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openSelf-Demonstrating Index
I wanted to make a Self-Demonstrating page for a web series, where would I index it?
open Why there's no pague on Kodomo No Jinkan? Anime
I'm not an idiot, I understand it's a very controversial manga but still... I first started reading it as a part of my quest to witness the most banned content on this world, but what I discovered the was one of the most unapologetic, engrossing stories I've ever read which not only do I believe is probably my favorite Manga now but it helped me cope with my own abuse story as a kid. In my case, it was very ambiguous, there was no violence and my abuser was not that much older than myself, I had always been told that the pain of abuse was instantaneous so as a kid I thought that if it didn't hurt instantly it wasn't abuse. But the pain started to creep up as the years went by and such ambiguousness was compounded with a lot of doubts no one wanted to answer or aknowledge could be asked since it was tabu to question the white and black morality of the situation and just doing it surely meant you were an abuser. But Kodomo No Jinkan asked those questions and slowly I felt I wasn't so alone, in my quest for edgy shit I thought I had become insensitive, but the uncomfortable actions combined with actually caring for the characters made me so uncomfortable I couldn't believe it. Near the end there's an abuse scene that made me angry and disgusted (that was the intention) to levels I didn't thought I was capable of feeling anymore. And the ending is quite controversial for not being ideal to many moral standard (maybe stretching them a bit), but that's kinda the point, when you have been broken you happiest ending will still be a shattered one for the eyes of most people but is one you should strive for instead of giving up because the perfect normal people's ending is unreachable. Also there's a very sick character with PTSD which at the end decides to start dealing with it after avoiding it for so long, it hurt deep inside in a very needed way. I know in appearance it looks bad and most people want it to "tell don't show" but I think of it as medicine, not for your normal headache as it is chemo extreme so I guess is fine if people can't take it, but to be hated after doing so much good it makes me feel alone. So I wanted to ask if we can include it back please, I think it can do a lot of good with people still stuck in between traumas they can't just tell anybody about.
openYMMV subheadings
I noticed this example while looking at pages in recent edit reasons. On YMMV.Mister Rogers Neighborhood, there's a section of tropes that says "Didn't contain, but was still related to examples of:". If they're not from the work itself, should it be removed?
Edited by costanton11openRequesting Image Edits
Is there a forum thread where I can go to request an image edit? I launched the SpongeBob SquarePants: Video Game Characters page recently, and unfortunately, the best image I could find of Robo-Patrick contains a distracting number that I'm unable to edit out myself because I don't have the photoshop skills to do it.
openUnintentionally Unsympathetic misuse?
YMMV.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic S 5 E 12 Amending Fences
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Moondancer may come across as such to some who perceive that she held Twilight at fault simply for not being or staying friends with her, when they had moved apart. It doesn't help that she expected Twilight to show up to her party, yet never even invited her personally, nor cared that her other friends did attend, making her come off as petty and selfish. There's also the fact that she displays a rather blatant Entitled to Have You attitude towards Twilight as well.
It say she may, red-flag, be seen as unsympathetic to those who see her as unsympathetic, as opposed to why she was supposed to be sympathetic despite this. Other problems:
- If the flashback was to be believed, Moondancer was too busy setting the party up to invite Twilight in person.
- Given Twilight's character and circumstances at the time she would have declined even if Moondancer invited her in person.
- Moondancer's other friended reminding her she still had them was a key part in her getting over it, so that's not unintentional. The point was she was unfairly allowing that one moment to taint her view on friendship.
Moondancer and her episode is one of the more fondly remembered because of this, especially compared to Starlight Glimmer who had a similar backstory. This is the only place I've seen criticism agains her suggests it's a tropers personal opinion as opposed to common enough to be this trope. Thoughts?
I asked Unintentionally Unsympathetic cleanup but haven't heard back. I'm removing it on the 24th per 3-Day Rule unless I hear anything.
Edited by Ferot_DreadnaughtopenSubtitled video has watermark
On a video I may plan on uploading, I added translations and subtitles to it myself (because no English subs exist, and I can understand Mandarin Chinese) with Kapwing.com—which has a watermark on the top-right of the screen. Is it okay to upload it anyway?
openDiscussion Page input
Hi, there's a discussion between myself and another troper regarding a Trivia entry I removed. However, the discussion is at an impasse, so I'm hoping someone can help us resolve it. Since it rests on the possibility of my interpretation of the trope description being wrong (which wouldn't be the first time), please would it be possible for someone to take a look at the discussion and see whether the entries should be re-added?
The discussion is here Trivia.RWBY
The trope is: Creator Backlash.
The entries I removed are as follows, along with the edit reason I used:
Edit reason: Creator Backlash is not about creators who can look at flaws in their work and wish they'd done things differently. It's for creators who come to hate a work that is popular with fans.
- Creator Backlash:
- The crew in general don't look back on Volume 1 with a lot of good memories, with Ruby's actress Lindsay Jones frequently wishing for a chance to redub the season and Miles Luna frequently bemoaning the Jaundice arc for taking too long.
- Miles Luna admitted prior to Volume 5 that he was painfully aware of how often Yang got shafted for screentime and plot relevance, and specifically noted that Yang would get a lot of focus in that coming volume.
- Since Volume 5, Luna has taken several small potshots at the season in retrospect, such as mocking several lines he wrote on the commentary track, noting that the team wouldn't be stuck in a house again all season for Volume 6, and specifically promising that Ruby would get more focus and her leader status would be more emphasized in the coming Volumes.
openDamsel no longer in distress
When the series started, the naive girl is kidnapped by a human trafficking network and sold to a brothel for forced prostitution. She barely understand anything of it (she does not even speak the language, as she's taken from a distant country), and completely depends on the hero to save her. Meaning, a Damsel in Distress.
Did I say that she did not understand anything? Only in the begining. During the series she learns the way everything works, how to outsmart the bosses and look for herself, without needing the hero. By the ending of the series, she makes the big plans herself, and the hero is more of a drawback than a good help. Meaning, a Damsel out of Distress.
Would it be correct to list both in the character page, explaining the context, or the final characterization is the one that prevails?
openReadding of a non-character trope Videogame
I took down Ambiguous Situation entries in Characters.Kingdom Hearts Supporting Originals (and a few other non-character trope entries), but Sir Adamus readded one and without leaving an edit reason (under the Subject X folder, to be exact)
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Just thought I'd bring it up here as I didn't want to risk an Edit War even if there's no issue with taking down non-character tropes from character pages itself.
openClarification on All Gays Are Promiscuous
A bit confused about All Gays are Promiscuous since examples were taken out from Hazbin Hotel and the trope page itself.
Is this trope basically about a gay character who is promiscuous? Several examples on the trope page itself, it's laconic, and playing with page seem to suggest so.
Really confused since the Hazbin Hotel examples were removed basically on the reason that of the 3 gay characters in the show, only 1 of them is promiscuous while the other 2 aren't therefore it doesn't qualify as this trope. If so, what about the other examples in the trope page which lists works with both promiscuous and non-promiscuous gay characters?
Edited by Elfkaiseropen Can't Take Compliments
Is there a trope for this? Someone who just can't accept any sort of compliment no matter how deserved it is. I don't think it is quite Heroic Self-Deprecation since that implies that they feel they are inherently worthless. It's just not being able to take a compliment by either deflecting credit elsewhere when they are fully responsible for the achievement or trying to downplay it. Basically just thinking they're not as great as they really are.
It would be more of a direct inversion to Can't Take Criticism. Instead of not being able to accept any form of criticism, they can't accept any form of compliment.
openHandling adaptation spoilers Live Action TV
At the The Witcher (2019) page someone just added a spoiler from the books the show is based on to the main page. It is under spoiler tags, but it is a twist that hasn't been revealed or hinted at in the show itself, so a person who has seen the entire first season and thinks it safe to look at the spoiler tags will have the surprise ruined.
Before removing it I wanted to ask if there was any Administrivia source I could quote to add a warning about doing this sort of thing in the future.
ETA: The spoiler in question was added at the end of the Leave No Survivors entry.
Edited by AzureOwlopenNote mark up covered with spoiler
I think it should be forbidden since it's impossible to show it, clicking on "Note" simply cover text again.
Try it yourself, the first entry on Glass (2019) has note markup in the middle of spoiler.
But Handling Spoilers say nothing about this issue.
Edited by KuruniopenSite bug?
Basically I edited an article, and press save. The problem is that I'm not then redirected back to the page itself, but stayed in the edit page. I pressed save again (because I'm not sure if the first press is working or not), and is redirected back. When I checked the edit history, there's 2 entries: one is my proper edit, and the 2nd is a null edit.
Is this a site bug or a bug with my browser? I'm not sure, and I don't want to accidentally do a null edit again.
Edited by onyhowopenJessica Jones recap - Maybe ever after Live Action TV
Regarding the final episode of Jessica Jones. I originally removed the example MaybeEverAfter due to the definition of a hint or implication a successful conclusion to a romance arc. I thought that was no indication of such an implication, the break up seemed pretty final with no hint of continuing. Of course with the cancellation of the show itself there will definitely be no continuing. While Erik the person she broke up decided to become someone worthy of her. That is no indication that would mean she would take him back or seek to re-establish the relationship. To be fair I used Luke’s return one of the examples as to why that MaybeEverAfter did not apply. Which is not a factor come to think of it. It was added back after removal and I was wondering if it warranted removal again. As the example is that the relationship will return as "probably" or "kinda sorta maybe." But there was no indication of that in the final. They broke up, he resolved to be a better person. She focused on stopping Trish and that was it. I removed the example because the main thing is a “reasonable” likelihood they would end up together. There was no hint of that in the final and with the cancellation no further chance of that happening. Is it valid for removal again.
Edited by TuvokopenCustom Title misuse Videogame
Okay, I'm perplexed... the page for the fangame VideoGame.Fredbear And Friends has a custom title that turns it to "Fazbear and Friends". This is a misuse of the system; the work page itself seems to confirm the title is Fazbear and Friends, so I don't know why it was put in a different Wiki Word in the first place.
Before moving it, though, I noticed the page has lots of wicks, and there's also a WebAnimation.Fazbear And Friends page already existing.
Anybody has an idea how this situation came to be?
openWick cleanup help
Is there a place where I can ask for help cleaning up wicks? I was looking through the related tab for Schedule Slip to see how many examples were played with, and I came across loads of examples on the main work page instead of the trivia page. I'd go through it myself, but it is a lot, and most of them would have to have new trivia pages created just to house them.
openIndexing Web Original
So i've created a couple new pages and have been trying to add them to their specific indexes, but I can't find the index that they belong too. Like I've been trying to add the Web Video/fan works page to the fanfiction index, but I can't find the fanfiction index itself because everytime I go to the its index, it is just the overview page of what fanfiction is. I feel like i'm doing something wrong. Please help
openOkage Title Videogame
The page for Okage is incorrectly titled. The real title is Okage: Shadow King, you can even see it on the poster in the page itself. Requesting approval to move everything to the proper namespace.
Edited by DelphineTheDelphox

So I recently removed a bunch of tropes entries for adaptations of characters on the X-Men pages because those are comic pages and I haven't seen this done on any other character sheet (Venom, Naruto, Captain America, Batman or anything where the characters have a notable video game presence) and it just sort of looked weird when usually these entries are under the adaptations' own pages. E.g. "Teleport Spam: In [GAME] he does this" or something where it is explicitly said that the person isn't normally something, but in one specific adaptation they are, or Actually a Doombot in one instance for a videogame adaptation. This is in the comics character pages, not the character pages or trope entries for that specific adaptation. There's also their appearances in a videogame apparently warranting being in the main body of text above the examples, which I find questionable.
zealots re-added them without discussion saying there's no rule against it, but the main X-Men characters page itself says it's for the comics and some of the pages themselves state it's for the comics versions, so I'm not sure how to proceed. Thoughts?
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian