Trope Description Improvement Drive

Agreed. If you don't know what the term means, introducing it before explaining the actual trope is just going to be confusing.

Stars Are Souls reads like a laconic. Can someone expand it a bit, please?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Chilly Reception has four paragraph of Example As Thesis. I'm think of replacing the whole description with the three middle paragrahs of it's ykttw

It's probably minimally better

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Ramming Always Works seems to be a bit too analytic

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Can we drop the color text in Good Colors, Evil Colors? White just washes out, although others have problems.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

IMO "white" should make the characters white-colored but with black borders.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Remove the colours. Fast Eddie has repeatedly stated not to colour the text like that—people know which colour is which.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer

So why not just disable them? Or are there specific kinds of articles where we can use colors in?

That too.

I meant other than such pages.

edited 17th Jul '12 5:49:27 PM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Should there not be some official notice of this policy other than "Eddie said this in a few places somewhere at some point"?

Your troper page, for one.

edited 17th Jul '12 5:48:09 PM by DarkConfidant

Colours were once disabled in the past due to abuse, they just came back because they were popular.

You don't need an official policy for everything. An entry saying Red once is one thing. Having an entire page telling you which colour is which is tacky.

edited 18th Jul '12 7:34:40 AM by lu127

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer

I'm going to disagree that it's tacky to sparingly use colored text when invoking Color-Coded for Your Convenience and its subtropes, but my opinion doesn't really play into this.

If the policy is not to use it at all here, then it would be appreciated to state as much instead of relying on value judgements not universally shared here.

edited 18th Jul '12 7:41:28 AM by DarkConfidant

The description on Moving the Goalposts is egregiously long. Who wrote that?! I suggest to shorten it.

Fuhrmann, es kostet dir noch dein Leben

DC, there is no policy to not use colors at all. We expect people to use their common sense about it. We are not going to start writing policies for every little thing. If using colors makes the page difficult to read, don't use them. If the only reason you want to use colors is because you think it's cool, but they don't actually make the page better, don't use them.

It's simple, really. Think.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

In that case, anyone else think we should put the colors back? I hate the colored text when it's in the middle of a paragraph, but I think it looks okay when it's all in a single column like that.

I made it 3 paragraphs shorter. It's still huge though.

Can anyone come up with a better opening for Warrior Therapist because

"Implausible Fencing Powers meets Hannibal Lecture."

doesn't make any sense.

School of Seduction needs a better description

So, Web Video's description seems over-analyzed, and most of the analysis in question sounds complainy. I say we should cut out the complaints and move the bulk of the description that's left onto the analysis page.

Massive Race Selection was written by some well-meaning ignoramus who doesn't know jack about the medium that uses this medium-specific trope. Namely, me. We split it off of Loads and Loads of Races in TRS, and no gamer stepped up to write it, so I did... sorta.

I'm still looking for a well-versed computer-and-tabletop gamer who can help polish this description into what it deserves. Apparently this is a trope not only of RPG s, but also "strategy games" and maybe some other types.

edited 25th Jul '12 11:02:13 AM by ArcadesSabboth

Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.

I tried to flesh out Stars Are Souls a little.

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.

Justifying Edit seems to be three pages stuffed into one. Personally, I believe the first paragraph can stay, but the rest needs trimming.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Not sure if this was brought up, but Teleport Cloak is a stub.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

Humanity's Wake is rather incomprehensible.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Ditto for Aren't You Forgetting Someone?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Humanity's Wake is one of those Self Demonstrating Articles for a trope that doesn't actually require one. I'd prefer for it to just get a description.

edited 5th Aug '12 5:39:42 AM by DoktorvonEurotrash