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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DethroningMoment/LiveActionTV
I signed my entry "Dagobitus" with all the curly brackets etc, but my name came out in Red Z
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Is anyone else having a problem with the previews while editing pages? When I hit the preview button it brings up the Preview tab as normal, however it doesn't seem to be using standard TV Tropes formatting (right aligned images show up as left aligned, some blue links show up in "previously visited" purple, folders don't show up at all, etc.)
I'm seeing this in Firefox on multiple pages, if that helps at all.
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Something occurred to me: Don't the Playing With pages render Laconic Wiki completely redundant?
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Card Games has, like, three or four examples from card games depending on how you count it. The page does, however, house examples from Comic Books. I imagine this is due to some oversight during the big media split a while back, but I've brought it up on the discussion page to no response.
See, I'd do something, but my concern is that without the comic book stuff the example list is small enough to be absorbed back into the main Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot page - after all, Fan Nickname has that kind of action going for it. Thoughts?
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I feel bad for not asking this before, but over on The Nostalgia Chick there's kind of a debate: Are Conversational Troping/pointed out tropes allowed or is it only supposed to be tropes she's used in her show? If the latter is the case, are we going to bulldoze The Nostalgia Critic, The Spoony Experiment, Zero Punctuation and Atop The Fourth Wall for the same thing?
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About the YMMV red dotted tropes: is it really worth creating one for the work if there's only one on its page?
For example, Gretel And Hansel has High Octane Nightmare Fuel as its only YMMV trope. Does it need a YMMV page?
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Asked this before, but what was the policy for putting up tropes for unpublished works? My previous question about this has vanished off the bottom of Ask The Tropers.
Also, would there be anywhere but the Darth Wiki page for unpublished works to put up a trope list for my own unpublished work? I'm concerned that the Darth Wiki page might be swarming with trolls.
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I just came across this page, and with the combination of being a stub and a The Same But More of two tropes people already have enough trouble distinguishing between, it gives all the appearance of having been created with no discussion whatsoever. Just thought I'd bring attention to it so the proper action can be taken.
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This probably belongs in the forum, but a question to the mods: Is the It Just Bugs Me namespace supposed to be exclusively used to discuss Fridge Logic and plot holes? I keep getting mixed signals, and the IJBM hompage is vague.
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Is there a point where a work is too obscure to get it's own page? I found a page today for a video series where the entire page was made by the guy who makes the videos. In addition, the "series" only has one video up and it has less the 500 views since it went up in December. It also claims to be the trope namer for a different trope, which seems odd to me since it seems like that trope's page is older than the series.