Hoping to do a minor rename: Barefoot Funny Animals

As the creator of the trope, I've decided that it should be renamed Barefoot Cartoon Animal to conform with Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal, Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal and Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal. Still, I should probably get some feedback before I do anything. Comments, anyone?

edited 20th Jan '12 1:00:26 PM by MarkLungo

Makes sense to me.

This trope is quite healthy with 200 wicks. Unless there is a real problem with the name, changing this amount of wicks is to much work. If you want to invest that much time in a wick change I suggest finding a broken trope.

Thanks for your concern, but I spend half my time on TV Tropes doing namespace changes, so this would be no problem for me. Also, I just renamed Outer Limits Twist to Cruel Twist Ending (and changed all the wicks), so I've already repaired at least one broken trope.

It's not only a matter of work. To prevent confusion due to constant names change TRS has a policy of not changing working names. So you have to prove misuse to get people to agree on a change. Even as a trope creator you have no right to decide a new name on your own. Name changes need to be decided by the community of tropers.

Which is why I started this thread.

I agree that a name change shouldn't be done lightly, but in this case, Funny Animal is a specific type of animal character:

and not all Barefoot animals are Funny Animals. Barefoot Cartoon Animal would be clearer.

I support the change.

edited 20th Jan '12 2:33:44 PM by Madrugada

I like it. It goes nicely with the other animal clothing names. I fully support changing it.

Thanks for your support, Madrugada and The Gunheart. But how will we know when we have enough of a consensus to make the change (or not)? Should we put it to a vote?

Okay, so three days have passed and no one's said anything. Unless there are any last minute objections, I'm planning to make the change tomorrow.

edited 23rd Jan '12 5:27:49 PM by MarkLungo

Locking.