Rename, needs work: Phlebotinum Du Jour

Since it's about phlebotinum having trends of popularity, how about The Latest Trend In Phlebotinum?

I really like Phlebotinum Marches On.

That sounds like it's talking about the Phlebotinum getting better over time, not simply following trends.

Hot Topic Phlebotinum or Phlebotinum Of The Day work fine for me.

edited 12th Sep '11 7:44:21 PM by FastEddie

I still dislike anything that implies it's about a Phlebotinum Of The Week.

Phlebotinum Update? Honestly, I think History Of Phlebotinum is the best name, provided the page doesn't actually belong on Analysis.Applied Phlebotinum or something.

I like Hot Topic Phlebotinum. That really seems to capture the idea.

Hot Topic Phlebotinum sounds good. Would also like Phlebotinum Of The Year or Automatic Phlebotinum Update.

Phlebotinum Through The Ages?

edited 12th Sep '11 7:48:26 PM by troacctid

Trendy Phlebotinium?

Ooh! I *like* Madrugada's suggestion of The Latest Trend In Phlebotinum, and second it. One tiny suggestion, though: make it "The Latest Trends In Phlebotium", with "trend" pluralized, since that's how I've always heard the phrase (assuming that she's basing it on "The latest trends in fashion").

edited 13th Sep '11 5:35:20 AM by DoKnowButchie

I'm cool with that one.

That one is my fav.

I'm ok with The Latest Trend In Phlebotinum, but it sounds a little too much like it's referring to an in-universe trend, so I still prefer Hot Topic Phlebotinum (but not enough to fight for it, if that's what it would take).

But we're all cool with keeping "phlebotinum" in there?

I mean it's fine if you're a member of this site and know what it means. But otherwise, it looks like a funny gibberish word. The Latest Trends In Phlebotinem —> "The latest BS trends." Hot Topic Phlebotinem —> "Nonsense that people discuss."

Phlebotinem does look sciencey though. I suppose you might interpret it as junk science if you know no better, and that's quite close to the actual definition.

More because, admittedly, I personally can't really think of any existing English term that concisely describes "amazing sciencey thingy that does cool sciencey stuff".

edited 13th Sep '11 8:54:51 PM by Jeysie

I have to admit, when I started out I hated the word Phlebotinum, I much preferred Handwavium.

ditto, but I think consistency is a good thing. If we're going to get rid of the term, we should get rid of it good and hard. In the meantime, I think using six different words for the same concept is an even worse option. Though I always liked "Nonsensolium" myself.

If we're going to purge "Phlebotinum" from trope names, it'd probably be better to start from Applied Phlebotinum and work our way down. Anyway, when I read the trope, the idea I get in my mind is Phlebotinum Through The Ages.

I'd grandfather Phlebotinium in.

We're not going to purge phlebotinum.

Ambivilant about renaming but tossing Phelebotinum Flavor Of The Month on the suggestion pile.

Eh, I'm not really willing to get behind renaming this. It doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with the current title. "Du jour" is hardly an obscure term. We should be alright with redirects. This needs Wiki Magic, not a new name.

The problem with "du jour" isn't so much that it's obscure as that it sounds more like Phlebotinum Of The Week then what this actually is.

We really should put up a crowner, though.

edited 8th Dec '11 6:15:27 PM by nrjxll

And Phlebotinum Of The Week would be the first two seasons of Star Trek TNG were every week there was some space anomaly of the week solved via a different Phlebotinum every week.

What we need is a title that makes it clear that we're talking about phlebotinum that's popular in real life during certain periods, not a work having different phlebotinum popular at different times in-universe.

That said, I have no idea how to do that.