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resolved Self-demonstrating character page
Does it have any purpose? Should any characters have one?
resolved Question about Recap Pages
Are Recap pages allowed to have tropes referencing or mentioning a later episode of the same show or another work in the series? I ask this because I was looking through some of the Recap pages for Avatar: The Last Airbender and a large number of them contain either trope examples referencing a later episode or trope examples referencing a different work entirely. Like these examples in Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Swamp"
- Foreshadowing:
- The mask cart that passes Iroh and Zuko in the opening scene bears the Blue Spirit mask. At the end of the episode, Zuko reassumes his Blue Spirit alter-ego.
- The Foggy Swamp Tribe's unorthodox application of waterbending (bending the water within the plants) foreshadows darker applications of the art shown later.
- The spirit vine that hits the bird at the end, and the swamp itself, which foreshadow a big revelation in The Legend of Korra about the Spirit World.
- While begging for money, Iroh sings a song about how great the girls from Ba Sing Se are, much to Zuko's irritation. Later, Iroh hooks Zuko up with a Ba Sing Se girl.
I'm pretty sure that this isn't allowed as Recap pages are about tropes that occur in that specific episode, but I wanted to ask and make sure first before I edit them out
resolved What if a work doesn't have an official English translation? Web Original
It's exclusively in Korean. There isn't any fan translations either. Do I translate the work's title and character names into English myself?
Edited by BriliantDropresolved Do NREP apply for spoilers in games where one server is perpetually ahead of the others?
So, while I'm editing the Reverse: 1999 Character page a bit, I saw this commented-out warning:
I feel like the NREP link is misused as it's more about tropes that have mandatory waiting periods. Also, When handling spoiler contents from a game server that is ahead of the other servers, is it disallowed to gatekeep those lore spoilers or refrain from adding anything about new characters once the fan translation is up?

This is something that I think will require the attention of mods or those who have access to the records of such, but I'm noticing that YMMV.Lindsay Ellis seems to be an active page again, being launched in March 2025, after it was previously cut. The last archived instance on the Wayback Machine from before it was cut was December 2023
; why was the page cut to begin with if it's just going to be around again? Should it stay, or should it leave? Because based on what I'm seeing on both instances of the page do seem like they warrant existing (they're largely referring to discussing Lindsay Ellis' video essays rather than she herself as a creator).