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... because you abbreviated all of the decade names in the list that you edited. Our style guide is pretty clear on this matter: don't abbreviate.

Your "fix" would have actually broken things that were not broken beforehand.

At this point, I'm going to have to ask you to read the Style Guide.

@Gadg8eer @Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

Similarly, your proposed edit to "The Seventies" has been rejected for exactly the same reason.

Further, the potholing is gratuitous and unnecessary. If we had wanted the page The Roaring Twenties to have the name The Roaring 20s, for example, we would have renamed it years ago.

Alright, that's understandable. It's just that TV Tropes had changed the names to include numbers and I assumed the only reason that hadn't been done here is because of formatting. I also was NOT attempting to rename those pages outright, only to make it clear they are the same tropes as seen on TV Tropes' version of the article.

Why? Who cares? Why would we even want to bother?

It is official ATT policy that we don't give a damn what the hell TVT does, and further, we don't do anything here just because TVT does it. (And in fact, saying "TVT does it" as an excuse for an edit is practically equivalent to dropping to your knees and fervently begging "please revert me!") TVT uses numbers in these trope names? Who gives a fuck? We're not TVT and we don't freaking care what they do. Potholing them to look like TVT's links is just stupid, because it falsely assumes that users here are sadly and silently pining for TVT and want ATT to look and act just like it. News bulletin: they don't.

Excuse?! I was trying to explain my train of thought, not put it back on the rails. I already heard you loud and clear and will not attempt to change it based on that.

But do not fucking get angry by ASSUMING that I won't comply.

I came here because I wanted a trope wiki that acts like pre-2012 TV Tropes. I'm already aware from your other responses that things work differently here, you don't need to tell me why.

@Looney Toons, we know that this is one of your Berserk Buttons. Please don't scare off the new Tropers who don't know that.

@Gadg8eer, I apologize for my fellow mod's behaviour.

@Robkelk Thanks, I was probably a bit hostile when I said that but it doesn't feel good to be told not just that I screwed up, but that in doing so I had somehow broken some taboo worthy of me getting yelled at.

I apologize for my tone. My only excuse was that I wrote that in a break during the seventh hour of a planned 30-minute deployment of a program for my job. I was feeling more than a little frustrated, irritated, and exhausted.

@Looney Toons That... actually sounds pretty terrible to have to deal with. Apology accepted.

Thank you.

@Robkelk @Looney Toons I tried creating a better edit of The Nineties' "See also" section. Hopefully this time it meets your standards?

In the future, I'd recommend some sort of infobox that would allow for simply listing off the cultural decades and major wars...

• The Gay Nineties
• The Edwardian Era
• "The Great War" a.k.a World War I
• The Roaring Twenties
• The Dirty Thirties
• The Forties/"The War Forties"
  • World War II
• The Fifties/"The Fair Fifties"
• The Sixties/"The Sweet Sixties"
• The Seventies/"The Funky Seventies"
• The Eighties/"The Electric Eighties"
  • "The Late Eighties"/"The Neon Eighties"
• The Networking Nineties
  • "The Xtreme Nineties"
  • "The Y2K Era"
• Turn of the Millennium
  • The War on Terror
• The New Tens
  • "The Great Recession"
  • (Not sure what to call Trump's Presidency that is witty but impartial)
• The New Twenties
  • COVID-19 pandemic
• The Present Day

Yes, that's something that lines up with our Style Guide. I've approved your second try.

As for an infobox or a navbox, I'm all in favour of one. (I thought we had one, but then I realized we have navboxes for media by decade (film by decade, Literature by decade, and so on) - we don't have anything generic.

(Not sure what to call Trump's Presidency that is witty but impartial)

Looking at the USA from the outside, I suspect one can't come up with an impartial name there. At least, not yet; historians will no doubt come up with something in three or four decades.

I was just thinking that a navbox like {{Animation by Decade}} would be the best way to implement a common navigation element for all the decades/eras. Let's do that.

Strangely, I live in Canada and have never been a US citizen. It's just that I've hated Trump's guts from the moment I first heard about him, when he was still the host of "The Apprentice".

The guy's an asshole, plain and simple, and IMO at least, anyone who doesn't know that at this point is either in denial, is as big of a monster as Trump is, or has been living under a rock since at least 2015.

That being said, I suppose that's a bit off-topic, which is why I agree that my other attempted edit of The New Tens wasn't exactly impartial enough, even for a trope wiki.

All I can say is, he really was a President Evil if you look at the definition of the trope.