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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 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 Narioresolved 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).
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?
resolved Edit War?
So, I am unsure on this but YMMV.Dead Boy Detectives 2024:
- Shanwooo 444 added anUnintentionally Unsympathetic entry mentioning "despite him never being anything other than kind and patient with her".
- I removed that sentence in my attempt to make the entry more neutral and fix some grammar mistakes.
- Shanwooo 444 re-added that phrase almost word for word.
I mean like I said I am unsure if this is an edit war. They didn't discuss this anywhere and this is not the first time they have done this, but I was thinking on re-adding that part anyways as it reads weird without it. However, even then I am unsure if it counts but that is for a different discussion. Is this an edit war?
Edited by Bullmanresolved Edit war
On this page, deerhornsaresopretty added an entry for The Wiki Rule. After it was removed by a different troper for being a definition-only page (meaning that it's not allowed to have trope entries about it), deerhornsaresopretty added it back.
Edited by UFOYeahresolved Spammer?
This troper's only contributions to the wiki are creating a characters subpage for a trope, written entirely in Arabic. Possible spammer?
BTW, the page has been cutlisted, but I still wanted to bring it up, since it's weird that creating such a page is the troper's only contribution to the wiki. Also, the text contains links to other websites that I haven't heard before, and I don't think clicking them is a good idea.
Edited by UFOYeahresolved Peter and Company: No image discussion before replacement Webcomic
So...The author of Peter and Company, who goes by the username PeterAndCompany, just picked a new image to replace the current one without going to Image Pickin' first for any sort of discussion. I've already sent them a notifier with nothing else written on the matter.
Three questions for the community (forgot to edit this bit when I added a third, oops):
1. Does this fall under a violation of Auto-Erotic Troping?
2. Is there a cleanup thread for that sort of thing?
3. Am I allowed to remove it?
Edited by Stardust5099resolved Edit Warring
- BeescyTVT added a Recycled In Space joke line to Ireland
- LordGro deletes it with the edit reason "This is not true, not funny, and it manages to get the definition of Recycled In Space wrong."
- BeescyTVT re-adds it with the edit reason "Rack off, snowflakes, I may be of mostly Scottish descent, but I also have a wee bit of Irish too, and so I have more-than-enough N-Word Privileges for making the "not true" and "not funny" joke."
I agree with Lord Gro that it is a misuse of recycled in space, though I think that they are a bit too blunt with their edit reason. I also think that Beescy's edit reason is needlessly aggressive in response, and of course edit warring is against the rules.
resolved Non-Alien Invasion
Does the Alien invasion trope applies when the invaders aren't classified as aliens, but as creatures from a fantasy world? Or is there a trope for that type of invasion specifically?
resolved Peter and Company comic order
So...I had a question about Peter and Company. So not too long ago, I decided to include the existence of the original comic that began in 1998; I read most of it when it was available back in the day and recently started reading it elsewhere, and I made it the first tab selectable above the second one which had to do with the work of the current comic.
But now, I'm not so sure...should I reverse the order that I originally had it when I made the edit?
Edited by Stardust5099resolved Troper making spammy subpages Western Animation
Jd 100910 keeps making spammy subpages for stuff like Bubble Guppies and Peppa Pig, like
"NightmareFuel.Peppa Pig: Daddy Pig got startled by a giant fish."
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=Jd100910
Edited by lalalei2001resolved Questions about sandboxes
Is it considered okay if someone creates a work page by copying the content of a sandbox that a completely different user was working on?
I just saw that Literature.Demian was created by someone else using the contents I had written on Sandbox.Demian. I hadn't worked on the sandbox in a few months because I wanted to reread the book in order to write a good work's description (right now both the sandbox and Literature/ pages have almost no description).
I'm not upset about this, I'm rather kind of confused of what to do in this case.
I get if the user who created the page was tired of waiting for it to be an actual article, so I'm wondering if it's seen negatively if someone takes months on moving a sandbox to the correct namespace.
I'm curious about these things regarding sandbox etiquette.
resolved Post finder
Is there a feature that lets you see all the forum posts a user has made?
resolved Image Formatting
Been trying to look around, even googled it but got nothing. I wanted to verify among the community, is it possible to make images sit next to each other directly?
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 Stardust5099