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Add-on: the Troper who created this Characters page, started it with:
Editor's Note: Recent events surrounding the show's cancellation have led to more traffic for this show both here and on The Other Wiki. Now that TLC has announced a few new upcoming specials surrounding the family's daughters, a cast page seemed in order.
No doubt heir intentions were good, but is it kosher for a "This Troper" to explicitly refer to themselves as "the Editor" on this Wiki?
Edited by LB7979
No. Never use first person at all.
The quality of that characters sheet is so bad. Few tropes, many of them are ZCE, and there is YMMV trope on it too.
Geez, I thought about making basic fix (comment out ZCE, removing YMMV, etc). But even the trope with proper context readed like misuse too. I do not think it is salvageable (although I have no knowledge about the show). Is it really a high traffic page?
Oh, and the grammar is worse than mine.
Edited by Kuruni
Aside from the recent spate of corrective edits to the show's main page today, the next most-recent was in March of this year, and the one immediately preceding that was in November of 2016. I wouldn't consider that "high-traffic".
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I commented out most of the Zero Context examples.
Well, I remove the "Editor's note" and few misuse (somehow they think "appear less on camera" is The Quiet One). As well as "is this trope"-style ZCE.
Since they're technically real people, are we even allowed to trope them?
Yes. People in reality show are acting persona, not real people.
Kuruni and SithPanda - Thanks, it looks better now.
InsanityPrelude - These people are Creators in Real Life yes, and if you'd create a Creator page for them, the "No troping real people" rule applies there - but this is a Characters page for a Series (Reality T.V. yes, but still a Series).
The Characters - 19 Kids and Counting page lists over 25 characters, but only about a handful of those characters have any Tropes assigned to them at all, most are empty folders; almost all of the Tropes that are assigned are Zero-Context Example; none of the characters have a screenshot or quote. All-in-all, the page is a stub.
Would it be best to:
1. Submit this page to the Zero Context Example forum?
2. Submit this page to the Cutlist and request for it to be cut as it is now?
3. Just mention it here as I did now and hope somebody who knows more about the work comes along to add on to the content?