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openRecreating illymations' Page Web Original
If illy's page were to have at least ten tropes and a more detailed description, would it be safe to recreate?
openspoiler bar Web Original
Hello! So, I just joined yesterday and am trying to Edit in a character page that's supposed to have the name in spoilers, but I can't seem to make it work, and I can't understand the official guide... Anyone got any tips?
openMoving Mario Does Things to new name. Web Original
Given that Mario Does Things has been renamed SMG4 Crew, I think it's time to move everything over to SMG4 Crew
openSML Web Original
For the recap page of SuperMarioLogan or SML, for any of the pages for the videos the image can be the thumbnail. For the SBL videos, the thumbnails started off by using the Nintendo plushes and are currently replaced with the human puppets. For those pages, should I use the old thumbnail or the new one? Here’s an example of what I’m saying: https://sml.fandom.com/wiki/Jeffy_and_Junior%27s_Big_Heist!
openUnnecessary space? Web Original
I don't want to risk starting an edit war by just editing it, but the space added in between the '' and the title of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Fanfic.ChildrenOfAnElderGod#edit37686314
strikes me as a bit unnecessary.
openTroper making low-quality edits to pages Web Original
King Susie Pen has been active since May 2023, but their edit history shows up as many instances of them making low-quality edits to pages they already made.
- Empty folders in character page
, which I'm very sure isn't allowed.
- Does this
count as speculative troping even though they're (supposedly) the creator of the series?
- ZCEs
in the Nightmare Face entry.
- Misuse
of a trope.
openStub character page Web Original
The Painter has a bunch of folders for various characters, but only a few of them have any entries and most just have a "TBA" notice or nothing. I've been keeping an eye on it periodically for a few weeks to see if it got filled out since it's a newish page, but it seems like it's not happening anytime soon. Should it be cut listed, or should the content-less folders just be hidden or removed until they get expanded?
openA Humble Request Web Original
So I had a subpage called Lazy Days where I was adding tropes to some original characters for a story I had developed. Since it was for an unpublished work and wasn't Darth Wiki, it got scrapped by the tropers.
This is perfectly understandable to me; I knew that I was risking an outcome like this from the very start. Following the rules of this site, I understand that what I did was foolhardy. I apologize. But I did have a lot of character nuances, traits, and developments on this page that I'm afraid may have just been scrubbed from the internet completely, on top of a good chunk of my time having now gone to waste.
I was wondering if there is a way to recover the page for a brief time so that I can copy and paste all of the valuable character information onto a Google Doc. It will have no further affiliation with TV Tropes.
Thank you for your time.
openRecreating the Common Man Show page. Web Original
I would like to recreate the page for the YouTube channel, the Common Man Show. Which is a reaction channel featuring villagers from India. It was taken down because of "troping real people", but that doesn't make sense considering that this is a web series and, by principle, little different from series featuring real people like Game Grumps, Oney Plays or anything else that features non-characters. It's not a point-and-laugh show, either - fans have a genuine love for the people it features and they are presented in a way that is non-exploitative.
Your thoughts?
Edited by SRBrantopenRevert Edit? Web Original
The Death Battle crew released a preview for the (as-of-this-writing) upcoming "Darth Vader vs. Obito Uchiha" fight in the "Sandy Squirrel vs. Squirrel Girl" Death Battle Cast video, and information from that preview was added to the DEATH BATTLE! (Season Ten) page.
SmilyTrope112 deleted the information
with the editing reason "SPOILERS! THE FIGHT ISN'T AVAILABLE YET!", but the fight previews have thus-far been treated as fair game. Should the edit be reverted, at the very least since it was done without prior discussion?
openSummary page for LPers Web Original
Which List of Shows That Need Summary subpage would Let’s Players go on? I would’ve thought New Media, but the fact that none are listed there makes me doubt this.
It's like I'm in some kind of... TV Tropes...
openvideo example question Web Original
is it normal that my video hasn’t been reviewed 2 days after uplaoding it?
Edited by c1beat7per9minuteopenHow to change the work page name? Web Original
So I am a fan of the You Tube named Mychonny but when I went to the work page, the work page used the name of the second You Tube channel Yourchonny instead Mychonny. Is there a way to change the work page name?
openIs It Okay to Create a Page About ChatGPT? Web Original
The year 2023 is now the year of A.I., especially ChatGPT and AI Generated Artwork.
If it's okay to make, we could make it self-demonstrative, like so:
TropeGPT: Sure! Here's a page about ChatGPT on TV Tropes.
The Laconic page can also be self-demonstrative too:
A chatbot developed by OpenAI that can write whatever the user asks.
- Troper: How do I go back to the unabridged version?
TropeGPT: Here's a link that will take you back to the unabridged version.
Edited by Oxyrhynchus
openDoes this count as an EditWar? Web Original
On this
page:
- Plucky Field added this entry
to Goodman's folder page, which I deleted
for being Word Cruft as well as unintentionally spelling out a bias against Jews.
- Six days later, they re-added
the surname part of the entry.
What conflicts me is that while they still re-added after I deleted it with an edit reason, they seemed to adhere to the explanation and wrote a somewhat better example (though I'm not sure if it's a ZCE or not), so I thoguth I'd ask you guys on the matter.
Edited by skan123openIgnored Real Life Troping notifier(s) Web Original
Majin Akuma has continued to violate Administrivia.Real Life Troping for Nijisanji, refusing to respond to notifiers and multiple pings to the VTubers cleanup.
They first came to my attention when they were reported
on the thread as having wrote a Bus Crash example for Yugo Asuma, who was let go from the company on December 14th, 2022 with none of the group's fictional content altered to compensate (besides a conspicuous unexplained absence in future material, of course.) I sent a notifier for the relevant edit and told them to look at the section concerning streamers. They had also apparently been pinged before to discuss the matter and some previous violating edits, but did not respond.
Months later, I noticed that after the notifier was sent, they added an example
of The Woobie that was entirely production drama, which was also reported in the thread. I deleted it, but admittedly forgot to send another notifier.
Today, they were pinged again
after they were caught
using Word Cruft to get around the policy by making it sound like Nina Kosaka and Enna Alouette's real lives are also part of their "lore." I zapped all of the examples and sent another notifier, but given Majin's track record, I highly doubt I'll expect a satisfactory response.
It's also worth noting that while looking into their edits, I've found even more examples which are just one of the streamers playing games or talking to other people, neither of which are tropable.
Edited by TrocyteVopenMoving subpages Web Original
So, someone just split OverSimplified into various subpages, based on the series' longer videos, such as Napeoleonic Wars (which is misspelled, by the way). I think these pages should be to OverSimplified - Napoleonic Wars, etc., to pre-emptively prevent page overlaps, and to not make it seem like we're troping the actual historical events—which I'm pretty sure is not allowed.
Edited by AdeptopenWould it be reasonable to create a page for this type of work? Web Original
Hey sorry for the bad title, didn't know how else to word it, but I had the thought of making a page for AI Generated Sponge
, an ongoing stream which uses AI to simulate SpongeBob scenes and such. However, the stream is ongoing 24/7, and not all moments are captured and as such, tropes would only apply to certain videos captured by somebody from the stream. The only exceptions being tropes that are general to the work. Could I still make a page for it?

There's a pretty obscure story (which I believe is allowed if I read the rules right) that is being released weekly online (not fanfiction, original online literature) that I would like to make a works page for, is this put in web original or some other category?