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Tropers/Kkatman has been deleting and heavily modifying entries in Fallout: Equestria, leaving snippy comments as their edit reason. Many of the edited entries, like my recent Narm entry that they have now deleted twice, are legitimate so far as I can tell.
Is this a case of an overprotective creator, and if so can something be done?
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shybritishguy deleted the list of example subpages on Narm, replacing them with a note saying "No examples please. This trope is too subjective." No edit reason.
Was there a resolution to cut these examples somewhere, or is this (which I suspect) a unilateral change that should be reverted?
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Coming here as I'm confused as to where to take it. I think it would bounce all over the place; Trope Talk, Lost And Found, and the "Is This an Example" thread.
I'm working on the page for the Doom novels.
Hey, stop laughing! They're a Guilty Pleasure that introduced me to Robert A Heinlein and HP Lovecraft.
Anyway, the main problem I have is that these books are badly written. Not in the "I think this character sucks" manner but in that they are very inconsistent on facts. I have no idea how to document such mistakes. I'm not sure what we'd consider them, like Retcons or what. And the quality gets worse as the series progresses.
I want to document this, of course I'm trying to get this in a proper objective format.
Some highlights:
- A dead character changes hair color over ten pages. She's blonde when mentioned and then suddenly a redhead.
- A monster talks to The Hero early on in the first book. This is a minor plot over the series and becomes a major plot point in the fourth. The trick is a second monster spoke in the first book, cracked a bad joke, and this is never mentioned again. Every time the subject of talking monsters come up it's only the first that anybody remembers, that was the only time it ever happened as the characters are concerned.
- The teenage girl in the group changes last names between the second and third books.
- The characters use Reporting Names for the monsters. Fly calls a monster "spiny", Arlene named them "imps". After the third book, both POV characters insist that Arlene calls them "spiny". Repeatedly.
- At the end of the third book, the heroes are unarmed and naked after teleporting disintegrated their weapons and clothes. At the start of the fourth they have their uniforms and weapons back. They didn't find new ones, they didn't make new ones. I get why, it's a Retcon because the authors backed themselves into a corner. But they even call attention to it when Arlene laments losing her wedding ring because it disintegrated when they're Retconning the disintegration.
- At the same time as the gear retcon, they now have different weapons than before. And these guns are now their weapons of choice when it was the destroyed set.
- The teenage girl changes hair color between the second and fourth books. She's a redhead in the second book and blonde in the last.
I love this series but it's a mess. The text supports all of this, I'm not bitching about perceived flaws, just trying to record what they've done wrong.
Edited by RotparopenNo Title
If there's Word Cruft on a Useful Notes page, is it a problem? Oh and is it a problem if it's on Darth Wiki pages? (like Narm, Wall Banger, Dethroning Moment, etc.)
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Scouts Girlfriend deleted an example on the Narm Video Games Subpage because s/he disagrees with it and views it as an insult against him/her.
Edited by lrroseopenNo Title
On the discussion page for Narm the first thread (how do I link directly to a discussion page thread btw?) is a TRS rename thread in disguise with people complaining about the name. Can this be moved to the TRS or otherwise removed from the discussion page please? Renames get done in TRS not discussion pages after all.
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Pages with the Narm/ namespace still have a Flame Bait header. Didn't we agree that Narm isn't necessarily flame bait or Darth Wiki a while back?
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Where do I ask to get a recently-cut-but-should-have-been-locked-before-the-cut-so-it-could-be-added-to-the-PermanentRedLinkClub-but-I-didn't-speak-up-fast-enough-so-it-just-got-cut-with-the-temporary-autolock page unlocked and locked again so it could be Cut Listed and die in peace? I tried this thread
and I've tried this thread
but neither seem to be correct.
The pages in question are WH40K and Narm.Real Life for the reasons I gave in those threads.
Edited by FinalStarmanopenNo Title
Having a small amount of trouble with soulreaver over the Narm entry on Transformers: Prime. S/he deleted it with no edit reason, I added it back with a note in my edit reason saying that a lot of people think it does count. S/he deleted it again. Hasn't responded to my PM either.
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Why is Harsher in Hindsight on Darth Wiki all of a sudden? It's not like it was used as complaining like Narm was.
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I just noticed this when I was explaining the site to a friend, but when did Narm get shifted to the Darth Wiki, and why? I could understand the subjective label, but Darth? I ended up linking her to a different page that explains the concept less well, just so she would give this site a fair chance.
Edited by CrypticMirroropenNo Title
So, on the Awesome.Avatar page, Wanderhome listed as CMOA's Quaritch punching out Sully, and Quaritch burning down hometree. I removed both on the grounds that punching out an unarmed, near-malnourished paraplegic isn't awesome, and neither is, you know, slaughtering hundreds of innocent people. Wanderhome responded that, "Beating a traitor and burning out vicious, animalistic alien savages is always awesome."
Checking some of his other edits, it's clear he just has a hate-on for the movie, and is probably just trolling. Edit: Oh, and you can add straight-up "xenophobic prick" to his descriptions. He's doing nothing but deliberately mischaracterizing the movie to put his bullshit across.
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What's the deal with Flame Bait going on YMMV pages?
Some Flame Bait pages (like Narm and Character Derailment) have YMMV banners, while others (like Hatedom and Unpleasable Fanbase) get Flame Bait banners, and others are Darth Wiki.
I ask because I see Narm in particular on many YMMV pages, and I personally just put Character Derailment on a page because I saw the YMMV and not the Flame Bait one.
Edited by Larkmarn