This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Shay Guy: Oh my God. I had no idea this page existed. Do you realize what this means?!
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Someone wants to disassemble the quote by redlinking this page. I think that this trope has too many examples listed to delete just yet.
Big T: I agree, but it is still a poorly defined trope. What is it, just saying the word hello?
Kerrah: Either remove it or move it to Just for Fun. It's not a trope any more than "goodbye" or "how do you do".
Hremsfeld: Just for Fun should be last-case. "Hello, world!" for instance is pretty huge. It might not be explicitly referenced in any media, but it at least is on this very wiki; please see the Fictional Documents article. Concerning the troping of "goodbye" or "how do you do," if it appears in at least three works, it's tropable, only bandwidth and server restricitons preventing their tropage. This especially holds true if a work uses it famously. Day Of The Dead, for example, uses "hello" like an Event Flag; the cast says it through a megaphone, and 1) nothing happens, 2) survivors appear, etc. So I vote to absolutely not delete; at worst, make it Just for Fun.
Dragon Quest Z: Just in case, I'm going to make an index for Phone Tropes and move the picture there.
Some Sort Of Troper: "if it appears in at least three works " is not the definition of a trope, Trope has the definition of a trope. I point out that a lot of other different words get used a lot of times as well. Specific uses of the word in particular ways are tropeable (e.g. the lonely call out in horror movies) and we have greetings related tropes noted on the page already. I would in fact make this one an index, take Day Of The Dead and 28 Days Later's examples and try to use them to build up another trope, set up Greetings Tropes as a redirect and take the Just for Fun-iness to a Sugar Wiki page.
AOD: I agree with this cutlisting. Doom it.
Madrugada: It's been tagged as Just For Fun. It's a harmless page, created to make a joke work. Don't cut.
Mr Death: Ah, I see Inkblot is back and that stick up his arse is still firmly in place. Screw you, keep the page, don't cut it.
Inkblot: Your logic for opposing the cut seems to be "Inkblot proposed to cut it, so it shouldn't be cut". The article half-heartedly tries to make this a real trope, and with a ton of work and example pruning it could become worth keeping. Right now though, the page, especially the examples, boils down to "here's a list of shows that use the word 'hello'". I don't care if it fits the goddamn Inigo Montoya quote. In its current form, this page is no more worth keeping than a page on a random word in the dictionary.
Mr Death: No, I was just noting your return to making superfluous cuts and exercising some pattern recognition.
There are a lot of pages on here that are not, by definition, tropes. "This is not a trope, and therefore must be cut" is not an argument, because if it was that's a solid chunk of the site that needs to come down.
This should be, and is supposed to be, a fun place. We have our memes and our in-jokes; I see no reason that should change, and I'm tired of seeing you cutlist things just because they don't fit whatever scholarly concept of the site you have. I mean, look at Chekovs Gun. How many times did you try and make that a redirect or cut it because "This is not a trope," after literally everyone else who cared to comment on it said it should be kept?
You're like a real life version of the army officer whose rank eludes me from Monty Python. "This is too silly, and it has to stop" seems to be your motto around here.
fzzr_miller: keep! the inigo montoyo quote is too classic a joke to lose. also, I changed the page's type to "just for fun" from "trope".
macroscopic: Cut two items:
- Repeatedly used in almost every show that uses the English language.
(Can't find a place for it with the categories in place.)
- Inverted, averted, and lampshaded in an episode of The Fairly Oddparents: Timmy and Chester hang up the phone, leaving AJ on the line. AJ wonders: "doesn't anybody say goodbye anymore?"
(I think my brain imploded after reading that.)
