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resolved 'Related' page question.
What does "Since January 1, 2012, this article has brought X people to the wiki from non-search engine links" mean? I've seen people in the TRS referring to this number as the inbound count but my first impression is that it means how many people visited the page from in-wiki links.
resolved Trope Link Redirection not working Anime
Hi, I'm trying to redirect to a trope page for a Yugioh Arc-V fanfiction, and am having an issue with it.
The trope is Fanfic/Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V The Six Dimensions, and when I try to put that into the page editor, it's appearing as a red link for some reason.
[[Fanfic/Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V The Six Dimensions Trope]] is how it's supposed to be entered right?
Does anyone know what might be the issue here? I'm trying to redirect this from the Yugioh Arc-V Fan Fic Recs page.
resolvedTrolling in a WMG page? Western Animation
I found the WMG page for Mufasa: The Lion King and the entries there seem quite unserious to the point of feeling like trolling.
resolved Accidental duplicate work page
So... I just created WesternAnimation.Boop Oop A Doop today because I thought we didn't have a page for the cartoon.
Lo and behold, I just discovered WesternAnimation.Boop-Oop-A-Doop, with hypens. I didn't know we could, or would, put hyphens in the URL. Not when we have custom wikiwords.
My version has some tropes and other info not on the hyphenated version. I think we should add the missing info to one page and delete the other, but which one? I've already spent a lot of time crosswicking my version...
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved Sayaka sock?
Uenii is a new troper, who on their first day has three pages worth of edits, on pages frequent by a serial ban evader, and this edit being quite telling.
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.
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 HipsterDog02resolved 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.
resolved Not sure if it's an edit war, but...
DR34DN0UGHT has added an iffy piece of text to a Tainted by the Preview on this page, then added a similar-sounding paragraph after much of the entry was cut down for being a ROCEJ violation.
resolved Which folder
I'm trying to figure out where to crosswick an entry for The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong to when it pertains specifically to the donghua. Should it still go under the Literature folder on the trope page or under Asian Animation?
Edited by Zaperexresolved TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for He Panned It, Now He Sucks! at the Trope Repair Shop. Click here if you want to join the discussion.
resolved Why is Tzadikim Nistarim listed in JustForFun?
Tzadikim Nistarim strikes me as a fairly regular, non-typically-comedic trope. So... why? Did I come late to the joke or something?
resolved Editor using discussion pages as a forum
Itsnouse19518505268 has left a lot of comments on discussion pages, hardly any of which have to do with editing the pages, they are mostly giving their opinion on entries found on these pages.
I don't know if this breaks any rules, so I haven't contacted them about it, but it is taking away from these page's purpose.
On YMMV.Gravity, Etrebamort added a Memetic Mutation example that didn't have any sort of context. I commented out the example and sent them a ZCE notifier. They responded by saying (I'm paraphrasing here) that adding context would lean into Don't Explain the Joke, and then made the example visible again while potholing it to From Bad to Worse.
I'm posting this query to ask for permission to comment out the example again. Without context, an example just shouldn't be visible at all, regardless of what kind of joke it would ruin with it.