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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-02-2021, 04:33 PM
(03-02-2021, 01:54 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Not as far as I know. In my experience, a caretaker is someone who watches over a property, not a person. I think it's one of those names used because the trope creator way back when might have been confused. Hard to be sure, as the TVT history for the page only goes back to May 2013. (I did note, btw, that they've gotten rid of that clumsy "on this wiki it means" phrasing.)
Given that "The Caregiver" just redirects back to it, I see no problems with renaming it to what it actually should be, and turning the old name into a redirect to the new one.
EDIT: Oh, you did that. No big, my point still applies.
I'd added the "On this wiki" part, too, because I was puzzled.
I've moved and updated the page.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-02-2021, 11:10 PM
Well, our Wikia fork got cited by the guys who run the official Twitter for Action Taimanin, the non-porn adaptation of the Taimanin Asagi franchise.
https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Mes...0000086841
https://twitter.com/Action_Taimanin/stat...9264846849
TV Tropes had a page on that game, but it was mostly a ripoff of ours and they took it down when I reported it, leaving us the only game in town by default.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-03-2021, 12:35 PM
I don't know whether this one belongs on The Big List of Booboos:
* taint (add a small but noticeable contaminant, or the contaminant itself) for 'tain't (a contraction of "it ain't", which is poor grammar but was popularized on ''[[Fibber McGee and Molly]]'': "'Tain't funny, McGee".) Nowadays usually only seen on signs in old ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-03-2021, 12:43 PM
I don't see why not.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-03-2021, 02:25 PM
I'm wracking my brains (and firing unsuccessful searches off into the wiki) but I can't answer this one. Do we have a trope not unlike Follow the Leader about TV shows that were the first to do something that became an unremarked common thing? The two examples I have in mind are: Bewitched was the first American show to depict a married couple sharing a double bed (instead of two singles), and All in the Family was the first to use a toilet flush sound effect. (I'd use the first to actually show a toilet -- still not done by the beginning of the 1970s -- but I don't know which one that was.)
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-03-2021, 03:31 PM
Not sure but I'd add the interracial kiss from Star Trek that was for some reason kind of a big deal a while back.
Maybe Society Marches On or one of the Time Marches On subtropes?
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-03-2021, 04:50 PM
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(03-03-2021, 02:25 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: I'm wracking my brains (and firing unsuccessful searches off into the wiki) but I can't answer this one. Do we have a trope not unlike Follow the Leader about TV shows that were the first to do something that became an unremarked common thing? The two examples I have in mind are: Bewitched was the first American show to depict a married couple sharing a double bed (instead of two singles), and All in the Family was the first to use a toilet flush sound effect. (I'd use the first to actually show a toilet -- still not done by the beginning of the 1970s -- but I don't know which one that was.)
Apparently not.
And "Trailblazer" is available as a page name, too.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-03-2021, 06:02 PM
*sigh* There's nothing as depressing as a Trope Workshop candidate that got two "yes" votes to launch, and then silence for over a week...
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-03-2021, 08:13 PM
I'd say take the lack of "no" votes as morally equivalent to a "yes". <grin>
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-03-2021, 08:31 PM
So would I, but that isn't how we wrote the rule... Anyway, the trope got some more yes votes, so it's launched now.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-04-2021, 06:14 PM
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Just bulk-changed links to a redirect to links to the destination page... but deliberately left one redirect so that the redirect wouldn't be deleted as unused.
Mainly because most keyboards don't have a × key.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-05-2021, 08:17 AM
Could somebody who has some time check the recent changes to "Metal Slug/Characters" against the same page at TVT, please? I'm seeing a lot of tropes listed that we don't have - at least, we don't have under the names they have on the page.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-05-2021, 10:32 AM
Took a look -- TVT doesn't even have an entry for the character with the redlinks; in fact its page is missing a lot of the characters recently added.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-05-2021, 12:14 PM
I'm just paranoid, then...  Thanks, Bob.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-05-2021, 01:46 PM
You're welcome. And it's not like it's unjustified paranoia given our history with new contributors.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-05-2021, 07:16 PM
A couple more tropes that I can't find in a quick search:
* Meteoric Rise (in ability)
* It Isn't Cheating if You Don't Get Caught
Do we have these under different names?
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-05-2021, 08:33 PM
Neither ring a bell.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-06-2021, 10:43 AM
Another one for the Big List of Booboos's image links page:
![[Image: a-bridge.jpg]](https://wronghands1.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/a-bridge.jpg)
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-06-2021, 09:09 PM
(03-06-2021, 07:55 PM)In the current RWBY thread, Matrix Dragon Wrote: And here's something from Mays VA, that the entire fandom and beyond should damn well read.
https://kdinjenzen.tumblr.com/post/64495...er-in-asks
Question for any RWBY fan who knows the background here: Does this belong as an example on Shipping Goggles?
If yes, please write and add it - since I have to ask, I'm obviously not qualified to do that myself.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-10-2021, 03:37 PM
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Who wants to take on a short-term project?
Update as many of these maps as possible with the up-to-date PD maps from the CIA World Factbook. At one map a day, it'll take four months.
Don't shrink the replacement maps; just set the display sizes on the country pages by replacing "frame" (or "right") with "thumb|400px" in the image embedding code.
And don't forget to mention that the new images are all PD, so that I don't need to set their license terms later...
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-10-2021, 07:29 PM
I think ATT can take a hint...
Adult Child is now a disambiguation page instead of a redirect to "One of the Kids", since it appears everybody (including Bob) thought it meant "Man Child".
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-10-2021, 08:52 PM
<chuckle> Thanks, we needed that. <grin>
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-10-2021, 09:07 PM
Bob, I assume you'll vote yes here, but I need you to actually say so,
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-11-2021, 08:11 AM
I did, five minutes after you moved to launch.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIX
03-11-2021, 06:52 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I may be unavailable for a few days, getting over a stomach virus, and looking at a computer too much makes me ill, I'll be mostly out until I'm better.
If anything critical occurs, let me know, I'll chime in whenever I feel remotely decent, but otherwise, I'm gonna be out of touch until I feel better.
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