Well, the article starts with the phrase "Be aware of these conventions, even if you choose to ignore them," so I think it's already clear that you don't have to follow every guideline on the list properly. These are guides on how to write really nicely, not absolute laws of language that you'll be banned from Tv Tropes for ignoring. After all, avoiding alliteration ain't always appropriate. And yet, that's on the list too. "One should never generalize." "Foreign words and phrases are not apropos." In short, we know not everything on the list is flat-out wrong in all situations. There's no need to delete an item from the list just because it isn't necessarily a hard and fast rule.

This list is for rules that, if you followed them all the time, would make you sound like a pretentious butler. It is supposed to include things that are just stylistic choices. The list tells you how to write perfect, erudite, looking-down-your-nose-at-people English. It is then up to you, the troper, to decide what the right balance is in your own writing.

Anyway, that's just my opinion, and I'm no grammar expert.

I don't think so. I think you could pretty much follow the rest of the list without ever sounding stuffy.

And I never thought these were supposed to be absolute laws, very little is around here. I just think the list should focus on the things editors really should be avoiding, like the apostrophes thing.

these come from somewhere else. they're a bit clichéd. i always thought people had just put them in as a joke.

I just wanted to complain about two of the worst stylistic sins that this wiki regularly engages in: use of "this troper" - ie, referring to oneself in the third person unnecessarily - and the rhetorical question, as in "Why hasn't Blablabla been mentioned yet?" It annoys me (people should just be editing it in!). Is there a place to complain about that?