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I think we should apply the same standards as we do for Creating a Work Page for an Upcoming Work. Also, we trope what is in the work, not what will/may be in the work.
I'm trying to parse the argument out here, What Could Have Been is for works that could have turned out a certain way, but didn't for whatever reason. You are saying you removed the entry because "it describes changes that have not actually been implemented".
Per the trope definition, WCHB concerns storylines/gameplay/casting/etc that was not implemented. What is the argument here then?
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I think the problem is that it's planned to be implemented? Which would make adding it to WCHB pointless because, well, it's going to be official soon anyway...
^ I could see that, if so the OP needs to make a clearer argument. The edit history page
is full of these back and forths over the entry and I still can't parse the basic argument outs.
If this feature was cut at some point (in development) and is not coming back, then the trope applies. If this feature is slated to implemented at a future date, then it doesn't.
Edited by laserviking42 I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose me
^ The feature has not been cut. It is in the current build of the game. The entry treats it as "cut content", even though it has not been cut yet and we have no idea when it will be. I removed the entry because it treats a feature that is currently in the mod as if it has already been cut.
Now that I think about it, would content that was in a released build and then cut even count as What Could Have Been?
Edited by TheMountainKing
I see, so the argument being made is that it might be cut.
In that case, since it exists, it definitely does not count as WCHB. If it gets cut, it still doesn't count, but WCHB is for hypotheticals (I see I need to edit my earlier statement to make that clear).
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I recently removed this entry
from WhatCouldHaveBeen.The New Order Last Days Of Europe. I removed it because, as I said in my edit reason, it describes changes that have not actually been implemented. It was re-added with an edit reason saying that it doesn't matter if it's in the game or not, as long as devs have said it will be.
I don't think this good practice because the entry is written in the past tense as if the change has already happened, when it actually hasn't. This is a recurring problem with The New Order Last Days Of Europe, where the pages will describe both content that is in the current version of the mod and content that has been teased by the creators but is not currently in the mod without making any distinction between them. I feel like we should stick to describing just the current public build of the mod, not troping a hypothetical future version of it that doesn't exist yet. Any thoughts? Do we have policy on this kind of preemptive troping?
Edited by TheMountainKing