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The page quote from Super OCD springs to mind! :)
Interesting suggestion, but impractical, I suspect. Not only are you talking about a massive effort to edit every trope on the site, but you then have to change the years-old habits of all the existing tropers somehow.
On the plus side, it would force the use of the actual name of a work, and would finally get rid of all those X Just X entries that are the potholed name of a character. On the minus side, it's never going to happen.
Anyway, I kind of like being forced to skim the lists of works. I've stumbled across several interesting works that way.
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Yes. Have at it whenever you want to.
Fight smart, not fair.
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No. Do not "have at it".
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The standard is "New examples at the bottom of the list, unless the list is noted to be in some other order." (chronological, geographic, something like that.
It's that way so that someone reading the page some time after their first visit can skip tot he bottom of the list and find new entries without having to read the whole list again looking to see if any new ones have been put in the middle.
edited 12th Jul '11 1:25:58 PM by Madrugada
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I see the Awesomeness.
Wait, this wasn't on work pages? My bad.
Anyway, rules for writing examples on the trope page:
1) The work name is never to be potholed except as title correction. Hiding the name under a character is always bad.
2) The work name should be italicized in keeping with standard english principles.
3) The name of the work should be mentioned as early as possible in the description.
4) Appropriate characterization tropes should be potholed on their names since chances are that the reader has not seen the series.
4.1) While it's considered acceptable to have a nearly identical entry on entry on the work page, do not pothole the characters on the work page.
5) Avoid X Just X.
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Actually the proper format for short story titles is quotes. Same for episodes, I think.
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Full-length books, films, series names, and albums get italicised. Short stories, poems, song titles, chapter titles, and episode names get put in double quotes.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Well, when I look around a page to see if my favorite series is listed (I can use Related button but I still have to find it manually to see how it is written) and I find it to be a lot more convenient if the examples are listed in alphabetical orders.
Would having all examples alphabetized be more convenient? I would prefer that.
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