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resolved Franchise Fatal Frame: Recreate It? Videogame
The Fatal Frame videogames used to have a Franchise page that would work, but ultimately led to the Videogame page for the games. Overall, it worked just fine because all the games' tropes were listed there. Now that the sequels (Fatal Frame II until Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water) have gotten their own subpages, wouldn't it make sense to make a Franchise/Fatal Frame page again?
This way, the Franchise page can list all of the games and common tropes, with links to the games' own pages, while the Videogame/Fatal Frame page can list only the tropes and information for the first game itself.
resolved Self-demonstrating works pages?
I just came across the Pygmy page, where the plot description and all the examples are written in imitation of the narrator's idiosyncratic prose style. The author deliberately chose the prose style to make it unclear what was going on, which is fine in a novel but I think is unhelpful in an informative web page. Is there a policy covering this?
resolved recap page not being made Western Animation
I've been working on making recap pages for episodes of The Emperor's New School. However, when I make one for The Emperors New School S 1 E 20 The Yzma The Stole Kuzcoween Monster Masquerade, it doesn't appear even after I hit save. the link becomes blue on the recap home, but the page itself says the article doesn't exist. Anybody else having this problem?
resolved You can't use playing with when troping real life, can you?
Home by Christmas. The trope isn't on NRLEP so there's no problem with Real Life folder itself. However, The Big Bopper added several Averted Trope, Inverted Trope, and call one "played straight" (and this one is minor Wall of Text) to Real Life folder World War II entry.
Edited by Kuruniresolved I have a proposal for Complete Monster, where do I submit? Live Action TV
I have a proposal for a complete monster. It's Yuri from Girl From Nowhere, she fits all of the archetypes to be a Complete Monster:
- She had a mom, but after she got Nanno's powers, she has completely abandoned her and didn't give a damn to check on her, which foreshadowed her selfish and callous nature.
- Her freudian excuse of Nana and Tuptim having her raped by their goons for their snuff ring ended up being redundant because throughout season 2, we saw her become as monstrous as them. She outright said that she didn't care about justice but wanted to take over the business to hurt more innocents in order to get rich, which was the first evidence of her heinous nature.
- She kills a harmless dog to give students a reason to beat a former senior to death, even if it wasn't necessary, Nanno said it herself, which foreshadowed Yuri being a dangerous threat in the series.
- She gaslights and exploits an innocent girl's situation with her parents using her influencer life as a cash cow in order to further her cat-and-mouse game with Nanno and force her to go too far to make herself doubt her actions. Yuri then taunts her about it, happy that her first step to take down Nanno is complete.
- Her second step to overthrow Nanno is to make a psychopath Junko her henchwoman to do most of the dirty work for her as the world's new "god". She hatched a death trap for Nanno where she has Junko attack her mom and even goads Nanno into interferring, knowing what her weakness is so that it could lead to her "death" by Waan and later has the latter executed by Junko once she has outlived her usefulness in assassinating her.
- At this point, nobody knows why is Yuri so evil. Or has she always been evil before those mean girls tortured her. But all we know is she loves to cause misery and pain in her victims for her own amusement.
resolved Notify Page Move
How do I notify the admins that a page should be moved, if I can't (or don't want to) do the move myself for technical reasons?
resolved The Mask Film
I found this page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanWorks/TheMask
I don't know if it's a written rule, but I don't think Fan Works pages should be filled with unpublished fanworks (I googled them and found nothing). I know I can delete the page itself by putting it on the Cut List. But the three pages within, I'm not sure that they should be deleted, maybe they could be moved to Unpublished Works. How does one move them? Is it a job for admins or can regular users do it? Is it okay if they're moved?
resolved Iran-Iraq War Page Quote
I was brought into an offsite discussion on the page quote of the Iran–Iraq War page, a page I myself namespaced from Iran-Iraq War in 2014. Anyone know who said it?
Here's the original page's history
, but it doesn't go back far enough.
resolved No Title
Can someone explain to me why my cut request for Interrupting Meme was declined, considering the quality of the page or lack thereof?
resolved Memetic Mutation misuse? Music
Found this on YMMV/Deftones:
- Memetic Mutation: Stephen revealing himself to be a believer in several conspiracies
, including the flat Earth theory, anti-vax and COVID-19 denial, was immediately met with widespread scorn from the fandom along with several memes referencing songs such as "Hole in the Earth".
This is already in need of a tweak of some kind since that Vimeo link is dead, but I'm not even sure it's an example of Memetic Mutation - it's more focused on memes made in response to a scenario rather than the scenario itself becoming a meme.
Edited by Akriloth2160resolved Creators removing Audience Reaction tropes
This concerns the YMMV page for Rae Kohai (though honestly, every subpage there has their own issues even before getting to how the work itself has been impossible to trope thanks to every episode being privated back in 2019, combined with drama surrounding the work's creator that I'm not going to touch on here). There's one specific issue I'm unsure about that I'd like a second opinion on.
I've been reading up on various administrivia pages on when creators add and edit pages for their own works, and I can't find anything that specifically covers when creators remove YMMV tropes rather than add them. The particular trope that concerns me is a First Installment Wins example that an account with a very similar name to the work's creator (which is currently inactive but mostly seemed to only edit their own work page) deleted without giving an edit reason.
Is it kosher for creators to remove audience reaction tropes even when Zero Context Examples and factual inaccuracies aren't factors?
Edited by Akriloth2160resolved How to AKA character pages / make a universal character page Videogame
Making two media pages in the same franchise, which shares similar casts, and would like there to be one character page that links to them both.
Similar accomplished with the https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine
page, with Space Marine II linking to it via "AKA", but I've never had to do this myself until now. Like to know what page contains instructions to accomplish this.
resolved Is there a limit to the scope of a Crapsack World?
As in, if the setting is primarily limited to a city, can that city be both a Wretched Hive (the city itself) and a Crapsack World (the general setting)?
resolved Self Demonstrating Character Pages
Do Self Demonstrating Character Pages require unanimous agreement to create or are they like Work pages and anyone can make one?
resolved Should FUSION FALLS: TAKE TWO! have a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome page?
Looking at the Fusion Falls Take Two page, it feels like this should be moved into some type of "deconstruction" label since it feels like a lot of these aren't immediate outcomes. For some examples
The fact that Equestria's royal guards have a history of being utterly useless, not even bothering to show up for major crises and letting the Mane Six handle it, is used by Sunset as an excuse to disband them in favor of human police who are actually trained to handle problems. Meanwhile, she also has to start seizing assets from the nobility and selling off the treasury to stabilize the economy until she can convert Equestria into a tourist destination, since it can now no longer support itself purely as an agricultural society when their magic-based agriculture no longer works.
Dee Dee's antics have much more serious consequences in a world without Toon Physics, ultimately resulting in her being arrested after causing a massive explosion that kills hundreds of people and causes millions in property damage, and then being institutionalized when she tries to laugh off her actions as joke.
And some examples feel more tied into the whole The Magic Goes Away deal.
Without magic to hold it at bay, the Wizarding World actually has to deal with the consequences of the extensive inbreeding that it relied on, causing many of them to die within a year of the Merge.
Without magic to maintain them, Storm King's fleet of airships are destroyed by the simple fact that keeping lava pools onboard wooden ships means that the latter will naturally be destroyed.
At the very least, the page probably needs a clean up.
Edited by JustaUsername

Is it okay to move LongStory's namespace from Video Game to Visual Novel because it is the latter, going by the way it is presented? If so, how do I do it without damaging the page itself?EDIT: Nevermind, it has already been moved.
Edited by TroperNo9001