Trope Description Improvement Drive

@Septimus: Testosterone Poisoning is the subject of a wider TRS with Rated M for Manly at the moment. Better wait until the results from that effort are finalized first; there seems to be some intention to do some definition/description overhaul, after all.

edited 10th Jun '12 1:03:44 PM by MarqFJA

That is exactly why I am making the request here. That paragraph there seems more like a deadweight.

Doubleposting. As it currently stands, Fetish Fuel is far more a historical note than an actual page. Would this be better?

Bumping to get opinions about

I don't get how it's become more of a "historical note".

More than half the page is trivia about the history of Fetish Fuel on TV Tropes. Suffice it to say that I don't expect most people going there to come mostly to read that trivia/meta stuff.

Well, here's a vote from me in favor of your suggestion.

I agree, no need to keep all that historical information.

I think the general point is a good one, but we probably need to have the historical information somewhere, if only to stem an incessant flow of tropers who haven't been here for a while asking questions like "Hey, where did all the Fetish Fuel stuff go?"

It's in the hottip.

Freudian Excuse could stand to lose a few paragraphs or at least brother to explain what the trope is first.

I think that swapping the 1st and 2nd paragraph and rewriting them accordingly would suffice.

Is it just me, or does Yo-Yo Plot Point focus way, way too much on the trope applying to Will They or Won't They??

Edit: On second thought, it has way, way too much of a description, period. Look at that thing.

edited 30th Jun '12 8:30:37 PM by nrjxll

Reincarnation could use a good rewrite.

In some places, it's written from an implicitly Japan-centric viewpoint, but there are a bunch of other problems too:

• "When it's used in a Western series, the greater religious aspects are often ignored." But the description doesn't actually say what the greater religious aspects are - no reference to the Eastern religion reincarnation concepts, etc.
• "Usually, just like an Identical Grandson, a reincarnated person looks exactly like their previous self...." Really? Is that true either in the religious/mystical interpretations, or in stories?
• The description doesn't even give a basic definition of "reincarnation," and indeed uses the term in the first sentence with the assumption that the reader knows what it means.

Tangential unrelated(?) question: Did we used to have a trope called Karmic Resurrection? If so, what happened to it? Was it renamed to Reincarnation? That might explain some of the oddities of the description.

I think Walking Swimsuit Scene could use a fair bit of help. The description is pretty bare… which is fitting, I guess, but not really good form.

Not sure if this has been brought up before, but the description on Blasphemous Boast makes it look like it's about a stock phrase. TRS decided it should be any time someone makes a boast comparing self or someone/thing else to a deity (which would make Bigger Than Jesus a Sub-Trope, not a compare trope), and the description needs to reflect that.

edited 6th Jul '12 12:51:15 PM by DragonQuestZ

Something needs to be done about the Real Life chit-chat in Jail Bait's description. And by "needs to be done" I mean that if I have to do it, I am just going to blow all that nonsense to hell and back.

Well, I'm not going to stop you.

Eh, I saved you the trouble and axed it myself.

Rule #786 of the Trope Repair Shop: If a Real Life example section is proving to be very problematic, just nuke the section.

^ Except the problem child was in the description, not the examples list.

Whoops. Shows me not to fast-read too fast.

How much of it can be put in an Analysis subpage?

Rather, it would go to Useful Notes - if we need one for ages of consent.

Now would it be okay for me to fix the Blasphemous Boast page?

The first paragraph of Ensemble Dark Horse would be better off at the bottom of the description.