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Malady (Not-So-Newbie)
#1: Dec 15th 2019 at 7:08:23 PM

Should all tropes' Main pages only list fanfic examples if they're original to a fanfic?

Like how it currently is with Alliterative Name?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1564420686092266300&page=2#comment-32


Or is that for Alliterative Name only because if its popularity and difficulties with context?

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Plus, how different must the trope be used to be listed on Main? Maybe using Pinkie Pie's name in Added Alliterative Appeal puts enough of a twist on Alliterative Name?

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#2: Dec 15th 2019 at 7:24:46 PM

Any example listed on a work article should be crosswicked with the trope, and vice versa. So if you put a trope on a fan fiction article, it should get crosswicked. That said, one does not automatically list every trope from a parent work on a fic's article. We've hashed that out a few times.

Tropes used by the original work and not notably or interestingly used in the derivative wouldn't get listed there. For things like Alliterative Name, I don't see how the example could be anything other than zero-context and thus in violation of our rules.

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