Administrivia / Permanent Red Link Club

You don't wanna join this club.

There are some pages that have been permanently etched into the annals of TV Tropes history by being removed and then locked, so that they may never return. The list of these is below, along with the "Unlisted cut pages" folder for certain categories of pages that are mass-prohibited.

If you wish to have a page added to this list, you can ask in this forum thread.

To see a list of pages that were locked but not removed, go to Locked Pages. See also the list of Recent Cuts, not all of which become members of this club.

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Pages cut and locked for reducing the overall quality of the wiki

There are Verbal Tics and Overused Running Gags, and then there are these. These are former tropes that were deleted outright for being so misused by having potholes to these pages sprinkled around this wiki on pages for no reason other than perhaps to be funny.

• Administrivia.Needs A Better Description: This page was supposed to be an index for pages that need help with their descriptions but many editors would misuse it by wicking it to new pages. In order to curb this misuse, the page was renamed to Administrivia.Pages Needing A Better Description and the old name was turned into a permanent red link.
• Did Not Do The Research: Intended as an index for research failure, it attracted lots of misuse as a way of pointing out a research mistake in a work. It was merged with other indexes and christened the Inaccuracies Index for a few days, until it was determined that we don't need that either. These tropes are now listed at Consistency, under "Lack of External Consistency".
• Hey Its That Guy (including a relation axed in the same swipe, Hey Its That Voice): Was trivia about recognizing actors appearing in different series. It was found to be redundant to Role Association, but even after that the name was still sinkholed as a Verbal Tic.
• I Am Not Making This Up: Originally created for how fans react to crazy plot twists and the like, it was used as a pothole for absolutely anything that was even the slightest bit outlandish, as if it would make it read as a bit of incredibly hilarious and awesome escapism. Instead, it became a grating catchphrase (appearing on over 2,500 pages at its peak) that made This Very Wiki look like idiots with an incredibly low threshold of disbelief. Some discussion of this incident is preserved on I Am Not Making This Up Discussion. Not only were all links to it changed to be permanently red regardless of stylesheet, all instances of the phrase were automatically deleted from the wiki, leaving blank spots where it used to be. In-Universe examples were moved to "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer. Since this is TV Tropes, you don't need to say this; since even Reality Is Unrealistic, there's no reason not to believe such things happened. And it's usually better to link to the proof that you're not making it up.
  • No Really: One of many redirects to the above, and even without that it violates TV Tropes' policy about in-site Verbal Tics.
• Main.Needs Wiki Magic Love and Administrivia.Needs Wiki Magic Love: Supposed to index pages that need Wiki Magic help. However, before TRS intervention (which moved the contents to the Administrivia/ namespace), new editors would tack it on pages that they felt need help; oftentimes, it's on pages they create. The move to Administrivia/ wasn't enough to curb unwanted wicks, so it was renamed to Pages Needing Wiki Magic to clarify that it's an index, with the Administrivia/ location salted.
• Please Elaborate: Poorly written examples should be rewritten or, failing that, outright deleted, not compounded with more useless junk that also acts as natter.
• Pretty Cool Guy: A meme that was overly redundant and did nothing but encourage meaningless potholes.
• Sliding Scale Of Anime Obscurity, Sliding Scale Of Western Animation Obscurity, Sliding Scale Of Film Obscurity, Sliding Scale Of Live Action TV Obscurity, and Sliding Scale Of Video Game Obscurity: Attracted bickering and edit wars regarding why certain works weren't classified as having a specific level of obscurity, and were cut to put a stop to it.
  • JustForFun.Sliding Scale Of Anime Obscurity, JustForFun.Sliding Scale Of Western Animation Obscurity, JustForFun.Sliding Scale Of Film Obscurity, JustForFun.Sliding Scale Of Live Action TV Obscurity, and JustForFun.Sliding Scale Of Video Game Obscurity: Redirects to the Sliding Scale of [medium] Obscurity pages; locked to prevent the pages' recreation because the Just for Fun namespace isn't restricted like Main/.
  • Sandbox.Obscurity Pages 1 and Sandbox.Obscurity Pages 2: Both pages were created to circumvent the decision to cut the Sliding Scale of [medium] Obscurity pages.
• So Yeah: Used as a Verbal Tic as an excuse to never finish a sentence. Compounded by its small size making it incredibly easy to Pot Hole, this "trope" infected examples across the wiki like herpes, appearing on over 4,000 pages at its peak.
• Your Mileage May Vary: The old name for Love It or Hate It (and not to be confused with the index page for YMMV tropes), kept being misused as an expression of subjectivity or even to dispute existing entries despite Examples Are Not Arguable. Neither redirecting nor removing the wicks did stop this usage.

Main namespace Darth Wiki and Sugar Wiki redirects

Due to heated complaining and gushing involving these on the main wiki, as well as unnecessary Pot Holing involving them, we discourage linking to these Darth Wiki and Sugar Wiki tropes and pages outside of those areas. Their main page redirects were cut and locked to discourage tropers from using them as such.

• Main.Dethroning Moment Of Suck: Was commonly used for work-bashing, even though the page itself is a signed soapbox with very strict rules to prevent that.
• Main.Fallen Creator: Constantly used as a pothole for people complaining about creators they don't like, along with being used to point out works that seriously damaged their creator's reputation (which is why we have Creator Killer).
• Main.Idiot Programming: Something of a Take That! by its very nature.
• Main.Most Triumphant Example: Way too opinionated for the main wiki. You may have wanted Trope Codifier, Trope Namer, or Ur-Example, which are all more appropriate.
• Main.So Bad Its Horrible: Showed up practically everywhere as an excuse to bash works, disregarding the page in question's very high standards as to what qualifies.
• Main.Worse Than It Sounds: While the page itself is a Just for Fun game where you make something sound as good as you can, it was constantly being used as a pothole for complaining due to people thinking that it was Exactly What It Says on the Tin.

Misused trope name

Sometimes when we rename a trope, the original name has to be deleted if the misuse was really bad.

• All Men Are Rapists: Already locked for being overly creepy and rife with Unfortunate Implications, it eventually turned out to be The Same, but More to All Men Are Perverts.
• Ambiguously Autistic: Where tropers put examples of characters who they thought had autism. Or, works that referenced autism unambiguously. Became Ambiguous Disorder before it got renamed again and turned into a YMMV trope, this time to Diagnosed by the Audience, after it attracted more misuse.
• All Pedophiles Are Child Molesters: The original name of Pædo Hunt. Was discovered by actual pedophiles, who tried to use the page to defend themselves, fighting the moderators all the way.
• Audience Reaction Tropes: Where Audience Reactions were listed when they were considered tropes. They aren't anymore. When an audience reaction is used as a trope, it's In-Universe.
• I Got Better: The former name of Unexplained Recovery, it was frequently used for any kind of "getting better". The page was redirected and later cut when tropers didn't stop using it.
• Incredibly Lazy Pun: The original name of Stealth Pun, it kept getting misused as any pun. After Incredibly Lame Pun was made to stop this, tropers started confusing this trope for that one, causing it to be cut entirely.
• Or Is It: Was supposed to be an Ending Trope, but it rapidly degenerated into a troper catchphrase. Now known as The End... Or Is It?.
• Rape The Dog: Former name of Moral Event Horizon, which was renamed and strictly defined to combat Trope Decay from editors using it to Pot Hole long, often off-topic descriptions of character actions to hammer in that yes, they're evil. When the Pot Holes didn't stop, the redirect was removed.
• Token Loli: It was originally meant to describe a very young female in a predominately teenaged or adult cast. However, constant misuse, concerns about advertisements, the Unfortunate Implication of the trope name, and the lack of a male equivalent led to it being renamed to the more gender-neutral Token Mini-Moe and redefined to describe the only prepubescent (or prepubescent-looking) male or female character within the main cast (The "Cute Shotaro Boy", a completely separate trope, was later renamed Adorably Precocious Child for similar reasons above).
• Too Common To Trope: Once a redirect to People Sit on Chairs, it aided in the latter's misuse as "too common to trope" and Missing Supertrope Syndrome. It was in violation of wiki policy anyway, since we have No Trope Is Too Common.
• We Are Not Wikipedia: The original name of Troper's Law. You're probably looking for There Is no Such Thing as Notability.

Pages locked for being cut then recreated

Cut pages sometimes have a habit of reappearing very quickly, usually due to tropers simply being unaware why the page had been deleted though sometimes as part of a trolling effort, so they may be locked to deal with this.

For a time, all cut pages were locked automatically as a preventative measure. Such pages are not listed here, so if you find a locked blank page not listed here you may ask here for it to be unlocked.

• Administrivia.Pages Needing Images, Administrivia.Tropes Needing Images and Main.List Of Pages Artists Can Illustrate: Were cut because images are optional for wiki pages so there was no need to have an index for imageless pages.
• Analysis.Creating New Pages, Characters.Creating New Pages, Characters.Title Goes Here, NamespaceGoesHere.Title Goes Here, TitleGoesHere.Title Goes Here, and Analysis.Tropes: People kept creating pages here, due to the text of the "create page" button misleading them into thinking it was the correct place.
• Analysis.Media: Repeated spam target, perhaps due to it being linked in page headers.
• Analysis.Trains With Faces: Cut and locked for being spam.
• Analysis.TV Tropes Reviews: Cut and locked for being spam.
• BerserkButton.Ed Edd N Eddy: Page was full of Square Peg, Round Trope, which didn't stop despite cutting.
• Brazil Nut Disorder: Utterly nonsensical trope page. Was cut but recreated many times by different editors.
  • Root BEER: Was part of the same joke, and the premise seems to be already covered by Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere.
  • DarthWiki.Brazil Nut Disorder: Was used to recreate the page after Main.Brazil Nut Disorder was added to the Permanent Red Link Club.
• Characters.Media: Illegitimate page prone to recreation.
• Characters.Red Link: Illegitimate page that saw recreation by inexperienced users.
• Complete Monsters: Pluralism redirect to Complete Monster that was recreated four times.
• Disney Kidzone and List Of Programs Broadcast On Disney Kidzone: Poorly-written, copy-pasted articles for a made-up TV channel. The actual channel was originally called Playhouse Disney and is now called Disney Junior.
• Do Not Want: The original name of Translation Train Wreck, then became a redirect to Recursive Translation. The actual meme (both on- and off-wiki) is a synonym for squick.
• FanWorks.Fanfic: Keeps getting re-created as a bad subpage.
• FanWorks.Fanfic Recommendations: Keeps getting re-created by spammers.
• Film.Pokemon Black And White The Movie: Page for a nonexistent work that kept being recreated; they may have been looking for Anime.Pokemon The Movie Black And White.
• First Base Never Scores: Basically the same as All Girls Want Bad Boys, but cruder and with more complaining; both You Know That Thing Where and Trope Repair Shop were unanimous in saying it was redundant and offensive, but the creator didn't listen and recreated it after it got cut.
• From Breakout To Scrappy: Complaint page, recreated after cut.
• Frying The Coke: A meme page based on The Nostalgia Critic's Double Team video that fell flat.
• Heroes Of Troperia: Attempt at a Just for Fun page that fell flat, but kept being re-added.
• IAmNotMakingThisUp.Video Games: The examples of I Am Not Making This Up were dumped to the Temp Archive/ namespace and went unnoticed for a while, and someone tried to remake the Video Games page.
• I Just Want To Be Accepted: Launched and relaunched by a confused newbie without ever being properly defined. Eventually became I Just Want to Have Friends.
• Kind Red Eyes: Used to just list aversions of Red Eyes, Take Warning, but was remade after being cut.
• Laconic.Sinkhole: This page was recreated after it was cut due to laconics for administrivia pages being disallowed.
• Moka Akashiya: A redirect from a sinkhole, was reposted after being cut.
• Naked Sally and Sally Was The Naked One: Concerned a character attribute downplayed In-Universe but spoken of often by fans. Its name was an oblique reference ^note The Trope Namer is Princess Sally from Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), an Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal who famously subverted the standard Pantsless Males, Fully-Dressed Females design scheme used by the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise; her outfit consisted of only a pair of boots and later an open vest that leaves her chest perfectly exposed, in contrast to most female characters' full outfits, the trope wasn't very clearly defined, and very few of the listed examples actually fit. Besides, we already have Never Live It Down.
• Namespace.Title: Incorrect page creation that kept being recreated.
• NeverLiveItDown.American Football: Was cut after the trope became No Real Life Examples, Please! but was recreated.
• Not Making This Up: Originally a redirect to I Am Not Making This Up, it was recreated after the Great IANMTU Cut as a redirect to "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer. It was immediately cut-and-locked to prevent this.
• NightmareFuel.Barney And Friends: Was initially cut per a cleanup effort for Nightmare Fuel, but then it got recreated.
• PlayingWith.Animation Age Ghetto: YMMV cannot be played with, thus such a subpage was forbidden. Alas, this one saw two recreations.
• Podcast.The Other Side and YMMV.The Other Side: Was cut via a Websites cleanup effort due to the lack of fictional content. It was then recreated.
• Radar.Cars: Was cut as the Getting Crap Past the Radar cleanup effort deemed the contents to be invalid. It was later recreated with more misuse.
• RPG Codex: Recreated three times after it was preemptively deleted to avoid attracting exactly the sort of crowd a page about that site would attract.
• RT Game: Recreated after being cut for being in the wrong namespace and not having tropable content.
• SelfDemonstrating.Lucifer: Page was cut for being too boring to be worth a page but was recreated.
• Shadow Persona: The aforementioned confused newbie never defined this one well, either. Eventually became Beneath the Mask.
• Synopsis.Wiki Sandbox: Page in deprecated namespace kept being recreated.
• Synopsis.Tuff Puppy: Page in deprecated namespace kept being recreated.
• Trivia.Disney Plus: Kept being recreated even though the content added belonged on the creator page.
• Trivia.Four Kids Entertainment: Keeps getting re-created and cut.
• Trivia.Teletoon: Kept being recreated even though the content added belonged on the creator page.
• Unbirthing: A Porn Trope launched with no examples and which proved Too Rare to Trope.
• Wait What Whoa: Never defined very well, which probably wasn't helped by the name being better for "clever" potholing than actually describing the trope, and essentially just a spoken version of the Double Take.
• Walking: Someone kept recreating it despite being People Sit on Chairs.
• Weapons.Destiny: As Weapons is not a valid namespace, it was moved, but then cut. Contents were restored some time after.
• WebOriginal.Apple Texts: Was cut as a stub, but was then recreated with no improvements regarding context. It was also at the improper namespace; the proper namespace is Web Video, where it now resides.
• YMMV.Disney Plus: Creator pages for networks cannot have YMMV pages, yet this one saw two recreations.
• YMMV.Four Kids Entertainment: Was cut for being a complaining magnet, but it was recreated.
• YMMV.Nintendo Switch: Useful Notes YMMV subpages, especially those for gaming consoles, are not permitted, yet this one came back more than once after being cut.
• YMMV.Tony Jay and YMMV.Rian Johnson: Was cut for violating the ban on real life people getting YMMV pages, but was recreated.

Pages cut and locked due to being nothing but complaining

Becoming a platform for actively complaining about anyone or anything is basically the worst sin any page on this wiki can commit, short of being created expressly for the purpose of trolling and/or conveying hate speech. With the exception of a few Darth Wiki pages which exist as carefully monitored outlets for this sort of thing, any such page is nuked with extreme prejudice.

• Ann Coulter and Jack Thompson (not to be confused with Creator.Jack Thompson): The pages were simply being used to insult these individuals due to their controversial stances. Since they are neither creators nor tropes, and the only useful content on the pages being In-Universe parodies and mockeries of these individuals; which are better off placed in Moral Guardians, having pages for them added little.
• Citation Needed: Poorly defined and was nothing but a Take That! at one of Wikipedia's main policies. Considering the "There Is no Such Thing as Notability" rule here in TV Tropes, citations aren't necessary for the most part here.
• Cookie Cutter Cuties: Was nothing more than a rant about the looks of Hollywood actresses.
• Creator.Michael Grade: Was principally used to complain about his actions while chairman of The BBC.
• Cute Kids And Robots: Was originally intended to discuss the ubiquitousness of these in children's shows, which was pretty pointless since children's shows by definition feature a lot of children. Instead it rapidly became used as a method of complaining about their use in mainstream works, which was not desirable on any level.
• CWC: Page created solely to insult the author of Sonichu. The author's name spelled out (Creator.Christian Weston Chandler, or Creator.Christine Weston Chandler) is also permanently redlinked as a countermeasure.
• DarthWiki.Dethroning Music Of Suck: Meant for unintended Soundtrack Dissonance, but kept being misused as bad music or music that tropers didn't like.
• DarthWiki.Ultimate Troll Entry: Intended as a joke page editors could use to write funny Troll comments. While clever at first, it started getting tedious, unoriginal, unfunny entries... along with genuinely offensive comments not being done For the Lulz.
• DarthWiki.Wall Banger: Attracted tons of complaining due to not having the restrictions Dethroning Moment of Suck (which the page was determined to be redundant with) has. WallBangers.Real Life was pre-emptively cut much earlier.
• Depressing Tropes: Intended as an index for tropes about depressing things, in a similar vein to Sadness Tropes (which is about tropes intended to cause sadness). However, due to the difference in scope between the two indices, people began shoehorning in tropes they found to be even the slightest bit depressing. Eventually, the shoehorning became so frequent that keeping the index was deemed to be more trouble than it was worth.
• DethroningMoment.Death Battle: Literally every single episode had an entry on the page, making listing them pointless.
• Detractor Nickname: Redirected to Fan Nickname. Had no purpose aside from complaining and name-slinging.
• Fred Durst and Tim Buckley (not to be confused with Music.Tim Buckley): As they only created one work, the pages were redundant with Limp Bizkit and Ctrl+Alt+Del (respectively) and had no purpose beyond bashing creators.
• Haiku.Four Chan: Unnecessarily offensive and flame-bait.
• Handle This Index With Care: Meant for tropes that carried Unfortunate Implications, but tropers were adding too many tropes that had only the faintest connections to that page. Unfortunate Implications being a YMMV concept also made a defined criteria for the list extremely hard to pin down, anyway.
• Headscratchers.Death Battle: Due to the nature of the show, the page quickly devolved into heated debates over which character deserved to win each Death Battle. In addition, several of the Headscratchers were written in a very harsh tone that came off as complaining.
• JustForFun.Star Trek Deep Space Nine and JustForFun.Steven Universe: Tracking a work's canon is fine and all, but applying a ranking system including a "not recommended" tier is not going to fly. The latter has its Future redirect cut and salted as well.
• License To Whine: Tropes with issues of people complaining about it should be cleaned up in the dedicated cleanup thread or taken to Trope Repair Shop, not compounded with more useless junk and natter.
• Lickspittle: Even after an Example Sectionectomy, it was deemed an unnecessary page. We do not need a page for fan-bashing. There wasn't any point in allowing fictional examples either, as Yes-Man already fills that role.
• Pantheon.Disgraces: Attracted huge amounts of work and character bashing that was deemed unnecessarily toxic and inappropriate for the Pantheon.
• Pro Porn Clones: The same thing as Cookie Cutter Cuties, but for porn.
• Synthesizeritis: Started out as a way of bashing the composition of certain synthesizer-heavy works. That was already against the guidelines of this wiki, but before long people were using it to complain about any work that uses synthesized music instead of orchestral music, leading to its deletion.
• Tainted By The Fanbase: Contained all the whiny, factionalistic, nerd-rage examples that Fan Dumb would have if it allowed examples.
• True Art Is Complex, True Art Is Foreign, True Art Is Offensive, True Art Is Realistic, True Art Sticks It To The Man: All of these were based upon various types of anti-intellectual strawmen. This led to frequent whining both about works acclaimed as pieces of art and about an unspecified cabal of elitist critics who label such works art. The other True Art pages had to be curated and refocused on in-universe examples only.
• Certain subpages of Webcomic.Sonichu and Webcomic.Asperchu: A flood of complaining following the lock and cleanup of the two.
• WebVideo.Sammy Classic Sonic Fan: Page primarily existed to denigrate the subject and their comments on video games.
• Wiki.Crappy Games Wiki: Was filled to the brim with complaining and drama importing. It got cut, but was later unilaterally recreated.
• WMG.Cartoon Network: After already being cut for complaining, the page was reposted with even more thinly veiled complaints about the network.

Overly-controversial pages/soapboxes

Let's just say the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement exists here for a reason.

• Abu Ghraib: A controversial Real Life prison which only attracted Flame Wars and Misplaced Nationalism, is neither a trope nor a work, and the article was a stub.
• Awesome.Twitter: The only two examples that were present had clear political agendas.
• BlatantLies.Real Life Politics And War: Flame Bait magnet, particularly with political matters.
• Busy Street: The page was locked after a heated argument between multiple parties, and eventually cut when the subject in question underwent a drastic overhaul, causing complications that made it not worth keeping the page up.
• Creator.Ben Shapiro: Political pundit not involved in any creative works.
• DarthWiki.Complain About Shows You Dont Like: Topic drift from shows to social, political, and religious targets along with racial slurs and constant back-and-forth between fans and haters. Let's just say things got nasty very quickly.
• Dueling Musicians: Caused too much edit warring and debates over who is the "better" artist.
• Main.Encyclopedia Dramatica: The page was very biased against the site and its members, attracting all manner of negative attention from them. No other efforts stopped this, and we have no interest in Tempting Fate here. A wiki vandal later recreated the page at Website.Encyclopedia Dramatica, resulting in that page's salting.
• Flaming Fruit Vendors And Angry Arabs: Intended to be a page on the Arab Spring, it was cut due to its insensitive name and excessive use of "recent" examples due to how soon into the movement the page was made. We have a better page for the Arab Spring now.
• Memes.Donald Trump: This is just inviting political bickering.
• Narm.New Media: Most of the entries went way overboard, descending into outright attacking and name-calling rather than just describing moments of failed drama. Combined with a massive amount of edit-warring, it became obvious that this page was just too troublesome to be left alive.
• Retakers: Hate speech and death threats directed at Mass Effect 3 fans ^note To clarify, certain people were angry at the ending of Mass Effect 3, some of which joined a group called "Retake Mass Effect 3". This page was created by a very persistent wiki vandal to bash those unsatisfied with the ending.
• UsefulNotes.Conspiracy Theories, plus its subpages and its UsefulNotes.Conspiracy Theory redirect: Cut per discussion due to major ROCEJ violations.
  • ConspiracyTheories.Zero To G
  • ConspiracyTheories.H To N
  • ConspiracyTheories.O To Z
  • ConspiracyTheories.Other
  • ConspiracyTheories.Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic (which was cut years prior to the discussion regarding the other pages)
• UsefulNotes.Scientology: Even after being locked, the fighting didn't stop. Since it was the only Useful Notes page that doesn't help you understand anything on this wiki better, the page was deleted. Church of Happyology describes when people make up a ridiculous religion, and you don't even have to know anything about Scientology to get the joke, especially not when it's actually making fun of Scientology itself. Besides, if Scientology's in a work, you can always use Wikipedia to see how accurate it is.
• VisualNovel.Snoot Game: A Visual Novel made as an anti-fangame to Goodbye Volcano High, in which the player must detransition the nonbinary lead of the original game to avoid a bad ending. This along with other anti-LGBT themes proved to be impossible to trope the work neutrally, so the troper hivemind decided that it should be cut.
• Webcomic.Stonetoss: A webcomic which consisted only of alt-right views. Since there was no narrative and the creator tries to deny the comic being alt-right, it was very hard to trope neutrally without accidentally coming off as promoting hate speech, and it attracted unwanted attention from the creator, so the page was decided by the community to be cut and locked.
• WebOriginal.Mister Metokur: Impossible to catalog as the creator was banned from YouTube, rendering his videos unavailable. The creator's political leanings also made Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment violations impossible to avoid.
• WebOriginal.This Troper: A series hosted on YouTube commenting on the controversial and negative topics of TV Tropes through a Dramatic Reading of some articles. Due to clashes with site rules against drama importation and personal attacks, the work is impossible to catalog on this wiki. WebVideo.This Troper was preemptively locked to prevent the page's restoration.
• Website.Stormfront: Neo-Nazis are not really a phenomenon that merits a work article.
• WebVideo.Louder With Crowder: Work impossible to catalogue because its heavy political slant resulted in uncurable Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment violations.
• Westboro Baptist Church: A magnet for religious related arguments and complaining. It didn't really help you understand anything on this wiki better due to the church having less than a hundred members and almost never appearing in any works outside of The Laramie Project and Louis Theroux's documentaries.
• YMMV.Feminist Frequency: Even after being locked over constant Flame Bait, the drama didn't stop, so the page has been removed.

Pages that were cut for being too NSFW/Squickish

• Innocent Panties: A trope made separate of Panty Shot by portraying visible girls' underwear as a cue of girlish cuteness with no sexual intent (while Panty Shot is for fanservice). Just like Panty Shot, however, people were listing every random upskirt... of prepubescent girls. Even worse, many examples included pictures. This could have just gotten an Example Sectionectomy, but the pedophilic potential was too great.
• JustForFun.Troper Dating Service: Cut and locked because the concept itself was determined to be too creepy to host.
• Legal Jailbait: The page was originally locked to resolve an issue with the description being overly creepy, but then cut as it was considered to be a creepy variant of Older Than They Look.
• Naked Shotaro Boy: Was a listing of works featuring nude prepubescent boys. In addition to the generally creepy undertones of the article, it didn't attempt any real insight into or analysis of the trope, leaving no reason to keep it.
• "Rape is Okay/Funny if..." tropes: Very troublesome names for the "Double Standard Rape" tropes that led to issues with advertisers. All six of them (Female on Male, Female on Female, Male on Male, Divine on Mortal, If you liked it and Sci-Fi) were renamed and cleaned, with the original trope pages outright purged.

Pages that were made to bypass an Example Sectionectomy

Sometimes when examples on a page become problematic the examples will be deleted. See Example Sectionectomy for more on that. When we delete the examples from a page, we don't want them back.

• YMMV.Award Snub: The main page of Award Snub no longer allows examples, as many of them degenerated to complaining about shows that won and Take Thats to shows that lost. A troper attempted to move them here, which wasn't a good idea and isn't what YMMV is used for.
• YMMV.Eight Point Eight
• YMMV.Stop Having Fun Guys

Unlisted cut pages

These groups of pages are too large to be listed individually, but general reasons are given for their lock and deletion:

• Pages cut under The Content Policy: Pages for works that violate the policy will be cut and locked and are listed on the policy page.
• Headscratchers about tropes: The Trope Talk forum exists for discussing tropes. Relevant material can also be moved to the Analysis/ tab.
• YMMV pages about Real Life people: YMMV subpages about Real Life people, while not forbidden from creation by default, tend to become about the people themselves, which is beyond the scope of this wiki. If a person's YMMV subpage is redlinked and locked, it's for this reason. YMMV pages for creators and musicians can only be about their works, not themselves.

Real Life subpages for items that don't allow Real Life examples

If a page that forbids Real Life examples is split and has its examples put into sub-pages, the ban on Real Life examples will extend to the existence of Real Life subpages. If they appear, they will be cut-and-locked immediately.

• BeyondTheImpossible.Real Life: Not only is it impossible by its very nature, it attracted gushing.
• TheDragon.Real Life: Calling Real Life people villains is really not a good idea.
• EldritchAbomination.Real Life: Most of the given examples were highly exaggerated descriptions of normal stuff.
• FurryConfusion.Real Life: Real Life does not have Funny Animals, and a monkey is not a less anthropomorphic version of a human.
• HoYay.Real Life and HoYay.History: Were filled with Natter, This Troper and bad examples.
• HumiliationConga.Real Life: Requires that the recepient be an Asshole Victim, a trope that also forbids real life examples as a morality trope.
• InsistentTerminology.Real Life: Attracted nitpitcking at best and inflammatory political examples at worst.
• KarmaHoudini.Real Life: Calling real people villains is not a good idea.
• MindRape.Other: The page was used to circumvent Mind Rape's No Real Life Examples, Please! policy.
• Monster.Real Life and CompleteMonster.Real Life: Calling Real Life people monsters simply isn't a good idea, and all the examples given were simply to complain about people the authors didn't like.
• Narm.Real Life and Narm.News: It is impossible to list Real Life examples of Narm in good taste.
• NightmareFuel.Real Life: Far too many things are scary in Real Life; listing these examples would be meaningless.
• OurVampiresAreDifferent.Real Life: Vampires do not exist in real life, and the page was made overwhelmingly of shoehorned examples.
• ParanoiaFuel.Other: Caused edit warring and soapboxing over real life matters.
• PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny.Real Life: Most examples were misuse, along with some being potentially inflammatory.
• RoleEndingMisdemeanor.Politics: The page discussed real life politicians in ways that violated the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment, to say nothing of the misuse (many examples either were not misdemeanors or didn't establish a connection between the misdemeanor and them being voted out) and the fact that it's off-mission for TV Tropes.
• TearJerker.Real Life
• TheyChangedItNowItSucks.Real Life: Many changes in Real Life could be perceived as unfavorable, but TV Tropes is not the place to complain about such changes.
• TheyChangedItNowItSucks.Websites And Software Designs: Not only was there complaining, some examples felt like they were placed to get around the ban on Real Life examples.
• Tsundere.Real Life: Most Real Life Jerkasses would fall somewhere on the Tsundere spectrum, making listing them pointless.
• WhamEpisode.Real Life: Real Life is not (to the best of our knowledge) pre-scripted.

Potshot redirects

Before creating a redirect to a page in the Main/ namespace became a mod-only task, sometimes people made redirects that were nothing but Take Thats, and recreating these redirects is off the table.

• Edward Oedipus Gayfish Cullen: Created as a redirect to Twilight, it was literally nothing but a Take That!
• Fox Cancels Everything: Redirected to The Firefly Effect. Made worse by the fact that it encouraged the common misuse of the trope to complain about shows you like being Screwed by the Network.
• Nuking The Fridge and Nuke The Fridge: When not redirected to Jumping the Shark or Ruined FOREVER, it served as stealth complaining about the fourth Indiana Jones film or was ill-defined.

So Bad It's Horrible subpages which were just that

While this is one of the few areas on the wiki where outright derision of a work is permitted, there are certain standards that are expected, and limits as to how much edit warring and bickering will be tolerated before it's decided that a subsection just isn't worth keeping around.

• Horrible.Cars: Redundant to the Real Life section of The Alleged Car. Few examples even qualified.
• Horrible.Fanfic: Besides having enough NSFW content to make an HBO executive turn bright red (many entries were of Rule 34), more than a few examples smacked of thinly-veiled, backhanded recommendations of the stories and/or Complaining About Shows You Don't Like.
  • Horrible.Fanfic Authors: Created to split Horrible.Fan Fic, it contained what was then the "repeat-offender" section. Caused an index-wide Edit War for being suspect of complaining.
• Horrible.The King Of Hate: Eventually became bloated to the point where literally every Let's Play series he ever made was listed. The final straw was when examples surrounding the creator's personal life began to appear, resulting in the page being cut.
• Horrible.Software: Redundant, given Idiot Programming. Few examples even qualified.
• Horrible.Sports: It felt more like Complaining About Sports Things You Don't Like. It also had moments of This Troper and Conversation in the Main Page.
• Horrible.Voice Acting: Did not have the proper criteria that the other pages have, causing it to look like a soapbox for Complaining About Voice Acting You Don't Like. The entries were also overly overwhelming in number and better fit elsewhere.
• Horrible.Web Original: Suffered a ridiculous amount of edit-warring, even compared to the other SBIH pages. The last straw came when certain people started using the page as a method of flaming each other, resulting in the page being deleted, and the users in question being banned from the site. The later page Horrible.Web Video was cut and locked to prevent a reoccurrence.

Problematic Image Links

• ImageLinks.Absolute Cleavage: Too NSFW; the main page has a note saying not to add links to images due to the trope's nature, and this page was being used to circumvent that before it was cut and locked. Some time after the trope got renamed, ImageLinks.Navel Deep Neckline (the new name for the trope) also has been locked.
• ImageLinks.Bound And Gagged: Was edging on NSFW territory, and was host to loads of arguments about which image to add to the main page.
• ImageLinks.Butt Sticker: Was attracting fetishistic examples.
• ImageLinks.Good People Have Good Sex: Staff decision based on the presence of borderline NSFW images and concerns that more might be added.
• ImageLinks.Kim Kardashian: Most of the images were of her looking "sexy", many of which were NSFW. There was really no reason to have the page on the wiki.
• ImageLinks.Lolicon: Dubious legality, issues with advertisers, and attracted too much negative attention on other sites.
• ImageLinks.National Geographic Nudity: A trope concerning nudity would inherently make an Image Links page NSFW. In addition, it was recreated after being cut.
• ImageLinks.Snuff Film: Per staff request, as most images would be too graphic for the wiki.

Former locations of locked pages

• Administrivia.The Google Incident and Administrivia.The Second Google Incident: Moved to Archive.The Google Incident and Archive.The Second Google Incident because the pages exist for historical purposes and aren't meant to be edited.
• Main.All Blue Entry
• Main.CN Real: Was originally about the programming block, but became a major complaint magnet for those who disapproved of Cartoon Network’s Network Decay. The complaining was so severe, even after the block ended, that it was cut and blacklisted from the wiki. It was much later recreated at Creator.CN Real, long after CN had abandoned live action series.
• Main.Fast Eddie: Locked before the move of all troper pages to the "Tropers/" namespace, for the same reason as Tropers.Fast Eddie. Was recreated afterward by a troll simply to bash Fast Eddie.
• Main.Crowning Moment Of Funny and Heartwarming: Moved to Sugar Wiki.Funny and SugarWiki.Heartwarming Moments, respectively. Only locked at all because the trope pages themselves were locked before the rename.
• Main.Microsoft: Computer Wars debaters simply couldn't resist the temptation to use the page to troll and rant about the company. We kept the pages for Microsoft Studios, Microsoft Windows, and their Xbox series of video game consoles after that, though their parent company's page was later recreated as an index at Creator.Microsoft, to make it easier to keep track of their products and subsidiaries.
• X Just X: The former name for Zero-Context Example. Despite strong warnings on the page against its use as a Pot Hole, contributors continued to use it.

Persistent initialisms

We prefer people not to use initialisms and acronyms as redirects to a page, considering that they're often confusing for non-fans and can have multiple referents. Note that some of these are accidental; initialisms with numbers or lowercase letters count as Wiki Words.^note While new Main/ pages now have to go through TLP or be made by a mod, the rule still stands for other namespaces.

• Ao St H: Initialism to Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
• ATHF: Initialism to Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
• AVGN: Initialism redirect to Angry Video Game Nerd.
• CMOA: Initialism redirect to Crowning Moment Of Awesome. Locked due to the rename to Moment of Awesome.
• DS 9 and TNG: Initialism redirects to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation, respectively.
• Fi M and MLP Fi M: Initialism redirects to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
• IWBTG: Initialism redirect to I Wanna Be the Guy.
• LCD: Initialism redirect to Lowest Common Denominator. Confusing, as it more commonly stands for Liquid Crystal Display.
• ME 1, ME 2, and ME 3: Redirects to Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3, respectively.
• MMO: Initialism redirect to Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
• MMORP Gs: Plural initialism of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. Please use {{MMORPG}}s if you want a link or [=MMORPGs=] if you don't.
• MW 3: Initialism redirect to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
• NP Cs: Plural initialism redirect to Non-Player Character, used more accidentally than anything else. Please use [=NPCs=] or {{NPC}}s.
• Oot S: Initialism redirect to The Order of the Stick.
• PS 1: Acronym redirect to PlayStation.
• RP Gs: Plural initialism redirect to Role-Playing Game, used more accidentally than anything else. Please use [=RPGs=] or {{RPG}}s.
• SA 2: Initialism redirect to Sonic Adventure 2.
• Sat AM: Abbreviation of Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), a longer colloquial name that more people will understand.
• TF 2: Constantly redirected to Team Fortress 2, and was commonly used for the second film in the Transformers Film Series, Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen.
• UT 2003, UT 2004: Initialism redirects to Unreal Tournament 2004.
• WH 40 K: Initialism redirect to Warhammer 40,000.
• YGOTAS: Initialism redirect to Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series.

Other/Unsorted

• Awesome.Four Chan, Funny.Four Chan, and Heartwarming.Four Chan: Not a tropable work on its own, plus we are not interested in troping real life users.
• Awesome.YouTube, Funny.YouTube, and Fridge.YouTube: All three were cut when users started using them to trope real life YouTubers instead of the videos they appeared in. In addition, after the site's YMMV page was cut as a result of No Real Life Examples, Please! violations, people began complaining about the decision on the Fridge page, which made its already poor quality even worse.
• Character Named Tropes: Was intended to help in renaming efforts, but was never used to help renames, just supported the idea.
• Characters.Everythings Sparkly With Jewelry: Keeps attracting spam for some reason.
• Characters.Work Pages Are A Free Launch: Cut and locked for being a misplaced work subpage.
• Darth Vader The Eldritch Abomination: A Same But More Specific variant of Ron the Death Eater that applied to villains, wherein they were made worse than they were in canon.
• Characters.How To Create A Work Page: Cut and locked for being a misplaced work subpage.
• Depression Fuel: You may be looking for Tear Jerker.
• GAR: Once a redirect to Badass, it was created as a page that describes Memetic Badass through Perverse Sexual Lust. Cut for being a redundant meme.
• It Looks Like This: Created as an example of a redlink for the Red Link page. Allowing it to be blueshifted would kind of defeat its purpose.
• Media Watchdogs: Plural redirect to Media Watchdog.
• Relationship Text Upgrade: Now known as Relationship Reveal.
• Synopsis.How To Create A Work Page: Cut and locked for being a misplaced work subpage.
• Synopsis.Work Pages Are A Free Launch: Cut and locked for being a misplaced work subpage.
• Title Bin: Made originally as a place where tropers would suggest names for new tropes. It was quickly filled to the brim with in-jokes, killing its purpose. The abuse was channeled into DarthWiki.Tropes That Will Never Happen.
• UsefulNotes.Suicide Prevention: Cut and locked because TV Tropes is not qualified to give medical advice, and attempting to do so could potentially cause legal issues.
• Moments subpages for Twitter: While the Awesome page was cut for political soapboxing, the others were axed later as Twitter is not a tropable work and it's also troping real life.
• YMMV.Advertising: Contained complaining for What an Idiot!, plus it's an illegitimate page (work mediums should not have YMMV pages).

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