History Administrivia / WordCruft

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* '''Listing unnecessary aversions before an example:''' "X isn't an A, Y isn't an A, but Z is an A" falls under the category of extraneous information, since people do not read trope pages to read about examples that don't qualify.

* '''Bogus intensifiers:''' Instances of "and even", "an entire", "literally" and "totally" can usually be like totally even literally zapped entirely, for real. For the same reason, things like "brutally subverted" or "averted hard" should be brutally averted.

* '''How did we miss ...:''' Some individuals are addicted to sticking Administrivia/HowDidWeMissThisOne or other VerbalTic nonsense onto their examples like ugly verbal warts.

* '''Prolongation: robo-speech:''' Some editors begin every example with "Subversion:" or "Inversion:" or "Film example:" or, in desperate cases, "Another example:". This ends up making it feel like there's a slight delay between the trope name and the example text, hindering the flow of the example text and making it feel robotic.

* '''Prolongation: robo-speech:''' Some editors begin every example with "Subversion:" or "Inversion:" or "Film example:" or, in desperate cases, "Another example:". This ends up making it feel like there's a slight delay between the trope name and the example text, hindering the flow of the example text.

* '''Prolongation: robo-speech:''' Some poor souls begin every example with "Subversion:" or "Inversion:" or "Film example:" or, in desperate cases, "Another example:". The motivation, of course, is to delay, even for a moment, that dread instant when they have to start saying something. The only significant effect is that they sound like a robot from a '50s BMovie. Easy to clean up.

* ''' "Subverted" as verbal chaff:''' Sticking "subverted by" (or worse yet, "semi-subverted" or "partially subverted") at the start of a paragraph is not a license to spend the rest of it noodling around on whatever topic randomly crosses your lobes. Nor is "subverted" a magical word that takes on whatever meaning you like, including "[[Administrivia/NotASubversion not actually subverted at all]]". See above re. "marmosets".

* '''Gratuitous profanity:''' While we frown on the Administrivia/BluenoseBowdlerizer and assume that people who read this site can handle grown-up language without fainting, it's not fucking necessary to emphasize every goddamn sentence with bullshit swearing.

* '''Technologically-aided obfuscation:''' The reverse of the previous syndrome -- an entire example with no mention of what story it's ''from'', but for a tiny link buried behind [[Franchise/StarTrek one character's]] name. Possibly they are laboring under the misapprehension that something ''more complicated'' must be ''better''. Easy to expand back into something readable without mousing over random words.
* '''Someone should totally look into that:''' "Does anyone remember a show called...?" "Wasn't there an episode where...?" An excellent question! Someone should totally look into that. Deleted! Besides, we have a page [[YouKnowThatShow just for this.]]

* '''Mind-boggling {{verbal tic}}s:''' Science cannot explain it, but certain tropers reflexively prepend "of course", "bear in mind" or "do note" (or in one terminal case: "of course, do bear in mind") to ''every single example they write''. Other examples include "Not to mention...", "Heck...", "Of all things", "Natch", and "Full stop". Just mention it or don't mention it. The preamble and/or epilogue don't help. Until a cure can be found, the best that can be hoped is that these people are tracked down and sent to the Troper Institution For Re-Education Using [[NoodleImplements Raspberry Jam And Live Marmosets]].

* '''Administrivia/AboutRhetoricalQuestions:''' This isn't the author's fault. Rhetorical questions are a very useful device! Unfortunately, an explosion in a lead paint chips factory in Montana has left a fair chunk of the internet with the approximate IQ of a brain-damaged gibbon. If you pose a rhetorical question, or anything that could by the remotest stretch be interpreted as a rhetorical question, someone will [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder respond to it seriously]] and then pat himself on the back (with his long, gibbon-like arms) for his amazing internet wit. The probability of this happening is 1. Do not write rhetorical questions.

Many new Tropers are unpracticed at [[HedgeTrimmer economical writing]]. With that in mind, the following guidelines may be helpful:

!!Tropes listed in the WikiTropes index are being discussed at the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop. Click the link [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1618086045064904400&page=1#1 here]] to join the discussion.

* '''Gratuitous profanity:''' While we frown on the BluenoseBowdlerizer and assume that people who read this site can handle grown-up language without fainting, it's not fucking necessary to emphasize every goddamn sentence with bullshit swearing.

* '''"Check" lists:''' "X? Check. Y? Check. Z? Check^2." TV Tropes examples are already lists, we don't need useless sub-lists like these when there could be proper context instead, plus these gags get grating starting from about the 5th time you see them due to their repetitive formula.

* '''Gratuitous profanity:''' While we frown on the BluenoseBowdlerizer and assume that people who read this site can handle grown-up language without fainting, it's not necessary to fucking emphasize every goddamn sentence with bullshit swearing.

* '''How did we miss ...:''' Some individuals are addicted to sticking Administrivia/HowDidWeMissThisOne or SoYeah onto their examples like ugly verbal warts.

* '''But enough about that, let's talk about me!:''' "ThisTroper is shocked that we have gone so long without mentioning..." "As far as this troper can remember..." This self-insertion can inevitably be removed without changing the content of the example. Although after you do so, you might find it ''has'' no content.

* ''' 'Subverted' as verbal chaff:''' Sticking "subverted by" (or worse yet, "semi-subverted" or "partially subverted") at the start of a paragraph is not a license to spend the rest of said paragraph noodling around on whatever topic randomly crosses your lobes. Nor is "subverted" a magical word that takes on whatever meaning you like, including "[[Administrivia/NotASubversion not actually subverted at all]]". See above re. "marmosets".