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resolved Franchises Across Multiple Media Categories
I launched Melting Pot Sci-Fi Setting yesterday. During TLP I arranged the Star Trek and Star Wars examples into their own Franchise folders. I did this because these are media Franchises with shared lore that all rely on the trope, so scattering be between different media categories makes things hard to follow.
During the TLP there was discussion about me initially alphabetizing this incorrectly but nobody seemed to mind me keeping the Franchises together: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=6i0kr1c7noxf5im7knrfo4op
However ~Nejiiuyn has edited the page and split them up and now it's confusing:
I don't want to just reverse this as I'd be edit warring but I did want to bring it here for discussion.
resolved Too similar tropes
I saw that for the amazing digital circus character page, Ragatha has both Captain Ersatz and expy. I don't think she should have both given that they have subtle differences. What do y'all think?
resolved Do we really need a copyright notice at the top of a recap page? Western Animation
I'm in the midst of culling An Aesop wicks from Lilo & Stitch: The Series recap pages, when I discovered that the plot summary for the recap page for "Spats" is taken verbatim from the fandom page of said episode. As if it wasn't obvious enough, the opening section has this displayed in bold at the top: The plot synopsis below includes content originally written on Lilo & Stitch Wiki on Fandom, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported).
No other recap page for the series has this as placed at the top of the page. Risefrom Your Grave added this back in 2021 and has edited other recap pages of Lilo & Stitch: The Series in their time on here. but they haven't added this notice on other pages they have edited. I don't want to send a Plagiarism notifer for a 3 year old edit, but they are still active on the site. I'm listing this here as I don't want to make a drastic edit without notifiying the troper that made it, and I don't want to instigate an edit war. What should be my course of action?
Edited by Jalpo99resolved The One With Spongebob
Some troper has added "The One With [element in said episode]" to each episode description of Spongebob Squarepants for the first three seasons. They range from something integral to the episode (i.e. Club Spongebob being "The one with the Magic Conch Shell", which is an important part of the episode) to something largely irrelevant (i.e My Pretty Seahorse being "The one with the coin slot", which only shows up as a seconds-long gag that has no bearing on the plot and is never mentioned again). Since The One With is now Just For Fun (and not linked to on any of these recap pages), are these additions OK to keep, or should they be removed for lack of relevance?
resolved EditWar
On the YMMV page of The Simpsons:
- Kingslayer38 added a sub-entry for Jerks Are Worse Than Villains dedicated to bashing on Lisa Simpson.
- I removed it for being too complainy the same it was added.
- Kingslayer38 re-adds it back with no prior discussion.
resolved "Featured" Video Examples
Just a quick question, what does marking your video examples as "Featured" actually do?
resolved What's up with the "new" profiles on some tropers' accounts?
I've noticed a few usernames I'm familiar with from other edits, and the site has the "new" tag by their names. I'm able to go back a while on their edit histories, so... I dunno what's happening here.
resolved Who counts as a SilverFox?
I am a little confused on who counts as a Silver Fox / Silver Vixen. Do they have to have grey/white hair because I've seen characters listed as this trope who are older (and attractive) but who dye their hair so they don't have grey or white hair? And also—I suspect this doesn't count but I've seen characters who fall under this category listed anyway so I figure I'll ask—do people who are not old (eg in their 30s or so) but have hair that's greyed early and are still seen as attractive count as this trope too?
Edited by DeathsApprenticeresolved TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for She Is All Grown Up at the Trope Repair Shop. Click here if you want to join the discussion.
Edited by WarJay77resolved TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for Daddy System at the Trope Repair Shop. Click here if you want to join the discussion.
resolved Notifier question
So...I'm gonna be away from home for a while due to a family event, meaning I won't be near my computer. Given something important could come up, say, someone here has a question or I'm summoned to a thread, that's very hard to do when constantly on the move or even impossible when I'm away from the phone.
Would it be ok for me to just put a notice on my troper page to give a bit of a heads up? I initially did but I got a little worried that I wasn't supposed to.
Edited by Stardust5099resolved How to get special characters in the page title?
So, i noticed that some media titles have special characters like ":" or "()" in them.
For example:
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode
And i wanted to know how do we do that when creating a page for a work, because the way we create a page here is by filling the blank space im the URL with the media name, but special characters aren't allowed in the group name and title. So how do we get them there?
Edited by CulturedScholarresolved Super Mario Odyssey: Hide and Seek Web Original
So I made a page for Super Mario Odyssey: Hide and Seek the other day, and then I thought of something. I was going to put the series into the FanWorks.Super Mario Bros page... only to be confused for quite a while, because the series itself is based on a mod for the game, so do I put it in ROM hacks or Web Video?
I have no idea.
Edit: I just realise that I thought about it too much, please ignore this.
Edited by Narioresolved Spanks
Spanks has added an improperly indented (lone third-bullet) example pertaining Super Mario Bros. Wonder in Bleak Level. I had sent them a lifetime total of 5 indentation notifiers (the oldest one in February 2016 and the newest one in March this year), among other notifiers like word cruft. I just don't understand why this habit still continues, by know they should know better unless they never read the Example Indentation page (or even the messages pointing them to it).
resolved Interruption by (possible) Trojan
I'm browsing a page on the site, when suddenly, the tab I'm on changes from TV Tropes to what seems to be a page for Norton Antivirus Software. A popup then appears, showing that apparently, my computer has five computer viruses, and that my Norton contract has expired. But here's the rub; I'm from England, which doesn't have Norton available (as far as I know). So, I do what I always do against potential phishing: turn the computer off and on again with my keyboard, then open Windows Security and run a quick scan (better safe than sorry), before reopening my browser (Google Chrome), restoring my tabs, and quickly closing the "Antivirus" tab before it fully restores itself.
This has happened once in two consecutive days (as of writing). So, my question is: Please can anyone confirm that a) this isn't just a "me" thing, and b) the issue is being dealt with?
resolved Edit War?
So, I am unsure on this but YMMV.Dead Boy Detectives 2024:
- Shanwooo 444 added anUnintentionally Unsympathetic entry mentioning "despite him never being anything other than kind and patient with her".
- I removed that sentence in my attempt to make the entry more neutral and fix some grammar mistakes.
- Shanwooo 444 re-added that phrase almost word for word.
I mean like I said I am unsure if this is an edit war. They didn't discuss this anywhere and this is not the first time they have done this, but I was thinking on re-adding that part anyways as it reads weird without it. However, even then I am unsure if it counts but that is for a different discussion. Is this an edit war?
Edited by Bullman
UnintentionalUncannyValley.Fan Works and UnintentionalUncannyValley.Tabletop Games were removed from Unintentional Uncanny Valley as all examples were intentional and moved to Uncanny Valley.
Is there a reason the pages were not cut or should they be.