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Edit War spotted on the tear jerker page of Game Of Thrones between snake300 and Troll Brutal (with snake300 having changed almost all the quotations at the top of the page those last 2 days, with one editing reason which could be summed up as "Screw this character, that other one that I prefer is better").
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Question for people who were in the Star Trek fandom back in the 80s. Was there a Fan Nickname for Chief O'Brien before he got named?
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Okay what should we keep for YMMV.The Addams Family > Series > Fanon Discontinuity. The first example or the sub-bullet below? I;m asking because I'm not certain of that sub-bullet is Natter or not and because both seems a little complainy IMO
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So given the number of Netflix original series and the like... what separates Live-Action TV from a Web Video?
Just seems odd to me that these series get listed as Live-Action TV even though they never come onto the TV itself. From the Web Video page: please note that, to fall under Web Video, a work must have first been posted or be available primarily on the Internet. A television program that's rebroadcast on the network's website or You Tube should still be listed under Live-Action TV and use the Series namespace. By that criteria, Netflix original series should go under Web Video (Netflix, after all).
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Ranwulf has been repeatedly editing out Big-Lipped Alligator Moment and in Rescued from the Scrappy Heap here
.
I made a post in discussion but they never responded. Also they never gave any reason for deleting BLAM (though I do admit I don't get how the first subbullet qualifies for BLAM, none of his edit reasons have anything to do with it).
Not to mention the RFTSH entry is really poorly written.
Edited by LarkmarnopenNo Title Live Action TV
User grendalhopper appears to be responsible for the numerous grammatical errors on the Sense8 character page. I assume the correct course of action would be to message them about this, but is there an existing protocol for informing someone that...
- one shouldn't put possessive apostrophes in plurals (e.g. sensates, not sensate's)
- one shouldn't just stick a comma wherever one feels inclined to pause for mental breath
- "it's" needs an apostrophe when it's a contraction
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All right, I'm incredibly annoyed now. Someone keeps going around in the Live Action TV sections of various pages and changing (for example) entries like these:
- An episode of the mid-2000's Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place...
into these:
- Wizards of Waverly Place: An episode of this mid-2000's Disney Channel sitcom...
I understand the need to alphabetize, but this is just lazy. Who keeps doing this?
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Peridonyx uncommented a ZCE on the Charaters.Criminal Minds page. I sent a an editing issue message to them about it a few days ago. Today, they uncommented a whole bunch more ZC Es.
Edited by TerrieopenNo Title Live Action TV
Requesting reversion of Das Nordlicht 91's edit on Headscratchers.Agents Of SHIELD. It's just the one edit, but it's a big one. He did some weird things to the page—it looks normal on the surface, but paragraphs got shuffled around, with answers moved into folders asking questions that have nothing to go with them, and so on. The history's such a mess, I can't tell what actually happened, and he hasn't responded to my PM. I'm assuming it was a mistake, just copy-pasted something strangely, but he didn't leave an edit reason, so I can't say for sure.
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Is it really Put on a Bus when a character's arc is by all appearances over? They've gone through the plot, they survived and they leave. I always thought Put on a Bus was more for the cases where the character would still have business in the narrative, but is written out for whatever reason.
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Now, I didn't click the link, but the phrase "Just donate" makes me pretty positive it's at best spam, if not outright malware.
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Regarding reality TV shows, are we allowed to trope entries that are not explicitly shown on the screen itself, but news from other sources?
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What's the standard for spoiler tags in folder names? In some cases even the character's is a spoiler, so we use something like SPOILER CHARACTER for the folder name, but what if their folder already has a separate, unspoiled name, following by /[[spoiler:spoiler name]]?
Specific relevance: The Flash (2014) and Gravity Falls – Adults, the characters of Reverse Flash and The Author respectively.
I always thought folder names were spoilers off, save but I can't find anything specifically saying as much.
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WTH? The two episodes with recaps (Out of Time and The Second Coming) don't read anything like standard TV Tropes recaps - brief summary and list of tropes in the episode - and are more like...IDK even what to compare it to. Something Awful maybe? Or somebody's tv recap blog. Super-snarky, complainy, characters with nicknames instead of actual names (Mohidiot=Mohinder, Time Lord=Hiro, Sexchange Quicksilver=Daphne, etc.).
Should they be blanked?
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Live Action TV
On the page Characters.The Walking Dead TV Show Abrahams Group, Eugene was listed on back in Nov 2014 as Too Dumb to Live, which was misusing the trope (as explained here
; TLDR version is that the sabotage didn't kill him nor did it have a reasonable expectation of doing so, as most cars don't normally flip over when their engine dies). It's gone through several dances with that and the more appropriate trope What An Idiot, which I edited it to on Dec 7, 2014, with an edit reason pointing to the discussion page where I explained why WAI applied and not TDTL.
Fast forward to Jan 22, 2015, and Chris116, who had been responsible for earlier changes back to TDTL when it didn't apply, went and changed it back to TDTL without leaving an edit reason or popping into the discussion page.
(full edit history for the page)
(I know the edit warring should have been brought up earlier, but it didn't occur to me then, and then with the change-over for the site there was the issue of my being unable to log into this account due to the e-mail bug that kept me from getting the PW reset message.)
Edited by NohbodyopenNo Title Live Action TV
Can somebody do something about the troper, "merlinxchick"? Regularly clogs up pages by adding literally HUNDREDS of unnecessary tropes that don't fit proper definitions. Check out this page to see what I mean: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/BigBrother16
I sent her a PM, she either ignored or didn't see it.
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I need a second opinion about parts of Characters.Casualty and also the main CASUAL+Y page. I've been (slowly) editing and changing bits for a while, but because I'm not familiar with earlier seasons of the show I'm not sure how useful the tropes relating to the minor characters (and I mean seriously minor, to the point that it seems to me they're just extras) are. Am I misreading this, or is it a case of Fan Myopia that can be cut back?
Edited by lozziebeeopenNo Title Live Action TV
Little delayed, but need a revert on Funny.The Almighty Johnsons, Heartwarming.The Almighty Johnsons, and TearJerker.The Almighty Johnsons. Tropers.jkrfan7 removed the episode organization with no explanation.
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ranulf13 changed most of my edits on the Teen Wolf YMMV page to the old wordy complaining, and added some new passive aggressive stuff which largely seems to be concerned with bashing one particular actress and character. Does that make them a Wiki Vandal? If not, is there anything I can do about this?

Wondering if this really counts as an example...
In The Andy Griffith Show, Warren Ferguson served as Andy's deputy for most of the 6th season before disappearing with absolutely no in-character explanation. (Out of character, it was because the character was unpopular and seen as a Replacement Scrappy to Barney Fife.)
The thing is, the character wasn't entirely written out. There are still occasional comments from other characters suggesting that Warren is still around and still an active deputy, he's just never seen again on camera.
So what I'm wondering is, is he really an example of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome? Or does that require a character to be written out 100%?
Edited by wrm5