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Stock Phrases that occur in wiki discussions.

Some of them have meanings exclusive to the TV Tropes wiki (see also the TV Tropes Glossary), and are for use only in YKTTW, edit reasons, the forums (e.g. Trope Repair Shop), or other discussion pages. They're little more than verbal chaff in the actual articles, so refrain from using them there.

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Messages:

• Bonus Points
• Clear, Concise, Witty
• Complaining About Shows You Don't Like
• Default Answer
• Does This Count
• Do We Have This One?
  • How Did We Miss This One?
  • Should We Have This?
  • We Have This... I Swear...
  • Yes, We DO Have This One
• Early Development Phase
• Everything's Worse with Snowclones (aka Bad Snowclone)
• Examples Are Not Arguable - Is that citation really an example, or not? Please make up your mind.
• Examples Are Not Recent - Put absolute dates on your examples, not relative ones.
• Guess That Trope
• Happens All the Time
• Humor Mode
• Internal Subtrope
• Is This Tropable?
• It Makes Sense in Context
  • Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
• Just a Face and a Caption - Page image of an example that doesn't depict the trope in image form.
• Just Launch It Already
• KUBIS - "Keep [page image] Until Better Image Suggestion"
• Needs a Better Description
• Needs a Better Title
• Needs an Index
• Needs a Redirect (aka Redirect Farming)
• Needs Launching Votes
• Needs More Examples
• No Launching Please
• No New Stock Phrases
• No Real Life Examples, Please!
• Not a Trope
• No Trope Is Too Common
• Not Safe for Work
• Not Self Explanatory
• People Sit on Chairs
• Read That Again
• Repair, Don't Respond (aka You Could Always Edit It Yourself)
• Ridiculously Similar Trope
• Rolling Updates
• Search Generated Index
• Seen It a Million Times
• Sincerity Mode
• So Good We Mentioned It Twice
• So Good We Mentioned It Twice
• Take It to the Forums
• There Is No Such Thing as Notability
• Too Rare to Trope
• Trope Namer Syndrome (aka Bad Trope Namer)
• Up for Grabs
• Works Pages Are a Free Launch
• YKTTW Bump
• YKTTW Plug
• You Have Been Warned
• Zero Context Example
  • Type Labels Are Not Examples
  • Weblinks Are Not Examples

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