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Hey, a user named Tear Drop deleted the notes to not include Fridge Logic, Fridge Brilliance, or Ho Yay on the main page for the Prince Of Persia movie. He didn\'t add any examples, but why did he delete those?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Film.PrinceOfPersia
Edited by Madrugadaopen No Title
Me and the author of a combination search engine Duck Duck Go have been discussing special integration with TV tropes. He asked if you had a dump of the whole site he could use. I couldn't find it; is there one? Or if not, could the sysadmins make one?
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Does anyone know what indexe/s this page should be given? I'm at a complete loss on how to categorize it.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElviraMistressOfTheDark
Edited by LazyGirlopen No Title
Ill Ill Ill Ill has started a one man crusade against gushing. He's written a manifesto and is deleting any mention of it that he finds from the wiki pages outside of the Sugar Wiki. When politely asked to move them to YKTTW pages instead of just deleting them he flat out declined.
Edited by shimaspawnopen No Title
Jack Mackerel just vandalized Locked Pages and Permanent Red Link Club. Please ban.
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Ill Ill Ill Ill seems to have a grudge against Crowning Music of Awesome, and is going on a crusade to delete all of its potholes.
That'd be fine, except s/he's not moving them to a YMMV tab and is just zapping them, forcing me to clean up. S/he's also deleting potholes not "listed on a work's page as a trope," despite that to my knowledge those are allowed as long as they aren't excessive.
Advice please?
Edited by SpellBladeopen No Title
Dear Tropers
Seriously, how do you guys type with boxing gloves on?
Edited by EponymousKidopen No Title
I just noticed something rather odd about the redirect of Antigone for the page Antigone. It doesn't actually show up as a redirect on the page itself and I when I try to edit it I get directed to a page headed with "Antigone: Antigone", yet wicks do redirect from it. I'm curious whether it can be fixed on the basis that the pages that link to that redirect won't appear in the "related to" feature as it is.
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Hello~ There's been a bit of an edit war between myself and another troper on the Tangled IJBM page, and I was wondering if it would be possible for a mod to take a look at it.
One of the things that the other troper has been doing include deleting huge swaths of text aren't directly to the point, editing and reediting the page so that the edit history is all them editing between "inserttexthere" and "insert text here" and has ignored every attempt to ask them to bring it to the discussion page before deleting things. I've ended up just saving a word document of the page, and putting it back the way it was several times, but I'm willing to stop if that is what needs to be down.
Thank you for your time, Loracarol
Edited by revert loracarolopen No Title
I just downloaded Mozilla Firefox today, and despite supposedly importing everything from my previous browser, my account here didn't seem to carry over. As a result, I'm having to type this up on Internet Explorer. What happened, and what do I do?
And on a mildly related note (this is how I learned about it), why is there a content warning for the Trope Repair Shop?
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A little problem here: I've made a new "trope" Gun Counterpart which has a list of tropes. But like Distaff Counterpart, it's not intended to be an index, and I didn't put the [[index]] and [[/index]] in the edit page.
But then when I go to see some of the trope listed there, the Gun Counterpart index banner is shown in the below of the page. Which means that Gun Counterpart is an index. How could that be?
Edited by DAN004open No Title
Keyblade Spirit keeps censoring Justin Bieber's name on Poison Oak Epileptic Trees. Mod, please?
Edited by ColorPrinteropen No Title
I need help with uploading page can somebody please upload or tell me step by step on what Im suppose to do? The Image I'm trying to upload is for the Swallowed Whole Page.The image is this [1]◊
Edited by DavidtheMouse14
Little question, is there a specific rule against adding a pothole instead of a work title? And if so, what page is it on?
For example.
I hope that made sense. Incidentally, no, I haven't added any like that myself.