Brought up in the Trope Repair Shop
, we need to take out the in-jokey Understatement references. People are using it to make any given example "witty" rather than actually using the trope.
It's is extremely excessive, by early calculations there is a 95% misuse rate in that regard. But don't worry, the actual number to fix seems to be less than 9,000 (about 8700).
{Note, as of 12:30 am September 19th, the tally is down to 4228; We've gotten over halfway.}
{Note 2: as of 8:37 pm September 29th, it's down to 2412}
{Note 3: as of 6:16 Am October 3, there are 1868 wicks remaining. If the original assessment of ~90% misuse turns out to be correct, there will be between 800 and 900 good wicks left when we're done.}
{Note 4: As of 2:50 pm, October 6th, there were 1079 wicks remaining.}
{Note 5: as of 8:58 am on October 10, there were 729 wicks remaining. The entire list had been scrubbed. 111 of that 729 are those that a software glitch counts even though the page it's supposedly on no longer exists.}
{Note 6: Fast Eddie has modified the wick counter so that it no longer counts the dead namespaces "JBM" or "Crowning *". This killed off 75 of the phantom wicks remaining, for a final tally of 655 good wicks remaining of 8700+ original wicks}
Cleared Punctuated titles starting with:
- Completed!!
Cleared unpunctuated titles starting with:
- A-Z!
edited 21st Oct '11 8:54:57 AM by Madrugada
Got the rest of the G's. Current count is 3393. H's start at HA HA HA—No.
H up to and including Hanamaru Kindergarten is clean. 3048 remain.
edited 22nd Sep '11 1:21:29 PM by desdendelle
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.Got some more of the H's. Next is Healing Factor. Current count is 2985.
Next up is Heavy Rain.
And a reminder for all of us: There can be more than one sinkhole to Understatement on a page. Try to remember to check the whole page.
I up to Iron Man is done, except Inheritance Cycle which is locked. 2655 Wicks remaining.
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.Remember, if the page is listed twice on "Related" then it has multiple links.
Anyway, I think desperate times call for desperate measures: I propose locking the Understatement page and making it appear as a redlink, similar to what we did with This Troper.
2025: the year it all ends?![]()
IIRC, that was discussed and decided against in the TRS Thread. I believe that main arguments against it were that it is a legitimate trope (unlike This Troper), and that people wanted to give the clean-up a chance before taking such drastic action.
Also, I don't there would be any point to locking the page. The misuse isn't on the page itself.
^^ It won't be too late to join in until we're done.
The very first post in the thread has a list of what's been done. Pick one that hasn't been and dive in. As you finish a letter, section (or a part of a letter) post here to say so and how far you've gotten and I'll add it to the list in that post.
edited 1st Oct '11 5:25:23 PM by Madrugada

Just finished Garrys Mod; Gas Mask Mooks is next. Count is as 3681 - seems to me that we're gaining speed.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.