Needs Help: Careful With That Axe

Given the stats, there probably isn't a lot of will for a rename, but I think this thing could use some searchable redirects, and I could use some ideas.

Screaming Singer? Or would that draw too many fictional examples?

ETA: Oops, the trope name is Careful with That Axe. Another reason why we need damn redirects!

edited 4th Mar '13 9:15:29 AM by Leaper

The blue button is there to fix this sort of issue.

That name has nothing to do with the trope, and with 77 inbounds I wonder about it's quality - and that of the wicks.

What blue button...? I looked for something that would help me change it, but I couldn't find one.

As for the wicks, they all seem to be for bands (or someone who would comment on this phenomenon), so I assumed they were probably okay (thus my remark about no will for a change).

An indefensible name. Definitely change it.

Aha. I hovered over it, and it didn't look like anything that would help. For next time.

You never know, especially since, as I said before, it doesn't ''appear' at first glance from just the list of wicks that it's being misused. I'm sure someone will be along to defend it. :P (Personally, even if I knew it was a music trope, I would've thought it was about guitars, not voices.)

I don't even get it.

I think it has to do with the opening paragraph of the trope description: the singer's screaming is so horrifying that it sounds like he's being attacked with an axe.

Yes, it's terrible, but that's apparently the logic.

Hmm, I'm a huge fan of the trope namer—I actually saw the very last ever live performance of it—but it's way too obscure to be a trope namer. The several dozen of us who get the reference will just have to swallow our disappointment. Rename it.

D'oh. Missed the entry that explained all that. :P *forehead whap*

Still, I'm strongly considering changing "Needs Help" to "Rename." Any objections?

Nay.

Non-indicative name, obscure reference, and it's dialogue. And it doesn't even sound like a trope.

On the other hand, 250+ wicks and 77 inbounds doesn't seem bad for a music trope. Renaming is something that should only be done to fix an actual problem. I'm not real familiar with the performance of music tropes in general, but I tend to think they're a less-visited part of the wiki. I'd want better data and stronger arguments before I'd actually support a rename. And that's despite my initial instinct saying the name is bad—my fondness for the namer is not a factor.

(And I think calling it dialog is a bit of a stretch.)

edited 5th Mar '13 2:35:36 AM by Xtifr

I don't. But I do agree that at a glance it doesn't appear to be a problem with the trope, either healthiness or misuse. None have been demonstrated, at any rate.

I'm not a fan of the name, but it seems to be doing okay given that Music Tropes in general don't get a lot of focus on this website.

I think we can make do for now with redirects.

Redirects Are Free and there's no point in having a TRS for a healthy trope. I'm locking this. You can add redirects on your own.