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openFormatting numbers - spelling out or digits only?
I launched a trope and in writing it wrote out the numbers below 100, since that's how I was taught to format numbers in writing — everything that can be two words should be written out (so everything below 100) and minimally, it's correct formatting to do at least every number below 10 and all numbers at the start of a sentence unless it's math you're writing Recently ~@HazelMcCallister changed the text so every written out number was turned into digits. Including a five, which I was taught grammatically should always be spelled out. Examples of numbers in writing here.
Is this a rule I'm breaking?
Edit for clarification on when numbers are written out.
Edited by NethiliaopenCelebrity gossip on Unfortunate Implications
I spotted two entries on Unfortunate Implications that I'm not sure belong there. Both entries, rather than discuss how the trope pertains to a certain work, instead discuss the personal lives of celebrities.
- Her [Taylor Swift's] decision to engage in a public romance with Matty Healy and released a collaboration with Ice Spice was widely derided as damage control for Matty's numerous racist behaviors and comments.
- Rihanna's continuous friendship and even collaboration to Chris Brown has been widely critized as sending messages of women accepting their abuser.
I feel like they should both be deleted, but I wanted to double check before doing so.
Edited by Storygirl000openAvoiding an edit war
Joylock un-commented out some examples on Characters.Fallout 1 that were commented out for being Zero Context Examples, which I ended up commenting out again after sending them a notifier. They ended up expanding on said examples, but they're still IMO Partial Context Examples at best but I don't want to get into an edit war by commenting them out again.
openEdit 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 BullmanopenWhere and when to add?
Under Characters.My Little Pony Generation 5, there are these entries I have questions about:
- Missing Mom: Sunny's mother and why she's absent were just revealed. Should MM go under Sunny's folder or her mothers, or both?
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite Comet joining the main characters by the end of Season 1, he's been completely absent/unmentioned in Season 2, but it's just 1/3 a year and 1/5 of the planned content into the Season. How long does it take for WHTTM (or Chuck Cunningham Syndrome) to quality? End of Season?
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?
openWanting to avoid an edit war
On Trivia.Shin Megami Tensei V, troper helryx removed a Dueling Games entry citing that "Dueling games doesn't apply to two works just because they were released in the same month".
Here's the entry is question:
- Dueling Games: Vengeance is slated to be released on June 14, 2024, one week before the release of Elden Ring's highly anticipated Shadow of the Erdtree DLC expansion.
However it doesn't match up to what Dueling Works has to say: Again, just to be clear: The works have to be produced during the same time period (within one year of each other or with overlapping runs in the case of series)
However, I don't want to start an edit war so I want to ask if it is ok to restore?
openDo Youtubers making fanworks count as fanfiction?
Some context… I came upon this Goddess of Victory: NIKKE channel, "Goddess of Drip: Nikke", which has the characters of the game playing mostly Halo Infinite and razzing on each other. The voices are done with text to speech AI.
openA good use of redirects?
I often notice that on Visual Novel pages with a lot of sub-pages, it can be a little bit weird to not be able to see the main page from the menu, and instead have to click "More" - "Visual Novel". Would it be a good use of redirects to create a Video Game page for these that redirects to Visual Novel?
resolved What does POTN mean? Videogame
I've seen this acronym used in several video game-related pages, and it never links to anything nor does it have any accompanying explanation. What does POTN mean/stand for?
openArch-Enemy shoehorning
Ever since they joined TV Tropes, dgenega5764 has been heavily focused on the Arch-Enemy page (and they have made tons of edits for nearly all of its subpages as well). There have been complaints about them shoehorning examples before, and I don't feel like things have really changed since then.
A lot of their examples simply boil down to two characters being enemies regardless of how personal or brief their enmity is. For example, they listed Buggy as an Arch-Enemy to Luffy, even though Luffy has openly stated that he simply sees Buggy as a moron.
Similarly, they listed Emperor Pilaf as an Arch-Enemy to Goku. While it may be true that Pilaf views Goku aa his greatest enemy, the same is definitely not true on Goku's end (especially considering that there are stronger, more personal, and more competent enemies to him; Pilaf is largely just comic relief).
They also listed Commander Red as one for Goku as well, which I think is even worse since the two never even met each other (and they only briefly interacted with each other in the anime over a radio).
I'm sure there are tons of other examples, but I feel like these illustrate my issues with their edits fairly well. They also have extensive history with pages like Greater-Scope Villain, Big Bad, etc.
Edited by PokemonMasterJamalopenBile Fascination Writes The Plot????????
If an Audience Reaction is a factor in the creation of a work, should it be referenced in some way?
As an example: I could add mocking references to The Nutshack or The Big Bang Theory in a work, because I and others like to make fun of those works. So, you could say that me showing Bile Fascination towards The Nutshack is the justification for inserting The Nutshack references or even characters in a work.
In that case, how would that be classified? It wouldn't fit on a normal YMMV page because it's an Audience Reaction expressed by the creator towards a different work, and not directed to the work itself; it wouldn't fit on the Main page because it's still an out-of-universe example. Should it be listed as Trivia under Word of God if I officially say that I added references to The Nutshack out of Bile Fascination? Or is it not worth pointing out at all for this site?
Edited by TMH-Sir-Iron-VomitopenQuestions 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 Gravity YMMV example
On YMMV.Gravity, Etrebamort added a Memetic Mutation example that didn't have any sort of context. I commented out the example and sent them a ZCE notifier. They responded by saying (I'm paraphrasing here) that adding context would lean into Don't Explain the Joke, and then made the example visible again while potholing it to From Bad to Worse.
I'm posting this query to ask for permission to comment out the example again. Without context, an example just shouldn't be visible at all, regardless of what kind of joke it would ruin with it.
openMystic Force issue.
Meduini has made a few concerning edits on pages regarding Power Rangers Mystic Force. They added an Adaptational Attractiveness example on the YMMV page, added a Broken Aesop example that seems to be mostly natter with sub-bullets that continue off the previous example, added an example for Not Even Bothering with the Accent on the trivia page, and recently used first person writing while incorrectly adding a sub-bullet on the awesome moments page.
I've already deleted and sent misuse notifiers for the Adaptational Attractiveness and Not Even Bothering with the Accent examples, but what should be done about the Broken Aesop and Awesome Moment examples?
Edited by ejmenendezopenI am confused by this edit reason.
So, on Dry Docking Sabot Tori edited a bunch of entries to remove mentions of fans finding the actors attractive saying ""Played by the beautiful X" appears five times on this page with little variation, and four times in a row in one section. I've retained one example of this that mentions something more descriptive, but there needs to be more about why these actors are appealing to the fans, or it's just a subjective example without any sort of clarifying context or explanation." Which I find odd, as isn't saying that fans find the performers attractive mentioning why fans find them appealing? Is it necessary to describe in detail why they are attractive when the trope doesn't require it? I am not even trying to get them added back (I don't think the performers needed to be mentioned) but am just confused what the edit reason is going for.
Edited by Bullmanopen TRS crowner
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resolved 'Related' page question.
What does "Since January 1, 2012, this article has brought X people to the wiki from non-search engine links" mean? I've seen people in the TRS referring to this number as the inbound count but my first impression is that it means how many people visited the page from in-wiki links.
Is there a feature that lets you see all the forum posts a user has made?