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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.
openEdit 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
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 CulturedScholarresolved 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.
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?
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.
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 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.
openHow do we make a Just for Fun page, and can we make them all willy-nilly?
So I wanna make a Just for Fun page on here for a hypothetical Marvel 2099 animated series, but how do I do that? And am I free to make as many as I want?
resolved Interruption by (possible) Trojan
I'm browsing a page on the site, when suddenly, the tab I'm on changes from TV Tropes to what seems to be a page for Norton Antivirus Software. A popup then appears, showing that apparently, my computer has five computer viruses, and that my Norton contract has expired. But here's the rub; I'm from England, which doesn't have Norton available (as far as I know). So, I do what I always do against potential phishing: turn the computer off and on again with my keyboard, then open Windows Security and run a quick scan (better safe than sorry), before reopening my browser (Google Chrome), restoring my tabs, and quickly closing the "Antivirus" tab before it fully restores itself.
This has happened once in two consecutive days (as of writing). So, my question is: Please can anyone confirm that a) this isn't just a "me" thing, and b) the issue is being dealt with?
openHatting/Bombing a draft more than once
Is it possible for one troper to give more than one hat or bomb to a draft in the Launch Pad? If yes, what happens then?
On a related note, what happens when the same troper gives both a hat and a bomb to one draft? Do they cancel each other out?
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.