Clean-up on aisle: Xanatos Gambit

This is a very bad idea, the term Xanatos Gambit has become accepted beyond just this wiki. I repercussion of such an action would be dire.

I know people who have no idea what Tv tropes is who know a Xanatos Gambit by that name.

I'm in favor of a rename. Maybe I'm stupid or slow, but a trope name should convey a shade of meaning of what its about. Xanatos Roulette sounds like some odd variant of a casino game, or a variant of Russian Roulette. You can have the most thought-out decription of the thing on the page, but if the name is unclear, you still get confused people wondering "what is it?" when they first see it.

I've taken to calling these tropes a Manna trope, becasue it makes you go "what is it?" when you see it.

To both and : The thread title is now invalid. We're doing cleanup instead, in the hopes that tropers actually understand what this is. If that doesn't work, then we might have to do something more drastic. Right now, we're operating under the assumption that all misuse is old misuse.

I can only see this going bad. This is a worse idea then renaming Na Ka Ma I suppose it principle it's admirable but in practice it will fail.

Go well hope the clean up goes well then. :)

edited 11th Jul '11 4:18:14 PM by Vyctorian

A Special Efforts thread has been started here. I'm going to holler for a lock for this thread, so we can get the banner off the page.