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Author: WaterBlap

Nov 28th 2017 at 7:12:42 AM

We currently have a very old and stale clean-up effort for the ArtisticLicense tropes, and almost ''all of the AL tropes'' are still in need of repair.

For that reason, I think '''any new ArtisticLicense trope''' needs to be ''near perfect'' at launch.

Problems with this draft include:
* Is this a needed supertrope?  Is this TheSameButMoreSpecific to ArtisticLicenseBiology?
** Concerning the issue of this being a MissingSupertrope to SomewhereAHerpetologistIsCrying, ArtisticLicenseOrnithology, and SomewhereAnEquestrianIsCrying, I do not believe this is necessary.  Those tropes already fall under SomewhereThisIndexIsCrying and therefore fall under ArtisticLicenseBiology.  I do not think we need ''yet another'' supertrope to those articles.
** As others have mentioned above, I think this is just an [[TheSameButMoreSpecific arbitrarily differentiated and specified]] version of ArtisticLicenseBiology.
* The description:
** You need to understand CriticalResearchFailure in order to understand this description.  That will lead to misuse.
*** Moreover, CriticalResearchFailure is an AudienceReaction "trope."  It's when there is a "blatantly obvious factual error concerning common knowledge," but nothing about zoology is necessarily "common knowledge."
** This description reads like an old SomewhereAnExpertIsCrying.  There is nothing in this description that suggests the inaccuracies are necessary in order to make the story work better.  It isn't good enough to ''merely'' change the title; the description needs to reflect the ArtisticLicense tropes, not the IsCrying tropes.
** Vis a vis IsCrying tropes, this description relies on an old, outdated, stale, dead meme.  It isn't funny.  I dare say that it was never funny, nor meant to be funny.
** General "examples" are not permitted.  It might be the case that everything in that "General" folder ought to be included in the description in some way in order to better explain the trope. Please remember that tropers are '''not knowledgeable''' about everything, and we can have decently elaborate descriptions of tropes.
** On top of everything else, this description is a stub.
* The examples:
** As per Madrugada's post above, the examples need to be revised.  Anything where there's just one animal or one type of animal where there's inaccuracies needs to get cut (e.g. the Madagascar example).

Because this draft has so many problems, and because we have so many problems with ArtisticLicense tropes already, I am adding a bomb.

While the issues with the description could be (relatively) easily fixed, the first bullet point is more concerning.  This trope is redundant.