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Proper usage of Fanon/FanNickname? Videogame
I've noticed that our pages for Starfield fairly consistently refer to the unnamed and un-sobriqueted Player Character by an alleged Fan Nickname of "The Spacefarer," which their character page entry openly admits isn't at all official. The thing is, until deciding to look into it just now I'd... never seen that used outside this wiki.
I had to actively search and the only place that seems to be using it is the game's very young and very incomplete Fandom wiki. As mentioned I hadn't seen anyone use it on any social media discussions of the game prior to looking into this; googling "Starfield Spacefarer" mostly brings up handfuls of weird generic clickbait websites and a single reddit thread that doesn't even really use it in this manner (most usage of it outside the Fandom wiki seems to simply describe player characters as a whole as "spacefarers" rather than specifying the character by the proper-noun nickname of "The Spacefarer").
With that in mind, should we be using it this much? I wouldn't have thought to bring it up if this were just a Fan Nickname entry on the game's trivia page, but it seems almost like there's some active effort to promote its usage by plastering it across our pages for the game in place of "the protagonist" or "the Player Character."
Edited by Dirtyblue929Emergence Cut?
Emergence (RWBY) has been removed from Fanfic dot net. I think pages for fanfics that are no longer accessible are required to be cut per wiki policy. Should Emergence be cut for this reason?
(Yes I know my profile pic says I'm on hiatus, but that's only for the forums.)
Edited by JHD0919Hyphens in text
Before I upgraded to iOS 17, words on pages used to drop to the line below when they wouldn't fit the above line. Now, however, they have hyphens split through them when they don't fit the line, and I don't see this happening on any other website. Is there any way to revert this?
Someone changed an example to the wrong trope, but I don't want to start an Edit War.
So, when I created the page Literature.Roys Bedoys, I added an example of Artistic License – Biology when a cat eats a cookie. Someone changed it to Artistic License – Animal Care, but that's wrong, since he stole the cookie so it wasn't part of his "care". Yet reverting it would be edit warring.
Edit War
- isbillyhere changed the total chapter count to 900.
- BaritoneClef reverted back.
- isbillyhere later edited it back to 900, calling it a fool's errand.
- BaritoneClef reverted again.
How can i search a specific phrase with the "New search" enabled?
We know that with the disabled "New Search" we can search specific phrases using underscores instead of spacebars (for example, writting "they_played_together" will help you find results with that phrase), but with the "New Search" enabled, using the underscores will not yield any results. Can someone help me with that problem?
Consent to remove redundancy on What an Idiot!.Saw
Among the additions Ansongc2000 had recently done on the "Jigsaw" folder from What an Idiot!.Saw was this excerpt.
- Listening to a tape and finding three syringes with numbers on them, they realize that they'll all be hanged unless one of them, Carly, injects herself with the correct of three needles. One of the other two needles will kill her, one will do nothing.
As part of a grammar cleanup on the additions, I changed the bolded part into the following:
- Listening to a tape and finding three syringes with numbers on them, they realize that they'll all be hanged unless one of them, Carly, injects herself with the correct syringe; said needle will do nothing to her, while the other two will kill her.
Later on, Ansongc2000 corrected a mentioned aspect they and I missed on the film, with the edit reason "it's stated that one syringe holds acid, one holds a saline solution. A saline solution is generally harmless when injected." The bolded part, however, ended up becoming rather redundant when compared to how the left the rest of the text.
- Listening to a tape and finding three syringes with numbers on them, they realize that they'll all be hanged unless one of them, Carly, injects herself with the correct syringe; said needle will do nothing to her, while one will do nothing and one will kill her.
Currently, I'd like to change the bolded part to the following so as to remove redundancy on the entry the excerpt is on:
- Listening to a tape and finding three syringes with numbers on them, they realize that they'll all be hanged unless one of them, Carly, injects herself with the correct syringe; said needle and another with a saline solution will do nothing to her, while the third one will kill her.
Can I have permission to do this while citing this query, or does anyone have other ideas?
Edited by Inky100CisCharacterTransActor
Trivia can't be played with, so should Trivia.Reborn As A Vending Machine I Now Wander The Dungeon be cut?
WMG deletion based on fearmongering?
kkj12345 deleted a WMG entry of mine on the basis of "fearmongering", even though said theory was based on an ongoing pattern I spotted. Fair enough, they could have added to the theory that "The developers, even with their current track record, wouldn't go that far", but deleting it outright is a bit much.
As if that wasn't enough, they then PM'd me to say that they shared the theory with people on an entirely different wiki and used the arguments from some people on that wiki to delete the entry on this wiki.
I've had people counter some of my WMG entries by saying that they are unlikely before, but never have I had an entry of mine deleted based on what people on a separate wiki think.
Edited by UFOYeahTalking stoicism in face of The Stoic
As discussed in This Index Is Not an Example:
- The Stoic — A character who rarely, if ever, shows emotion. The name comes [from] the Ancient Greek philosophy of stoicism, which wasn't about not showing emotions at all but just having control over them. The trope closest to the philosophy is The Spock (the Trope Namer of which is an example).
Because TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary, I found it difficult to say a character has certain levels of stoicism without being mistaken for saying the character is The Stoic. Does anyone have any ideas on the better way to pharse it?
(I assume using the TRS to rename The Stoic is not an option, given I don't see much misuse.)
"Technology Marches On" or a "Hindsight" trope?
(I tried to ask this on the forums but it got swallowed up with no response, inquiring here) Someone put on a Trivia page for a recent episode of Futurama a Technology Marches On entry that I'm not sure if it's totally correct.
For context, "Related To Items You've Viewed" prominently satirizes Amazon and voice-based virtual home assistant devices in specific, displaying "Momazon" and the virtual assistant device "Invasia" becoming so monolithic and powerful that they take over the universe. The Technology Marches On entry was highlighting how right now in 2023, the future of such devices is actually turning out pretty bleak — Amazon Echo/Alexa (the subject the episode is parodying) resulted in a $10 billion loss last year alone and its development team being massively downsized as Amazon considers it "a colossal failure of imagination", and this pattern is consistent among competitors like Google and Apple and their home assistants (the broad trend is that these devices have no means of long-term monetization on top of being designed as loss-leaders, and many attempts to extract a revenue flow from consumers using the product have failed).
I'm thinking; considering Production Lead Time is a thing (this current season was first greenlit in February 2022), does this count as Technology Marches On or a Hindsight trope? The current entry also writes "It's possible this may even turn into Zeerust.", and I'm not sure how much that fits. Thoughts?
Give Pokemon its own Obvious Rule Patch page? Videogame
There has been so many changes made to Pokemon that documenting the most important changes would require its own page. The Pokemon entry in the Video Games page is looking lengthy. Is it time to give that franchise its own page on rule changes?
Edited by AperturePublishingOrigin of Freedom City PBP character art? Web Original
Just wondering if anyone knows where the artwork used for characters on this page is from? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/FreedomCityPlayByPostABC
It's consistent enough that I think it's from some sort of character generator, but I haven't been able to figure it out via googling.
Should this be moved
So Katie Leung has a Trivia page, I thought actors couldn't have trivia pages. Should I move the tropes to her main page?
Unauthorized CM entry. Live Action TV
SPOILERS FOR KAMEN RIDER GEATS.
Leonold 70 added an unauthorized Complete Monster entry for Beroba in YMMV.Kamen Rider Geats. Reddish has stated his reasons why she doesn't qualify yet (there's a chance that she is going to appear in the upcoming V-Cinema), so having the entry added anyway angers me. I've gone and deleted the entry, but I do believe that he has a lot of problems before, so this needs to be addressed.
Edited by Siegfried1337ZCE edit war
On this page, Patches The Cat added a ZCE for Always Someone Better. I commented it out and sent them a ZCE notifier, then they un-commented it out without adding anything to it.
Fanwork duplicated tropes?
I'm pretty sure that if a trope is present in a derivative work because it was part of the original, we don't list it. If that is a listed rule somewhere, I'm having trouble finding it to refresh my memory?
Recent unwarranted deletions by specific troper
Earlier today, I discovered that a number of edits were deleted without proper reasoning on the YMMV and Character pages for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet by tropers/krushthedingo. The edits in question were Ho Yay, Ambiguously Gay and Ambiguously Bi edits. The fact that it was these sorts of edits specifically - and the fact that the troper, as previously mentioned, provided no reasoning for their deletion - admittedly led me to assume the worst, so I decided to bring the matter up here.
While looking through their (admittedly rather short) history of edits - in order to determine whether or not these sorts of edits were a recurring issue in regards to the troper - I found that they had also deleted a Ho Yay edit from the YMMV page of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games - an edit whose deletion, much like the ones mentioned above, they had failed to properly justify.
Edited by WiryAiluropodine
Someone deleted one of my edits and called it "sociopathic".
So, on BrokenAesop.Western Animation, I added an entry for The Loud House episode "Butterfly Effect" that basically boiled down to "The moral is to tell the truth, however, none of what Lincoln imagines was the result of his dishonesty, but rather the accident itself that he considered lying about".
But someone deleted it saying, "Wow, this line of thinking is just... self-centered at best, sociopathic more apt. There's no way to phrase it more nicely."
I'm honestly disturbed that someone would call me sociopathic.
Just so you know, I didn't use any italics, full caps, bold, or emotionally-charged words. I phrased it the way Spock would.