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openNo Title Literature
Literature.Tom Swift and YMMV.Tom Swift both include a section on an MSTed version of one of the books, claiming it to be from Mystery Science Theater 3000. As far as I can determine it's not from the show, it's a Fan Fiction MST-ing of the book. As such it seems like the whole thing should be deleted, or at least moved to a Fan Fiction/ page. Anybody else have an opinion on this?
[1]
: In the paragraph re the MST fanfic "Dale Goes Nuts!" by John Nowak and Matt Plotecher:
- This particular fanfic is less grim ... and shorter than their later MSTing of the dime novel "Tom Swift and his War Tank." [link goes to the same page as the link on our Literature.Tom Swift page]
Furthermore, the page itself has the note "This MiSTing is [c] copyright 2001 by John Nowak and Matt Plotecher."
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title
I was told I could YKTTW a Character tab and launch it when it was ready, but sadly something went wrong. =(
Since it's a Character tab, I needed to namespace it somehow. But since the launch code doesn't recognize any punctuation signs, the launch turned it into a Main page instead. I want to request an unlauch of this tab and .... I guess I'll later just discard it and take the source code of the draft to create the tab manually. =/
On a side note, neither the YKTTW Gudelines page nor the Guide for Easy Launching said anything about pages that needed a namespace (in fact, they barely mentioned work-related pages, just saying that they were free and could still be put in YKTTW if I needed help).note It ended up being in vain in my case since apparently no one in the entire wiki played the game and thus I had to complete the whole draft myself
The failed launch can be found here
. Please unlaunch it.
openNo Title Literature
Do earlier drafts of works that are changed significantly when they are finalized matter for trope entries?
I'm asking because in Carrera's Legions I removed the entry for A.K.A.-47 as not being the trope, guns renamed for trademark reasons, but simply using different names for equipment that's pretty much modern day (or even recent past) equipment IN THE FUTURE!.
enderheisenberg, who added the AKA-47 entry in the first place, re-added it after my removal (Edit War in and of itself), and added the line "These were direct conversions from early drafits where the story takes part on earth." That doesn't seem like it actually makes the entry an example, but there's enough uncertainty on my part that I thought I'd ask before taking any action.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Very long edit war on Anvilicious on the new Supergirl's
page. Started back in May, recently popped up again.
Basically, one person keeps putting in what amounts to a justifying edit. Other people keep trying to say "prove it." Edit reasons are getting a bit rude, too. Not great form all around.
Personally, I think it should stay gone. It's a Justifying Edit that doesn't really add any context to Anvilicious itself and it reeks of Examples Are Not Arguable.
Pulling to discussion for the moment.
Edited by LarkmarnopenNo Title
Bit of a question to help settle a dispute on a description on a character from The Seven Deadly Sins.
Some context:
There's a character called Escanor. At night, he looks like a shrimp
. At noon, he gets buff
via magic. That was ten years ago. He's now according to Word of God, 40 years old.
A wanted poster of him shows him as this.
He shows up and he looks like this
which appears to look like his weaker self with glasses and a mustache. There's implication that it's night time and that he may change into his wanted poster appearance at noon.
There isn't a proper coloring yet.
The question:
Is it acceptable to describe his current appearance as old? Stuff like saying he looks like a weak old man, or putting down Badass Grandpa in a character page and saying his wanted poster looks like this but he appears to be a subversion as he appears to be a weak old man.
A fellow troper isn't allowing referring him to looking like an old man apparently mostly based on the fact he's 40 years old.
openNo Title
So, I found this on Film.Red Zone Cuba:
- "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: "As John Carradine's picture fades away, we suddenly hear the voice of Satan himself. No, wait, I'm sorry, I got that wrong. Actually, what we hear is John Carradine singing [!!!!] this movie's theme song.
"
They basically yoinked the entire line straight from the Agony Booth's recap, and turned the entry into a weblink to that recap. Am I correct in thinking that's totally unacceptable?
Edited by wrm5openNo Title
I've seen Furry Fandom used as a trope on a few pages (Spyro the Dragon, Cave Story, Conan, Fantastic Mr. Fox) in things that have Funny Animal and/or Talking Animal characters; that's not supposed to be a thing right?
But what if the fandom itself is depicted, as opposed to just shoehorning in the "trope" where it's just one of the actual aforementioned tropes, like in Downtown?
(Excuse me if there's something about the fandom I don't know, as I honestly don't really care about it, it's just kinda there to me.)
openNo Title
A little issue with a Crazy-Prepared subpage. I had split the previous CrazyPrepared.Comics page into CrazyPrepared.Comic Books, CrazyPrepared.Comic Strips and a CrazyPrepared.Batman subpage, because the latter content was multi-media itself. However, another editor had merged back the CrazyPrepared.Batman subpage with CrazyPrepared.Comic Books, with a clunky comment that it's still a comic-book character on top.
Please also note that the current page image is from Batman: The Movie, thus a live-action picture for a comic books page, which looks a bit weird.
I would like to know what would be the tropers consensus on this. There's largely enough Batman content to deserve its own subpage, and as specified the examples are from multiples media, not just comic books.
Edited by StFanopenNo Title
Over in the YMMV page for Gravity Falls, this user named tuohl keeps trying to add examples of Mabel (an already divisive character) either crossing the Moral Event Horizon (even though she isn't villainous) or as being a Creator's Pet (and getting into a rant about her getting away with things because she's based off of the creator's sister, nevermind the fact that some of the other leads are based off of himself, his grandfather, and a fellow crewmember).
openNo Title
Are entries on The Wiki Rule supposed to be sorted by the name of their source work, or by the name of the wiki itself? I'm planning to do some crosswicking from Trivia pages and am not sure where to add the entries.
openNo Title
Just a heads-up, I launched Captured on Purpose and some Self-Restraint and Play-Along Prisoner examples should go there since Captured on Purpose is a more accurate trope (see: Pokemon Live, The Avengers, and Return of the Jedi.)
Edited by lalalei2001openNo Title
What is the minimum amount of inbound links for a Self-demonstrating character page to be kept and become incapable of being cut listed?
openNo Title
Some of the folders in The Simpsons Seasons 1 To 8 are broken. I'd fix them myself but I'm on a tablet...
openNo Title Videogame
To prevent an Edit War, I'm bringing this here.
I removed The Fair Folk from Undertale for not being the example. The trope's about fairies being malevolent or malicious, but the "monsters" in question are actually quite friendly. However, Doh Entertainmnent readded the example anyway with the following edit reason:
"The trope doesn't specifically specify that they have to be malevolent, but at the very least unpredictable, which they mostly are, even if they aren't actually evil."
Even if he's right, the example in question needs editing to remove uncomfirmed speculation (e.g. the reason that the war started, which wasn't stated within the game itself) and to turn it into something that's less of a Wall of Text.
openNo Title
Someone by the name of DATEMAY has added another Self Demonstrating Character page under the name of Green Arrow. Since I do not know who Green Arrow is, what do guys think of the character himself along with SD page.
Edited by Loekman3openNo Title Videogame
Do games that, by themselves, are rather innocent and kid friendly, but has a player base that consists massively of the GIFT in action and has a chat so people can post things kids should not be hearing about until they're older on a daily basis qualify for the What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? trope, or does it not since that's what the developers never intended to happen, and by itself, the game is still rather innocent and kid friendly?
Also, should point this out while I'm at it, Sailor Tardis replaced the image for the page I'm talking about without first opening an image picking discussion first. Someone might want to do something about that.

Is there a page explaining the "Send Troper a standard message explaining an editing issue" thing that shows up in every page's history? When to do so, when not to do so, what happens, etc.? I mean, I believe I understand myself, but without some sort of Administrivia page about it I don't know for 100% sure I do; and new tropers certainly won't. For the record, I did look through the Adminstrivia index but didn't find anything that looked like it would cover it.
Edited by randomsurfer