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openHazbin hotel fan works page move Western Animation
The page is detailed since it was a leftover redict it said but where does it redirect to?
openImage Pickin issue
I'm trying to propose a couple of image changes, but the forum has been full for the past week. Is there a que list, or do you just have to get lucky and view it at the right time?
openEdit war
So @Xvrprkm added a really complainy entry on Arthur that I removed and cited the complaining thread, but he added it back completely.
- Designated Hero: D.W. can be this sometimes due to her whiny, bratty, and occasional Smug Snake behavior and the fact that she almost never faces any consequences for such behavior. And yet the show often treats her like a good guy or a victim. She's often seen as the female Funny Animal version of Caillou.
openEdit War?
So, on YMMV.Fallout 2024 the following happened:
- Barth Vader added an Ass Pull entry.
- D Jones 662 removed it citing "Not really an "Ass Pull", in fact, its still consistent with the games. Even before the series, nuclear weapons have appeared practically EVERYWERE in games, and have been relatively easy for factions to get their hands on. Hell, in 3, the main town of Megaton was built around an unexploded nuclear bomb. So it really wouldn't be unbelievable for Vault-Tec to have access to a bomb. Also, Vault-Tec specializes in building underground vaults, so they'd definitely have the means to survive the nuclear holocaust."
- Barth Vader readded a tweaked entry citing "I concede the point about nuclear weapons, but considering the level of insanity and card-carrying villainy on display both in this series and in previous entries of the franchise, "Vault-Tec could've been around because they know how to build vaults" isn't enough to make it not come out of left field. Re-added the entry with elaboration."
Now I don't know if the entry actually counts, but this was not discussed anywhere. So, is this an edit war?
openPage for an Abandoned Project
I found this page, Rebuild of Pocket Monsters: The Animation, which seems to be about a webcomic that only had two or three pages drawn before it got abandoned. I noticed that the page was made in May 2020 and that the Tumblr that page links to was last updated in June 2020, meaning that it was made by a troper who got hyped up by an ambitious project that quickly got cancelled before it actually went anywhere. This means that the page is almost exclusively troping Word of God tumblr posts about future ideas and plans that were never drawn.
My question is that do we keep a page for an abandoned project? Do tumblr asks and some page sketches and character drawings give enough tropable material for a page?
openDarkhorse misuse, re-delete?
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Violette Rainbow proved popular enough with fans that she wound up being introduced to Tell Your Tale in season 2.
I previously deleted this as it was added before the one month waiting period. A separate troper added this back after said wait, but I believe this is still misuse as the character was heavily (by the standards of the work) promoted and publicized before debut, and Darkhorse only applies to minor/unexpectedly popular characters, Breakout Character covering this better.
Permission to re-remove? Would it be edit warring if removed over two separate misuses from separate tropers? Or any thoughts on if she qualifies as Darkhorse or not?
openSomeone deleted my edit, but I don't agree.
On Quotes.Abuse Mistake, I added the quote from a TheOdd1sOut video about his book. The quote entailed a book a child James wrote titled I Do Not Like This Family, which he thinks might have made the teacher think he was abused, when actually he had a great childhood but just hated chores.
A user named animuacid removed it, however, with the edit reason "This quote doesn't meet the new definition of innocent things mistaken as abuse." But I think it does — he gave the book that title for a mundane reason, but the teacher may have mistaken it for abuse.
openPage needs renaming
I noticed the page for Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea goes by a translation of the film's Japanese name, when in English it's known as just Ponyo. TV Tropes has a policy of going by a work's official English name whenever possible. The normal solution would of course be to manually change everything myself, but I don't know if I'll have the time or resources to do everything. Is it possible to tell a moderator to do this for me? Thanks in advance.
I should also mention the film has a bunch of subpages that go by Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea and need changing as well.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperopenNot sure if it's an edit war, but...
DR34DN0UGHT has added an iffy piece of text to a Tainted by the Preview on this page, then added a similar-sounding paragraph after much of the entry was cut down for being a ROCEJ violation.
openIs this okay?
Hello! I am completely new to trying my own hand at adding to Trope and Fandom pages and wanted to ask, i have come across several instances of a Trope being linked on a fandom page, but not no link to the fandom exists on the page of the trope?
Like, for example, in the character section for The Magnus Protocol there is a character who is stated to fit the trope called "Parents as People" but the character is not listed on the Trope page for"Parents as People" and i wanted to ask if tgats intentional?
Does that mean that this character or Fandom does somehow not "count" as an occurrence of the Trope?
Or can i just add it to the Trope page in the same way that the others are?
Or am is that against the rules?
(Please dont yell at me over this, i am Very new to this and would never edit something like that without being completely sure its allowed)
Thanks in advance for your replies!
- Storyweaver
Edited by StoryweaveropenZCE issue on Funny page
I commented out an example placed by Hisha P in Funny.Humans B Gone because I felt it was a zero context example, only for them to uncomment it back without an edit reason.
openWhy was the Camera Shy fanfic entry deleted?
It was a fairly detailed page, for an ongoing fanfic that has a fair amount of following, and the reason for cut was "Unneeded redirect". It has nothing to do with Camera Shy, the trope, which is the only redirect situation I can think of.
openBittybear10 = ArmorLeFou?
I have a hunch that Bittybear 10 is Armor Le Fou ban evading. Both have (or had) similar editing patterns on the TLP, notably making numerous "animal is a certain colour" drafts. But what stands out to me is that Bittybear10 added Yellow Duck to an index, despite it not being a trope...and ArmorLeFou has a sandbox dedicated to this non-existent trope that only they have edited. Also, they tipped a hat on the Cartoon Monkey draft that Planet Of The Primates (another sock of ArmorLeFou) adopted. I find it hard to believe that this is a coincidence.
Edited by UFOYeahopenDC and Marvel sub pages
Hello, it's been a while since we talked, and I would've reached out to you sooner, but I've been sick and recovering. I'm well enough to edit on TV tropes, but I was too ill to send you a message until now.
I wanted to discuss the topic of DC and Marvel subpages again. There's a lot of debate and controversy about these subpages, mainly because they have examples from multiple mediums, and people are complaining about the other mediums being on two pages. You even deleted and removed some of the examples on these subpages, which if is a violation of the rules regarding subpages, I understand.
But then I realized something that would solve the problem: keep the examples on the sub-pages while deleting the second examples on the other pages. Based on my interpretation of the complaints, this would solve the problem and keep the pages instead of erasing them completely. I started doing this in a number of the sub-pages, and so I would like some feedback of this idea.
openFetishy example on VideoGame.SuperAdventureIslandII?
I was looking at VideoGame.Super Adventure Island II when I saw this example:
- Mr. Fanservice: Master Higgins is quite muscly in the opening cutscenes along with being stocky; he's mostly naked for the first level or so until he finds armor and the soles of his feet can be seen down to the individual toe beans.
Weirded out by it, I saw it was Digipig that added it, fairly recently on January 11th, 2024. I did a quick check to see if they had posted any similar examples to this on other pages, but not from whatI can see from recent exmaples. I don't know if there's a habit there or not.
Regardless, the character isn't really made to be made attractive, so I think it's misuse regardless.
Edited by PlasmaPoweropenTrope question
So for the trope, How Do I Shot Web?, shouldn’t it be How Do I "Shoot" Web? Isn’t that more grammatically correct?
Edited by GateStarX
I think an edit war happened on Characters.The Amazing Digital Circus over the terms "performer" and "player" when refering to the main protagonists:
On 16 October 2023, immblueversion changed the main protagonists' section header from "The Performers" to "Players".
On 18 October 2023, RandomInformation changed it to just "Performers", as "[they] believe they're more often described as this".
On 26 April 2024, immblueversion changed said section header, and every instance of the word "performer" on the page, to "player", with the reasoning that "[t]he "performers" don't actually perform at the circus, so it's an obsolete term".
So, which term should be used for the main protagonists? "Performer" or "player"? "Performer" is the term used more often by the fans, but it's a misnomer, given that they don't perform in the Circus. "Player" would be a more accurate term, but it isn't used as much.