Discussion History Characters / Zootopia

What is correct, and what is most commonly seen, are not always the same thing. After all, ConversationInTheMainPage is all over the place, but it is a hated scourge. And GettingCrapPastTheRadar is specifically about sneaking things past the censors, but probably well over half of the examples are not examples of this, but rather of AccidentalInnuendo, HaveAGayOldTime, or are simply obvious risque jokes that were not sneaky at all and were not so much \"slipped past the radar\" as they were \"cleared for landing by air traffic control\". To say nothing of the [[ChainedSinkhole Chained]] [[{{Sinkhole}} Sinkholes that]] [[BrattyHalfPint people]] [[MostAnnoyingSound often leave everywhere]] [[AllBlueEntry despite the fact that]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat official policy]] [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing says very clearly to never do it.]]

Not to mention the wide variety of other tropes that are widely misused in ways highly contrary to their defintions, due to people making assumptions rather than actually reading the trope description. Though in these cases, misleading trope names may share some of the blame.

In all, there are plenty of things around the wiki where the most common way is not necessarily the right way. When people see it around the wiki and assume it\'s acceptable, a common violation can gain a lot of inertia and be hard to purge from the wiki. Once a violation becomes common, it tends to stay common for quite some time before it can be stopped. So it\'s best not to assume.

That having been said, this issue doesn\'t seem comparable to those issues, as it seems that neither the way this page was previously formatted nor the way [=StFan=] has commonly seen around the site seem to be based on any official policy.

It may be that there\'s not even a \"right way\" to do this at all. The official policies are not always terribly specific about minor details of formatting...

What is correct, and what is most commonly seen, are not always the same thing. After all, ConversationInTheMainPage is all over the place, but it is a hated scourge. And GettingCrapPastTheRadar is specifically about sneaking things past the censors, but probably well over half of the examples are not examples of this, but rather of AccidentalInnuendo, HaveAGayOldTime, or are simply obvious risque jokes that were not sneaky at all and were not so much \"slipped past the radar\" as they were \"cleared for landing by air traffic control\". To say nothing of the [[ChainedSinkhole Chained]] [[{{Sinkhole}} Sinkholes that]] [[BrattyHalfPint people]] [[MostAnnoyingSound often leave everywhere]] [[AllBlueEntry despite the fact that]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat official policy]] [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing says very clearly to never do it.]]

Not to mention the wide variety of other tropes that are widely misused in ways highly contrary to their defintions, due to people making assumptions rather than actually reading the trope description. Though in these cases, misleading trope names may share some of the blame.

In all, there are plenty of things around the wiki where the most common way is not necessarily the right way. When people see it around the wiki and assume it\'s acceptable, a common violation can gain a lot of inertia and be hard to purge from the wiki. Once a violation becomes common, it tends to stay common for quite some time before it can be stopped. So it\'s best not to assume.

That having been said, this issue doesn\'t seem comparable to those issues, as it seems that neither the way this page was previously formatted nor the way [=StFan=] has commonly seen around the sight seem to be based on any official policy.

It may be that there\'s not even a \"right way\" to do this at all. The official policies are not always terribly specific about minor details of formatting...

What is correct, and what is most commonly seen, are not always the same thing. After all, ConversationInTheMainPage is all over the place, but it is a hated scourge. And GettingCrapPastTheRadar is specifically about sneaking things past the censors, but probably well over half of the examples are not examples of this, but rather of AccidentalInnuendo, HaveAGayOldTime, or are simply obvious risque jokes that were not sneaky at all and were not so much \"slipped past the radar\" as they were \"cleared for landing by air traffic control\". To say nothing of the [[ChainedSinkhole Chained]] [[{{Sinkhole}} sinkholes that]] [[BrattyHalfPint people]] [[MostAnnoyingSound often leave everywhere]] [[AllBlueEntry despite the fact that]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat official policy]] [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing says very clearly to never do it.]]

Not to mention the wide variety of other tropes that are widely misused in ways highly contrary to their defintions, due to people making assumptions rather than actually reading the trope description. Though in these cases, misleading trope names may share some of the blame.

In all, there are plenty of things around the wiki where the most common way is not necessarily the right way. When people see it around the wiki and assume it\'s acceptable, a common violation can gain a lot of inertia and be hard to purge from the wiki. Once a violation becomes common, it tends to stay common for quite some time before it can be stopped. So it\'s best not to assume.

That having been said, this issue doesn\'t seem comparable to those issues, as it seems that neither the way this page was previously formatted nor the way [=StFan=] has commonly seen around the sight seem to be based on any official policy.

It may be that there\'s not even a \"right way\" to do this at all. The official policies are not always terribly specific about minor details of formatting...

What is correct, and what is most commonly seen, are not always the same thing. After all, ConversationInTheMainPage is all over the place, but it is a hated scourge. And GettingCrapPastTheRadar is specifically about sneaking things past the censors, but probably well over half of the examples are not examples of this, but rather of AccidentalInnuendo, HaveAGayOldTime, or are simply obvious risque jokes that were not sneaky at all and were not so much \"slipped past the radar\" as they were \"cleared for landing by air traffic control\".

There are plenty of things around the wiki where the most common way is not necessarily the right way. When people see it around the wiki and assume it\'s acceptable, a common violation can gain a lot of inertia and be hard to purge from the wiki. Once a violation becomes common, it tends to stay common for quite some time before it can be stopped. So it\'s best not to assume.

That having been said, this issue doesn\'t seem comparable to those issues, as it seems that neither the way this page was previously formatted nor the way [=StFan=] has commonly seen around the sight seem to be based on any official policy.

It may be that there\'s not even a \"right way\" to do this at all. The official policies are not always terribly specific about minor details of formatting...