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Use that same thread for asking for pages to be added here.
To see a list of pages that were locked but not removed, go to Locked Pages. See also the list of Recent Cuts, not all of which become members of this club.
Note: Not all pages on this list are redlinks or locked. This is because of software issues and does not mean you have license to recreate them. Please don't.
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Pages cut and locked for reducing the overall quality of the wiki
There are Verbal Tics and Overused Running Gags, and then there are these. These are former tropes that were deleted outright for being so misused by having potholes to these pages sprinkled around this wiki on pages for no reason other than perhaps to be funny.
- Did Not Do The Research: Intended as an index for research failure, it attracted lots of misuse as a way of pointing out a research mistake in a work. It was merged with other indexes and christened the Inaccuracies Index for a few days, until it was determined that we don't need that either. These tropes are now listed at Consistency, under "Lack of External Consistency".
- I Am Not Making This Up: Originally created for how fans react to crazy plot twists and the like, it was used as a pothole for absolutely anything that was even the slightest bit outlandish, as if it would make it read as a bit of incredibly hilarious and awesome escapism. Instead, it became a grating Catch Phrase (appearing on over 2,500 pages at its peak) that made This Very Wiki look like idiots with an incredibly low threshold of disbelief. Not only were all links to it changed to be permanently red regardless of stylesheet, all instances of the phrase were automatically deleted from the wiki, leaving blank spots where it used to be. In-Universe examples were moved to "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer. Since this is TV Tropes, you don't need to say this; since even Reality Is Unrealistic, there's no reason not to believe such things happened. And it's usually better to link to the proof that you're not making it up.
- No Really: One of many redirects to the above, and even without that it violates TV Tropes' policy about in-site Verbal Tics.
- Please Elaborate: Poorly written examples should be rewritten or, failing that, outright deleted, not compounded with more useless junk that also acts as natter.
- Pretty Cool Guy: A meme that was overly redundant and did nothing but encourage meaningless potholes.
- So Yeah: Used as a Verbal Tic as an excuse to never finish a sentence. Compounded by its small size making it incredibly easy to Pot Hole, this "trope" infected examples across the wiki like herpes, appearing on over 4,000 pages at its peak.
- Your Mileage May Vary: The old name for Love It or Hate It (and not to be confused with the index page for YMMV tropes), kept being misused as an expression of subjectivity or even to dispute existing entries despite Examples Are Not Arguable. Neither redirecting or removing the wicks did stop this usage.
Deliberate redlink
A small collection of articles actually do still exist, but the titles have been carefully tweaked to appear red. Like the above, this is a subtle hint that users should not be linking to it (at all) in trope articles, but the articles themselves are just useful enough to keep around for future reference. Most are redirects to a page that has been moved, with the old title kept around to keep inbound links working and to help find and change any remaining wicks.
- Heroic Sociopath: Attracted massive Trope Decay before a split. The page itself still exists as a disambiguation to help with cleaning up the remaining wicks.
- If you Know What I Mean: the former name for Lampshaded Double Entendre. This led to tropers potholing their own double entendres to this article, leading to a rename. Kept for inbounds.
- Hot Dad and Hot Mom: Massive misuse and Zero Context Examples led these to be turned into disambiguation pages for several more-specific tropes that involve the concepts.
- It Got Worse and It Gets Worse: The trope was defined as "a terrible situation getting some final perfect push over the edge". It attracted massive sinkholes and misuse. Renamed to From Bad to Worse.
- No Just No: Originally created for a character's reaction to a Squicky moment or a highly disagreeable statement, it got misused as a pothole for editors inserting their own reaction to what was in other trope examples. In-Universe examples were moved to "No. Just... No" Reaction.
- Sliding Scale Of Anti Heroes: One of the most problematic of the Sliding Scales. It was eventually made a redirect to Analysis.Anti Hero and the scale was broken into distinct tropes.
- This Troper: The page itself has always said to avoid using first-person writing (the phrase being a euphemism for "me" or "I"), but people linking to it either didn't read the article, or simply rebelled against it. Even in designated areas, it's usually better to Pot Hole it to the contributor page...even if you don't have a contributor page. Better yet, avoid talking about yourself at all.
- X Just X: The former name for Zero-Context Example. Despite strong warnings on the page against its use as a Pot Hole, contributors continued to use it.
Main namespace Darth Wiki and Sugar Wiki redirects
Due to heated complaining and gushing involving these on the main wiki, as well as unnecessary Pot Holing involving them, we discourage linking to these Darth Wiki and Sugar Wiki tropes and pages outside of those areas. These articles should be treated the same way as deliberate redlinks. Their main page redirects were cut and locked to discourage tropers from using them as such.
If you desperately want to see what's inside, use the history button on the page or view a cache.
- Main.Dethroning Moment Of Suck: Was commonly used for work-bashing, even though the page itself is a signed soapbox with very strict rules to prevent that.
- Main.Fallen Creator: Constantly used as a pothole for people complaining about creators they don't like, along with being used to point out works that seriously damaged their creator's reputation (which is why we have Creator Killer).
- Main.Idiot Programming: Something of a Take That by its very nature.
- Main.Most Triumphant Example: Way too opinionated for the main wiki. You may have wanted Trope Codifier, Trope Namer, or Ur-Example, which are all more appropriate.
- Main.So Bad Its Horrible: Showed up practically everywhere as an excuse to bash works, disregarding the page in question's very high standards as to what qualifies.
- Main.Worse Than It Sounds: While the page itself is a Just for Fun game where you make something sound as good as you can, it was constantly being used as a pothole for complaining due to people thinking that it was Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
Misused trope name
Sometimes when we rename a trope, the original name has to be deleted if the misuse was really bad.
- Ambiguously Autistic: Where tropers put examples of characters who they thought had autism. Or, works that referenced autism unambiguously. Became Ambiguous Disorder.
- All Pedophiles Are Child Molesters: The original name of Pædo Hunt. Was discovered by actual pedophiles, who tried to use the page to defend themselves, fighting the moderators all the way.
- Audience Reaction Tropes: Where Audience Reactions were listed when they were considered tropes. They aren't anymore. When an audience reaction is used as a trope, it's In-Universe.
- I Got Better: The former name of Unexplained Recovery, it was frequently used for any kind of "getting better". The page was redirected and later cut when tropers didn't stop using it.
- Incredibly Lazy Pun: The original name of Stealth Pun, it kept getting misused as any pun. After Incredibly Lame Pun was made to stop this, tropers still got confused from this.
- Or Is It: Was supposed to be an Ending Trope, but it rapidly degenerated into a troper Catch Phrase. Now known as The End... Or Is It?.
- Rape The Dog: Former name of Moral Event Horizon, which was renamed and strictly defined to combat Trope Decay from editors using it to Pot Hole long, often off-topic descriptions of character actions to hammer in that yes, they're evil. When the Pot Holes didn't stop, the redirect was removed.
- Token Loli: It was originally meant to describe a very young female in a predominately teenaged or adult cast. However, constant misuse, concerns about advertisements, the Unfortunate Implication of the trope name, and the lack of a male equivalent led to it being renamed to the more gender-neutral Token Mini-Moe and redefined to describe the only prepubescent (or prepubescent-looking) male or female character within the main cast (The "Cute Shotaro Boy", a completely separate trope, was later renamed Adorably Precocious Child for similar reasons above).
- Too Common To Trope: Once a redirect to People Sit on Chairs, it aided in the latter's misuse as "too common to trope" and Missing Supertrope Syndrome. It was in violation of wiki policy anyway, since we have No Trope Is Too Common.
- We Are Not Wikipedia: The original name of Troper's Law. You're probably looking for There Is No Such Thing as Notability.
Pages locked for being cut then recreated
Cut pages sometimes have a habit of reappearing very quickly, usually due to tropers simply being unaware why the page had been deleted though sometimes as part of a trolling effort, so they may be locked to deal with this.
For a time, all cut pages were locked automatically as a preventative measure. Such pages are not listed here, so if you find a locked blank page not listed here you may ask here for it to be unlocked.
for it to be unlocked.
- DidNotDoTheResearch.The Angry Video Game Nerd, DidNotDoTheResearch.The Nostalgia Critic and DidNotDoTheResearch.The Irate Gamer: The frequent misuse of Did Not Do the Research mentioned above got out of hand to the point where several internet reviewers had their own sub pages. When they were cut, they kept being remade.
- Brazil Nut Disorder: Utterly nonsensical trope page. Was cut but recreated many times by different editors.
- Root BEER: Was part of the same joke, and the premise seems to be already covered by Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere.
- Complete Monsters: Pluralism redirect to Complete Monster that was recreated four times.
- Disney Kidzone and List Of Programs Broadcast On Disney Kidzone: Poorly-written, copy-pasted articles for a made-up TV channel. (Disney does have a special subchannel for content intended for very young children, but they've never called it the Disney Kidzone. It's currently called Disney Junior.)
- Do Not Want: The original name of Translation Train Wreck, then became a redirect to Recursive Translation. The actual meme (both on- and off-wiki) is a synonym for squick.
- First Base Never Scores: Basically the same as All Girls Want Bad Boys, but cruder and with more complaining; both You Know That Thing Where and Trope Repair Shop were unanimous in saying it was redundant and offensive, but the creator didn't listen and recreated it after it got cut.
- From Breakout To Scrappy: Complaint page, recreated after cut.
- Frying The Coke: A meme page based on The Nostalgia Critic's Double Team video that fell flat.
- Heroes Of Troperia: Attempt at a Just for Fun page that fell flat, but kept being re-added.
- I Just Want To Be Accepted: Launched and relaunched by a confused newbie without ever being properly defined. Eventually became I Just Want to Have Friends.
- IAmNotMakingThisUp.Video Games: The examples of I Am Not Making This Up were dumped to the Temp Archive/namespace and went unnoticed for a while, and someone tried to remake the Video Games page.
- Kind Red Eyes: Used to just list aversions of Red Eyes, Take Warning, but was remade after being cut.
- Moka Akashiya: A redirect from a sinkhole, was reposted after being cut.
- Not Making This Up: Originally a redirect to I Am Not Making This Up, it was recreated after the Great IANMTU Cut as a redirect to "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer. It was immediately cut-and-locked to prevent this.
- Naked Sally and Sally Was The Naked One: Concerned a character attribute downplayed In-Universe but spoken of often by fans. Its name was an oblique reference note , the trope wasn't very clearly defined, and very few of the listed examples actually fit. Besides, we already had Never Live It Down.
- Nuking The Fridge and Nuke The Fridge: Basically stealth complaining about the fourth Indiana Jones film. It was always either ill-defined or Jumping the Shark for movies when it wasn't used as a redirect (see below).
- Pokemon Blackand White The Movie: Page for a nonexistent work that kept being recreated; they may have been looking for Pokémon the Movie: Black/White.
- RPG Codex: Recreated three times after having been deleted to preemptively avoid attracting exactly the sort of crowd a page about that site would attract.
- SelfDemonstrating.Lucifer: Page was cut for being too boring to be worth a page but was recreated.
- Shadow Persona: The aforementioned confused newbie never defined this one well, either. Eventually became Beneath the Mask.
- Walking: Someone kept recreating it despite being People Sit on Chairs.
- Unbirthing: A Porn Trope launched with no examples and which proved Too Rare to Trope.
- Wait What Whoa: Never defined very well, which probably wasn't helped by the name being better for "clever" potholing than actually describing the trope, and essentially just a spoken version of the Double Take.
- Weeaboo: Redundant to Occidental Otaku, and usually just used as an insult.
Pages cut and locked due to being nothing but complaining
Becoming a platform for actively complaining about anyone or anything is basically the worst sin any page on this wiki can commit, short of being created expressly for the purpose of trolling and/or conveying hate speech. With the exception of a few Darth Wiki pages which exist as carefully monitored outlets for this sort of thing, any such page is nuked with extreme prejudice.
- Haiku.Four Chan: Unnecessarily offensive and flame-bait.
- Ann Coulter and Jack Thompson: The pages were simply being used to insult these individuals due to their controversial stances. Since they are neither creators nor tropes, and the only useful content on the pages being In-Universe parodies and mockeries of these individuals; which are better off placed in Moral Guardians, having pages for them added little.
- WMG.Cartoon Network: After being cut, page was reposted with a list of thinly veiled complaints about the network.
- Citation Needed: Poorly defined and was nothing but a Take That at one of Wikipedia's main policies. Considering the "There Is No Such Thing as Notability" rule here in TV Tropes, citations aren't necessary for the most part here.
- Cookie Cutter Cuties: Was nothing more than a rant about the looks of Hollywood actresses.
- CN Real: Was originally about the programming block, but became a major complaint magnet for those who disapproved of Cartoon Network’s Network Decay. Fortunately, the problem worked itself out with the channel's "rehabilitation" into quality shows again. Unfortunately, a fresh crop of gripes arises every time a live-action show hits the scene of the network. Guess what pages always got hit when fans complained?
- Cute Kids And Robots: Was originally intended to discuss the ubiquitousness of these in children's shows, which was pretty pointless since children's shows by definition feature a lot of children. Instead it rapidly became used as a method of complaining about their use in mainstream works, which was not desirable on any level.
- CWC: Short for Christian Weston Chandler, whom the page was solely created to insult. His works get enough bile as-is.
- DarthWiki.Dethroning Music Of Suck: Meant for unintended Soundtrack Dissonance, but kept being misused as bad music or music that tropers didn't like.
- Depressing Tropes: Unlike Sadness Tropes, which is about tropes intended to cause sadness, it was any trope that tropers found even remotely depressing.
- Detractor Nickname: Redirected to Fan Nickname. Had no purpose aside from complaining and name-slinging.
- Fred Durst and Tim Buckley: As they only created one work, the pages were redundant with Limp Bizkit and Ctrl+Alt+Del (respectively) and had no purpose beyond Creator Bashing.
- Handle This Index With Care: Meant for tropes that carried Unfortunate Implications, but tropers were adding too many tropes that had only the faintest connections to that page. Unfortunate Implications being a YMMV concept also made a defined criteria for the list extremely hard to pin down, anyway.
- License To Whine: Tropes with issues of people complaining about it should be cleaned up in the dedicated cleanup thread or taken to Trope Repair Shop, not compounded with more useless junk and natter.
- Lickspittle: Even after an Example Sectionectomy, it was deemed an unnecessary page. We do not need a page for fan-bashing. There wasn't any point in allowing fictional examples either, as Yes-Man already fills that role.
- Michael Grade: Was principally used to complain about his actions while Controller of The BBC.
- Main.Microsoft: Computer Wars debaters simply couldn't resist the temptation to use the page to troll and rant about the company. We do, however, have pages for Microsoft Studios, Microsoft Windows, and their video game consoles.
- Pantheon.Disgraces: Attracted huge amounts of work and character bashing that was deemed unnecessarily toxic and inappropriate for the Pantheon.
- Sammy Classic Sonic Fan: Page primarily existed to denigrate the subject and their comments on video games.
- Certain subpages of Sonichu and Asperchu: A flood of complaining following the lock and cleanup of the former.
- Synthesizeritis: Started out as a way of bashing the composition of certain synthesizer-heavy works. That was already against the guidelines of this wiki, but before long people were using it to complain about any work that uses synthesized music instead of orchestral music, leading to its deletion.
- Tainted By The Fanbase: Contained all the whiny, factionalistic, nerd-rage examples that Fan Dumb would have if it allowed examples.
- True Art Is Complex, True Art Is Foreign, True Art Is Offensive, True Art Is Realistic, True Art Sticks It To The Man: All of these were based upon various types of anti-intellectual strawmen. This led to frequent whining both about works acclaimed as pieces of art and about an unspecified cabal of elitist critics who label such works art. The other True Art pages had to be curated and refocused on in-universe examples only.
- DarthWiki.Ultimate Troll Entry: While clever at first, it started getting tedious, unoriginal, unfunny entries... along with genuinely offensive comments not being done For the Lulz.
- Uwe Boll: Simply having this on the wiki was attracting trolling, and as he is neither an actor nor an author, we are missing only a list of his films by not having an article on him.
- DarthWiki.Wall Banger: When the page was in the main wiki, people used this as a pothole to complain about absolutely anything they didn't like on the main wiki, with more than 4,000 pages linking to it. Moving it to Darth Wiki didn't stop the complaining and nattering, thus in the last days of 2015 the page was cut altogether, with Dethroning Moment of Suck left as the outlet for complaining. WallBangers.Real Life was pre-emptively cut much earlier.
Overly-controversial pages/soapboxes
Let's just say the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement exists here for a reason.
- Abu Ghraib: A controversial Real Life prison which only attracted Flame Wars and Misplaced Nationalism, is neither a trope nor a work, and the article was a stub.
- Busy Street: The page was locked after a heated argument between multiple parties, and eventually cut when the subject in question underwent a drastic overhaul, causing complications that made it not worth keeping the page up.
- DarthWiki.Complain About Shows You Dont Like: Topic drift from shows to social, political, and religious targets along with racial slurs and constant back-and-forth between fans and haters. Let's just say things got nasty very quickly.
- Dueling Musicians: Caused too much edit warring and debates over who is the "better" artist.
- Encyclopedia Dramatica: The page was very biased against the site and its members, attracting all manner of negative attention from them. No other efforts stopped this, and we have no interest in Tempting Fate here.
- Flaming Fruit Vendors And Angry Arabs: Intended to be a page on the Arab Spring, it was cut due to its insensitive name and excessive use of "recent" examples due to how soon into the movement the page was made. We have a better page for the Arab Spring now.
- Narm.New Media: Most of the entries went way overboard, descending into outright attacking and name-calling rather than just describing moments of failed drama. Combined with a massive amount of edit-warring, it became obvious that this page was just too troublesome to be left alive.
- BlatantLies.Real Life Politics And War: Flame bait magnet, particularly with political matters.
- Retakers: Hate speech and death threats directed at Mass Effect 3 fans note .
- UsefulNotes.Scientology: Even after being locked, the fighting didn't stop. Since it was the only Useful Notes page that doesn't help you understand anything on this wiki better, the page was deleted. Church of Happyology describes when people make up a ridiculous religion, and you don't even have to know anything about Scientology to get the joke, especially not when it's actually making fun of Scientology itself. Besides, if Scientology's in a work, you can always use Wikipedia to see how accurate it is.
- Stormfront: Neo-Nazis are not really a phenomenon that merits a work article.
- This Troper: Work impossible to catalog due to clashes with site rules on personal attacks and drama importation. To clarify, it's a series hosted on Youtube, about commenting on the controversial and negative topics of this website through a Dramatic Reading of some articles. WebVideo.This Troper was preemptively locked to prevent the restoration of the page.
- Westboro Baptist Church: A magnet for religious related arguments and complaining. It didn't really help you understand anything on this wiki better due to the church having less than 100 members and almost never in any works outside of The Laramie Project and Louis Theroux's documentaries.
Pages that were cut for reasons that were too NSFW
- Innocent Panties: A trope made separate of Panty Shot by portraying visible girls' underwear as a cue of girlish cuteness with no sexual intent (while Panty Shot is for fanservice). Just like Panty Shot, however, people were listing every random upskirt... of prepubscent girls. Even worse, many examples included pictures. This could have just gotten an Example Sectionectomy, but the pedophilic potential was too great.
- Naked Shotaro Boy: Was a listing of works featuring nude prepubescent boys. In addition to the generally creepy undertones of the article, it didn't attempt any real insight into or analysis of the trope, leaving no reason to keep it.
- Naughty Tentacles: A trope that described the use of tentacles for sexual purposes in various works, it was cut after issues with advertisers.
- "Rape is Okay/Funny if..." tropes: Very troublesome names for the "Double Standard Rape" tropes that only encouraged plenty of misandry and misogyny by editors. All five of them were renamed and cleaned, with the original trope pages outright purged.
Pages that were made to bypass an Example Sectionectomy
Sometimes when examples on a page become problematic the examples will be deleted. See Example Sectionectomy for more on that. When we delete the examples from a page, we don't want them back.
- YMMV.Award Snub: The main page of Award Snub no longer allows examples, as many of them degenerated to complaining about shows that won and Take Thats to shows that lost. A troper attempted to move them here, which wasn't a good idea and isn't what YMMV is used for.
- YMMV.Eight Point Eight
- YMMV.Stop Having Fun Guys
Unlisted cut pages
These groups of pages are too large to be listed individually, but general reasons are given for their lock and deletion:
- YMMV pages about Real Life people: Your Mileage May Vary subpages about Real Life people, while not forbidden from creation by default, tend to become about the people themselves, which is beyond the scope of this wiki. If a person's YMMV subpage is redlinked and locked, it's for this reason. YMMV pages for creators and musicians can only be about their works, not themselves.
- Headscratchers articles that were platforms for Complaining: It's just unnecessary to list out all of these. Suffice it to say that if a Headscratchers article is permanently redlinked, it's for this reason. Headscratcher pages for tropes are also cut, with relevant material moved to the Analysis/ tab.
- Pages affiliated with banned tropers: Perma-banned tropers will have their "Tropers/" page locked and deleted. We won't keep a list of banned tropers, since that's exactly the sort of attention that trolls crave. If these banned tropers are obnoxious enough about entry pimping a work that they wrote, its work page can also be locked and deleted.
- Troper Tales and Fetish Fuel subpages: Cut for being creepy, irrelevant, or both. Some of this material was transplanted offsite.
- Pages cut under the Content Policy: Pages for works that violate our content policy will be cut and locked. We don't keep a definitive list of these to avoid creating a directory of porn and paedo-pandering.
- While many older works (prior to early 2012) have Main/ redirects kept as a grandfather clause, before then some pages had the Main/ redirects removed. There is no intention of bringing them back, and newer Main/ redirects can be cutlisted.
Real Life subpages for items that don't allow Real Life examples
If a page that forbids Real Life examples is split and has its examples put into sub-pages, the ban on Real Life examples will extend to the existence of Real Life subpages. If they appear, they will be cut-and-locked immediately.
- BeyondTheImpossible.Real Life: Not only is it impossible by its very nature, it attracted gushing.
- TheDragon.Real Life: Calling Real Life people villains is really not a good idea.
- EldritchAbomination.Real Life: Most of the given examples were highly exaggerated descriptions of normal stuff.
- FiveBadBand.Real Life: Was simply being used to call Real Life people and groups villains. Not only this is not a good idea, almost all of the examples given weren't groups of five anyway — there were six or seven or eight, with multiples in several positions, which contradicts the trope's definition.
- HoYay.Real Life and HoYay.History: Were filled with Natter, This Troper and bad examples.
- KarmaHoudini.Real Life: Calling real people villains is not a good idea.
- Monster.Real Life and CompleteMonster.Real Life: Calling Real Life people monsters simply isn't a good idea, and all the examples given were simply to complain about people the authors didn't like.
- Narm.Real Life: It is impossible to list Real Life examples of Narm in good taste.
- Tsundere.Real Life: Most Real Life Jerkasses would fall somewhere on the Tsundere spectrum, making listing them pointless.
- WhamEpisode.Real Life: Real Life is not (to the best of our knowledge) pre-scripted.
Potshot redirects
While Redirects Are Free, sometimes people make redirects that are nothing but Take Thats.
- Fox Cancels Everything: Redirected to The Firefly Effect. Made worse by the fact that it encouraged the common misuse of the trope to complain about shows you like being Screwed by the Network.
- Nuking The Fridge and Nuke The Fridge: When not misused as above, it was redirected first to Jumping the Shark, then Ruined FOREVER.
So Bad It's Horrible subpages which were just that
While this is one of the few areas on the wiki where outright derision of a work is permitted, there are certain standards that are expected, and limits as to how much edit warring will be tolerated before it's decided that a subsection just isn't worth keeping around.
- Horrible.Cars: Redundant to the Real Life section of The Alleged Car. Few examples even qualified.
- Horrible.Fan Fic: Besides having enough NSFW content to make an HBO executive turn bright red (many entries were of Rule 34), more than a few examples smacked of thinly-veiled, backhanded recommendations of the stories and/or Creator Bashing.
- Horrible.Fan Fic Authors: Created to split Horrible.Fan Fic, it contained what was then the "repeat-offender" section. Caused an index-wide Edit War for being suspect of Writer Bashing.
- Horrible.Software: Redundant, given Idiot Programming. Few examples even qualified.
- Horrible.Sports: It felt more like Complaining About Sports Things You Don't Like. It also had moments of This Troper and Conversation in the Main Page.
- Horrible.Web Original: Suffered a ridiculous amount of edit-warring, even compared to the other SBIH pages. The last straw came when certain people started using the page as a method of flaming each other, resulting in the page being deleted, and the users in question being banned from the site.
Problematic Image Links
- ImageLinks.Bound And Gagged: Technically not against any known policy and while it has the fetish association, it's not something that needed to be in the NSFW tag. Let's just say the discussions went nowhere and decided that picking an image is too much trouble because nobody would agree on anything.
- ImageLinks.Kim Kardashian: Most of the images were of her looking "sexy", many of which were NSFW. There was really no reason to have the page on the wiki.
- ImageLinks.Lolicon: Dubious legality, issues with advertisers, and attracted too much negative attention on other sites.
- ImageLinks.Shock Site: Created via a null edit as a joke...then a Garbage Post Kid found it and added an actual link.
Former locations of locked pages
- Main.Fast Eddie: Locked before the move of all troper pages to the "Tropers/" namespace, for the same reason as Tropers.Fast Eddie. Was recreated afterward by a troll simply to bash Fast Eddie.
- SugarWiki.Crowning Moment Of Funny and Heartwarming: Moved to Sugar Wiki.Funny and Heartwarming Moments, respectively. Only locked at all because the trope pages themselves were locked before the rename.
Persistent initialisms
We prefer people not to use initialisms and acronyms as redirects to a page, considering that they're often confusing for non-fans and can often have multiple referents. Note that some of these are accidental: initialisms with numbers or lowercase letters count as Wiki Words.
- Ao St H: Initialism to Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
- ATHF: Initialism to Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
- CMOA: Initialism redirect to Crowning Moment of Awesome. Locked due to the rename to Moment of Awesome.
- DS 9 and TNG: Initialism redirects to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation, respectively.
- Fi M and MLP Fi M: Initialism redirects to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- IWBTG: Initialism redirect to I Wanna Be the Guy.
- LCD: Initialism redirect to Lowest Common Denominator. Confusing, as it more commonly stands for Liquid Crystal Display.
- ME 1, ME 2, and ME 3: Redirects to Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3, respectively.
- MMO: Initialism redirect to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
- MMORP Gs: Plural initialism of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. Please use {{MMORPG}}s if you want a link or [=MMORPGs=] if you don't.
- MW 3: Initialism redirect to Modern Warfare 3
- NP Cs: Plural initialism redirect to Non-Player Character, used more accidentally than anything else. Please use [=NPCs=] or {{NPC}}s.
- RP Gs: Plural initialism redirect to Role-Playing Game, used more accidentally than anything else. Please use [=RPGs=] or {{RPG}}s.
- PS 1: Acronym redirect to PlayStation.
- SA 2: Initialism redirect to Sonic Adventure 2.
- Sat AM: Redirect to WesternAnimation.Sonic Sat AM. Sonic SatAM is already a longer colloquial name that more people will understand.
- TF 2: Confusing as, though it was constantly redirected to Team Fortress 2, it's also commonly used as an abbreviation for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, being the second film in the series.
- UT 2003, UT 2004: Initialism redirects to Unreal Tournament 2004.
- WH 40 K: Initialism redirect to Warhammer 40,000.
- YGOTAS: Initialism redirect to Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series.
Other/Unsorted
- Character Named Tropes: Was intended to help in renaming efforts, but was never used to help renames, just supported the idea.
- Darth Vader The Eldritch Abomination: A Same But More Specific variant of Ron the Death Eater that applied to villains, wherein they were made worse than they were in canon.
- Depression Fuel: You may be looking for Tear Jerker.
- BerserkButton.Ed Edd N Eddy: All trope examples were misuse but kept being readded after removal.
- GAR: Once a redirect to Badass, it was created as a page that describes Memetic Badass through Perverse Sexual Lust. Cut for being a redundant meme.
- It Looks Like This: Created as an example of a redlink for the Red Link page. Allowing it to be blueshifted would kind of defeat its purpose.
- Media Watchdogs: Plural redirect to Media Watchdog.
- Relationship Text Upgrade: Now known as Relationship Reveal.
- Title Bin: Made originally as a place where tropers would suggest names for new tropes. It was quickly filled to brim with in-jokes, killing its purpose. The abuse was channeled into DarthWiki.Tropes That Will Never Happen.
