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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 Narioopennag 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?
openSecondary 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.
openRough Overalls without shirts
I'd like to discuss recent changes on the Rough Overalls trope.
- During the TLP (an adoption I did and adapted from the original proposal, Active Youth Overalls, where overalls were more tied to "cute" girls wearing them) one of the things discussed was trying to move the trope away from fanservice. The conclusion was that "cute girls wear overalls" wasn't a trope and was more like fanservice. (The TLP is also where the idea to split kids in overalls off separately into Kiddy Coveralls was done, as well as the mention to take examples from the defunct "Workers Wear Overalls" TLP.)
- Recently, Gofastmike added a third "not as often" example of wearing overalls for messy jobs while wearing nothing else but the overalls.
- I (after a correction that the top of overalls are called the bib) moved the talk to be under "blue collar work" since it was already discussed there and didn't need to be separate, and added data about people wearing shirts or not, to cover that not all wearing overalls in messy jobs is without the undershirt for practicality.
- Gofastmike has recently re-added the shirtless parts of wearing the overalls for messy jobs without noting that people can wear shirts for these messy jobs, not just overalls.
I'd like to discuss this with said editor and the community. I think it doesn't do the trope any good to mention the shirtlessness so prominently under messy jobs when it's mentioned in the fanservice "not as prominent" trope already, and the part about blue collar/messy jobs should be more about the labor side of things.
Edited for typos and clarifications.
Edited by NethiliaopenRunning into an interesting issue with a page split
The Characters / League of Legends: K is getting pretty big and in need of a split, but I ran into a problem: Right now based on the characters listed, I would like there to be a clean split of "Ka-" and "Ke- to Ko-" characters, but there's an outlier with K'Sante, who by alphabetical considerations is meant to come very first and precedes "Ka-".
He belongs on that page along with "Ka", but considering there's an apostrophe in his name, how exactly do I format their shared page? Should it just be "Characters / League of Legends: K to Ka"?
Also, should I leave the latter page as just "Ke- to Ko-" for right now, leaving out potential for there being a character whose name starts with Ku- or Ky- down the line?
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?
openI'm worried
Normally, I wouldn't be doing this, since I'm not seeking for any attention, but I think I should break the silence now: I'm currently adding a lot of FNF mods' pages and putting them into the main game's fan works page (and also in other proper pages so they could get attention). During last year, I was getting some users helping me fill those pages. Sometimes the mod wasn't so famous, so tropers weren't appearing in those rare cases, but I didn't mind that at all, plus every person has their rights to choose what they want to do.
One day, now in 2024, I've created the page for Glitched Legends, a popular Pibby mod in the community. While I was thinking on other mods to add and working in other stuff at TV Tropes, I've been noticing the page hasn't been having anything new; no corrections, no examples, nothing. I wasn't thinking too much about it, then. "Maybe it's because it's a Pibby mod. Even if it's a high-quality mod, Pibby mods are oversaturated, so maybe not many people are into it". Then I've been created other pages: Vs Slenderman, Funkin In The Massacre Night, Friday Night Funkin' - V.S Chara, and so on. None of them have been updated ever since.
I don't want to make any publicity here, or force anything to anybody, since like I said, anyone can choose if they want to help or just see those pages, but I'm genuinely worried. I've been patient for two months now, and I'm not receiving any help from other users. Even Roastin' on a Cartoon Cartoon Friday, probably my most elaborated page during these months, only had one foreign edit, and it was only a little correction. Are my pages not causing any interests? Am I getting some bad reputation for something?
I'm sorry for creating this whole Wall of Text, but I wanted to explain myself clearly.
Edited by UzarNaimBer15resolved 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?
Characters.Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Other Characters And Factions
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?