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ianw1 Since: Dec, 2010
#1: Feb 27th 2015 at 12:22:03 PM

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find a discussion of this on the thread list. Indeed, I wasn't really sure how to describe it at first. I was wondering what the policy is when you have a page for one trope, but one of tabs on that page is for an entirely different subject that shares the same page.

The example I stumbled upon was for Dragon Heart, the 1996 fantasy movie and its sequels. The trope proper contains tropes that the movie series features, the Awesome tab contains awesome moments, the Heartwarming tab contains heartwarming moments, and the Music tab contains... tropes about Dragonheart, a Brazilian power metal band active in the early 2000s. The name is possibly inspired by the movie, or maybe they came up with it independently, but as it stands there's a collision. Dragonheart has a popular soundtrack (it was used in a lot of movie trailers and for NFL Films of all things) but with the 'other' Dragon Heart occupying the Music tab, the movie has no music tropes.

I suspect this happened automagically now that tabs are in such wide use. Did some process run that incorporated Film / <subject> and Music / <subject> into the same page?

And how should this sort of collision be resolved now? Should this go under the Trope Repair forum? Or is this even a considered problem, or instead be the way things work?

edited 27th Feb '15 12:22:40 PM by ianw1

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#2: Feb 27th 2015 at 12:28:50 PM

The collision you describe is a natural result of the way we handle article titles and their subpages. Aside from just dealing with it, one way to resolve it is to rename one or both articles to disambiguate them.

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