No. Don't use tropes the wrong way. If you want to use it as a joke, there's the trope set that CSI family spawned.
Fight smart, not fair.Sometimes you should sit on a post for a few minutes before clicking send. I can't shake the feeling that you saw the heading and didn't read anything that I wrote. It absolutely can't go on any of the subpages? How loose are the CMOF pages? Can I format it to fit on WMG? Even if you refreshed/freshed the exact second after I posted, less than 2 minutes isn't much time to read a paragraph, consider it, and respond.
And sorry, I have no idea what trope set you're talking about.
edited 2nd Jan '11 3:59:16 AM by Westrim
I rarely visit the forums to avoid the cynicism ooze.I read your post. Making a pun on the name is bad. If you want to make a joke, do it on the YMMV or Trivia page and put it under the pun.
And I was referring to Quip to Black.
edited 2nd Jan '11 4:23:33 AM by Deboss
Fight smart, not fair.There's no way the trope fits with that. If you want to make note of how the trope name gets to be a pun ot could be confused, for example, you could go to the series's Troper Tales page and invoke I Thought It Meant, which is the only thing IMHO that could fit the usage, and in the only place where it could be made fitting...
Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?...It's like I didn't ask twice, once generally ("would be okay to add; to the NCIS page, or one of the subpages") and once specifically ("It absolutely can't go on any of the subpages? How loose are the CMOF pages? Can I format it to fit on WMG?"), which page it would go on. Do you see why I'm skeptical that what I write is actually being read?
If either of you are responding to those inquiries, there's no indication of that in the way you responded, since you seem focus on scolding me as though I don't know this is usually bad formatting ("Making a pun on the name is bad. If you want to make a joke, do it on the X and Y", "No, what you're proposing to do will create confusion").
I wouldn't be asking the question in the header if I didn't already know it's bad formatting for a Main Page; I only included it when I first asked for the sake of generality, eg is this okay 'ever'. YMMV is to my knowledge has the same formatting as a main page. Using a Trivia page is a possibility.
I'm not sure what Quip to Black has to do with this, since it's a legitimate trope used in other media besides CSI. The entries are written humorously, but the formatting is still mostly good. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding
I rarely visit the forums to avoid the cynicism ooze.Your original post asks if it's ok to add it to the NCIS page (a main works page) "or one of the subpages". If you weren't interested in adding it to the main page, why is that the first page you mention adding it to? And how is it relevant to either WMG or CMOF?
The answer you got was "adding a completely unrelated trope simply for the sake of a pun on the name of one of the characters is not good form." It doesn't matter which page you add it on. It could work if there was some connection between the trope and the character, besides the pun on his name, but there isn't.
@ Madrugada: Like I said, I just mentioned it as part of 'can this happen, ever' for completeness's sake. I'm sorry that led to a wrong impression. The point was that this only works when associated with the NCIS articles; I don't think it would work in, say, a compendium of misused tropes leading to humor without leading into Don't Explain the Joke.Don't Explain the Jacques?
As to your answer, it would have helped it if you had more specifically addressed some of the ideas being thrown around. The blanket 'no' of it led to my concerns as stated. Since some pages styles are so loose I thought it might work as say, a WMG:
- In the Warhammer40k, Gibbs is known as Ludicrous Gibbs, for his famed ability to skirt the rules and blow his suspects apart. Some theologians suspect these tales may have been altered over the years.
Something like that. I'm not sure that Reverence's suggestion would work, since it may look pretty odd having a Troper Tales page attached to a work (has that been done?), and with a single entry that's just a pun.
I rarely visit the forums to avoid the cynicism ooze.I believe the correct way to do this is to stick "Not to be confused with Ludicrous Gibbs" in the description for Ludicrous Gibs.
edited 2nd Jan '11 4:03:28 PM by troacctid
Or, in this case, put "Not to be confused with Ludicrous Gibs" on Gibbs' NCIS character page. That particular show's character page is organized a bit oddly, in that it doesn't have introductory paragraphs for the character. Inserting the above sentence would be smoother if the character page organization was something like, e.g., WonderWoman.
Jet-a-Reeno!

Specifically, I was wondering if it would be okay to add;
to the NCIS page, or one of the subpages. Obviously not the trope, it's not something I've seen done before, but in context it's quite punny. There has to be somewhere it can go.
PS: If it is not evident, the head of the team on the show is named Gibbs.
I rarely visit the forums to avoid the cynicism ooze.