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resolved How to make a redirect page. Western Animation
I want to make a Nightmare Fuel redirection for OPAL, so it redirects to the Nightmare fuel page for Jack Stauber. All the examples regarding Opal are already on the Jack Stauber page, and there's no existing page on Nightmare Fuel for Opal by itself.
resolved Reporting self-recommended fanfic
I noticed that on the Zootopia fanfic recs page, a troper added their own fic a few years ago,
then added other people's names to the rec after the fact. I hid it at first, then looked over ATT for precedent, then removed it entirely.
Is there anything else that needs to be done?
resolved Looking for a page
I am looking for the page where you can give ideas for adding examples to tropes, (when writing it yourself won't do it justice) for other people that want to edit the wiki but don't have ideas.
I thought I remembered looking at a page like that before, but after half an hour of searching I still can't find it.
3/29/2024 Posthumous edit: I originally closed this as resolved due to extreme anxiety despite not actually finding what I was looking for, which was Trope Idea Salvage Yard.
Edited by moosetwinresolved Are Page Images allowed to have triggering content?
This question feels kind of silly to ask considering how subjective triggers are, but I want to put it forth anyway.
It no longer seems to be up, but I remember at one point, Tearjerker.Thirteen Reasons Why had its page image hidden behind a content warning. The image itself was not graphic, but what it implied could be triggering and so that’s why the folder was there.
I’m wondering if something similar can be done for other pages. The reason I ask is I was browsing the pages for Film.Event Horizon, and the Nighmare Fuel page’s image contains major Eye Scream. Now, I know I am ultimately responsible for what content I consume on this wiki, and I can handle being jumpscared by Nightmare Fuel pages. Heck, I can even handle reading about the things that happen in Event Horizon. But reading about it and seeing it are two very different things, at least for me, and I would’ve appreciated a warning.
I can’t be the first person who has had an experience like this, and here is what I propose: a list of common triggers that images with those triggers should warn about first. Again, I know triggers are a very subjective thing, and it would take a lot of work. But it feels worth it to me.
Thank you for coming to my borderline vent session.
resolved Validity of an example Literature
Wasn't sure where to put this, didn't seem like it belonged in "Is this an Example". I was adding something to ThenLetMeBeEvil.Literature and happened to find this:
- Fagin in Oliver Twist is such an anti-Semitic caricature that Dickens himself grew ashamed at the remonstrations of several Jewish acquaintances, mended his beliefs, and wrote much more sympathetic Jewish characters in the future. However, since Oliver Twist was so popular and has so frequently been adapted, the adapters have had to deal with the Unfortunate Implications somehow. Some of them have used this, depicting Fagin's villainy less as a stereotype and more as an understandable response to the grinding poverty and degradation he would have suffered due to the relentless classism and anti-Semitism in England in the period.
The whole example is basically complaining about Fagin being a Greedy Jew stereotype, which, fair enough! But the example
- doesn't even get to illustrating the trope until halfway through.
- isn't actually an example for the linked source material but rather about unnamed adaptations.
- is violating Examples Are Not General by not specifying any adaptations in particular.
So I think this should probably be cut. Agreed?
Edited by StarSwordresolved Possible unnecessary labelnotes
I found these labelnotes on Characters.Trails Series Calvard Arkride Solutions Office which seems unnecessary to me.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: His face appearance is apparently androgynous enough that some people, such as Van, can't tell if he's supposed to be a boy or a girl, to his displeasure
◊. Though interestingly, Aaron and Feri actually question how Van could make that kind of mistake.Explanation While they (including Quatre himself) acknowledge that such a mistake would be somewhat plausible from a distance, Van made this mistake while face-to-face with Quatre.
- Kuro II reveals that Quatre is actually a Hermaphrodite due to the experiments he suffered at the D∴G Cult's hands, which explains Van's confusion. Explanation Van's sharper sense likely made him notice something is off about Quatre
I want to reword it but I'm afraid of making a mistake. Any other thoughts?
resolved Should this be TRS'd: AmericaWonWorldWarII Web Original
The trope description meanders along far too many tangents to what should be a description of the trope in fiction itself...feels like most of this should be moved to an Analysis page?
Edited by DarthWalrusresolved Stock Foreign Name needs to be split into sub pages.
Stock Foreign Name is becoming a very long page and I had plan to add more context to some examples, which will only make it longer.
I don't know if I can take this decision by myself. So that's why I'm asking.
resolved Quick question
This may sound silly, but when dewicking, should the item moved from Useful Notes page to Media Notes page?
My common sense say yes, but seeing there're 30+ entries of Media Notes namespace on Useful Notes, as well as Main/ like Theatre, it's occurred to me that the namespace itself might be irrelevant.
resolved Promotion to franchise page
What process must be followed if one wishes for a work page covering a series to be "promoted" to a franchise page? Such as if the series has already gathered a lot of installments, and it may start getting unwieldy for a single page to list a lot of tropes that only apply to specific installments rather than the series overall; or if the series extends to more than one medium. (Obviously, individual work pages would have to be made for each installment as well, but that's the easy part, even if it is time consuming).
In my case, I believe Len'en is at the point where it needs to become a franchise page, with each installment getting to have its own work page. The reasons will be laid out across the upcoming paragraphs.
There are already five games (and a sixth is in development), and the fourth game in particular, Len'en Ten'eisenki ~ Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle, due to its very different gameplay from previous installments and its sheer amount of content, will eventually gather too many tropes that apply only to itself and no other games in the series, which can get unwieldy when everything is listed on a series-wide page.
Furthermore, the latest game, Len'en Cafe ~ Book of the Cafe already has its own work page, which is indeed very useful since it's an entirely different genre from the other games and thus will have several tropes absent from the rest of the series.
Lastly, the series isn't even just video games; there is a music video titled Critical Point Bidding Its Last Farewell and a music album titled A World Outside Fantasy ~Len'en Mugenri~. (Albeit neither has been mentioned on the Len'en page in this wiki yet; I thought of adding them myself but am holding off on editing the page any further to focus on settling my concerns here).
Several weeks back, I made a discussion post on the work page summarizing my concerns in one paragraph to see if anyone agrees with my assessment, but it has been ignored due to low activity on the page.
(Oh, and while we're at it, the page should use the full title of the series, Len'en Project, just like how the page for Touhou was changed to Touhou Project for the same reason).
So, is there a specific forum or thread or other kind of place where I should take these concerns so whether it can be done is discussed and decided, or anything else I'm supposed to do to formally propose/enact the change?
Edited by yokaipinataresolved Moving character to a different page Literature
I'd like to move Shen Jiu's character profile from Characters.The Scum Villains Self Saving System Demon Realm And Other Characters over to Characters.The Scum Villains Self Saving System Four Main Sects. Currently he's just under Other Characters, but I think he should really be under the Qing Jing Peak section as he was literally the leader of said peak before his (presumed) death, at which point he exits the story. (I'm explaining this to clarify that there are no conflicting affiliations or anything so I don't know why he's been placed under Other Characters.) Am I allowed to go ahead and move him?
Edited by Zaperexresolved Commented-out image note
If I'm making an Image Pickin' thread for a TLP draft, can I just add the commented-out "Page image selected by IP thread" to the draft myself, or does a mod need to add it?
I've already hollered for a mod to lock the thread after an image was agreed on (here
, for reference), but I'm unsure if there was anything else I should've done first.
resolved Image Pickin' dispute
So this issue occurred regarding the page Characters.Our Avatars Are Posting On A Forum Thread Deadly Espresso.
The page in question is a personal one for me, given that it's about avatars I use on TV Tropes' "Our Avatars Are Posting On A Forum Thread" roleplay. There's been a recent dispute regarding the way images were used on the thread, with Animuacid thinking some were of bad quality or were not useful for the article. However, rather than Animuacid personally suggesting me to clean up the article for images that weren't useful, they instead took it to the Image Pickin' threads and made other users suggest some of the images be taken down without my consent. As expected for someone who had made my Characters page into a personal project of mine, I got fed up like someone finally being to clean up their damn room and took cleaning up the page into my own hands, because I thought if I want something about my own content being done right, I better do it myself. However, the Image Pickin' thread wasn't closed after my attempt at cleanup, and even after notifying Animuacid about the cleanup, they haven't closed the Image Pickin' thread.
Was Animuacid's approach to getting my page cleaned up improper and should've just been a private talk with me, or am I just being unnecessarily bitchy about someone making unwanted modifications to an article that's become a passion project of mine? Any sort of compromise to get the page in better shape would be ideal.
resolved Mistakenly Cut Recap Page
The Recap page for The Venture Bros. episode "The Venture Bros S 2 E 9 Guess Whos Coming To State Dinner" was cut mistakenly. The reason given is "The only entry on the page doesn't belong on a YMMV, but a trivia page." However, the Recap page itself was cut, not the YMMV page (which still exists).
Can someone please correct this by restoring the Recap page and correctly cutting the YMMV page?
resolved Foreign Remake - Same Roles, Same Characters? Live Action TV
I made a page for Marry My Husband: Japan, which is a Foreign Remake of Marry My Husband set in Japan instead of South Korea (itself a live-action adaptation of the original webcomic) made by the same studio behind the first series.
Since the characters are obviously different people such as the protagonist Misa Kanbe having the same role as Kang Ji-won, would certain character tropes apply to the equivalent roles if they're unambiguously meant to be the same? For example:
- Adaptational Villainy: In the original webcomic and series, Min-hwan's mother Kim Ja-ok is abusive and overexpectant of Ji-won at worst, while her Japan equivalent Hirano Masako not only openly mocks the late Misa at her funeral for supposedly committing suicide, but was willing to help her son Tomoya commit fraud by using her job at Misa's insurance firm to illegally change her life insurance beneficiary to Tomoya instead of Misa's grandmother.
resolved Redirect to MothersDayCelebrationPlot
Hi,
I intended to make Fathers Day Celebration Plot a redirect to the newly launched Mother's Day Celebration Plot, but I can't create it myself as I keep getting redirected to the TLP. Can a mod do it for me please?
Previously Toko WH
resolved Are Steam Community Market tips allowed in Boring But Practical? Videogame
I was thinking of adding some of the general advise traders use to Boring, but Practical but I'm not sure if that's allowed since it deals with real world money. Also not entirely sure where it would be put. I'm not sure if video games fit considering Steam itself isn't really a video game.

Trope summary: most of the cast in a work is being affected by something, except for one... because they're a robot.
So: Schlock of Schlock Mercenary is descended from self-repairing computer memory/storage units. One storyline had the crew finding out some politically sensitive information, and having their memories modified as a result. Schlock was able to bypass this by using his 'biology' to make a backup of his real memories, and restoring them later.