Trope Description Improvement Drive

- So, Sports Widow and Married to the Job aren't Hobby / Job-only then? A person can be Married To The Hobby and that would go under Married to the Job and vice versa?

If so, that makes writing the crosswicking sentences a lot easier... Although, that would need Laconic changes...

edited 17th Feb '18 6:28:54 PM by Malady

If someone is Married To The Hobby, they're more like an Otaku. No, MTTJ is about work, it's about no work-life balance, not something taking up a lot of time. However, Sports Widow seems to be broad enough to also cover those who lose their spouse to work in cases where that person brings their work home and effectively treats it as a hobby, making them present but not interested. That's the distinction I was trying to suggest makes them not Sister Tropes, but in certain cases related. If you can write a connecting sentence that is reasonably succint, it should be included.

So, shelving that for now...

For One-Word Title

Can I add a line that goes: "sometimes, such a short title is picked because it's memorable."?

edited 18th Feb '18 3:57:26 PM by Malady

Yes, I'd suggest adding that sentence to the end of the paragraph that begins "When adding examples..."

The trope description for False Teeth Tomfoolery is mostly formatted - for some reason - to only have one sentence per line, and seems kind of beige too. Do you think we should touch it up somewhat?

It's a bit like a list of ways false teeth may be used for tomfoolery. Could definitely be in 3 paragraphs and spiced up.

I threw together a quick sandbox page with a different description. Feel free to tweak and improve it, and then move it over when you think it's good enough.

edited 18th Feb '18 6:22:25 PM by TotemicHero

like the description

Okay, added that to One-Word Title.

Animal Theme Naming isn't as Characters-only, right? 'Cause that's what the description's implying...

'Cause I made VideoGame.Fairy Bloom Freesia - Animal Theme Naming:

That still fits, no?

Also, in Homing Projectile subtropes, because Swallow and Peacock both home, but I'm not sure if there's better tropes for it...

Super-Persistent Missile is missiles only, no?

And does Magic Missile Storm have to be homing? The Laconic and name don't indicate it... And nowhere in the description? Except "They may spread out and weave and turn through the air before converging" ... But that makes homing, a possibility, not a requirement?

edited 19th Feb '18 8:24:06 AM by Malady

Animal Theme Naming is not just for characters, you're correct. Perhaps some tweaks are needed.

Super-Persistent Missile is not only missiles, similar projectiles/munitions/weaponry also count.

Magic Missile Storm is homing-only, and I think that it is an important part of the trope, limiting it in that way.

edited 19th Feb '18 5:06:02 PM by lakingsif

So, looking at Homing Projectile again, is Roboteching only for scientifically-based weapons that are expected not to Robotech?

A.k.a Missiles and Lasers Only? Magic-not-included?

And is a title disqualified from being a One-Word Title if it has a subtitle? I'd say it's not a disqualifier...

edited 20th Feb '18 9:33:38 AM by Malady

For Roboteching, I don’t see why it couldn’t include magic.

I agree with you on subtitles not disqualifying a One-Word Title.

edited 20th Feb '18 11:34:23 AM by lakingsif

- So, is Super-Persistent Missile more rigid than the Homing Projectile description's indication of any projectile?

edited 20th Feb '18 2:13:40 PM by Malady

Personally, I don't see any dissonance between the descriptions on either page, or their intentions. Well, maybe Super-Persistent Missile could have an expansion.

- So, according to Homing Projectile, Projectile Spell examples would go there... Even though the description implies realistic missiles, with "this heat-seeking or similarly guided missile"?

Change the first paragraph of the description of Compound Title from:

To this?

edited 20th Feb '18 5:39:54 PM by Malady

Well, Projectile Spell examples go on Projectile Spell. By magic, I was working on it meaning similar projectiles that are powered by magic, not like a flick of a wand.

for the Compound Title write-up.

edited 20th Feb '18 5:11:50 PM by lakingsif

- I think I screwed up my words... EDIT: No, I didn't get what you meant until now! Sorry!

So, if you have a spell that makes a magic orb that runs in to bash your enemy until they run out of mana, and aren't stopped by any physical obstacle...

What is that?

His Name Really Is "Barkeep" is a subtrope of Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep", right? ... Saw an example that's in both. Was thinking I should remove from latter.

edited 20th Feb '18 5:44:27 PM by Malady

That example sounds like a magic-powered missile. Just an orb-shaped one.

Yes, you can't really have someone be an example of both HNRIB and ECHB, so removing the latter would probably be best.

- So, any disagreement of changing this:

To:

Meta Power Up: How about going from this:

To:

edited 20th Feb '18 7:12:55 PM by Malady

to both

Isometric Projection is suffering from a mild case of Wikipedia copy-paste-itis. Anyone fancy rewording it so it's not ripping off The Other Wiki?

You could take it to the copy paste cleanup thread?

I could, but I thought I would get better feedback here.

How about cutting out the cruft? Rewrote the first paragraph. Not sure if it should be the only paragraph. The rest are holding historical and technical information...

edited 22nd Feb '18 2:04:30 PM by Malady

The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard just had the first sentence of its listed definition of SNK Boss changed by ~The Amazing Blachman from:

To:

...

Since that was unilateral, should we keep it? ... I disagree with that change, because SNK Boss's description starts with: