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For the record, does an official rule advise against keeping And the Fandom Rejoiced pages clean of news that caused a Broken Base? I noticed AndTheFandomRejoiced.New Media has a warning not to list the end of Demo Reel for this reason, but AndTheFandomRejoiced.Marvel Cinematic Universe lists a number of events that might not please all fans (eg, the revelation of a third Mandarin, the news of a Civil War adaptation).
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ExtrovertFederalist
uncommented some ZC Es on the 12 Angry Men
page. I've already warned him about it before, and figured the message went through when he added information to the two context-less examples he put up. Apparently not.
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Considering how disappointed some feel with news like Edgar Wright not directing Ant-Man anymore, and/or Captain America 3 adapting a polarizing comic storyline, does it seem like time to reword the introduction of AndTheFandomRejoiced.Marvel Cinematic Universe?
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I tried to make a YMMV part of the movie of the "judge" and moved the bit of Dwight being lawful neutral to the YMMV but it didn't work out the way I was accepting(ei:most YMMV are colored grey and the YMMV sign normally shows up on the page itself) also yeah this is the first time I attempted of making a YMMV page(also making my first movie page.)
Anyway yeah the question could you guys please help me out with making the YMMV page?
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mraspiringactor uncommented a bunch of Zero Context Examples on the Ice Age character page.
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So the example list for the recent film Interstellar (I know Examples Are Not Recent, but I thought it worth mentioning since the page is probably relatively young as a result) groups Slippy-Slidey Ice World and Roaring Rapids as sub-tropes under a "Planet Tropes" bullet. It's not wicked, nor is it a trope to my knowledge.
So, should I:
- Remove the main bullet and sort the sub-bullets as top-level examples accordingly,
- Change the main bullet to Single-Biome Planet and move it accordingly, or
- Do something else?
EDIT: Also, I'm pretty sure the second bullet is the wrong answer, since you're not supposed to group tropes under Super-Tropes. It screws up the alphabetization.
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Does an official rule exist against adding He Really Can Act entries to movies' YMMV pages? I noticed one disappeared from YMMV.Guardians Of The Galaxy, only to reappear with new wording.
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I just created Singin' in the Rain and added it to the Headscratchers/Film index, but the index back/forward arrows aren't appearing on the bottom of the page yet. Could someone fix this, please?
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Is there a page for the movie "+1" or "Plus One" yet? It's the one where all the college-age people are at a party then because of some sci-fi electrical thing there's a clone of every single one, or like parallel universe selves.
I'm having trouble searching for it cuz its name is weird.
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Hello, I was wondering if it would be frowned upon to move the first opus of the Spider-Man Trilogy to Film/SpiderMan1, rather than the current Film/SpiderMan (with a custom title still spelling it "Spider-Man").
This would allow the movie to have its own subpages (Awesome, YMMV, Trivia, etc.) disengaged from those of the main Franchise, which can get tedious at time.
Or is it something that the planned overall of the website is going to make obsolete soon, and thus I should not bother yet?
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I was thinking about adding Borat to the Unfortunate Implications page, but I wanted to know if this article is authentic enough for the information on the criticisms this film had.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/may/17/sacha-baron-cohen-dictator-sterotype
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3309866,00.html
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There's a contested "Funny Aneurysm" Moment example from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It was deleted once, then I added it back once with an alternative reasoning than what was reasoned, if you will, by the guy who originally put it in. It got deleted again, so I decided to bring it here for opinions:
- In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Bones (DeForest Kelley) tries to chat up Spock (Leonard Nimoy) about the experience of being dead. Spock replies that the conversation wouldn't work because they have no common frame of reference—Bones had never died. Kelley ended up beating Nimoy to our great reward in real life.
Is it really an example on the grounds I suggested? Or does the other guy have a point? I'm not about to engage in any edit warring, since I know what that's been known to cause in the past; rather, I should like to see the question of whether the above is an example on any grounds settled as quickly as possible.
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There's apparently a film called Crossing Over, but while it doesn't have a work page here, there is an Awesome.Crossing Over. Shouldn't that one entry just be moved to the Awesome.Other Film page and then cutlist ACO, or is there a reason to keep a "rootless" subpage with only one entry?
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At least two examples on Beauty And The Beast which I'm unsure how they're played:
- Evil Plan: Double Subverted. Gaston's initial plan to make the most beautiful girl in town, I.E. Belle, his Housewife isn't really diabolical. It's the plan that involves unjustly locking a man away just so he can achieve his goal that is evil.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: An interesting aversion. The seasons change throughout the film, leaving the time Belle spends in the castle with the Beast indeterminable from weeks to months prior to their marriage. In addition, it is not shown that they actually married during the film, although it is heavily implied that they did some time after.
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So I just heard that Ron the Death Eater now requires citations, like Unfortunate Implications (which is still the face of TV Tropes citations to this day, as far as I'm aware). Why's that? And having previously added an example to Frozen Disney upon witnessing certain events here involving the demonization of the character listed in said example (before I had heard about the new citations requirement, mind you), I feel obliged to ask, would a citation from here regarding those events be considered valid? Or would I be better served to look elsewhere for citations?
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Why does the note in Girl-Show Ghetto next to the entry in the Live Action Film folder about the Hunger Games movies stay open?
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Where do you report a work page that has obvious problems, but you don't know enough about the work to fix some of them or fill them out? (And I have a doctor's appt today, and I refuse to edit from my phone. Regular forum posting is hard enough.)
Film.Two Thousand One A Space Odyssey. I was just scanning the page looking to see if it had a trope someone asked about on Trope Finder. It doesn't seem to, but man, does that page have problems.
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Should I add a commented out message at the start of Guardians of the Galaxy reminding tropers to refrain from adding potholes to quotes? I removed them in two edits but now another troper is not only adding a new quote with potholes but also covering it all in a spoiler mark.

deathmaster87 appears to be running with that inane cloud-to-butt text filter. I've cleaned up its effects on H.E.R., but I haven't had an opportunity to examine his editing history, yet. At the very least, he had it active three days ago when editing that page.
ETA: I just skimmed through the past year's (or so) worth of edits, and I'm not seeing any other instances of the filter at work. No further cleanup should be necessary, other than making sure he disables the plug-in while editing.
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