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openEdit crash
When I edited https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard, the loading page took an incredibly long time to confirm my edit and for whatever reason, the page says I edited the page three times. This is not the first time this has happened to me, so there is a consistent bug on at least one page.
Edited by hopeshallliveopenDisappearing Edit Notice
So, when looking on the New Tropers Edits' section, I'm prone to finding things done wrong. When fixing those examples, however, the record of the troper's edit disappears from the list. It seems like any time the page is edited after a new troper, that new troper's edit stops being recorded. I'm assuming this is a glitch, because it doesn't make much sense.
openRecap pages not indexing properly
Recap.The Good Place, among other shows, in't indexing properly for some reason even though it is indexed on Recap.Live Action TV.
openMore crowner shenanagans
This may be specific to this page. I tried to create a crowner for the Randomized Damage Attack TRS thread by editing https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/PageAction/RandomizedDamageAttack. This crowner already exists, as do variants where you add 2,3, Two, etc. to the end of the URL. It's one of those bibble bobble crowners; editing a crowner item claims it was made in 2010 by Fast Eddie.
When I try to edit the at issue, it goes to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner_issue_edit.php which is blank.
When I try to edit a crowner item, it take me to a page which says Are you sure you want to create a crowner for BiggestComplaint/Firefly? If I go back two pages, the item is successfully edited.
What's going on and how do I make a crowner for this TRS thread?
openTLP editor not saving.
I'm trying to edit my TLP draft (Mage Born of Muggles) and the edits aren't saving.
openPossible change in the Segoe emoticon / icons?
Basically, there's an emoticon/icon next to things like "Ask Tropers", "Edit Page", "History", and the usual Facebook/Twitter/Reddit on "Follow TV Tropes."
However, when both logged in and not logged in, the Segoe emoticons aren't showing up on some of them anymore, seen here, so I don't know if it's my browser (Firefox), or OS missing a display update (Windows 7), or the site itself missing a line of coding. When I last logged in about July this year, everything was still displaying perfectly fine.
openAnother Random Red Link.
Mighty Magiswords has been appearing red in not only my old edits, but also the redirect seen on WesternAnimation/MightyMagiswords. Also, redirecting links for Sonic the Hedgehog CD via Sonic CD is also red.
Edited by PantaroPopen"Select Medium" updates for Ask the Tropers
Basically, you can (and often, should) use the "Select Medium" feature when making queries on Ask the Tropers. However, I noticed that its current selection is a bit dated.
- No option for Tabletop Games.
- No option for Toys.
- Uses a "Videogame" spelling, when the accepted namespace on the wiki is VideoGame. Spelling it with a lower-capital g is considered a case of accidental miscapitalization, which is a prevalent enough issue that we have a whole thread dedicated to it.
- Useful Notes are not technically a medium, but they are a prevalent namespace, and often has queries associated with it as well, so adding them to the list of options may be a good idea.
- There are options for "Anime", "Western Animation" and "Print Comic", but nothing for Manga. Given the similarity between the two, should "Anime" be expanded to "Anime and Manga", the way it's usually written on the trope page folders?
There are probably other examples, but these are the main ones I can think of.
Edited by NTC3openRandom red links
For some reasons, some pages appear as red links in other pages. Some examples:
Edited by PhantomDusclops92openTeen Wolf red linked
While editing, I noticed that a link for Teen Wolf was red, yet the page exists. The link, by all accounts, should be blue.
openHobbit movies character pages index
I indexed the pages for the Hobbit movies' characters, but somehow An Unexpected Journey became The Desolation of Smaug in the index at the bottom. It's still An Unexpected Journey after clicking on it however.
openPage Won't Load
I was going through FanWorks.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and noticed that, for some reason, the Two Worlds One Family page won't load for me. It redirects as Two Worlds One Family?from=Fanfic.Twoworldsonefamily with an error.
I don't particularly care about the page and was just looking at random fic pages, but I'm just letting the glitch be known. I think I've had this occur on a separate page in the past, but I can't remember which.
openKingdom Hearts indexing
VideoGame.Kingdom Hearts and Franchise.Kingdom Hearts both appear as indexes on Kingdom Hearts games, despite the former being a redirect to the latter and having "does indexing" unchecked (had to edit it and break the redirect to check).
openStrange image rotations
Per this Image Pickin' thread and one previous case, some people are reporting that page pics are showing up rotated 90 degrees from where they should be, depending on whether they're on desktop or a mobile device. No idea what could be causing this.
openFollowing still uses old icons
The list of edits on my followed pages still uses the old icons that haven't been used in years (Jack Skellington for Nightmare Fuel, for instance), and from what I can see, medium namespaces except Film and Western Animation don't have icons at all.
Edited by rjd1922closedAdding a trope page link.
I want to add a link to Fanfic/Justice on the One Piece recommendation page, but the link is not visible, appearing as [[Fanfic/Justice here]]. Any idea why this is occurring?
openFanfics and works of the same title (never mind)
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but I have noticed that fanfics that happen to share their title with other works appear on that work's main page.
The example I can think on top of my head is the Majora's Mask fanfic Insomnia appearing in the page of the movie Insomnia. I have seen a couple more occasions like this as well, and I'm sure there are more.
Edited by LermisopenWorking link is red
The link to asdfmovie in the page quote of Opposite Day is red even though clicking on it takes me to a valid page.
EDIT: And it's red here, too.
Edited by rjd1922
Not only are Heroic Sociopath, Hot Mom, and Hot Dad broken, but so are the following now:
- If You Know What I Mean
- It Got Worse
- It Gets Worse
- No. Just... No
- This Troper
Edited by Brainulator9, which for some reason shows up as "Lampshaded Double Entendre" rather than "If You Know What I Mean"