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open Wiki Talk crowner
There's an active crowner on Wiki Talk for the Fairytale Franchises thread. Click the link to join the discussion if interested.
open TRS crowner
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open Great News!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Sandbox/SpaceJam2AcrossTheSerververse
I finally did this right. I’m going to add more tropes soon. How does this look? Is everything within the guidelines this time?
resolved TheWikiRule item
I noticed that that every time this item is used, is just a an external link to the wiki. Considered the policy of People Sit on Chairs and Zero-Context Example, Is that the correct way to use the item?
openHow to move a page back to its original title
I want to rename a fic back to the first title it had but if I punch the name into the search bar, it redirects to the same page since... well, you know. How can I move everything back so it has multiple titles like say, Total Drama does?
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open Alcohol/drugs as a character establisher?
Edit: Sorry, will post this on Trope Finder! Is there a specific trope that refers to alcohol and/or other drugs being used as a signifier that a character is self-destructive or otherwise not mentally stable?
Edited by sparkkeysopen TRS crowner
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openWatermarks?
So what kind of watermarks aren't allowed on video examples. Apparently, the ones for tv channels are allowed, but what about for web video (original content, gameplay footage, movie clips.)
openShould all the Anyone Can Die subpages be despoilered?
Anyone Can Die says that as a Death Trope, all spoilers are unmarked, but this isn't the case for its subpages since the headers just say they "contain many spoilers". Should they all be despoilered as per the main page?
open Trying to find an appropriate trope for an example
So here's the example. It's from the Beverly Cleary novel Strider (the tropes of which are on the page for its' much more famous prequel, Dear Mr. Henshaw).
Leigh's landlady always wears sandals and they slap against the bottoms of her feet when she walks. He can hear her coming when she's on her way to collect the rent, and grows to loathe the sound of her slapping sandals because it usually means trouble coming.
It's not Hell Is That Noise (I think) because he's not scared of it. And apparently Most Annoying Sound is Darth Wiki and Videogame Examples Only, so it can't be in-universed.
I've looked at other sound related tropes and can't really find anything where it quite fits. So I thought I'd ask here and see if anyone knew an appropriate trope.
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Someone just added Hate Sink to the spy in in Characters.One Piece Wano. I'm not willing to discuss it out of spoilers, but can anyone confirm this validity?