Mission
Comment out Zero Context Examples and leave this comment note on the page itself:%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.
Edited to be a thread header.
Edited by nombretomado on Mar 3rd 2019 at 6:12:58 AM
Done. Feel free to comment them out.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Walking the Earth
Thanks. I'll do that.
For we shall slay evil with logic...
I uncommented the many ZCE on the Widget Series page, but I may have missed some.
edited 26th May '14 5:47:06 AM by editerguy
He/Him
Commented out a bunch of Zero Context Examples on Sadist Teacher, though someone might want to go over my work and make sure I didn't miss any. I was focused on shorter examples where I could see nothing explaining the teacher's sadism, after all.
BTW, I loved one example that refused to give context, saying "No examples will be given for the sakes of haemophobes and the highly disturbing habits Erika pursues on a daily basis."
My troper wall
I commented out the most obvious ZC Es on Not Wearing Tights, but there may still be some with insufficient context. The Live Action TV folder was especially infested with them.
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There're lots of ZCEs on The Virus, but I haven't the time to take care of those.
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground
I took a look and commented out some stuff.
Blapper of Water
While wick cleaning of Naughty Tentacles, I found Webcomic.Dominic Durgan, which has a bunch of, well y'know, ZCEs. I figured I ought to mention it here.
Edit: I realized that that was pretty stupid, since y'all pretty much just comment things out. I commented out the applicable examples.
EDIT 2: Commented out ZC Es from Literature.Merry Gentry, too.
edited 14th Jun '14 5:58:16 PM by WaterBlap
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty
There is no Planet B
Umbrella of Togetherness is commented out.
So what do we do about tropes like Alliterative Name? That one is pretty self-explanatory and writing text (Peter Parker, both his names start with a P) is so obvious that it feels like its insulting the readers intelligence.
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
- Peter Parker
- that's a ZCE: no work cited
- Spider-Man
- that's a ZCE: no example shared
- Peter Parker
- Not a ZCE issue, but several problems of it's own. Please cite the work and what constitutes an example separately.
- Spider-Man has protagonist Peter Parker, and antagonist Otto Octavious (who becomes Doc Ock or Doctor Octopus).
Ambassador of Eurogames and Touhou Music
I've commented out a lot of ZCEs on Lonelygirl15, but there are probably still examples with insufficient context. Could anyone take a look at it?
edited 27th Jun '14 3:25:06 PM by MathsAngelicVersion
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I went over it.
Series.The Twilight Zone is an absolute mess of Zero Context Examples; something like three-quarters of the trope entries are just lists of episodes, with no indication of how the tropes in question apply to each episode. I've only seen about thirty or forty episodes of the 1959-64 version, so I don't feel remotely qualified to expand most of them. (Perhaps it's the sort of page where the tropes that apply to individual episodes should go on the appropriate Recap/ pages anyway?)
There is no Planet B
About Alliterative Name... What Crazysamaritan said. Only Example Indentation should be like this:
- Spider-Man:
- Protagonist Peter Parker.
- Antagonist Otto Octavious (who becomes Doc Ock or Doctor Octopus).
Also, I think it's possible to spot a moment from the work when it's lampshaded or discussed by other characters.
edited 28th Jun '14 1:09:07 AM by XFllo
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
About the Example Indentation, both of our examples work, although X Fllo's version is better for when you expect more examples will be needed. Wrong example indentation would've been Peter Parker on the first bullet, and Doc Ock on a second-level bullet.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Mmm, would Alliterative Name on a character page require any further context?
That was discussed earlier in this thread. Yes, explaining the role and usage of the trope in the story and its storytelling significance.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Dead End is mostly ZCE.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Lost in Space
Lots of ZCE in Uncanny Village
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
Lots of ZCE, that I haven't commented out (I'm going down Hey Its That Voice related to page and moving stuff to trivia.) in:
and Crusader Rabbit's trope list is nearly all ZCE, it could do with Wiki Magic Love as well.
edited 24th Jul '14 4:01:25 AM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
I just commented out half the examples of Cowardly Sidekick for lack of context.
A number of the examples on Southern Gentleman don't have context as if they just go without saying.
I wonder if a mod could restore the deletions I made to The Warlord page. I wasn't aware they should be commented out, not outright deleted. Sorry for the trouble.
For we shall slay evil with logic...