The page appears to be applying tropes to an artist (I suppose) rather than their art. Surely that isn't what we're supposed to be doing? I think it might need cutting.
If "old school" Sherlock Holmes fans are those brought up on the Granada series, they must be about my age. Hearing I'm old enough to be "old school" anything is...distressing. I'll be off to collect my pension...
"Well, it's a lifestyle"I can't tell what this page is about. Is it for a real person involved in fiction? Or is it about a fictional person? (I'm sorry, I don't know what a metafic is.) And is this actual negativity or is it a bunch of in-jokes?
If it's a fictional person I'm fairly sure it wouldn't qualify for a character page.
If it's a real person, and if all this stuff is meant seriously (something which is impossible to tell) it looks completely out of line. I personally think that claims of negativity can be overblown, but this one isn't overblown; we have no place for attacks on someone's personal life. Describing someone as a douchebag and claiming he's Ambiguously Gay should stay off of TV Tropes.
This makes my head hurt worse than the original unedited version of SCP Foundation did.
edited 3rd Jun '11 2:49:59 PM by Shale
Er. This page was made as part of a rather epic metafic, or a fanfic written as if it were happening in real life. It's for the new BBC version of Sherlock, and as part of the story (which includes several sockpuppet LJ accounts, pages and pages of story written in LJ's format so that it looks as if it could have happened) a tvtropes page was created.
Er. This page was made as part of a rather epic metafic, or a fanfic written as if it were happening in real life. It's for the new BBC version of Sherlock,
Tvtropes has pages about fanfics, but tvtropes isn't for posting fanfics. If this page is part of a fanfic it's hard to see how we should have it at all, unless we decide to make it Just for Fun or something similar that doesn't look like it's an ordinary page.
Yeah, I tend to agree. There are other places for that sort of thing — like, every other part of the Internet.
Seriously, it can be really hard to find straight answers about stuff like this. To the extent we talk about these meta-thingies here (and they are valid and interesting sources of tropes), TV Tropes should be clear on the "reality" of them, not "playing along with the gag."
Jet-a-Reeno!
Yes. This is why I used to hate the old Memetic Mutation page so much - insane amount of memes, no explanation whatsoever for most of them. Inside jokes are only funny if you're on the "inside".
I say cut it.
Cut with extreme prejudice. If they want a page on TV Tropes, they should make it clear that they're talking about a fictional work, just like with the various Slenderman Mythos blog-stories.
edited 5th Jun '11 6:27:52 PM by Specialist290
If it's been involved in an off-site thingy, that means it'll share views with whatever else is using it.
But ultimately, TV Tropes is for documenting works of fiction, not for hosting them.
Making it into a redirect for a contributor page would be a good workaround.
edited 5th Jun '11 10:32:44 PM by troacctid
Other reference to to it here: FanficRecs.Sherlock
Said reference points to a livejournal which itself links to another person's livejournal here http://cons-detective.livejournal.com/
Seriously, I don't know.
Except it's not a contributor. And Tropers namespace stuff aint supposed to have main namespace redirects.
EDIT: Actually here:
Yup, someone's using us to host their works. Cut it and burn it. All the inbounds are because the fanfic links to us
edited 5th Jun '11 10:43:07 PM by Ghilz
I thought Consulting Detective was a page about...detectives who consult and was wondering why in the hell somebody had filled that page with negativity. This has impinged upon my tvtropes reading experience.
Actually: can I make a page on consulting detectives? The private detective, who, rather than working for private clients will actually help police solve particular odd crimes for them. Common in the "weird little man with a gimmick" detective series (Monk, Psych, the Mentalist, Lie To Me, Sherlock Holmes himself sometimes)
edited 6th Jun '11 6:39:01 AM by SomeSortOfTroper

Also, since when does liking Holmes stories since 2000 makes you an "old school" fan? The books are over 120 years old!