Fixing zero context examples

A search turns up nothing as well, so yeah, that's a reasonable cut.

Only one (maybe three?) entry on Kirby Krackle (Music) has any context. The rest are just ZCEs.

WebOriginal.Technicolor OCT and Characters.Technicolor OCT is almost all made of ZCE. (Now commented out.)

Is this even allowed? I mean, this type of work — Original Character Tournament has an index, and I jsut randomly checked about five pages, and only one looked like it might have some decent content. :-/

To be honest, these pages don't seem notable enough. I know, we have There Is No Such Thing As Notability, but do we really need to record characters drawn in a quick contest? Because if there is no story, we have alost nothing to trope — art and photography do have tropes present in them, but even famous paintings do not have trope pages...

edited 1st Mar '18 7:23:49 AM by XFllo

Troper TMNTFangirl seems to have a problem with Zero Context Examples. I first noticed it on the Batman: Mask of the Phantasm page, but looking over her edit history, it seems to be a pattern. For example, on Characters.Stoked, she uncommented "Cloudcuckoolander" and replaced it with "Cloudcuckoolander: Can be this at times." In other places, she's uncommented similar Zero Context Examples without adding anything at all.

I'm sending her a message asking her to come to this thread if she needs help understanding how to properly add context to examples.

edited 5th Mar '18 5:31:59 PM by HighCrate

In was eliminating opinion sinkholes on MoodWhiplash.Anime And Manga, but a couple of Full Metal Alchemist examples just refer to some important-sounding moments as Tear Jerkers or Moments of Awesome without explaining what happens in them. Could someone familiar with FME fix these?

Also, there's a Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star example on the same page that is not a ZCE, but also has a wick to Heartwarming Moments that I can't remove without knowing exactly what makes the moment heartwarming. Hiding the entire example feels like overkill, but I don't know how else to remove these YMMV items from an objective page.

Just did a scrub on Sinister Minister. Someone had previously commented out the ZCEs in the video game section. I did the rest of the page (and a couple of new ones that had cropped up under VG) and added the standard header at the top of the page.

If anyone feels like adding context, there's quite a few there which are crying out for it, including some fairly well-known ones where I was almost (but not quite) able to add context myself.

eta: could also use some Example Indentation cleanup; I didn't really have time for that.

edited 14th Mar '18 2:23:43 PM by Xtifr

Regarding the Futari Wa Pretty Cure Splash Star example, I think the Heartwarming Moment is that something cute happens between the two main characters. That whole entry is weird. It's a recap of everything in the last four episodes, most of which can be called "it's the end of the series, the stakes are high", not Mood Whiplash. I'll see if I can re-watch the show and rewrite it.

Marathon Man is filled with several Zero Context Examples, like this:

• Bald of Evil: Guess.

• Chekhov's Skill: Guess what.

• Depraved Dentist: Szell is one of the most famous examples.

• The Tooth Hurts: Indeed it does.
• This Is a Drill: The dental kind.

I just commented out a bunch of ZC Es on Free Birds (most of them just a character's name with no other context). The context on some of the remaining ones is pretty tenuous, but I left everything that provided at least a minimal attempt at context.

The page also has an issue with fully spoilered-out examples—I fixed some of them, but others I'm not sure how to tackle productively (I'm not familiar with the work, so I'm not sure what are actually significant spoilers or how much I can rephrase without risking introducing errors).

Nim's Island had a bunch of ZC Es that I just commented out. It was also mostly un-crosswicked. I crosswicked a few of the examples that actually had context to the trope pages, so hopefully those will help draw a little more traffic to the page, but I was not able to find any context to fill in the ZC Es.

The following entries have lots of Zero-Context Examples.

• Forty Five Master Characters Heroes
• Forty Five Master Characters Heroines
• Forty Five Master Characters Support Characters
• The Hero page of The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes & Heroines
• The Heroine page of the same
• The Anime page of Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream
• The Character page of Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream
• The Anime page of Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live
• The Character page of Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live
• The Anime page of Tweeny Witches
• The Character page of Cave Story

edited 15th Jun '18 1:59:41 AM by IukaSylvie

Pokémon XD Enigma Shadow Series has lots of Zero-Context Examples.

So far, on Not Screened for Critics, there are still some ZCEs that haven't been commented out yet.

Scrubbed Ridiculously Cute Critter. Planned on just taking care of the Real Life section, but there were just so many examples that amounted to "this is cute". Declaring something to be cute on that trope is as much context as "is this". May have missed a bunch since there's so much linkage going on which makes it harder to spot the ZCEs.

YMMV.Blade Runner 2049 has an entry for Even Better Sequel that says some critics prefer it to Blade Runner, but doesn't say why. Could someone who knows the reason please add it?

I think reasons include better written female characters, and more exploration of What Measure Is a Non-Human? themes than the original.

^^Is that information important? The trope is about a sequel being more liked, not necessarily about the reasons why.

Well, if a movie is better received than another, there has to be some reason for that. It's not like critics arbitrarily decided "We'll give the sequel a better score than the original".

Literature.Set This House In Order and its YMMV subpage are all zero context examples.

Every example on The Changeling is a ZCE.

Sykes also has only 2 examples with sufficient context.

Memes.Regular Show looks like a list of quotes and that's it. Doesn't help that we don't see a header asking to format entries a certain way, leading to no explanations whatsoever. So, they're technically ZCEs.

Fuzzy Memories has a huge trope list that is almost entirely zero context examples. Or rather, not even attempts at examples, just trope names.

Starring Special Effects has a ton of ZCEs—take a look at that page.

The Magisterium has only one example that isn't a ZCE.

Scream Street has only two non-ZCE examples.

Popping by to say I'd caught a bunch of ZCE's on Crusading Lawyer and commented them out with a commented out note about adding context.

Raising the Bar also has a bunch.

Edited by WarJay77 on Aug 29th 2018 at 2:32:31 PM