Headscratchers Cleanup

I'm thinking about deleting roughly the first half of the Shadow of the Colossus page because it's clearly leftover from It Just Bugs Me with discussion about morality and gameplay.

Edited by Mullon on Sep 22nd 2020 at 10:32:58 AM

A page image was added to Headscratchers.The Loud House. I don't think this is allowed, correct?

Edited by costanton11 on Oct 28th 2020 at 11:14:51 AM

Purple Eyed Guma already removed it.

I noticed there's Headscratchers.Star Trek Voyager Meta. Is this allowed?

Bump. Dunno. It's chock full of FPW, so I guess the FPW needs to be rewritten to be less first-person.

Sounds complainy to me, at least the first folder.

The other meta Headscratchers pages I found are Headscratchers.Calvin And Hobbes Meta, Headscratchers.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Meta, and Headscratchers.Wreck It Ralph Meta.

Edited by costanton11 on Nov 26th 2020 at 9:56:22 AM

Bumping.

I think I remember cleaning up the Headscratchers page for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. But I just realized that there's still more to go with for rest of the series.

Yeah. Every HP page is in awful condition.

Thoughts on the meta pages?

Which ones?

Mostly these ones

Well, unless we've come to a consensus on a blanket-ban of "meta" for Headscratchers, we need to look at those pages individually.

I'm not too familiar with the works themselves, but things that have to do with reception should probably go.

This entry on The Mortal Instruments seems like it's mostly complaing and meta stuff, especially the last answer. Can I cut it?

• Correct me if I'm incorrect, but it did seem to me that the whole "incest" thing came out of nowhere, or was there some hint that I missed?
  • With Jace, it totally came out of nowhere FOR DRAMA. With her real brother, it came out of 'How can we make him as creepy as possible?' in my opinion.
    • First one seemed to work. Second one seemed to not work considering Sebastian's Draco in Leather Pants treatment by many fans (although the author seems to sometimes encourage this idea).
  • Did you miss the part where Jace and Clary thought they were related? Or when Clary's real brother kissed her?
  • Honestly there are no hints whatsoever that Jace and Clary could be related in City of Bones and was really a cheaply used device for wangst and drama and to allow UST. It was also obvious that Valentine lied about them being siblings too. I mean Clary has red hair and green eyes, Jace is blonde with amber eyes, neither Valentine or Jocelyn have Jace's characteristics. Props to the movie for having a scene where Valentine and Hodge conspire to trick Clary and Jace.

Edited by Unoriginalusername3 on Dec 15th 2020 at 11:50:50 AM

I think My Hero Academia needs some cleanup too. I see a few main problems but I'd always like another opinion:

• Two duplicate questions on the main character being called plain-looking once
• Other closely related questions that aren't duplicates (the fitness testing, Mirio's costume, etc.)
• Nitpicking about small details in the answers
• Duplicate answers that don't add to the discussion
• Non-descriptive folder names
  • A few folders are also entirely spoilered out, so there's no way to figure out if it's safe to read

Sometimes, people respond to Headscratchers by literally saying, "A Wizard Did It". I hope this isn't allowed.

Saw could do with a clean-up. It starts with "I don't mean to sound dismissive of the entire series, but...", before proceeding to be dismissive of the series. Other questionable entries on the page include:

• "I can't believe no one asked this question yet..."
• Asking why people loathe the series so much.
• One person's response to why/how Hoffman could build such elaborate traps by himself: "The only explanation I can come up with is that Hoffman is magical". Also ties in to the above post regarding using "A Wizard Did It" as an answer in various Headscratchers pages.

Edited by Shadow8411 on Feb 14th 2021 at 12:23:16 PM

Headscratchers.South Par Q Vaccination Special consists of one question: "Where was the My pillow guy?" (For context, the episode was about QAnon and related right-wing fanaticism.)

Is this really a valid entry since it's not about something that happened in the episode, but something the troper expected to happen despite no foreshadowing or anything that the MyPillow guy had to be included in the satire? On top of that, is it ROCEJ-violating?

Yeah, that's not so much a question about the work but just someone being upset their expectations weren't met.

Ookay, Headscratchers.The Chronicles Of Narnia is filled with back-and-forth debating, a lot of it about the same topic (Susan) and a lot of it delving into religious debates (because the series is very Biblical-based).

This thread may be of interest.

Edited by costanton11 on Mar 30th 2021 at 1:21:03 PM

If found out we have a Headscratchers page for Santa Claus. There's a lot of real world complaining and meta questions. I'd post specific examples, but I fear I'd have to post the whole page.

Try making a sandbox for it? That's what I attempted with the Harry Potter pages. The only reason it didn't get clean was because I couldn't finish it, but the sandbox is a good place to sort things out.

Here's the sandbox: Headscratchers Santa Claus.

Some of the questions seem to be joking or about the mythology of Santa Claus. But then you have some questions like "God Is More Logical Than Santa?"