Redirect usage broader than trope itself?

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Aiguille Since: Jan, 2001

#1: Jul 9th 2014 at 3:15:55 PM

My Significance Sense Is Tingling is seemingly a fairly narrow trope about a psychic/magically-empowered character getting a general bad vibe after or during a dangerous event that occurs somewhere distant from them, and they remark on it. Its redirect Clairvoyance as used in Psychic Powers describes a broader thing, sort of a Supertrope for more directly perceptive forms of ESP than a general feeling of something gone terribly wrong. Is this usage okay? Too broad? Should Clairvoyance be a redirect to a more fitting trope? It just seems a bit off.

edited 9th Jul '14 3:16:35 PM by Aiguille

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#2: Jul 9th 2014 at 3:51:57 PM

This might be a case of what we refer to as Missing Supertrope Syndrome.

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004

#3: Jul 9th 2014 at 4:21:48 PM

Meaning that Clairvoyance should be changed from a redirect to a trope description. I'll zap the redirect right now. It really is way too broad.

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#4: Jul 9th 2014 at 9:42:11 PM

So Clairvoyance will be a supertrope? Lemme see if I can hack together a description real quick. I'm always terrible at this, but I just want to provide a base.

The ability to gain information through supernatural means beyond the known senses, clairvoyance is a broad term that can be used broadly or narrowly in any given work. Seeing something without being present ("remote viewing") is one of the most common uses, but seeing the future or even the past is also often covered under the same term.

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