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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?
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I was looking to start a Works page for the web serial I'm writing. Web serial novels go in Literature according to the Namespace page, and the title is Winter's Tale. However, there is already a page at Winter's Tale. What should I use for the URL?
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FanFic.Avatar The Last Alicorn: On May 8th Mugen Kagemaru added
the line
- [[WMG: Some capitalization errors exist. Perhaps someone who doesn't have a busy life right now can deal with that and dump this note when they're done?]]
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Wanting to add an example classified as a Light Novel to a trope page. The page in question does not have a Light Novel section currently, though it does have a Literature section. So my question: is it good enough to just put it under Literature, or must I make a Light Novel section for the example?
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When scanning for The Trojan Cycle for ideas of what to add to Age of Bronze, I noticed that that article's a bit messy. There's a few ZCE's ("Aphrodite" is not enough context) and at least two examples referred to another example.
I have to attend to RL stuff, but I'd thought I post this here in case anyone else can get to it. :)
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I'm trying to create a new Works page, and I'm reading through the step by step guide, but I still don't understand how to do step 1. Can anyone explain it to me?
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Characters.The Stormlight Archive has been split for size, need the subpages indexed.
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Hi, everyone! New user here! A friend suggested I make a query to find help to sort out a little issue of mine. I, um, cannot seem to create a new page for my fanfic. I've seen couple on TV Tropes and I want to create my own, but I have no idea how to do that without a step-by-step guide. Please help!

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.