If Mary Sue isn't a trope anymore, shouldn't we purge the trope pages themselves of examples, so as not to confuse people?
Regulated fun - the best kind! I don't make the rules, just enforce them with an iron fist.Okay, now I'm confused. What are they supposed to be - YMMV or Fan-speak? As far as I can tell from the banners Fan-speak example don't get moved to YMMV, they get zapped. Also my question above was not about work pages, but the subtrope pages with examples like Purity Sue, God-Mode Sue, Mary Tzu, etc.
Regulated fun - the best kind! I don't make the rules, just enforce them with an iron fist.Not sure where you got that idea about Fan Speak being zapped. If you eliminated fanspeak from troper's vocabulary, most of us would be struck mute.
Maybe the idea came from there being cases where we remove examples from the page that defines the fanspeak term...
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Oh! Yeah, an entry like...
- Mary Sue: Jenny fanspoke the framistat in Episode 12 of Ichiban No Tempura, because she is just that pretty.
.. would be a YMMV example, at best. It would be pulled out of the main article as natter-bait. So 'zapped' could mean "removed from Main" pretty easily.
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyAre we even looking at the same thing here? Because the banner I'm seeing on every Mary Sue page clearly says "Please don't list this on a work's page as a trope. It just defines a fan-speak term. No examples, please." This is often on pages with dozens of folders with example from both canon and fanworks. It mentions nothing about YMMV at all. Furthermore, if you're just supposed to move the examples to YMMV pages, what is the point of having a separate fan-speak banner anyway.
Sorry if I'm sounding a little on edge here, but this is my third time asking this and no one seems to understand what I'm talking about.
edited 15th Dec '10 11:01:10 AM by Killomatic
Regulated fun - the best kind! I don't make the rules, just enforce them with an iron fist.Thank you. I don't want to press my luck, but as long as we're on the subject of modifying banners, can you add that you're not supposed to move in-story examples, obvious extreme parodies or stuff confirmed by Word of God to the YMMV, because lots of people are unaware of that.
edited 15th Dec '10 3:18:50 PM by Killomatic
Regulated fun - the best kind! I don't make the rules, just enforce them with an iron fist.

I noticed that the wiki has finally gotten fed up with disputing whether a character is a Mary Sue and has blocked any examples of Mary Sue Tropes. All well and good *, but it's leading to the template landing on such pages as Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue", Superior Species or Mary-Sue Hunter, which are tropes rather than fanspeak.
How would we go about chopping the index so that the template doesn't land on the "related concepts?"
edited 30th Nov '10 8:04:30 PM by Ramidel