Well, then I favour removing it altogether. I think that the rest of the description is fine.
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I was about to say that I don't think the trope requires a character to be flat, but given what was just said about the editing history, I think the obvious answer is to revert the change and suspend whoever made it for not using proper procedure to change trope definitions.
If it's not even an original part of the definition, then yeah, we don't even need to debate this. Cut it.
I went ahead and removed it, since it seems people overwhelmingly agree to get rid of it and it's silly to get bogged down on removing something that was added with no discussion just a few months ago.
(Does anyone know why the page says not to put any quotes on it?)
Hi
This looks to be done. Locking up.
That paragraph was added, as far as I can tell with no discussion, on the fifteenth of August of this year. Previous to that edit, there was no requirement that a Token also had to be Flat.
To me, that addition is substantially redefining the trope without discussion, and it should be removed. Reading it outside of the rest of the page, it also smacks of complaining and editorializing.
edited 28th Dec '13 2:13:47 PM by Madrugada
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