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LINKANDTHECAT
has been removing examples involving the Ace Attorney series without edit reasons.
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Over at the The Walking Dead Video Game page I've gone through and unspoilered all trope names per the policy (after spending a lot of time checking that was okay through the forum and after seeing that policy cited time and again here on ATT) and, despite increasing the commented out warning from two lines to the entire initial browser screen and including a bold warning at the top of the page to let readers know that trope names won't be spoiler tagged, Emperor_Z went and changed two tropes so they were entirely spoilered.
It's been reverted by another troper already, but at what point does it cease to be other editor's responsibilities to make sure the policy is clear (I included the policy in my initial edits, added a message to the discussion page, a commented out warning and a warning in bold for readers to let them know that wiki policy means no spoiler tags on trope names so watch out, and it doesn't seem to be enough. I don't think Emperor_Z is ignoring them intentionally, just wondering if I should just keep it polite and send a PM to link them to the policy and only bring mods in if there's proof they know about the policy and are ignoring it anyway (for the record I've been handling it that way so far and two out of the three people replied with a "sorry I didn't know, I'll go fix that" so I haven't seen anyone causing trouble yet).
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A bit of a spammy post
in this Discussion. Ghetsis isn't listed as a Complete Monster, and throwing it in there is unnecessary. A later post down the line, however...
"There was a HUGE discussion on that. He was ultimately removed because 32_footsteps was a stubborn ass...." by the same person, ANewMan. That was being quite rude about it. It's the last post at the bottom of the page. I am unable to directly link to it since I don't know how to.
To put it another way, seems like a serious agenda and being unable to accept the general consensus, so is complaining about it.
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There's a bit of an edit war going on over Weil's being a complete monster being on the YMMV page.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.MegaManZero
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implyingimawriter
removed a fanfic recommendation from FanficRecs.Sonic The Hedgehog. I did clean the grammar up a bit there, but I don't think that it warrants a removal after the cleaning and especially not with that edit reason.
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Before I make the revert, I just wanted to double-check that the Dead or Alive franchise is limited to videogames, and isn't a multimedia franchise.
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Somebody just made the hub page to Grand Theft Auto to the Franchise/ namespace. If I recall correctly, the series is officially just represented by one namespace and even GTA Radio is in-universe. Not to mention that indexes weren't transferred and the mover didn't set the page type. Anyone to weigh in on the matter?
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I took out some meaningless bold-all-caps inflation on the Dark Souls page
and cited Bold Inflation in my edit reason. AnoBakaDesu put it back, reasoning that Bold Inflation wasn't part of Administrivia and saying that Demon's Souls also did the trope bolding thing. What do I do now?
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I was just wondering if anyone could tell me why the indexing doesn't work properly on the 5 subpages present in Woobie/Videogames. Reason I asked this is that I created a new subpage for Dark Souls, and added it to a mini-index on the media subpage. Then I find out all 4 other previous subpages have never been indexed properly either. I went out to change each subpage's page type, but to no avail. Could it be that the entire trope's indexing was wrong from the very start, given the Woobie/Videogames subpage itself is indexed under Imagelinks?
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TV Tropes (or Google) sure is psychic when the non existant page VideoGame.Vresun Ciraian Ruins appeared second in the list, and then the first, when you google "Vresun".
(In case you're wondering, me, Shane Bane Neumann and a group of our friends are currently developing a game under this title.)
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While the subject of Spoiler Policy is still topical I've gone and removed all spoilers from the Diablo character page trope names and left three warnings (one in the edit reason, one commented out and one at the top of the page) explaining the policy. Just posting it here in case those warnings don't click like when I did the same for the Walking Dead character page or the Homeland one.
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Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
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I tried posting a review for Series/Doom, specifically the Brutal Doom mod and having sent it I cannot find it anywhere. I tried trimming it a little and still it doesn't come up after I finished formatting.
The only thing I can think of is if the title is a little long. Might that cause it to not appear?
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
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Was watching Totalbiscuit's review of Dead Island and he addressed something that could well make a good laconic page for the game, which I'll put in my words below.
Promoted as an utterly heartwrenching story of the Zombie Apocalypse, plays like bloody good stupid fun.
Might that be a good way to describe the game?
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It seems KingClark
is doing completely pointless changes for no reason at all. He also removed two currently legitimate entries without explanation. I am worried he may be trying to vandalize the page.
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
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Laconic suggestion for Dead Island: Riptide.
Left 4 Dead with melee combat and the game tries to use the player as a speed ball.
Any good? Can it be added?

Over at the The Walking Dead Video Game I removed an example and took it to the discussions page, and Enigma Lobo added it back without an edit reason or acknowledging the discussion page. What's the procedure for this?
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