Wick Check Project / Sandbox

Sandbox for the Wick Check Project thread. Categories are split between "Tropes that need Wick Checks", "Current Projects", "Completed Projects that may need further review", and "Completed Projects awaiting TRS". Tropes with completed wick checks can be removed once a TRS thread is started or once a major project thread decides to tackle the issue. If you want to learn how to conduct a wick check, see How to Do a Wick Check. If you want tropes to do wick checks for, check out Tropes Needing TRS, Color Tropes Cleanup, and Appearance Tropes Cleanup.

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Tropes Needing Wick Checks

8.8: Possible complaining and misuse issues. 50 wicks need to be checked.
Adaptation Personality Change: Misuse of Adaptational Heroism and Adaptational Nice Guy.
Animation Age Ghetto (needs 50)
Apocalypse How: Issues with Type Labels Are Not Examples because the trope's subpages were never updated to reflect the deprecation of the class labeling system, leading to continued usage of type labels as the only form of context in examples. Needs 71 wicks checked.
Arc Number
Arc Words: Check 85 wicks.
Bee People
The Bus Came Back: Description says characters have to be explicitly written out of a story first, but the trope is often used for characters who were subject to Chuck Cunningham Syndrome but later returned, also often with no explanation.
Camera Screw: Trope consists of complaining about bad camera systems. Check for complain-y writing in examples. 50 wicks need checking.
Cartoon Conductor
Censored for Comedy: Check for misuse.
Dance of Romance: "When adding examples, keep in mind that this trope is about the dance being the first indication of romance between the dancers, not just a romantic dance between two people who are in love (or in denial)." Is it actually used that way?
The Dog Bites Back
Freudian Excuse: Check 111 wicks.
Guilty Pleasures: This is IUEO but there are wicks to YMMV/ pages, and there may be an issue of tropers using this as a verbal tic.
Hartman Hips: Suspected amount of misuse and Zero-context examples.
Hindsight tropes: Suspected massive amount of misuse. Will be a massive job, with Hilarious in Hindsight needing 130 wicks checked, Harsher in Hindsight needing 100, "Funny Aneurysm" Moment needing 65 (finished), and Heartwarming in Hindsight needing 50.
Hollywood California: May be literally misused for Hollywood the city.
Good Scars, Evil Scars
Humor Dissonance: Description has it as a subjective trope, but it's commonly used objectively.
Karmic Death: Check 82 wicks.
Lip Lock: Brought up in the complaining cleanup thread as a potential complaining magnet. 50 wicks need to be checked.
The Namesake: The definition involves a reveal. Does usage reflect this?
Nice Hat: This “trope” is just a list of hats Tropers like. Last time, Nice Hat was discussed on the Appearance thread a few years ago, we decided to create Signature Headgear for headwear that has some form of significance to the character (or their design) and/or the story, so Nice Hat has no ground to exist anymore as a trope.
Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement: The description is very unclear on whether the trope is about someone who kills someone else with an unusual item, or if it is supposed to be a stock phrase. If it is the former, it might be too similar to Improbable Weapon User.
One-Episode Wonder: Attracts some misuse for characters or other aspects that only appeared in one episode, as opposed to works that only lasted a single installment. We also want to free up the title for a TLP draft that's making the misuse into its own YMMV item.
Refrain from Assuming: Should probably be Audience Reaction.
Rock-Star Song: Check for ZCEs. 50 wicks need to be checked.
Role Reprise
Sesquipedalian Smith: Check for ZCE and any examples overlapping with Awesome Mc Coolname.
Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Constant disputes between tropers over whether this trope means "main protagonists die All for Nothing" (camp D) or "tragic All for Nothing endings" (camp E).
Tuckerization: Should probably be trivia.
The Unreveal: Needs to see how much usage is actually "something is never revealed," missing the "a reveal is set up" part of the trope.
What Could Have Been: Check for potential misuse of the trope.
What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Concerns about ZCEs, Weblink Examples, insults, and an excess of aversions (wherein the creators have admitted to actually being on drugs) which could be its own Trivia item. (The idea of a show being trippy and surreal could also be its own item, and we could kill two birds with one stone by also covering Widget Series misuse.)
Widget Series: Examples often fail to explain that the work comes off as unusual due to cultural differences.
You Keep Using That Word: Correct use is "character points out misuse of a word". Is misused as "the work/a character misuses a word".

Current projects

Absolute Cleavage (Sandbox 3/50)
And I Must Scream (Sandbox 41/111)
Audience-Alienating Premise (Sandbox 5/50)
Author Usurpation (Sandbox 14/50)
Clumsy Copyright Censorship (Sandbox 25/50)
Common Crossover (Sandbox 30/48)
Cowboy BeBop at His Computer (Sandbox 5/50)
Death by Sex (Sandbox 35/50)
Flagship Franchise (Sandbox 4/50)
Furries Are Easier to Draw (Sandbox 11/50)
Getting Crap Past the Radar (Sandbox 13/50)
Gut Punch (Sandbox 2/50)
History's Crime Wave (Sandbox 20/40)
Keep Circulating the Tapes (Sandbox 12/70)
Picnic Episode (Sandbox 60/74)
The Problem with Licensed Games (Sandbox 38/50)
Refuge in Audacity (Sandbox 1/90)
Snark Ball (Sandbox 25/61)
Stock Parody Jokes (Sandbox 0/50)
The Tetris Effect (Sandbox 0/50)
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot (Sandbox 11/69)
Your Worst Nightmare (Sandbox 1/50)

Completed projects that may need further review

Completed projects awaiting TRS or other Cleanup Projects

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