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Author: Valentine

Jun 6th 2011 at 7:36:42 AM

Westrim, you're quite wrong that a well-defined trope should be interpreted differently by each person.

There are an awful lot of proposed YKTTWs, and it does happen often enough that the trope is definitely something that we already have, or a RidiculouslySimilarTrope. If I read the description and can see that it is already covered I often just say "This is covered by X". Much more often than not, the author either says "Oh well", or just lets the YKTTW drop off the bottom or discards it. Reading the trope should be enough to convince the author that the tropes are the same. If it's not, we can discuss it when they explain why they think it isn't the same trope.

I disagree that someone objecting should be discouraged from initially just pointing out the trope a YKTTW is a duplicate of, it's a very long-standing and widely used method, and your proposed Administrative Note seems to be completely skewed by an argument you had over someone answering one of your YKTTWs this way. At this stage, I'm tending in favour of discarding this altogether.