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There seems to be some kind of glitch in Liveblogs. Whenever I edit the first installment it counts it as a new installment - meaning that between the first time I sent it and both times I edited it, it's being counted as three installments.
At least, I think that's what's happening.
edit: I'm also noticing that a few other people have this... well, it's not much of a problem, but whatever, in the Liveblogs section, so I'm guessing it's been brought up before.
Edited by EponymousKidopenNo Title
Does anyone else think we need a new policy on "subjectives" on main pages? Covered Up just showed up as one, and while I know it may be in some contexts and there may be some fighting related to it, in the place I listed it, there's no argument over whether the new version is better (amazingly enough in a fandom where people can and do fight over ANYTHING)
Personally, I'd like to see something like a sliding scale of subjective tropes, if that could be workable, rather than a "nuke on sight" policy, if that makes any sense.... ones on the softer end (e.g. there is not wide debate or disagreement related to it in general, it hasn't started drama on the page or even elsewhere except maybe You Tube, it is not related to drama in any way) can stay on main as long as they're not causing trouble, while ones on the harder end (e.g. the reasons for a Broken Base, arguing or a Flame War has erupted over it somewhere, it's a trope like Fan Dumb or such that describes arguing/drama) it gets cut or goes to YMMV.
Edited to add: While working on moving stuff there to YMMV I found another subjective-related question I wanted to raise. So while the general agreement on Epileptic Trees is that it is totally a subjective, in my fandom, what was an RL Epileptic Tree (that someone's religion was abusive and taking advantage of him rather than making the positive changes in his life he claimed it was and his defenders claimed it was at the time) actually turned out to be the truth of the matter, at least as far as the person once involved said. Should that still be listed on main? I know it's an odd example but...
Edited by AGroupieopenNo Title
The Character pages on Mahou Sensei Negima! when you go to the actual pages it shows them Indexed but it doesn't show the next page in line (I cant figure out if the formatting is wrong or what)
NVM it seems fixed
Edited by RasoopenNo Title
I wanted to know if there are any rules pertaining the creation of a trope page for fan made games. specifically I want to create a page for this game.
Edited by blahhahaopenNo Title
Not sure if I should ask this here or the trope repair shop, but-
Is there a difference between A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing and Bitch in Sheep's Clothing?
Edited by fawnopenNo Title
So, I tried to right-justify the image and caption of When the Clock Strikes Twelve, and the caption box got stretched. How do I fix it?
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The Fate Zero index list at the bottom of the page is borked up, having Walk on Water as an index, weird potholes, and the ads showing up in that space. I can't find any way of correcting it in the editing options. Would anyone care to help?
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I'm curious about exactly how one renames a trope.
Not too long ago, the F-Zero characters page needed to be split due to a large amount of characters. Recently, I had a discussion with two other tropers. For conveniences' sake, we decided to remerge a few of the smaller pages together. We'd end up with a catch-all indexing page with two subdivisions. I know how to redirect new/broken links into prexisting tropes, but if I were to redirect an older page, would I need to create a new link, transfer all of the data there, and then redirect the old page to the new one? The renaming guidelines are somewhat vague on this matter.
Also, is there by any chance a way to actually delete pages?
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This idea about adding the YMMV logo next to the links to YMMV tropes is good (probably caused by my latest edits alone, as you can see from the Troper Talk in my page), but... I've added an example of Nightmare Fuel in the Songs in the Key of Panic article, but I added it only as an example of Songs in the Key of Panic (Nightmare Fuel was just an aspect of it).
Do YMMV tropes have to be deleted from any Main article?
Edited by AlexSora89openNo Title
I was doing a Wiki Walk and thought of something reading Hitler Ate Sugar.
Hitler supported animal rights
Hitler saw Jews as animals
Therefore he would support Jewish rights
Once you put your head back together, I had two questions.
1. Is that the right way to use that logic?
2. If so, what trope could it go under?
Edited by tsstevensopenNo Title
Why are there scales next to all of the YMMV tropes, even when they're potholed?
I can see perhaps discouraging their usage, but said tropes occur in-universe as well, and that would most likely result in the well-meaning but misguided removal of their in-universe occurences.
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What should I do to fix dead (sorta) external links? You Tube videos belonging to closed accounts, or links to websites that aren't quite right. (if the address was only partially correct, like if someone linked to https://tvtropes.org/wiki/query.php?type=att instead of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?type=att for example, but obviously with another website instead) If I don't know where the image/video/page moved to, should I mark the link as dead, (in hopes that someone else might know the image/video/page and be able to provide a new link) or should I remove it entirely?
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I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but The Hunted is not being indexed into Films of the 2000s — although it was in the past.
The Fatal Frame works page isn't displaying the buttons for Fetish Fuel, Tear Jerker, and High Octane Nightmare Fuel at the top. Can someone help me figure out what's going on? I added links to those subpages on the series' main page until the issue gets resolved.
Edited by LosingStreak