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Okay. So I found that based on the 8/30 update of Go Get a Roomie!, someone had added Brother–Sister Incest as a trope. I found this to be unwarranted, so I removed it (with perhaps too curt an edit summary), and it was added again soon after. When I saw this, I went to the discussion page to see if there was a note, then to the main page to see if the PM notification was up (I had thought it showed on the main page), and seeing neither, deleted it again, with the intent to start a discussion thread. I found then that the other editor had indeed written a PM, and (after it was added again) we talked over PM for a while, which ended with a declaration of the other's intent to ignore me. I don't think this is the place to get into whether it's accurate or not, but I think it's an ugly trope to be up if it even may not be accurate (in a narrative sense, not ambiguous In-Universe), I don't want to delete it a third time, and the messages I've left in the discussion section haven't yet gotten any responses. As such, I went to Administrivia/TV Tropes Customs, and found the line "Try working things out on the discussion page, via PM, or, failing that, bring the issue to Ask The Tropers." So here I am. Now what?
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kvn8907 left a decidedly rude edit reason on the WMG page for Homestar Runner: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=WMG.HomestarRunner
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I know we're not supposed to use This Troper, but does that also preclude intentional use as a joke? I've been resisting the urge to use it on Laconic.Quote To Quote Combat, where I wrote the back-to-Main link as:
- "Visit unabridged version HERE". Troper.
"Troper" would be replaced with "This Troper".
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The webcomic A Path to Greater Good was recently abandoned/rebooted as Hero Oh Hero
. Should the page be updated (with a seperate list of tropes for both comics) or should HOH get its own work page?
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Not sure what to do about the page Tara And John. It's full of zero-context examples that, if disposed of, would make the page pretty much completely empty. It could be argued that one could just read through the comic itself and add context...but I looked it up and I'm not quite sure I really want to read beyond the couple I glanced at to do that.
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This is actually in Fan Fic. We created a trope page for a fanfic for Housepets! named Housepets! the Series. However, it does not create links for any of the ancillary pages (we have Heartwarming and Funny pages thus far), and it does not add index bars on the bottom.
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Could some more experienced tropers than me please have a look at New First Comics? I feel this trope has some issues, but I'm not sure it's worthy of being taken to the TRS.
The description of this trope needs to be fleshed out and the definition clarified. Currently it is extremely short and way too ambiguous. The examples are quite a mess ranging from single redrawn strips over updated early chapters and recap pages to bypass a lengthy Archive Binge to complete reboots. No doubt this stems from the unclear description. Should that really all be considered the same thing? Only redrawing the artwork is a very different thing than rewriting the story. So different that I think it might be a good idea to split this into separate tropes.
In any case the description should elaborate more on the different motivations for and methods of how this is done.
Also, as troper collex mentioned in Lost And Found: "This isn't exclusive to webcomics - Hergé redrew his early Tintin stories in his later, more refined art style. He also colorized them in the process. I think Jim Davis did the same with his early Garfield strips."
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On Ansem Retort, can we get a moderator revert to the last version of the article before it was edited to remove all links to the comic?
The website went down over a week ago, and because the comic hadn't updated since December 2012, people thought it had ended and someone went through the article and cleaned out all the links to the comic. But since the site's back up the links will work but it'd be extremely tedious to manually readd all of them.
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The Three Mushketeers was blanked back in January by someone named Snoruntpyro, with the edit reason "Per request. Please delete.".
Should it be restored?
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So...not sure where the last entry went on this sidetrack? But there's a still a blatant Take That! directed squarely at me on this page:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=YMMV.RedString
Could that possibly get cleaned up? Would have PM'd a mod, but the mods page explicitly states to post requests like that here.
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This character page
had a YMMV trope on it, but no YMMV page. I created a YMMV page
for it, and set the type, but it's not showing up as a button. Plus I'm not 100% sure I did it right otherwise. Help please?
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Taken from the new pages fixing thread
: genius66 created the page With Fetus only with Zero Context Examples.
What's more, they already did this sort of thing before - for A Frog in Arkham Asylum ([1]
), Jade Cobra ([2]
) and Jade Dragon ([3]
- the parentheticals are here because the pages were edited in the meantime, making the first edit disappear). When I messaged them over this, they said they wanted to leave the pages out for a while. Two pages were (in part) fixed by other editors, but now they've created a page with contextless examples again.
I don't think messaging them again will help; I was recommended to bring this up for staff attention.

The hottip in the description here is supposed to close after "Southworth", not before. As far as I can tell the square brackets are all closed correctly, so I don't know what's wrong.