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Author: LordGro

Aug 14th 2014 at 12:10:46 PM

-->We don't do TRS for newly launched tropes anymore (we use the thread I linked before instead), but that's a minor distinction.

[=@SeptimusHeap=]: You know, tropes get launched from YKTTW all the time without "consensus" over names, definitions, descriptions. Often with less than five hats. The [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13544789560A75740100&page=87#2164 Premature Launches Thread]] is usually very lenient on such launches (as it is with tropes that haven't been in YKTTW at all). Experience shows that launched tropes need to have really obvious shortcomings to be sent back to YKTTW.

But I don't blame you for nodding off launched tropes. As much as we would like to spend eternity on TV Tropes, alas! the time everyone of us can sink into the wiki is limited.

I feel I am getting punished for playing fair. I argued my points, I gave people time to react, I waited for five hats. If I had just launched it under a name of my choice, ignoring the comments and with less than five hats, it would most likely all be done and sit on the wiki unchallenged, and the fact that the name uses "ship" to refer to a ship would probably bother exactly no-one.

Apart from that, the use (or restriction thereof) of the word "ship" in trope names does not only relate to this YKTTW. The exactly same problem has just now popped up on [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=d4f63r6jk08kawrxmdu7i1pe Tree Ship]]. If [=DAN004=] gets his will here, he will jump over to Tree Ship and use the outcome of this crowner as an argument from precedent to have that draft renamed to "Tree Vessel". This is in effect a vote on trope naming rules and as such should be discussed on the forums, not in a YKTTW backyard where only a minority of tropers is actually aware of it.