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open What novel is this? Literature
Hi everyone, I hope you can help me identify a book I saw long ago. I do not think it was part of any established series. I do not remember the title or the story just the cover art. I think the book was written before 1985. The cover was predominantly beige or gold or tan color. It showed a man with a terrified look on his face, longer hair, who is holding a sword. The sword was very wide, and I believe there were trees in the background. The man's eyes were very intense and the cover had almost a feeling of horror to it. The title might have sword in it, but I'm not exactly sure. I am sure that the book was written before 1985. Any thoughts on what book this is?
open Abandoned sandboxes
I often wonder what to do with abandoned sandboxes, since I often encounter them during wick checks and cleanups. For example, today I randomly found Sandbox.High Class Finery through our namespace tool, which has no wicks and hasn't been edited since it was launched back in 2016. Are these cutlisted? Left to exist here forever and ever? Is there a concrete set of rules I can consult that I glossed over?
open TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for Who Wears Short Shorts at the Trope Repair Shop. If inclined to join the discussion, do so here.
openSTO Pathfinder [RESOLVED] Web Original
Ran across a stub at Fanfic.STO Pathfinder. I moved it to the correct namespace and title at Roleplay.Star Trek Online Pathfinder and messaged the creator, but I'm not sure whether the redirect should be cutlisted and what else should be done with it.
Edited by StarSwordopen TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for And Man Grew Proud at the Trope Repair Shop. If inclined to join the discussion, do so here.
Edit: A new option has been added. If you have already voted, please check the crowner again if possible.
Edited by GastonRabbitopen TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for Eight Deadly Words at the Trope Repair Shop. If inclined to join the discussion, do so here.
openshould Darth Wiki be indexing tropes?
DarthWiki.TV Tropes Supervillain Team is indexing tropes. I notice its Sugar Wiki counterpart, SugarWiki.TV Tropes Superhero Team, isn't doing that.
ETA: never mind. I see Septimus deleted index tags from the Sugar Wiki page, so I guess that confirms that it should not.
Edited by Twiddlerresolved Pondering if this Creator page should be cut.
I was seeing when a work I know would appear by continually pressing the Random Media button when I found this stub page about Jeff Martin. It is only 3 lines long, has no tropes at all and was created in 2019. When checking its history I noticed that its only edit (from when it was created) was done by CaityCat with the following Edit Reason:
"stub created as a placeholder for now. i plan to do some reasearch and get back to this later."
Should it be cut or what?.
openProblematic Troper on MHA page.
Hello. I hope it's not an issue for me to have this privated. This is the first time I'm giving a general report about a troper as opposed to one single Edit War, so I would feel more comfortable with this post being private if that's okay.
Joe Mere is a troper who does a lot of editing on the YMMV.My Hero Academia page. They just recently readded a Signature Scene entry that was cut along with many other entries under that trope (most of which Mere himself added). That is one thing, but in general Mere does have a troublesome edit history on that page and other MHA pages. I've seen instances of them adding back or deleting entire entries with no edit reason. In fact, as far as I've seen, they've never put anything in the edit reason section. Instances include deleting Hawks and Kirishima's Ensemble Dark Horse entries (contributing to what could also be considered an Edit War on that page), readding Endeavor and All Might as Designated Heroes despite them being cut by the DH/DV thread, and adding back Midoriya as a Base-Breaking Character despite him having been shot down repeatedly. While looking through their edits on that page I've also seen them add entries with Playing With terms, like Subverted or Deconstructed, despite YMMV tropes not being able to be played with. I counted four times where they added an entry like this which was soon after deleted with this explained in the edit reason (which unfortunately I can't add the links to as clicking the edit dates past the last 15 edits causes the page to crash on my computer). And in general many of their entries tend to be low-context or use Weasel Words.
Edited by GenericGuy2000openHow to remove Unrelated articles from main article Videogame
So I'm fairly new to TV troops and I wanted to know something. You see, I made a article on the video game, Hopeless. I was going to go back and continue working on it since its incomplete. However, Someone added two unrelated article that were also called "hopeless." I was going to message them and tell them that they made a mistake, but I don't know if I'm suppose to do that Or if there's another way. So I want to know if theirs a way to remove unwanted or unrelated articles from the one article I made? should I contact the person who added the articles?
openCJtheDrake grammar and Serial Tweaking problems
So today I found this recent edit on The Bubble (2022) when C Jthe Drake have a trouble with adding Everythings Better With Dinosaurs that edit it about four times because they misspelled the trope name. This isn't the first time though, I saw that they have struggled to edit their own examples in WMG page of Jurassic World Dominion. I also found out that this troper has been reported one time before. Sorry I wasn't explaining enough but was it normal to editing a lot in one example?
Edited by BubblepigopenHow are examples to be sorted?
I feel some trepidation to even ask this, I don't want to get anyone in trouble, or get myself volunteered for a herculean task, but... aren't examples supposed to always be sorted by work title on a Main/ page, and within series by episode sequence?
For example, let's say Star Trek has three examples of one trope. Then the Star Trek examples go after the Good Wife examples and before the Wonder Woman examples. The three Star Trek examples would probably be sorted either by original broadcast order or production order.
On one trope, the problem may have been caused by someone forgetting to omit "The" for the purposes of alphabetization. Then other people who added examples got confused but kept adding at the wrong end.
But on another trope, I can't discern any rhyme or reason to the order things are in. I had one hypothesis but quickly saw it to be incorrect.
openwhere would i go to rename a useful note?
would that still be in TRS, or is it something i propose elsewhere? my idea is incredibly minor — i think Hair Color in Japan should be changed to Hair Color in Japanese Media — but i'd like to go to the right place for it
openAre personal examples allowed anywhere on the wiki?
I don't think so, but I could be wrong.
openTroper makes page of their own fic, at 5000 words. Western Animation
So, question: Can they do this? I just feel like it's bit insulting that a writer would recommend their own fic, one that is rarely updating and only has 5000 words, and even created their own trope page about it, when there are so many fics out there that are longer and/or of greater quality that... well, don't make it to the fanfic rec page, let alone get a their own trope page.
I don't know, maybe this is arrogant and irrational of me to be judging and asking, and that there's technically nothing wrong with. But this is why I'm asking... I just hope I'm asking in the right place.
The fic is Lord Of Crows, so anyone can check it. The writer has two chapters, made the first in September, made the second in April, and both have only have a couple thousand words each. Yet decided to make a Rec page for their own fic. And FYI, I know it's the same person because the Troper who made the page has the same writer name as the writer on across ff.net, SV and SB.
So is this a legit concern, or am I making a big deal out of something that's not my problem? I'd really like to know, and I'm sorry if this is a just a Me-problem. Thanks.
openBig Damn Heroes awareness Anime
Do people need to be aware of the hero's Big Damn Heroes moment? In Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun first season end, Iruma uses his magic to launch a bomb about to explode up away from the school and breaks a barrier around the school. The bomb then detonates and releases the fireworks inside the bomb (it was originally a firework's shell but amped up by powerful magic). The students are in awe of the explosion and find it beautiful. No one, even the teachers, were aware of the full danger everyone was in.
open Wiki Talk crowner
There is an active crowner for UsefulNotes.The New Twenties at the Trope Repair Shop. If inclined to join the discussion, do so here.
Hoping this is the right place to ask this. I was wondering, what are the characters, image, etc. limits on the forums/wiki pages? (I believe wiki pages that grow too large end up being split apart, though.)