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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII
03-26-2026, 12:40 PM
And done, earlier this morning.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII
03-27-2026, 07:30 AM
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Today, instead of acknowledging (as requested) a warning on their talk page, Loopy's instead gotten pissy about the edit rejection, and has decided to alter the descriptions of those two tropes because in their mind we are denying what they think is an obvious truth. I think we've hit the point of diminishing returns with them. Would someone else please take point with them? I am inclined to be... undiplomatic, and that's probably the wrong tack to take right now.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII
03-27-2026, 09:39 AM
(03-27-2026, 07:30 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Today, instead of acknowledging (as requested) a warning on their talk page, Loopy's instead gotten pissy about the edit rejection, and has decided to alter the descriptions of those two tropes because in their mind we are denying what they think is an obvious truth. I think we've hit the point of diminishing returns with them. Would someone else please take point with them? I am inclined to be... undiplomatic, and that's probably the wrong tack to take right now.
I did the needful.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII
03-27-2026, 12:47 PM
Thank you.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII
Yesterday, 03:21 PM
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(01-20-2026, 10:32 AM)robkelk Wrote: Do we have this trope already?
Alice says something that isn't right. Bob corrects her, but the correction isn't right, either.
Example:
"Everybody knows the Nobel Prizes are awarded by Denmark."
"No, actually they're awarded by Finland."
After two months, I'm starting a trope candidate for this: Incorrect Correction. Nowhere near ready for the Trope Workshop, let alone the wide world of tropes, but I don't mind other admins taking a look at it. (Especially since I only have two examples so far, and one of them's a fan work that I wrote.  )
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII
Yesterday, 05:48 PM
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So, so close...
I almost cleaned up everything on All The Tropes:Frequent Redlinks... but Zack Ryder/Funny has an link to "GMs" that I don't know how to parse because I don't follow professional wrestling. If somebody who has a clue about pro wrestling could look at that page and disambiguate that link (and, if necessary, add a term to the disambiguation page for GM), I'd appreciate it.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII
Yesterday, 05:51 PM
(Yesterday, 05:48 PM)robkelk Wrote: So, so close...
I almost cleaned up everything on All The Tropes:Frequent Redlinks... but Zack Ryder/Funny has an link to "GMs" that I don't know how to parse because I don't follow professional wrestling. If somebody who has a clue about pro wrestling could look at that page and disambiguate that link (and, if necessary, add a term to the disambiguation page for GM), I'd appreciate it.
GM is short for "General Manager", so "GM" is a contraction of that term.
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RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII
Yesterday, 05:57 PM
Thanks, geth. One more term for the disambiguation page... and a clean sweep of fixing the common redlinks for another year.
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