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So go ahead and comment it out. It can be one trope or another, or neither. But can't be both.
The example is also displayed weirdly and its too long IMO. But I guess that can be hashed out once we figure out which trope it falls under.
I believe that some time ago, the Artistic License pages were declared to never, ever be used as tropes in and of themselves.
And a trope is YMMV or it's not.
I recommend pulling the example to the Discussion page, and point them to the page in the edit reason.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
"But can't be both."
Sure it can, more than one trope is often going on at the same time in a work. They should be listed as separate examples, though.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
^ Except the tropes in question (Reality Is Unrealistic and Artistic License – Biology) are mutually exclusive. It's either unrealistic but real stuff, or unrealistic and completely fictional.
Edited by Kuruni
^Honestly, that sounds like the troper(s) couldn't determine if it was real or not, but did know that it was somehow unrealistic. The first subbullet seems to be Reality Is Unrealistic, but the second subbullet seems to be more along the lines of Artistic License – Biology (in particular with that last line: "Some find the concept of the world being depopulated by blight to be improbable").
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty
Can I then comment out the example and bring the issue into the discussion tab myself and explain why in the edit reason? The troper whom I messaged hasn't replied yet.
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About put Reality Is Unrealistic in an ymmv page, this can not be currently ymmv, but their first paragraph is "When exposed to an exaggeration or fabrication about certain real-life occurrences or facts, some people will perceive the fictional account as being more true than any factual account." This is totally based in the vision of the audience about that "looks" realistic.
Edited by MagBas
On Interstellar, Winged Cat had moved a non-YMMV trope to the YMMV tab, and in the process named the example after two tropes. The item in question is Reality Is Unrealistic, with Artistic License – Biology stacked onto it. I reverted the cross-page edit and removed the double-naming (leaving only Reality Is Unrealistic) because both actions are inappropiate, but the troper added back Artistic License – Biology, arguing to me that it's debatable whether one or the other trope applied. I invited them to bring the issue to the Discussion tab, but I need permission to comment-out the example during this period, because having two tropes naming the same example is non-negotiably against the rules (especially when the two tropes are mutually exclusive and trigger a deliberate conflict to the example's validity).