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Ak! I was working on a forum post and clicked "save draft" but where did it go? How can I find it again?
I clicked save draft, then back button, then forward button and it was still there, then back button again, then forward button again and it was GONE replaced by an empty composition window. Do I have to recreate it from scratch?
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When giving examples, are we supposed to italicize work pages when the page is about a series of works, but the page title isn't a specific work? Like Literature.Harry Potter (about a bunch of books called Harry Potter and...) or Literature.Land Of Oz (about a bunch of books called ... of Oz).
Literature.Phules Company would not be an instance of this because the first book in the series is called Phule's Company.
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In YMMV.Carreras Legions, on Aug 7 aoirann added a Critical Research Failure entry, but none of the subbullets on the entry actually qualified as a critical failure. I removed it, and left an edit reason pointing to the discussion page where I went into further detail about why I pulled it.
However, on Aug 27 he re-added the entry, without any sign of having even looked at the discussion, let alone responding to it.
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Literature.Tom Swift and YMMV.Tom Swift both include a section on an MSTed version of one of the books, claiming it to be from Mystery Science Theater 3000. As far as I can determine it's not from the show, it's a Fan Fiction MST-ing of the book. As such it seems like the whole thing should be deleted, or at least moved to a Fan Fiction/ page. Anybody else have an opinion on this?
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: In the paragraph re the MST fanfic "Dale Goes Nuts!" by John Nowak and Matt Plotecher:
- This particular fanfic is less grim ... and shorter than their later MSTing of the dime novel "Tom Swift and his War Tank." [link goes to the same page as the link on our Literature.Tom Swift page]
Furthermore, the page itself has the note "This MiSTing is [c] copyright 2001 by John Nowak and Matt Plotecher."
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Jocasta
uncommented several Zero Context Examples on Characters.The Mortal Instruments without expanding them or adding proper context. I’ve just finished re-commenting them out.
openNo Title Literature
Why does Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard page not have capitol letters in its titles? Is there a way to fix that? Does it need to be fixed?
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What's the etiquette of launching a sandbox page created by another user?
The Sandbox page The Six Gun Tarot was created in 2014, but the original maker hasn't updated it since. I'd like to create a page on the wiki for The Golgotha Series, of which The Six-Gun Tarot is the first novel — is there anything I need to do first, or is it okay if I go ahead with that?
openNo Title Literature
Do earlier drafts of works that are changed significantly when they are finalized matter for trope entries?
I'm asking because in Carrera's Legions I removed the entry for A.K.A.-47 as not being the trope, guns renamed for trademark reasons, but simply using different names for equipment that's pretty much modern day (or even recent past) equipment IN THE FUTURE!.
enderheisenberg, who added the AKA-47 entry in the first place, re-added it after my removal (Edit War in and of itself), and added the line "These were direct conversions from early drafits where the story takes part on earth." That doesn't seem like it actually makes the entry an example, but there's enough uncertainty on my part that I thought I'd ask before taking any action.
openNo Title Literature
Main.Young Adult Literature seems to have stopped showing up on related pages. I think for a while it stopped indexing, too.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Literature/AllTheBrightPlaces
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Timjames98
just uncommented out a bunch of commented out Zero Context Examples on the Character page for Divergent
without bothering to expand on them.
openNo Title Literature
Could some people chime in here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=WhatAnIdiot.HarryPotter#76992
We keep going in circles, and I'd like to get a resolution one way or the other at this point.
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Are series pages OK?
We currently have three John Cleaver novel entries, I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr. Monster, and I Don't Want To Kill You, comprising the first trilogy. With the second trilogy having come out, it seems like it would make sense to have a page that collects common tropes and links to the individual novels. Is that alright? Would I put it at John Cleaver Series?
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When listing a trope example found in poetry, should it go under the Literature folder, or should a separate Poetry folder be created?
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On The Pendragon Adventure in the list of the books in the description, six of the 10 are potholed to tropes. Is that kosher?
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One Man Justice League. Automatic text replacement extension. Worm Others.
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So there's a recent movie about it. There's currently a CGI TV series on the Western Animation namespace. I can see two possibilities:
- Slap it on the Film namespace, Film.The Little Prince
- Place it on the Western Animation namespace with a year, WesternAnimation.The Little Prince 2015
- Third/other options? Which would be best?
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When quoting a passage of a book containing multiple paragraphs, should one use two backslashes (\\) for a line break, or three (\\\) for a paragraph break? Text Formatting Rules says to have blank lines separating paragraphs in general, but is nonspecific when it comes to quotes.
I'm thinking specifically of the quotes on Literature.Revenge Of The Sith. For Shatterpoint and Dark Rendezvous, I used the paragraph breaks, but they tend to add a lot of blank space to the examples list. The quotes on Sith don't have them, and I can't decide what looks better.
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is there a trope for this?
so theres this character in the story, he's useful, intelligent, and relevant to the plot and then at the end... turns out the whole time he was actually a god. He does not pull any kind of Deus ex Machina. The only reason its even relevant is because of the role he plays later in the series. but it is still kind of a shock that he was actually a god the whole time. not sure how to trope this
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In the short story "Singing My Sister Down" By Margo Lanagan, There is the idea of a person being kinda publicly executed in a tribal setting with their family there comforting them before they die. Is there a trope for this?? I couldn't find one because the genre of this story is "fantasy" Whereas I thought it was more of a romance/drama/mystery...

This one takes some background.
First, there was Mistborn: The Original Trilogy. It included magic-users called mistborn.
Next, came the book The Alloy of Law, taking place a few centuries later, at which point the mistborn have sort of died out. Originally the book was supposed to be stand alone, but was received well enough that it's getting sequels. So this new series needs a name. Someone on the fanwiki Coppermind decided to go with The Mistborn Adventures, despite the fact that there's no Word of God supporting this, and mistborn don't even appear in this book. It then spread over to our site.
So what do we do? The series has no official title besides just "Mistborn," which covers the original trilogy, this series, and a later series that will be sci-fi. Some people call it "The Wax and Wayne Series" (after the main characters), but that's not official either.