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Comment out Zero Context Examples and leave this comment note on the page itself:

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.

Edited to be a thread header.

Edited by nombretomado on Mar 3rd 2019 at 6:12:58 AM

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#626: Aug 18th 2015 at 6:10:54 AM

Cutscene Boss seemed to have quite a bit of ZCEs, which I commented out just now.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#627: Aug 22nd 2015 at 6:28:42 PM

While cleaning out redirecting links after a trope was renamed, I ran into Characters.Head Trip, which is loaded with ZCEs. It really needs a bit of cleanup. Some of the listed characters have nothing BUT ZCEs listed for them.

edited 22nd Aug '15 6:28:56 PM by Berrenta

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Acebrock He/Him from So-Cal Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: My elf kissing days are over
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#629: Aug 26th 2015 at 9:52:27 PM

I would comment out the Zero Context Examples on Quirky Town, but I don't think a trope page with example numbers in the single digits is particularly helpful, especially when it has 153 links pointing to it, do you?

edited 26th Aug '15 9:52:36 PM by Acebrock

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#630: Aug 27th 2015 at 9:16:56 PM

The examples in Quirky Town is almost entirely made up of ZCE. I don't know most of the works listed there, though.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#631: Sep 3rd 2015 at 8:11:16 PM

Noticed quite a bit of ZCEs in The Caper, particularly under Film. I commented out as much as I could.

ChaoticNovelist Since: Jun, 2010
#632: Sep 16th 2015 at 8:00:30 AM

[up][up] I commented out Quirky Town and added context where I could.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#633: Sep 21st 2015 at 7:02:43 PM

During my skim through for miuses on the now-moved Not-So-Forgotten Birthday, I commented out several ZCE's.

captainpat Since: Sep, 2010
#634: Sep 25th 2015 at 1:38:48 PM

Currently working on Gainaxing and by the looks of things a lot of examples are going to have to be deleted or commented out. So if anyone wants to help flesh out some examples that would be greatly appreciated.

MissMokushiroku Ace Gamer from Atlanta, Georgia, USA Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
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#635: Sep 25th 2015 at 8:43:23 PM

Beauty Mark has a bunch of ZC Es...or at least it did until I commented them out. (Since there are so many sparce examples, I was very liberal with what could be considered "context". YMMV.) If anyone wants to go in and try to fill context, go for it.

_____________ Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#636: Sep 26th 2015 at 2:05:32 PM

The Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality has several entries that need to be fleshed out. Some are just titles, others just have a statement that does not properly explain why a work belongs in its category.

Acebrock He/Him from So-Cal Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: My elf kissing days are over
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#637: Oct 2nd 2015 at 1:56:26 AM

Straight Man and Wise Guy is full of ZC Es. I didn't comment them out for the usual reason (A nigh exampleless page is probably not a good idea for a major trope) but I did add it to the pages needing example context index at least.

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lexicon Since: May, 2012
#638: Oct 2nd 2015 at 10:44:25 AM

The one I'm familiar with has context. I found one that didn't even think it was an example. Some duo pages are a problem. I commented out most of the examples in Action Duo.

edited 2nd Oct '15 10:44:42 AM by lexicon

KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#640: Oct 22nd 2015 at 6:36:55 PM

Proper Tights with a Skirt has no examples with proper context.

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katethegr8 from Eastern USA Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#641: Oct 27th 2015 at 8:39:19 AM

When They Cry is 90% Zero Context Examples. Snark Bait also has a lot of no-context examples, including one example that used to have context.

edited 27th Oct '15 8:40:11 AM by katethegr8

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#642: Nov 5th 2015 at 8:07:54 AM

I apologize if this post seems redundant after an edit I made to Administrivia.Pages Needing Example Context, but Film.The Shaggy Dog, Trivia.The Shaggy Dog, and YMMV.The Shaggy Dog all have quite a few tropes with descriptions that either don't exist, or don't sound specific enough to people who've never seen/don't really remember the movie(s).

edited 5th Nov '15 8:08:21 AM by dsneybuf

lexicon Since: May, 2012
#643: Nov 5th 2015 at 1:10:08 PM

Four-Temperament Ensemble is almost nothing but ZC Es and there's pages of it.

TroPartner Since: Nov, 2014
#644: Nov 6th 2015 at 4:51:28 AM

Question: Is this forum the right place to ask if the tropes in a certain page are Zero Context Examples?

KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
FELH2 TV Tropes' very wikibot Since: May, 2012
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#646: Nov 23rd 2015 at 9:40:08 AM

Do we have an overview which pages have been cleaned of ZC Es and which are yet to be done? This might help.

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KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#647: Nov 29th 2015 at 10:29:04 AM

Easy fix, but I'm on my phone and not likely to have a computer available before I forget about it: Could someone please copy the Bill and Ted example from Retroactive Preparation over to Bill & Ted?

KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
JamesShields Since: Dec, 2013
#649: Dec 1st 2015 at 10:46:19 AM

Kana: Little Sister has a lot of trope entries that are either just the trope without any examples whatsoever or the classical [name] kind of Zero Context Example or the "invoked by " type.

edited 9th Dec '15 6:53:25 AM by JamesShields

hamza678 Red Like Santa from Christmas Beacon. Since: Apr, 2013
Red Like Santa
#650: Dec 1st 2015 at 12:36:55 PM

Straight Man and Wise Guy could use a little example context.

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