User talk:Beta Log 86

We've noticed that you've used the Visual Editor over the past 60 days. There is currently a proposal up before the wiki community to turn it off permanently, and we're inviting you to weigh in. Please join the thread and let us know your opinion.

-- Looney Toons, admin

it still needs some work

There's room for another trope candidate as I type this (August 27). If you are ready to have "User:Beta Log 86/sandbox" become "Trope Workshop:Adultism", please let one of the admins know and we'll move it over for you.

@Beta Log 86 @Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

...is kind of garbled; I can't figure out what you're trying to say in it. I made a necessary grammar fix to it, but it didn't really clarify anything. Can you please go back and make it clearer?

Thanks!

-- Looney Toons, admin

I've been having issues with the grammar problems I was running, especially when it came to spoilers. When prompted with the visual editor, it locks me out from putting important templete.

I've fixed as much as I could with your new page "Spice Girls/Trivia", but there's one that I can't fix:

You linked to a disambiguation page.

Please fix the link so that it points to the intended page instead.

I'll take a look. I'm working on a page for Mars Attacks: Simpsons.

I was dealing with the visual edit, which is anything but easy for folks like me.

You should have access to the "edit source" option; that plus the preview button should help.

Hi!

Is there any chance that you could write all your new Userboxes to match the ones that we already have? It's a lot of work following after you, trimming out all the excess space you're adding that causes the boxes to misalign in some browsers, and wrapping the "Category:Userboxes" part of the template in "noinclude" tags so that the category doesn't show up on the Users' pages.

Also, please keep the flag images at 40px so that they don't take up too much space on mobile screens.

To avoid having a new Trope Workshop candidate deleted immediately, please provide three examples of the trope in action. If you can't come up with three examples, how do we know you've put any thought into it? See the Three Rules of Three.

The trope workshop page in question still has zero examples. I have marked it for speedy deletion - if it has fewer than three examples one week from today, I will delete the page.

Usually, I don't do this - instead, I add examples. In this case, I cannot think of any examples. This might be Too Rare to Trope.

@Beta Log 86@Looney Toons

That proposed trope's Laconic form is "hospital room is personalized". As mentioned above, I requested three examples be provided by January 13. Got two examples of "hospital room is personalized" and one of "personal room is made hospital-like", which is not this trope. No work has been done on this proposed trope by anybody since January 9.

Conclusion: "Tailor-Made Hospital Room" is Too Rare to Trope.

Deleting the page.

@Looney Toons @Beta Log 86

Since you're Entry Pimping those two Spice Girls fics so much, why don't you write up actual works pages for them?

Unfortunate, I don't often have time to work on due to my job in retail. I'm leaving it up to the other tropes to see we can be added.

There's located in the ATT Community Portal Fan Works...

Speaking of which, I've taken "In the Dark" off of Crossover/Fanfic - other editors have spent quite a lot of time pruning the redlinks off of that page. You're welcome to re-add that work to that page after the work has its own page.

It's located in the ATT Community Portal Fan Works!

That's a list of pages that other readers/editors want somebody to make.

It's listed under the Spice Girls if you asking. Then, go for it... maybe sure you read it for.

I've never read it. And if you want to wait for me to have time to read it, you'll have to wait until after I'm retired (not happening soon), have gotten through my backlog of published works (add another year or two), and then work up an interest in either of the bands featured in this particular fanfic...

Honestly, it'll be faster, even with your workload, if you write it yourself. You've obviously read the story, which is more than I have.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but some of your edits are very hard to understand and have some badly parsed grammar. I strongly request you work on that before editing any further pages.

unfortunate, i don't have access to a third party when it comes to grammar... I mostly have to use a word processor before any form of editing is to be done... it got me in trouble elsewhere.

I understand that, but our main concern is your sentence structure. For example:

Triple H (Wrestling) Your edit:

• • Don't hit his wife. It's a sure fire way to get him to beating you down, even if you was tossed to her by another wreslter by chance.

• • Don't even try to offer to take on his wife either, somebody tried in hopes of having challenge a match with him. How did Triple H and Stephanie handed this... get some get enforcement of course, though...

You use a lot of improper word tenses and malapropisms (improper words) in these sentences, as well as not ending sentence with proper punctuation. Here's how to fix that:

• • Don't hit his wife. It's a sure fire way to get him to beat you down, even if you were tossed to her by another wrestler by chance.

• • Don't even try to offer to take on his wife either, somebody tried in hopes of having a match with him. How did Triple H and Stephanie handle this? They got some enforcement of course.

My suggestion is to speak what you are about to say in your mind before writing it. If it sounds inappropriate in your head, you need to fix it.

one more issue about that... when i have to link to to another article... the grammar ends up suffering despite being trained in literature. i even consider paying for a service that'll allow my voice to do the writing.

It sounds like you have a wikitext linking issue.

For example:

I'm a member of a troping website.

Which will look like this in the edit window:

I'm a [[Troper|member of a troping website]].

My advice is to use the preview function before saving your edit to make sure what text you added a wiki link to looks good before saving it.

As for a speech to text program, I recommend "Dragon - Naturally Speaking" if that's what you are looking for, though it may be expensive in some places.

how on a second I gotta take something for the radar section... a lampshaded

I believe you were trying to say "hold on a second, I've gotta place something for the radar section, a lampshading." in your previous comment, correct?

The contribution you made was grammatically correct save for one part at the beginning with "the a" (drop the "the"), so I advise you carefully review all of your edits before saving anything from now on.

I also found a link you should check out for more help:

http://prowritingaid.com/art/111/10-websites-to-help-improve-your-grammar.aspx

Also, you don't have to say if you don't wish to, but where did you get in trouble for grammar issues before. Regardless whether you wish to say anything on that subject or not, I consider myself a reasonable person, and you are clearly editing in good faith, so please be assured that I will be willing to continue helping you until this grammar issue is resolved, and I will not hold any previous experiences on other sites against you.

If I'm not available, you can ask another admin for help if you need to.

I gotta some items that needs to be place but they're staying offline until further notice... I just gotta check with the grammar because I had to add where tropes fits it.

I'm glad to see you are clearly considering this advice and are willing to work on it. Let me know if you need further help.

The only area I run into with this is where a quote has to be put in place... there's no telling it the grammar matches or not.

Your recent edits have shown a lot of improvement.

Keep up the great work! :)