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BattleMage
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02:27:25 PM Apr 13th 2010
This page is depressing...
94.5.121.102
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03:50:42 PM Apr 25th 2010
I thought that JK pronounced Voldemort as "Voldemore" with a silent t.
AnonymousMcCartneyfan
04:11:59 PM Apr 25th 2010
She did. But it doesn't come naturally to many English-speakers, especially In America! After all, the name sounds much uglier if you can hear the T at the end.

The Harry Potter films use the pronunciation with the "T."
94.8.127.151
05:36:55 PM May 8th 2010
My point was that it definitely wasn't Volt-emort as one troper called "Word of God".
AncientSilurian
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10:07:08 PM Jun 5th 2010
Pulling the Pocahantas example. It isn't from a critic's review, it's from a joke by Dave Barry.
troacctid
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12:13:12 AM Sep 2nd 2010
I don't understand the page title. Is it a reference to some meme or something? Because I've never seen that page image before. Is it common to just take a caption in the page image and name the trope after that? =/
gfrequency
10:19:16 PM Nov 29th 2010
The picture and the article are sort of self-explanatory....
Tableau
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08:41:12 PM Sep 8th 2010
edited by Tableau
The reason the show is called Cowboy Bebop is not just because the ship is named Bebop. The main characters are bounty hunters who are called cowboys in that universe, so the name makes perfect sense as it roughly translates as "Bounty Hunter Ship" (pretty close to what the show is about)!
JohnCasey21
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12:59:39 PM Oct 19th 2010
This page seriously needs to be massively cleaned up, or outright purged...

Aside from or two spurts of true Epic Fail here and there, the only real thing I'm seeing is just a whole lot of fantard whining and bitching...

Fantoids, or just douchebags in general, nitpicking over the smallest little mistakes, or just completely missing the point entirely of whatever was quoted...
MrDeath
01:11:57 PM Oct 19th 2010
Yes, calling the people who contribute to the page "fantard" and "douchebags" is a great way to start a discussion.
suedenim
05:11:06 PM Oct 19th 2010
Be that as it may, John Casey 21 has a point - there's some serious Trope Decay going on here. I'm not sure exactly where you draw a line between getting just about everything wrong that it's possible to get wrong vs. failure to correctly identify all 600+ species of Pokemon, but I'm pretty sure there is a line to be drawn.
MrDeath
08:06:25 AM Oct 20th 2010
edited by MrDeath
That's not what the line is supposed to be at all. The trope is, as I understand it, people who should get it right (either by profession or by simply being in a position where they shold know) getting it wrong. Like a movie reviewer apparently not having seen the movie, or a gaming webcomic getting something entirely wrong about a game series. It's not about "getting everything wrong that it's possible to get wrong".

What distinguishes simple Did Not Do The Research from this trope is in this trope, you'd have every expectation that they'd make an effort to get it right.

The way I see it, this is primarily a journalism-based trope. News people (like myself) are expected to fact check their articles.
TheDude21
11:10:12 AM Oct 20th 2010
edited by TheDude21
I think the sheer number of criticisms on this page definitely draws the line with the whole "in a position where they should."

But I'm seeing way too many don'ts, which are quite frankly utterly ridiculous. Here are two examples:

A GOOD EXAMPLE: "There was a newspaper article about how "Sega's mascot Mario" was more recognizable than Mickey Mouse. If he's so recognizable, how do they not know what company he's from?" Pretty darned self-explanatory.

BAD EXAMPLE: "British teenage science magazine Flipside ran a small article on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, listing a handful of returning characters as being 'Solid Snake, Roy Campbell, and Quinton Flynn'. The latter is the name of the voice actor for one of the characters." It's called a reflex typo, people... Everyone makes them all the fucking time. If you're a "news person", like you claim you are, then I think everyone on here would easily know you're bullshitting if you deny simple typos sliding under the radar. If reflex typos were such huge, inexcusable epic fails, then I can guarantee you we'd be having a whole lot of fucking college students dropping out, and a lot of "news people", like YOU, or whatever, getting their asses dusted on the resume.

This page needs to be cleaned up something fierce.

MrDeath
01:15:53 PM Oct 27th 2010
You need to calm down. There's no need to start swearing at me, or imply that I'm lying or bullshitting. Especially since I never said what you seem to think I did, so don't go putting words in my mouth (or at my typing fingers, as the case may be) either.

Fact checking is one of the first things journalists are supposed to learn. Yes, obviously typos happen, but we're not talking about typos, we're talking about factual errors. If you're going to write about a subject, you want to make sure that what you're writing is accurate, it's as simple as that. If I get a name wrong in an article, my editor, or a reader, calls me out on it.
70.174.66.35
07:08:22 PM Nov 1st 2010
Even if it applies only to journalists who make any error whatsoever, the page needs to be cleaned up. For one, many examples have nothing to do with media of any kind, referring only to 'people think' or something similar. Also, it's debatable whether movie critics should be considered journalists. While a critic watching a movie does take notes, their memories aren't any better than anyone else's so unless they note down the entire film then they can't be expected to remember every single detail, especially when watching 4 and 5 movies a week.

In general, before going nuts about an example, people should remember that fact checking is subject to cost-benefit consideration just like everything else. Some errors are egregious, but often enough it isn't worth the time to verify details that are beside the point for the great majority of the reading/viewing public.
MrDeath
10:05:53 AM Nov 2nd 2010
I think movie critics should count. If you're reviewing something, you should at least be able to get the basic facts right.

If you think it needs cleaning up, then by all means, do some clean-up.
LukeBitts
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03:10:49 PM Mar 7th 2011
Can we change the name of the trope? It's not self-explanatory in any way unless you happen to know what it is about. The page image is helpful of course, but I think we shoudnt rely on that to describe the trope.
elbert0p1kachu
06:00:36 AM Mar 25th 2011
Pretty much anyone who watches Cowboy Bebop knows there's something wrong when a spaceship is sitting down to chillax and points at "his" monitor.
Anaheyla
10:31:58 AM Mar 28th 2011
Case in point.
LukeBitts
10:16:20 AM Apr 13th 2011
Right, I don't watch cowboy bebop, I had never even heard about the show before this trope and it took me longer than just reading the description to understand what the trope was about... I still think we should change to something better
SizzlyBacon
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05:13:35 AM Mar 10th 2011
I found a Played For Laughs variant in a forum discussion.

http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?t=279156

It seems that the poster is ignorant about video games, but does a Bait Then Switch at the end by bashing the show.
Anaheyla
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10:33:07 AM Mar 28th 2011
The caption going on about how the computer isn't present in the picture is extremely pedantic. I vote that part be removed.
Sanmei
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10:18:05 PM Oct 17th 2011
edited by Sanmei
[Redacted, already there]
northtreker
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06:07:47 PM Nov 26th 2011
So I suppose this has been reiterated, but I have seen Cowboy Bebop and I still had no idea what this entry was supposed to be about. Initially, when just relying on information available on the trope page (that is, not relying on the examples) I was trying to think of an example where Jet or Spike received misinformation through their computers and drew a blank. Eventually the trope was made clear with the picture included in the anime/manga link, but having to explore the examples to understand the trope is problematic at best. Either this example needs to be included on the trope's main page, or the entry needs (significant) reworking.
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