That should be spelled out without the adjectives, then.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
But these adjectives... exist. I mean, they exist outside of the context of tvtropes, and their meaning completely holds true within that context. Shouldn't this rule be less about the literal words and more about what it's actually trying to prevent? Of course, reasonable usage of these words already does happen, all over the site, so it's really just a couple sentences being added to this page is all I'm advocating.
The adjectives are a problem. A lot of people take their usage as a license to use them inappropriately.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Why is the word "Arguably" an unnecessary word for tropes in the main page?
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An example is there or it isn't. If you have to say "arguably", it's probably a case of Square Peg Round Trope or similar.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Does this need to be its own entry? Isn't this pretty much covered as a type of Word Cruft?
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First of all, the entry in Word Cruft about arguable examples has not been there for long, in fact it was added only a day before this page's launch. Second of all, About Rhetorical Questions and Not A Subversion also have their own pages despite being mentioned in the Word Cruft article. Third of all, "arguably" differs from most forms of Word Cruft in that not only is it disposable, it's a Weasel Word that's commonly used to shoehorn examples that don't fit. The whole point of this article is to tell people not to do that.
Insignificant: You made this without consensus, without joining in the discussion you started. We need consensus before doing things like this, especially since this is going to be taken as Wiki policy.
ongoing discussion about this topic.
This may be nitpicking, but wouldn't it make sense to put "possibly" or "arguably" if the trope is describing a piece of the story that is deliberately ambiguous? I think something mentioning that should maybe be added to this page, as there's many places in which these kind of words would fit without falling into this.
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