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I tried to edit the X-Men Days of Future Past page to fix a few typos/misspellings, but after I hit save and was sent back to the page none of my changes had taken effect. I clicked edit again, but it wouldn't let me edit the page because it was checked out...by me. I have no idea what happened.
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Darth Megatron
seems incapable of making an edit on the X-Men: Days of Future Past page without bashing Amazing Spider-Man 2. He also has a tendency to add natter.
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A question on Headscratcher protocols.
Discar deleted two replies in Iron Man 3 with the edit reason "Don't add spoilers for future installments." Is that an actual rule or did Discar just delete three paragraphs of perfectly valid discussion?
Edited by ShaokenopenNo Title Film
I would like to make a trope page for the 1927 silent film 7th Heaven, which, near as I can tell, is properly spelled like that as opposed to Seventh Heaven (the opening titles and advertising posters are done that way). How to format this? Will 7thHeaven pick up the wiki formatting, do I need to bracket with {{ and }}, or do I just have to type 7th Heaven and then put in a request to format? That last would be suboptimal as it's a disambiguation page for the TV show.
EDIT: Answered part of my own question I guess, 7thHeaven does not produce a red link, will it work using {{ and }}?
Edited by jamespolkopenNo Title Film
A jamespolk made two attempts to remove spoiler tags from Film.I Married A Witch. After the second time, he claimed that Administrivia.Handling Spoilers decreed that a work older than 50 can have spoilers unhidden. However, since the page doesn't decree that anymore, does it still sound valid?
Edited by dsneybufopenNo Title Film
hijhiysonikku made Film.Pokemon Blackand White The Movie... except that's not a real thing. It doesn't exist, will never exist, and no one ever said it would.
Okay, well enough. I cutlisted it. But they also edited the Pokemon Black and White page
to mention the nonexistent movie (and blather about how sexy the villain is]].
EDIT: Nevermind, someone beat me to it.
Edited by LarkmarnopenNo Title Film
Things are getting heated on the headscratchers page for "Juno", on the last question below. I'm unsure whether the whole discussion should be cut, since there's complaining in much of it, or just partially cut, as it's pretty big and good insights have been made.
Edited by TuckerscreatoropenNo Title Film
The Films of 2005 - 2009 index is appearing twice on pages listed there, once for Films of 2005–2009 and once for Films of 2005-2009 & I'm not sure where the best place is to put this or how to amend it.
Edited by ChrisDVopenNo Title Film
Troper gallium has again removed every spoiler tag from Witness for the Prosecution (they did this some months ago), again without any edit reason. I've put them back because really, there's a reason that Do Not Spoil This Ending is on there and it's not as though every trope is covered in spoilertags.
openNo Title Film
So, is there any legitimate reason one can use to justify removing an entry from a work's Awesome page? The ones I can think of are actual factual errors (e.g. saying it's awesome how Darth Vader disintegrated Obi-Wan) and general things (e.g. "Everything Seth Mac Farlane makes is Awesome"). Am I missing any? I ask because https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=MrDeath
removed a few entries on a page with the excuse being "Let's please not turn this into every physical action the guy takes. Seriously, people." I mean, I know some pages do that, but the entries were from a trailer that basically showcased a character doing awesome things, and if someone thinks something is awesome, then it can go on the page right? And looking at his history, he seems to have deleted a few other entries on other pages, even removing one because he doesn't agree with it (and re-deleting it after being told it was YMMV by someone else who re-added it), even one with the excuse being "calm down" and a few others because he didn't feel like they warranted a CMOA. I don't even know what qualifies as a CMOA , and I don't really use the phrase, so I can't judge there, but some of the examples didn't even say they were CMO As, just Awesome things. Is this okay?
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Just making sure: is the Franchise.Carry On page a misuse of the Franchise/ namespace?
It's purely a film series, no other media. I think those go under Film/, right?
openNo Title Film
Am I right in thinking this kind of overlapping/double entry should be broken into two?
Foregone Conclusion, Film -Live Action.
- Gandhi and Michael Collins: Both films start after the death of the main character, and then go back and tell the story of how the British Empire was humiliated. Considering the fact that both films were based of the lives of long dead historical figures, the beginnings don't really give much away.
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Just double checking, but Bollywood Movies still go into a "Film (Live Action)" folder, right?
I didn't even know we had a separate Bollywood/ namespace.
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Hi,
How do I go about creating an index? I think Scott Tobias' list of "The New Cult Canon" from AV Club (http://www.avclub.com/search?feature_types=the-new-cult-canon)
deserves its own index in the vein of this one: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DannyPearyCultMoviesList
and this one: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RogerEbertGreatMoviesList
openNo Title Film
Kill Em All has three Film folders: Films -General, which seems to be mostly Russian films on the first read-through, Films -Animated, and Films -Live Action. The Films -Live Action also looks really long to me.
Best way to handle?
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Somebody tried to split the Characters.Pacific Rim page. Fair enough, the page a little big (though he failed to leave an edit reason). The thing is, the most logical way to split it is between the Jaegers, the Humans, and the Kaiju (which is what he tried to do), but Characters.Pacific Rim Jaegers, Characters.Pacific Rim Humans, and Characters.Pacific Rim Kaiju are all locked. I reverted the changes for the moment, since he stopped halfway through.
My question is, why are the pages locked, and what should be done in this situation?
Edited by Discar

I made an index for Italian Films, which seems appropriate, since we have indices for several other countries, and Italy's made a bunch of films with pages on the wiki. Added it to Film and the Useful Notes page for Italy.
But something isn't working. When you click on a film in the index, the "Italian Films" index shows up twice at the bottom. And more importantly, the same film shows up both times. For example, when you click on Nights of Cabiria, the index at the bottom lists The New York Ripper as the film that comes before "Nights of Cabiria" AND the film that comes after "Nights of Cabiria". I assume I did something wrong in the formatting but can't tell what.
Edited by jamespolk