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Trope Repair Shop: Long Title
6th Jun '23 1:10:28 AM

Crown Description:

Long Title has multiple issues:

  1. The trope has no established scope or "definition" if we can call it as such, other than whatever someone thinks happens to be a long title. I think most people would agree that titles that contain, say 10+ words, are long. But what about titles that only have 5 words? Tropers have added titles containing as few as 5 words, such as Play Station All Stars Battle Royale, Fraternity Massacre At Hell Island, or The 30 Second Bunnies Theatre. Neither of these strikes us as particularly long and if we're including those, then there are any number of other titles not yet listed that would go on that list.
  2. Simply having a long title does not seem like a trope in and of itself. Everything has a title except for untitled works of course. So what if the title is long or short? How is it not People Sit On Chairs or an index at most? Without any further definition other than "this title is long," we don't see how it can be anything but chairs.
  3. According to the site's standards, the trope is an absolute magnet for zero-context/chairs-y examples. Per this wick check, over half of the examples are Zero Context Examples stating the name of the work itself and minimal context at best. There's no purpose documented in the trope or examples whatsoever.

What should be done with Long Title?
   28 (Yeas:29 Nays:1) 29.00 : 1
Disambiguate between Work Info Title, Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle, Officially Shortened Title, and possibly other tropes, and send in-universe examples to the Trope Idea Salvage Yard
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