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openFan Roleplay Player Character Rosters Web Original
I made a tropes page (and subsequently, a character page) for a roleplay that I was a part of, but did not moderate. I did not have the opportunity to have my character interact with all the other characters within the roster, and I do not have access to many of the threads that other characters had between each other (deleted blogs, private threads I do not have access to, etc.). My question is, if I do not have tropes for all of the characters on the roster, is it right to simply leave them off the page? By not including them on the page, it feels as though I am stating they were not important enough to be included, even though several characters I was unable to interact with played important roles within the roleplay. Should I only include characters I have tropes for, or should I include the whole roster out of posterity and respect to the players?
Edited by sweetstuff6789openFridge vs YMMV Web Original
Does Fridge fall under the “cannot create YMNV if author” umbrella?
openYouTube Channel closed what to do with work page? Web Original
Again A Fanfic Critic has deleted his YouTube channel. Does that mean his page should be deleted?
open Can't Find This Show Web Original
I've been looking for this series on Netflix for ages but I can't remember the damn title of it. All I remember from the trailer is this blonde woman sitting in what looks like a meeting for drug addicts and then saying the line "Now if you'll excuse me, I have some cocaine to get rid of." or something like that and then tapping her nose. Then she tries to sell this other woman drugs at a party or something. The genre is comedy and I can't remember the name of the actress or the show but I really want to watch it. Anyone know what it's called?
openCan we find Tropes in a paragraph? Web Original
Last year I asked a friend of mine to give me a Story Synopsis for SD Gundam Ultimate Battle, and instead she gave me the entire story. I've been working on a Sandbox page for Ultimate Battle and I think it looks good, but I want to add more non-spoiler tropes before I feel it's ready to upload. I've been thinking of sharing what my friend told me about Ultimate Battle's story on Trope Finder to see if they're anymore tropes to find in there.
Would that be alright, or would something like that be too abstract?
openTheDiamondMinecart//DanTDM Web Original
The Diamond Minecart (AKA DANTDM, Real Name Dan Middleton) is a fairly popular Let's Play series. It features Dan, who has played several games on the channel (ROBLOX, Happy Wheels, Who's Your Daddy, etc), as well as Minecraft. Notably, his Minecraft videos have a "universe", so to speak, featuring him as a lab assistant to a villager (Dr. Trayaurus), with a dog (Grim), a friendly (if odd) mailman (Craig), and a rival (Denton). My questions: why isn't there a trope page? Do I just make a YKTTW for it, or is there something else to it?
open Could someone do a character page the Angry German Kid Web Original
I'd do it myself but i'm banned from editing.
openUhhh... Web Original
I generally have no idea what's going on over at DarthWiki.Pokemon Peace Squad in general, but the Executive Meddling trope listed seems off-color, talking a lot about real-life persons and such. (The page is also maintained by the co-creator of the series, but i thought there was some rule against heavily troping your own work?)
Basically I'm just really confused.
openJoe Zombie and Killing Spree Need our own Tropers Web Original
In The Title (I can't make this is too hard to me put all)
openIndexing help Web Original
For those familiar with the Touhou Electronic Wind Instrument (Touhou EWI) videos, I just finished drafting a page for the series, but I'm a little confused on which indexes it would fall under since it's a Web Video series based on a video game series.
Touhou Electronic Wind Instrument
Input and help on where to index it is much appreciated. I'll work on Crosswicking after lunch.
EDIT: Found the Touhou Fan Works index. If there are any others, please let me know. Looks like I should have put the page under Web Animation instead. Where do I put in a request to get that moved?
Edited by GunarmDyneopenEtikaWorldNetwork Web Original
Would it be alright to be able to create a page for Etika? I'm asking because his use of "N-Words" and such might be a bit too much for the site. What do you guys think? We could just mention he says it, but not actually put it in the text. I think it would great for him to have his own TV Tropes page. After all, he is mentioned on the Da Things 1 Funny page.
openWhy aren't there pages for individual viners? Web Original
I'm just wondering since viners are also content creators with millions of fans, personal styles etc. Why aren't they getting the same treatment as Youtubers?
openYMMV/FeministFrequency Web Original
We need to have some form of unbiased in the Feminist Frequency page. I know the whole "flame target" aspect was given. However, it's also known that her series has been very controversial, and those controversies should be at least said. There has been an effort to erase any form of criticism against her for years now, and some have been rather successful in their attempts. If you need to protect it in some way, then there can be other ways than to keep the page completely blocked and unable to be viewed by anyone.
Edited by darkpowrjdopenDrafts Web Original
Does a way exist for me to start listing some tropes for a website's articles, but keep the Tropes page from actually getting published until I think the list looks long enough?
Edited by dsneybufopenBig bad Web Original
Got a story rolling around and want the big bad to be alternate reality version of the hero. What trope or tropes should I look at?
openSustable index for a web original. Web Original
I made my first page (for a youtube show named Wonder Quest) and I have no idea what index to put it in. Any suggestions?

Is there a way to change the capitalization of a letter in the URL of an existing page?