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openPossible Edit War in Despicable Me 4? Western Animation
- Mepsipax adds this entry for They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot.
- Venomous Seal deletes it because the trope "isn't supposed" to be added until "three days after the movie's released".
- Ilove Cookies 875 readds the entry without explanation.
Is this an Edit War? Because while it doesn't follow the back-and-forth adding and removing of the same entry by two different tropers, They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot is not under No Recent Examples, Please!, so I'm not sure either if the entry should stay.
openMebrouk
Mebrouk has been on the wiki for about a year, but recently attracted some attention by adding a (now yoinked) image to Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters. Given the page's subject matter, you can guess what sort of conflict the image was referencing. Well, they were sent a notifier for it, but I'm concerned that this may not be enough. Their other edits are all also very political and have been that way since the very beginning.
Animation.The Child And The Invader is a page made and only edited by them. For the most part it squeaks by, but there's a repeated use of the word "Zionist".
They added weirdly political natter on the trivia page of the Barbie Movie.
Finally, the one that made me make this report was another edit made just today on UsefulNotes.Javier Milei, which reads:
And then they edited it to add an Axe-Crazy pothole (a NRLEP trope).
They also seem to have bad grammar, capitalizing words like "They" every time and sometimes forgetting punctuation.
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 Stardust5099openWomenAreWiser wonk?
I noticed there's one user surname4u who's going around editing many Women Are Wiser examples, either deleting them or moving them into other entries, always citing misuse. But the tropes they move the example to seem a bit of a shoehorn to me, the majority being moved to Only Sane Man when that's clearly not the dynamic as it involves more than two people (Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) or Straight Man which is a comedic routine (Examples: 1.
I couldn't find any recent Women Are Wiser discussion or clean up, but this focus on removing a female trope alarmed me. Is this something to worry about? Or am I just wrong and the moves they're doing are correct?
Edited by BlackMage43openEdit war
Edit war on YMMV.A Twisted Tale
- Violet Parrfan 1989 adds an unapproved Complete Monster entry for Syndrome on the page
- I delete it for not being approved
- Parfan adds it again
opennag screen demanding email
I have been a member since 2012, and had the same email address the whole time. Suddenly today, I keep getting a nag screen claiming I can't use the forum without an email - but when I put my email address in the space provided it tells me "that email is already in use." Come on - either my email is registered or it isn't. If I simply close the nag screen it vanishes and I can keep browsing as usual, but it is very annoying having to do so every time I go to a new page.
Has something weird happened - site hijacked or something?
openGreater Scope Villain misuse added back
Characters.Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Other Characters And Factions
- Greater-Scope Villain: Al is long dead by the start of SEED, but Rau's omnicidal misanthropy can be traced back to the fact that he was originally conceived to be nothing more than this egoist's vicarious vessel.
I previously deleted his GSV entry as prior cleanup agreed it doesn't apply to posthumous characters, but it was added back. Also, it doesn't apply as his threat/ability was far below Rau's, Al's threat being more Unwitting Instigator of Doom.
Permission to re-remove?
resolved 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 CulturedScholaropenMass violation of Administrivia policy on Peter and Company. Webcomic
The author of Peter and Company, who goes by the username PeterAndCompany, I'm pretty sure just violated The Fic May Be Yours, but the Trope Page Is Ours and Auto-Erotic Troping.
I quote the following from the former:
- You may contest factual information and either make the changes or ask others to change it for you, as long as you are polite and respect consensus.
- You may inform us that your work has been removed and made permanently inaccessible to the public, in which case we may consider deleting our article(s). This requires agreement from the troper body.
- You may request removal of content that you believe is hostile or defamatory towards yourself or your work, but we hold final discretion as to what falls into those categories.
Nowhere have I seen the author do this at all; as far as I can tell, they also did not go to any of the cleanup pages. They instead gave a lengthy edit reason stating that they are the author in an attempt to justify their vandalism of the page, which as Edit War states, is not sufficient discussion; Essentially he is trying to claim ownership of the page.
He has also gone on the trivia page and the YMMV page to do the exact same thing, moreso with the latter especially on parts that have to do with the main webcomic itself, and has also engaged in Auto-Erotic Troping on this paticular edit and possibly the Main page. Admin has not indicated to me that he had the permission needed to take down what I wrote or the right to make the edits he made (the latter of which had nothing to do with removing misinformation on the Trivia page) either, so I'm on high alert with this.
He has also done the following which is something authors are not supposed to do, especially in regard to YMMV. I quote the following:
- You may not remove content from our articles on the basis that you disagree with it or do not like it.
I am open to input from the community and admin on this matter as to what can, should, or if anything can be done.
Edited by Stardust5099resolved 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 NarioopenSecondary Tropes for videos?
Jw but is there a way to add secondary tropes to videos that are uploaded? I've put up a few recently that whilst I had a main trope in mind, I feel they overlap with other tropes also.
open TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for One-Liner, Name... One-Liner and Double Don't Know at the Trope Repair Shop. Click here if you want to join the discussion.
openSuspect edits regarding trans stuff
So troper Chef Cranky Rogan has made some edits regarding trans people that are potentially concerning.
- In here and here, they make a mention of Shiki Aoki being a non-op trans man.
- In here here, they listed Brandon Winckler (a non-binary actor) as an aversion to Cross-Dressing Voices simply because he uses he/they pronouns.
- In here, they commented out a Cross-Dressing Voices entry regarding another non-binary VA (Giselle Fernandez) with this edit reason:
I brought this troper up before here, so the fact that they making edits like this despite being called off by people on the thread is really concerning to me.
Edited by Ayumi-chanresolved 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).
openFreeman's Mind's namespace Web Original
The Freeman's Mind is in the WebVideo/ namespace, but is described as a Machinima.
When the Machinima/ namespace was discontinued, I thought all these works were moved to WebAnimation/. Should Freeman's Mind be moved?
Same question as for the Leeroy Jenkins Video, in fact.
I have looked on this site, but I can't find anything that tells me anything about this. I was only asking because I requested something about video examples. Someone came up with an idea of how it could work, which seemed to be a good idea, but it only has 1 vote. So as far as I am aware, nothing has been done. I just wanted to find out if that is the issue, that's all.