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openWhere would an Affectionate Nickname go?
On Characters.Shovel Knight Main Characters, I added an entry for Affectionate Nickname under Mona's folder, as she is the one who uses the name in regards to Plague Knight. However, Roy Campbell's folder on Characters.Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake has an Affectionate Nickname entry that he's on the receiving end of (Snake calling him "Colonel" long after he retired from active service). What's the best place to put examples of this?
openTRS Queue: need permission to add?
I noticed Canon Fodder seemed a duplicate trope to Fanfic Fuel, (the supposed difference that it will later get addressed in canon being speculation and seeming chairs). Results from Canon Fodder Wick Check:
- Just 10% correct.
- 38% redundant with Fanfic Fuel or other items.
- 30% non-YMMV (intentional hooks/items explored in canon).
- 14% were misspellings of Cannon Fodder.
- 8% ZCE/other.
This sounds like it deserves to go under the TRS Queue. Any objections?
And for future reference, do I need permission/approval to add anything to TRS Queue if a wick check finds significant issue/misuse?
openHow do you index YMMV pages? Videogame
Hi, I want to try and index the YMMV page for the video game KGB (since they don’t automatically), but I don’t know how to. Could someone point me to the right page to add to?
resolved Making a page with the community Webcomic
About a week ago, there was discussion about giving the original Peter and Company (or as I plan to call it, Peter and Company (1998), though I'm fully aware the title can be changed by others by consensus so the title I picked is not official) its own page rather than trying to merge it with the current incarnation of the comic. This I am currently working a draft on.
Now, given the sensitive nature of the topic, this is a page I would actually like to work with the community of TV Tropes over. Do I just go straight to the launch pad activity like I would a proposed trope for that?
Edited by Stardust5099openno direct linking to fanfics that don't have work pages
I noticed an example of a fanfic I had placed years ago was red linked because there is no work page for it. Looking back through the history I had linked directly to the story, but it was changed because the site isn't meant to take people away from the site. Or something like that.
Is this true? Because if it is it kind of makes it harder for people to find the story if they take an interest.
Where I saw this: Circus of Fear
openPastamonsters ghost indexing
I see that Pastamonsters The Under Rhelm, Pastamonsters The Pit and Pastamonsters The Human World are index by Pastamonsters, despite that page not having them, how?
Also I've noticed Pastamonsters Beings Of The Universe, Pastamonsters Dark World Inhabitants, Pastamonsters Pastamonsters The Final Season, Pastamonsters: President Bush and Other Associates, Pastamonsters The Malitch Empire, which are unindexed and probably needs to be merged with parent page too.
openNeed some help
Trying to set up a page for my show... but ran into some difficulties and I am admittedly new at this. Mind a little help to figure out what I'm doing wrong here?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/TendoTheSeal
openZalgo on TvTropes and quotes.
From my understanding, Zalgo is disallowed on TV Tropes, but what if you are quoting text that uses Zalgo for effect? In particular, I am thinking of this skit from Overly Sarcastic Productions.
Remove the Zalgo, and it's no longer getting the impression they were going for across.
Edited by TheharboopenWhere do fanfics made in 2024 go?
I'm asking because I'm seeing the Fanfics of 2010–2011 page onwards are pages created for fanfics created between a range of two years. Does that mean that we have to wait for next year in order to add fanfics made in 2024 (for a "Fanfics of 2024-2025" page), or can a page for 2024 fanfics be created in the meantime?
openYMMV trope question? Film
Discovered this for Ymmv from the film Pig (2021), as seen here (click here):
- Award Snub: Academy Award buzz was high for Cage's performance, and the film in general. Suffice to say many were surprised and quite annoyed when the film received zero nominations.
openLaunching Nonstandard Tropes
Is it possible to launch YMMV/Trivia tropes? All of the tropes I see being launched are standard objective ones. If so, how would I go about it?
open TRS crowner
There is an active crowner for Schmuck Bait at the Trope Repair Shop. Click here if you want to join the discussion.
resolved NRLEP with page.
The Real Life page for Mercy Kill exists, although last I checked, it was listed as NRLEP. It just isn't linked to on the main page itself anymore. Was this an oversight?
openHindsight misuse or not, needs prediction?
YMMV.My Little Pony Nakama Is Magic
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Tama in the English dub of One Piece calls Luffy "Big Bro Luffy", just like Spike.
I PM'd the troper who added it that Hindsight only applies to/goes under the earlier work made this, not causing it. They replied that this fic came out before that point in the dub so not misuse, the replied separately that they realized it's misuse as Hindsight requires it be a prediction.
This is the first I've heard of the prediction criteria, does it require that? And is this a valid Hindsight example or not?
openTrying to fact-check an entry that might need to be removed
So, the page for South Park Imaginationland has a list of characters from other works who appear in Imaginationland. On this list is an entry for Pat the Hammer from Handy Manny.
The thing is, while there is an Animate Inanimate Object hammer seen in Imaginationland, it doesn't look like Pat (who has a fairly distinctive blue color scheme), and its voice doesn't sound like Pat's either. Is there any official source that says this random hammer is actually supposed to be Pat, or is that entry on the list just some troper's random theory that they proclaimed as gospel?
Rosa HG has had a history of making unilateral edits of images and replacing them with images from My Little Pony, and has taken to making several low-effort suggestions on Image Pickin' today (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), most of them being MLP-related, some of them being reposts of the same images they inserted unilaterally several months ago (including the image from Came from the Sky, which they further kept trying to push in the Image Suggestion thread despite being told several times that it's not great), and none of them giving any adequate explanation for why they should replace images for tropes that already have them (their Licked by the Dog suggestion also implies to me that they don't actually understand what the tropes in question properly are). It looks to me like they still fundamentally don't understand the point of how the site handles this whole Image Picking process, has ignored the efforts to correct and guide them, and is taking to spamming the forum.
Edited by number9robotic