It's a spin-off from Schott's Original Miscellany, a collection of strange and interesting little factoids compiled by a writer and photographer named Ben Schott that became a runaway publishing success. Matter of fact, I'd say that he's got quite a troper-ish mentality, given his work and very particular sense of humour.
Yeah, modern information delivered in an archaic manner is sort of Schott's thing.
edited 8th Jan '11 11:27:45 AM by Iaculus
What's precedent ever done for us?We should totally note it on the Wikipedia page to prove that we have notability. Then we have an excuse to make the page longer.
Reaction Image RepositorySo here's a question:
If we're on wikipedia and we're notable enough for them and our page is fine, then we would be fine as a piece of information on other pages? For instance, the pages they have on tropes (e.g. their page on Big Bad) where they'll have a couple of example, it would be appropriate to have a point about tv tropes (what we call the trope, or in the external links or possible even to make a point (e.g. there is no reference for Big Bad deriving as a term from Buffy (omg, recursive parentheses))).
Well, as an external link. I don't think we're academically rigorous enough to work for citations.
edited 11th Jan '11 11:33:54 AM by Tzetze
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.Agree with Tzetze, it's not just "any old citation" it's about verifiability. Wikis generally aren't great for that, and they themselves are aware that they're in themselves treated as a questionable source. Thus they try and make their own sources as high quality as possible, and people will investigate and remove sources that don't come up to scratch.
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.I'm not talking about any old citation, I'm talking about the fact that if TV Tropes is notable then "TV Tropes calls this Missing White Woman Syndrome" should also be notable.
I don't think that's how they define notability. In fact, I don't think anything found on this site itself would make us notable on its own. Just information on us found elsewhere.
Infinite Tree: an experimental storyBasically, you have to have had someone reputable publish something about you to be considered "notable". It's the main reason why RE-TAKE never could get an article or be used as a reference for anything Eva-related...no one had ever written an article about it in a public media outlet that could be sourced, so it was considered non-notable.
edited 12th Jan '11 7:55:56 PM by Willbyr

Well, we've finally made it - TV Tropes has an entry in Schott's Almanac.
Yes, this has been added to the appropriate page.
What's precedent ever done for us?