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openHeavy-handed "badge of honor" troping Live Action TV
rr3elite appears to have a major Single-Issue Wonk focused on showing off the villainy of the character Zein from Kamen Rider Outsiders and their appearances in other Kamen Rider media, including this week's episode of Kamen Rider Gotchard. I initially reported them on ATT before for shoehorning in Fan Myopia-laden comparisons to other works through misuse of various tropes, but it is now clear that was a symptom of a much bigger wonk, mostly afflicting Zein's sheet, the page for Outsiders itself, and various pages for Gotchard (YMMV, antagonists sheet, Nightmare Fuel, #33's recap) where Zein's appearance is concerned.
I haven't sent any notifiers because there's too many offending edits to comb through, but a lot of their edits consist of what they have previously been reported for, plus Bold Inflation, countless sentence structure and grammar errors, and "look at how horrible this person is" examples that stretch Zein's villainynote it is a sapient AI that has placed the world into an authoritarian surveillance state with the intent of mass genocide and has manipulated the heroes into giving it its resources, but I would hesitate to call a lot of its actions deliberately symbolic or nuanced beyond face value.. They also added Speculative Troping examples to Gotchard #33's recap suggesting Zein would have had a darker and more dramatic role in the episode, when in reality he only appears to kill one of the unambiguously-evil villains in the episode and leaves just as quickly to promote Outsiders.
I'm not sure if this is a policy violation in its own right, but I cannot deny in good faith that it is starting to compromise their writing and thus the quality of the pages they are editing.
Edited by TrocyteVopentv tropes missing buttons????/ Webcomic
Ive been trying to rehaul the homestuck beyond canon page and when i tried to create a shoutout page it was just blatantly missing from the create new tab
resolved Is this walkthrough mode? Videogame
On The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie, I removed a Do Well, But Not Perfect entry since it read like Walkthrough Mode. When I sent a notif to the troper, they argued that it was valid. I tried to say it still read as walkthrough and I can't rewrite it without making it such. Do I'm asking if the entry is walkthrough mode.
- Do Well, But Not Perfect: The final battle against Ishmelga, aka Zoa Gilstein. If you target his precise weak point, The AI will always dodge and counterattack. The key to winning the battle is to just hit him in the "wrong" position, which won't stagger him but will still hurt him.
openLily Orchard rename
Should Creator.Lily Orchard be renamed Creator.Lily And Mikaila, due to the channel being renamed?
Edited by randomtroper89openPage for an Abandoned Project
I found this page, Rebuild Of Pocket Monsters The Animation, which seems to be about a webcomic that only had two or three pages drawn before it got abandoned. I noticed that the page was made in May 2020 and that the Tumblr that page links to was last updated in June 2020, meaning that it was made by a troper who got hyped up by an ambitious project that quickly got cancelled before it actually went anywhere. This means that the page is almost exclusively troping Word of God tumblr posts about future ideas and plans that were never drawn.
My question is that do we keep a page for an abandoned project? Do tumblr asks and some page sketches and character drawings give enough tropable material for a page?
openAre Just For Fun pages free launch?
The description of Tom Swifty is kinda clogged by the amount of items in its 'catalogue of Tom Swifties' folder, so I was thinking of moving that folder to a Just for Fun/ page but (1) idk whether JFF pages are free launch and (2) I want to discuss whether it's appropriate to move them there.
I woulda brought the latter to the Description Improvement thread but seemed more practical to lump my two questions here.
resolved Do you need permission for creating subpages?
Because I am fairly new at this wiki, I have a question regarding creating new pages: if the page for a work on this wiki lacks a certain subpage (for example, a Funny page, or Recap page), do you need permission first before creating that respective page?
Edited by HipsterDog02openPage needs renaming
I noticed the page for Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea goes by a translation of the film's Japanese name, when in English it's known as just Ponyo. TV Tropes has a policy of going by a work's official English name whenever possible. The normal solution would of course be to manually change everything myself, but I don't know if I'll have the time or resources to do everything. Is it possible to tell a moderator to do this for me? Thanks in advance.
I should also mention the film has a bunch of subpages that go by Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea and need changing as well.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperopenSuspicious user
I received a PM from the user Master Waldon which mischaracterizes the contents of a post I made on the Complete Monster Cleanup thread. It doesn't seem to just be a good faith misunderstanding as the choice of words in their post match a previously suspended troper who had a history of twisting tropers' words in regards to CM and getting extremely rude in their bad faith interpretation of folks' post. I just wanted to flag this for mod attention in case we could have a ban evader situation.
openDeleting excess character pages Web Original
How do you deal with character pages that are bare bones apart from an image or Zero-Context Examples? Is it okay to get rid of them if they aren't fleshed out, or do you have to get approval?
I’ve brought the page I want to deal with (the overloaded Planet Dolan page) to the Character Page Cleanup thread, but I don’t know where else to go from there.
openUploading Format Mistake
I accidentally uploaded a sizable batch of images as .webp instead of .png like they were intended. And TV Tropes isn't compatible with webp, including keeping them out of the image list page, so I'm not sure how to delete them. (Darn Wikia, converting them to that useless format...)
I don't upload images that often, so I'm not sure what to do in this situation.
openTroper unilaterally taking down images
I have reason to believe Wilben unilaterally and prematurely took down several images as per the current Moments Images cleanup crowner. Should they be restored for at least the next few days? And what, if anything, should we do with Wilben?
Edited by JHD0919openPossible edit war
On YMMV.Touken Ranbu Warriors (and it's previous name Touken Ranbu Musuo):
- Troper biggestSoap added an Esoteric Happy Ending entry on its previous name before I moved it.
- I removed it, citing this comment on the "Is this an Example" thread".
- Soap added it again (albeit rewritten) on the new named page.
I'm not sure if edit warring counts when a page is moved from its original language title to one that is officially localized so I wish to know.
Edited by Ayumi-chanopenCrosswicking RL
Just making sure the exact policy on this one. Since plenty of trope pages allow Real Life examples, but you're not supposed to trope a creator's personal life, does that mean you're not allowed to cross-wick the RL examples from the trope page when it pertains to people who have Creator/ pages?
resolved CoolNickNack (again)
In a previous query I reported Cool Nick Nack for continuing to make Example Indentation errors despite notifiers, and apparently they were suspended. However they're still editing and still making indentation mistakes, in particular tacking on "sub-bullets" like replies or extensions of the previous example. And it's not as if they don't know how to indent properly either, as shown by this edit.
openHow do gendered redirects work?
Say I wanted to suggest "Anti-Education Papa" as a redirect for Anti-Education Mama. Is there some place I could go to do that?
openDiscarded draft
Has this draft been rouge nuked? It has plenty of hats (almost twice as many as bombs), it wasn't discarded by the sponsor, and the person who discarded it didn't say anything nor has had any discussion in the draft before.
Skimming over it, I don't seem to see anything bad enough to warrant an immediate discard; perhaps some concerns about misuse and bringing up aesop tropes going to the TRS, but other than that based on the hats it may have been doing decently. Am I missing something?
Today, I found that Tropers/kuchiki222 moved the content of several subpages for Epic Fail to the main page, specifically the pages for Comic Books, Comic Strips, Animated Films, Literature, Tabletop Games, Web Animation, and Web Original. Later, Stalker Gamer removed the links to those pages. Was this discussed anywhere? Neither of them left an edit reason.