Lost in Space
You are right that the index pages aren't supposed to contain extra details about the work in question. Redlinking titles is also the appropriate action to take when the lack of a wick causes the index parser to treat trope wicks as part of the index.
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Some people seem to disagree that redlinking is appropriate. In fact, on one index, Urban Fantasy, not only was all descriptive material eliminated, but the person who did that decided on "deletion of every single red link" as well. I think this is incredibly unfair.
I actually really like descriptive information on indexes, especially genre ones. Yes, it's an index, but the descriptive material lets you know how the work treats the genre rather than having to have two separate pages, one for the index of the genre and one for the trope of the genre.
Turning Indexes into X Just X isn't helpful to anyone. Indexes are Tropes. They're just tropes that happen to index as well.
edited 14th Jul '11 6:58:22 PM by shimaspawn
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I've been going through and linking the titles on this index (since leaving them un-wikiworded causes whatever the first trope in the sentence is to be listed as a dating sim on the index bars).
Are indexes even supposed to have any of this sentence-y commentary on them? (stuff like, "(Only such game on the Nintendo64)" or "(Fan-translated in 200X)" are things that I'm pretty sure are supposed to go, and be left for the game page itself. I'm less sure about things that may be relevent, such as noting that the Persona games have elements of this genre, but are primarily roleplaying games).
Essentially, my general question is "At what point does information become irrelevant to the purpose of a genre-index page?"
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