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I made a page for The Road Roller Rampage and I don't know which index to put it under. Can someone help me with this?
Edited by ianoliviaopenNo Title Literature
Looking for an opinion on certain creator edits before I, er, make some -
By and large, I figured the best policy creator-wise would be to leave the work page alone, myself, being obviously biased and, well, it's for the readers to decide what's appropriate to put there.
But here's the case I'm wondering about: what about errors on matters of fact (i.e., not opinions or views about the work, but statements about things described therein that directly contradict the work itself). I get people finding the books through the trope page and would rather not have 'em potentially doing so under false pretenses, so...
Cool? Not cool? Other thoughts?
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How do I ask for troper attention to a work? as far as I can tell, I am the only one who has done any work on The Spellmonger Series in almost a year. It needs more work, but I can't do it all by myself
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I want to make a new page for the Margaret Atwood novel, Cat's Eye, but I keep getting taken to the Science Fiction novel by the same name. I've made new pages before, but never one that has the same name as an existing work. If anybody knows what to do and could tell me, I'd appreciate it!
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I want to create a new page for the book The Clone Republic and it's sequels by Steven L. Kent. There are ten of them, so should I make one page for all, for each, or both?
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On Literature.The Hunger Games, would it be against site policies to leave that first line with a pothole? It doesn't look like a quote, but I have my doubts.
The line I'm talking about is "Happy Hunger Games. And may the odds be ever in your favor." It potholes to Have a Nice Death. Is that kosher even though it's not written as a quote?
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Is it just me, or would nearly all examples on Funny.Fifty Shades Of Grey be better on Narm.Fifty Shades Of Grey? The following bit of Natter on the page (which I removed) seems to have a point:
- Let's just say the whole book.
- Let's just say the entire series.
- Most of them are mostly Narm rather than intentional (especially the inner goddess parts).
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So I'm almost ready to launch Sandbox.The Witling in Literature, and I thought I'd pimp it out for suggestions and corrections before doing so.
I'd ask that you don't make edits directly to the Sandbox page without running them by me first, unless they are very obvious technical corrections like spelling or punctuation. (Of course, once I launch the page you're welcome to edit freely, so if you really want to push an edit past me you can always wait until I launch. :p)
There's one character's name that I need to look up to remember his last name, and that part is bolded, but otherwise the content on the page is pretty much what I intend to launch. I'm going to hop around and look for a few more tropes to add today, too.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to make any suggestions.
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Found what looks like an orphaned YMMV page for something called I Hunt Killers . Does anybody know where the rest of that page ended up?
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The YMMV page for If I Stay seems to have had an edit war going on since its inception.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.IfIStay
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In Fifty Shades of Grey, Christian keeps turning on well-known music, and Ana is never familiar with it. Would this fall under Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure?
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Why has the Harry Potter wallbangers page been locked? Looking at the history, I cannot see anything that resembles abuse, an edit war or vandalism. In fact, compared to the headscratchers for Harry Potter, it's extremely civil. The only indication I can gather is a small amount of natter, which lets be honest is a risk on any kind of YMMV-based trope.
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I have a question regarding works page protocol.
I am (finally) preparing to launch a works page for the Bambi novels. My question is, should I trope both novels on the same page, or should the second (Bambi's Children) have its own page? If the former, then Literature.Bambi'sChildren ("BC") would presumably be a redirect.
I've identified more tropes for the second book, partly because I've read it more recently and partly because the Nearly Normal Animals are more anthropomorphic, but there's a lot of trope overlap with its predecessor (see trope counts below). Moreover, BC is—in the U.S., anyway—increasingly obscure because it's been out of print for decades. Please note this isn't a notability question, it's about the level of traffic and activity that a standalone page for BC could expect.
Including the 15 or so novels tropes currently on the works page of the better-known Disney adaptation and its Characters page, my current trope counts are:
- 22 appearing in both books
- 31 in the 1st book only
- 47 in the 2nd book only
Is there a relevant statement of policy? If not, does anyone have recommendations?
Edited by GideoncrawleopenNo Title Literature
You know how you're not supposed to use potholes to change trope names? Literature.Gadsby does this to nearly every single trope it has in order to be self-demonstrating (the book never uses the letter 'e', so any trope with an 'e' in its name is changed). Not to mention that the example description themselves avoid any word with an 'e', which makes some of them unnecessarily hard to understand.
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Would usage of 'With Friends Like these" work for an example where the relationship was less friendly and more neutral? Or would another trope work?
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Back in October, Black_Diesel
moved Lullaby to the proper namespace...but did it while blanking, not cutlisting, the Main/ page. He also seems not to have moved the wicks over.
I can handle cutlisting the page (edit: once the backlog on the cutlist is cleared...yikes) and moving the wicks when I have time, but I think a mod might want to chat with him about that to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Edited by TotemicHeroopenNo Title Literature
I just found this page while going through my usual rounds. A look at its history
shows a page-blanking from the person who wrote it.
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There are some films under the literature index Gay And Lesbian Fiction in Literature. Should I take them out or do films belong in that literature index?
Edited by MarchVee

Empress Theresa seems to have been hit hard by an angry author.