically, today) they re-added it after another troper removed it, with the edit reason "Please go to the discussion". Which is a bit hypocritical, because that's what they should have done instead of adding it back and turning it into an edit war.
What exactly is the difference between In-Universe Examples Only and No Real Life Examples, Please!?