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openAvoiding an edit war
Joylock un-commented out some examples on Characters.Fallout 1 that were commented out for being Zero Context Examples, which I ended up commenting out again after sending them a notifier. They ended up expanding on said examples, but they're still IMO Partial Context Examples at best but I don't want to get into an edit war by commenting them out again.
openHatting/Bombing a draft more than once
Is it possible for one troper to give more than one hat or bomb to a draft in the Launch Pad? If yes, what happens then?
On a related note, what happens when the same troper gives both a hat and a bomb to one draft? Do they cancel each other out?
openIUEO was added back/add reasons to IUEO page?
YMMV.Ninja Turtles The Next Mutation had a Dude, Not Funny! pothole I removed as In-Universe Examples Only added back by a separate troper than who first added it. Permission to re-remove?
Also, I see Administrivia.No Real Life Examples Please and other indexes list why they are such, which Administrivia.In Universe Examples Only currently doesn't. Maybe it should list them and that would help prevent misuse, non in-universe examples in the future?
openWeird Edit Removal Reason Western Animation
On YMMV.Dexters Laboratory Walt K removed this entry
- Self-Fanservice:
- Dexter and Mandark get a lot of this in fanart.
- Dee Dee gets her fair share of this, especially when most artists think she'll take after her mom. It doesn't help that Dexter once described Dee Dee as "her hips a bit meaty".
they removed it with the edit reason "inappropriate" (presumably meaning "sexualizing characters from a children’s series is inappropriate")
Whether you agree with them or not, YMMV is just troping Audience Reactions, and we’ve had other Self-Fanservice entries from kids shows. Even if it is "inappropriate" we’re just troping what fans believe. Is this ok, or should I add it back?
openCan Complete Monsters/Magnificent Bastards, etc go in Just For Fun?
I recently created a JFF page for a fictional show meant to be like Tales From the Crypt known as Symphony in Black, meant to be adapted from some of EC Comics. I noticed an MB entry of EC Comics' YMMV page, and said character would appear in Symphony In-Universe. Would I be able to do something like that on the page, or do those only apply to real works?
openEnglish Premier League vs. British Footy Teams?
I recently did a large edit on the British Footy Teams Useful Notes page to smarten it (or at least the folders on the Home Nations and FA teams) up, and I realized that I essentially copied the quick statistics and crests from the English Premier League. I'm now scratching my head and wondering how much the two pages need to overlap before they should be merged or redistributed (e.g. moving info from the EPL page to the Footy Teams page, or perhaps spinning info from both into a third "English FA Teams" page)?
It's worth noting that while the statistics/images on the Footy Teams page were (largely) taken from the EPL page, there are a number of teams there that are not mentioned on the EPL page, and the info under the line in each team is different between the pages.
Is there a protocol/precedent for this kind of situation?
Edited by DancouMaryuuopenFic's recommendations in other languages
Hello Tropers! I wanted to ask about the recommendations for Fanfics written in non-English speaking languages. Are they put in a specific place? Or are they simply not posted here? The doubt comes from the page's policy of not allowing posts in other languages.
openTropes on Hand Jumper Webcomic
I'm very new to TV Tropes wiki-making and wanted to make a page on the webcomic "Hand Jumper" but saw that the page was previously deleted. I'd like to start it up again but first may I get some permission so I don't do anything wrong?
Edited by wingedcatgirlopenVandal messing with kids' shows again Western Animation
TearJerker.Peppa Pig was just made by Jakob10 that consists of "*Mummy Rabbit sprained her ankle. *Mummy Sheep has a cough."
openPossible edit war
On YMMV.Touken Ranbu Warriors (and it's previous name Touken Ranbu Musuo):
- Troper biggestSoap added an Esoteric Happy Ending entry on its previous name before I moved it.
- I removed it, citing this comment on the "Is this an Example" thread".
- Soap added it again (albeit rewritten) on the new named page.
I'm not sure if edit warring counts when a page is moved from its original language title to one that is officially localized so I wish to know.
Edited by Ayumi-chanopenIs this walkthrough mode
I found this on Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes and I'm unsure if it is walkthrough mode.
- Easy Level Trick: The easiest way to recruit Hogan, who requires you to earn 50,000 Baqua of profit solely by buying/selling items at the Trade Depot, is buying as much trading items as possible before talking to him to initiate his side quest. That way, players can just run towards the nearby trading post and sell everything that can be traded to easily get him.
openTeam-Up Series question
I’m having an issue regarding Team-Up Series. Apparently the trope is only used when one character teams up with another character each issue/episode, not the same person throughout the series.
My question is even if it’s the same person would being a team up still count? For example Superman/Batman. The series is a literal team-up between Superman and Batman, but doesn’t fit the team-up series trope. Is a second trope for when the main draw of a series is that two characters are teaming up?
openEdit warring
On Super Mario Galaxy, SeaMonkey851 has changed the game's genre from Platform Game to Action-Adventure. This is the second time they do this, after I had reverted it since all official sources describe the game as a 3D Platformer instead of action-adventure. They also extended this wonk to the Action-Adventure index, as seen here (where they also listed other 3D Mario games which, again, are officially described as Platformers).
I'm writing this query to ask for permission to revert the edit once again, and ideally to also remove the games from the AA index.
openAvoiding an EditWar
Troper bloodraven117 deleted several entries on the Mythos Effect page on the basis that they are "Non-canon omakes". However, all of them are listed as canon side stories on Space Battles. I can't re-add since I'm the original poster, and when I reached out to bloodraven, all I got in over three weeks was "They aren't on the FanFiction.Net version, and tropers who come from FFN will be rightly confused about where they are in the story".
To me, this seems... not our problem I guess is how I'd put it. We have a link to the version of the story that includes those entries so their should be no problem in including them on the tvtropes page, right?
openVIdeo uploading has become fast
I am impressed with the upload speed of videos now. Did we switch to a new server?
openAdding "the one where" lines to Star Trek: TNG recaps. Live Action TV
I've always enjoyed the "the one where/with" lines at the beginning of pages for Rocky, James Bond and Star Trek films, as well as Doctor Who episode recaps. I'd like to add some examples to TNG recaps, can I just dive right in and do it? Or do I need to get clearance from mods, or request permission in a Trope Workshop first?
Thanks.
Edited by 773202lunaopenIs there any parameter for text under headers to be put in folders?
This is a question that popped on my mind when I was doing some structuring on the The Amazing Digital Circus pages. Specifically, when I put the "General" section of the newly-created Alternative Character Interpretation in a folder (to go in tandem with the folders in the "Episodes" section) among some cleanup, I went to check if any other pages had some sections with folders and others without them, I found the Heartwarming page, which had its "Misc." section without a folder; I attempted to put it in a folder, only to notice upon looking in the page's history that Shanwoo 444 (the same troper who created the Alternative Character Interpretation) had already done that before only to quickly remove it as they were creating folders for each episode under the "Episodes" header, at which I quickly reverted the changes (initially because I mis-read the entries for a moment and thought I added the "Misc." folder myself, meaning that I could have started an edit war, but I sticked to what I did anyway after seeing I didn't just in case).
What I'm asking is, in pages pertaining to examples of a trope in a specific work that use folders and headers at the same time, should folders only be used as further subsections for headers that have distinctive aspects separating the examples (e.g. the episode it takes place in), or is a single folder acceptable for any header regardless of how the distinction between its examples or even its length (as the Misc. section in the Heartwarming page is rather short with only two examples)? Shanwoo 444 and I seem to have rather different ways of organizing pages like these, given how I prefer to put everything in folders to keep things neat whereas they are fine with leaving headings without folders unless they address things such as episodes. I'm not really sure if there's any rule or recommendation addressed in the Administrivia pages on how to handle folders in this situation, and I'm asking this just to be safe on what to do.
openAlternate Aesop Interpretation
Is it just me or does the good chunk of the main entries read like citationless Unfortunate Implications? Like this example on-page: " [...]What it ended up implying was that it's important for a woman to be passive and delicate so as not to hurt her boyfriend or husband's ego, or that if her partner cheats, it's her fault for being too outspoken and/or not passive enough. It also implies that a woman, no matter how knowledgeable about how to "slay the dragon" she may be, needs a man to solve all her problems for her." or "[...]Grand personal sacrifices for others - including, but not limited to, literal suicide - are totally cool as long as you don't want anything in return."
Edited by inbeforedash
The page for Brady Noon is a mess and stud. The person who made it hasn't edited since February. I am unsure what to do as I am not familiar with his work beyond two films.