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67.165.168.202
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10:31:39 PM Jun 29th 2010
Somebody with more time than me should add "Slitheen" under "Doctor Who"
94.9.179.3
10:26:11 AM Jul 9th 2010
No, because a) The show isn't called Slitheen and b) Every Raxacoricofallapatorian with a line is part of the Slitheen family.
SomeSortOfTroper
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02:17:41 AM Jul 1st 2010
edited by SomeSortOfTroper
Make a note to remind people not to put Brand Name Takeover examples here. Brand Name Takeover examples belong on...Brand Name Takeover. Shocking, isn't it?
94.9.179.3
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10:38:05 AM Jul 9th 2010
I think my rationale in the reasons was a bit vague, but I still can't see how Valve/Steam/Source fit.
94.9.133.108
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09:58:39 AM Jul 17th 2010
Unless it's under the idea of "which one of you is Beatle or Ramone or Eagle", then band names don't fit here.
Meeble
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10:14:27 AM Mar 1st 2011
This page has gotten to just under 225,000 characters, and is getting a bit difficult to navigate in my opinion. Once it hits 400,000 characters, it will hit Fast Eddie's Big Page Lock report and need to be split.

I propose that we go ahead and perform the split now to pre-empt the problem, and to make the page more readable. I would be basically giving each folder its own sub-page, with the main article being an index of those sub-pages.

Would anyone object to me doing this? If not, I will probably get to it in a week or so, to give people time to chime in.
Meeble
06:54:48 AM Mar 17th 2011
Since no one objected, I went ahead and made this change. New examples should be placed in the appropriate subpage.
fuckshitpiss
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10:17:38 PM Apr 29th 2011
Should we maybe differentiate between things that are actually misnamed and metonymy?
thevisualboy37
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06:07:11 PM Dec 23rd 2011
Why is this YMMV all of a sudden?
CelticKnot
12:29:13 PM Jan 7th 2012
The cited examples seem to come down to whether or not the name confusion is frequent for a certain character, such as Captain Marvel/Shazam, Link/Zelda, Pit/Kid Icarus, or The Creature/Frankenstein. It's factually inaccurate to the source material to say that the hero of Ocarina of Time is a boy named Zelda, but it's subjective whether or not the misunderstanding is common. I'd personally have tagged it as trivia and not YMMV, but there you are.

If you have a media example of the misunderstanding, the trope to put on the work's page would be Cowboy Bebop At His Computer, as that one isn't YMMV tagged.
TheDarkEricDraven
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03:41:09 PM Jan 30th 2012
DC just announced they are changing his name to Shazam once and for all. Looks like we need a new trope name.
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