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open how to make a wiki page? Literature
I want to make a wiki page for The Adventures of Ook and Gluk but I don't know how to and the page on it isn't helping me
openTrivia/Animorphs has a ton of issues Literature
There are audience reactions such as Older Than They Think and Anti-Climax Boss on there, and the video games section feels like a substitute for an actual page about them. Do you think it needs a cleanup?
openObscure works Literature
Is there a project on here for obscure work pages, I've just created Literature.Zozu The Robot but can't find many sources online for it, other than reviews.
I'm looking for help to update this page and can't seem to find it.
openhi! question Literature
Hi! I am a fan of your page! Thank you so much for all the content that you enable for the world to read! I am doing a thesis on children television and representation and I was wondering whether you had used certain authors of literature or philosophy to come up with your definition of trope (I read that entry and really liked it!) Is there someone you could suggest to me that I could quote for my work? And once again, thank you for this wonderful wiki
Edited by crazysamaritanopenHow to add Swords of Heaven to this wiki? Literature
Swords of heaven is a Fanfiction work by Nexus Gundam and it has many tropes but I don’t know how to get it on this site or even if I’m allowed to I’ve only been on this site for nine days so I’m quite new.
openI already created a new page, but there is a different topic with a similar address. Literature
I'm new and unsure about what I should do. There is a movie named "Welcome Home" and another one called "Welcome Home." The problem is, I'm not sure how to split these two completely different series that share the same name apart. I may need some assistance with this.
The FAQ said to ask for help here when this problem occurs, so I'm doing just that.
openWhere to list Light Novel examples: Anime/Manga or Literature Literature
I've been filling out some tropes for The Executioner And Her Way Of Life, a light novel series that is soon to receive an anime adaptation, and have noticed some inconsistency in which folder light novels are listed under on trope pages. Sometimes they're placed under "Literature" (which would be my first impulse, as they are a form of written media), but sometimes under "Anime/Manga" (presumably because the adaptations often eclipse the original in popularity, so that series like Haruhi Suzumiya become far better known as anime, even though they technically belong to the Light Novel namespace). It's even possible for the same series to have examples spread across both, possibly because people began troping it before any anime adaptation was announced and then people who first learned about it from the eventual anime under that namespace rather than the original one.
I don't want to crosswick examples to the wrong place, so could I get some advice on the proper location to put them?
openDespoilers of the Golden Empire Literature
Alright I found about this story where historical fact is disguised as science fiction. Thing is most of the trope page is in a spoiler folder. The sole exception being The Ending Changes Everything. I just want to ask about the page and if the practice of using folders to hide spoilers (when they are most if not all the examples) is allowed or not since it seems rather unusual.
openMoving "What Could Have Been" Examples Literature
Should I move all the examples for Franchise.Star Wars Legends in WhatCouldHaveBeen.Comic Books, WhatCouldHaveBeen.Literature, and WhatCouldHaveBeen.Video Games to the main WhatCouldHaveBeen.Star Wars page? It's so much to move and I'm not sure what the policy should be here.
Edited by harryhenryopen[Resolved] Anthologies of Ullord Literature
Anthologies of Ullord works showed up during wick check. The fact that characters aren't in the Characters/ subpage made me raise an eyebrow, so looking it up and it appears Flynnbulwinter is Nikki Flynn and darkelfwizard is Edwin Dantes (not inherently an issue), who went inactive and nobody cleaned the pages in 3 years.
Besides splitting the pages, removing curly brackets, commenting out ZCE and removing spoiler tags from character headers, is there anything for me to do that I'm missing? I'm not sure what "release mending" even means.
Edited by AmonimusopenBlank trilogy page Literature
Star Wars: The Aftermath Trilogy has no tropes, as it's simply a landing page for three other novels with their own fleshed-out pages. I would cutlist it, but there's a YMMV page attached with franchise-wide Complete Monster entries.
What do we do here? I can't really add tropes that apply to the whole franchise as I'm not familiar with this book series.
openUnilateral image change? Literature
The page image for A Brother's Price looks to have been changed a couple months ago from a fanart (which had been posted with permission) depicting the main character to the book cover, which is apparently inaccurate. The change was made [[here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Literature.ABrothersPrice#edit34972807
]] by Oratel, with the edit reason “ TVT practice is to use official images when applicable, regardless of accuracy.”
The reason seems kosher to me, but I can’t find any discussion of it on Image Pickin’ and there’s no note on the page about it. Is this the kind of change that can be made without a discussion in the forum?
openNon-YMMV tropes in YMMV pages Literature
YMMV.Xeelee Sequence has three objective tropes in its page, none of them are audience reaction or proper YMMV items.
- Always a Bigger Fish: The Transcendence would be considered as most franchises' god-like race and even they pale in comparison to the Xeelee, who themselves are losing against the Photino Birds. And even these two near-omnipotents are mere insects to the Monads. This trope also applies to out of universe as well, for the Xeelee series is often considered as the gold-standard of overpowered franchises that eclipses other 'traditionally powerful Sci-Fi franchises' such as Warhammer 40,000, The Culture, Ancient Halo and Gurren Lagann by several orders of magnitude. In fact, the amount of franchises that could stalemate or surpass the Sequence in scale could be counted on one hand.
- Cool Of Rule: Part of the reason the Sequence is so awesome is that all of the science is explained, and not just in a Hand Wave.
- Eviler than Thou: The Sequence is pretty infamous especially in versus forums for how atrociously dark and deprave it can get; often making Warhammer 40,000 look extremely PG and tame in comparison.
- Retcon: There's some inconsistencies across the series, mainly between the earlier novels and the Destiny's Children books. Some of it is simply the result of a lot more light being shed on the period between the fall of the Qax and the end of Ring, but (for example) the fact that Xeelee-style FTL drives function as time machines, including the ability to create paradoxes is only revealed in Exultant, when one would have expected it to be mentioned earlier.
While the Retcon and Cool Of Rule entry can be moved to Xeelee Sequence (although it seems like Cool Of Rule is starved of wicks), the rest look like shoehorns to compare with characters and factions from other works, not with characters and factions in the work itself. With that in mind, would it be alright to move Retcon to the main work page and to delete the rest?
openEdit war over image on YMMV page Literature
A couple months ago, I removed an image that had been inserted into the middle of the page on YMMV.The Secret History, since as far as I'm aware that's never done. It turns out that a couple weeks after I removed it, Eievie, who had originally added it, put it back
.
openPutting back a link without getting into an edit war Literature
In Characters.The Magical Revolution Of The Reincarnated Princess, I put in a link to Creator.Hina Yomiya in this edit
as a part of a folder as she voices the character in the folder. In a later edit, Maus hid it in a comment since the folder was a zero-context folder (no tropes in it)
. In an edit after that, JGC-97 unhid the text, but removed the link to her article despite her having a page on this wiki.
I would like to put the link back, but since I was the one who added it in the first place I fear I would get into an edit war. Would it be okay for me to put the link back and link to this ATT in the Edit Reason?
openDo you categorize works by authors or publishers? Literature
If a book is by a Canadian but published in the US, should that go in Canadian or American literature? Or both?
openChanging an old work page Literature
Basically: there's a page, Storybro's Magically Lewd Sleepover Adventure, which points to a series with two sequels that were never catalogued since their release in 2014. I intended to expand the page with coverage of the other two, and to change the title to encompass the other two. Here's the page I put together to that end: [1]
I planned to redirect the old page to this one. Now I'm not sure if that was a misstep, both due to the age of the old page (would it be grandfathered in or something?), and due to the fact that one of the wicks to the page is admin-locked, that being 4chan. If I wanted to see this through, what are the appropriate steps to take?
Edited by dontgetthebiteopenHandling spoilers in a book series Literature
Is there any specific guide or at least guidance how to handle spoilers in a book series, where twists from first tome are just impossible to keep not spoilered out in later books, because they create the very foundation for their plot? I've got a long overdue trope list for a trilogy and this is one of the last excuses for not finishing working on it since Easter - no idea how to handle spoilers for tome 1 of three, where 2 and 3 run on the stuff introduced in the first book.
open Potential complaining in YMMV of Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? Literature
I had a look at the YMMV section of Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? and the They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot entry seems more complaining about the premise than any neglected plot points.
* They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The very idea of exploring an Isekai setting based in an MMORPG is nothing new, but has the potential to be extremely deep and rich if the lore and write-up is done right. The actual novel itself, though, only seems to rely on the game as an excuse as to why the players are there fighting the monsters as they are. There is no exploration of the game mechanics, how players interact with them and the bearings they have on the plot at large à la Sword Art Online, and actual story content is threadbare and disjointed. It doesn't even really work as a game setting, as games have to have rules and balancing if they're to be fair and believable, while gameplay in the story is deliberately designed poorly to favor a subset of players for no discernible reason than a gag, which is the deconstruction of isekai protagonists being The Ace. Nothing would have changed plot-wise had all of the game-related aspects been removed, as their presence in the story is just fluff. In fact, removing the constraints of a game setting would give the author even more leg room to wiggle without breaking the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief, since it still has the makings of a standard isekai plot.Wanted input on what to do rather than get gung ho about deleting the example.
EDIT: Noticed the appropriate thread. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16509479720A72263400&page=1
Best just close this already.

As I recall Ambiguous Disorder are not about dignoising characters with a specific disorder. Over at Characters.Warrior Cats Others under Mapleshade, there was this entry:
I thought that most of the entry seemed good, so I only deleted the part where it said she developed Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, only for it to be put back by the same troper who had put it in first without any edit reason.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.WarriorCatsOthers
I just want to double check that I am in the right and if I am, ask someone else to delete it as it is now an edit war.
Edited by LadyErinNY