Fixing zero context examples

I was also thinking Wacky Guy needs TRS. Replying to Spark9, my opinion is that if a thread has multiple other tropers calling for a trope to go to TRS, the thread should be opened immediately, backlog or not.

Should we comment out the examples on Fictional Currency that are literally just "[Work] uses [currency name]" and nothing else? Just don't want to jump the gun here.

Edited by CustardAndPie on Jan 21st 2020 at 2:02:25 PM

Yes.

Whelp, tackled it. First time I've ever had to comment out an entire folder (The whole thing was literally just 1 entry that was a ZCE, but still), but I hope I didn't miss any.

I've been listening to a lot of David Bowie's music lately, so I decided to comb through his article, which has several ZCEs.

I'm going through the list in alphabetical order; so far I've gone through examples from A to M, but I might have missed some, since it's past 3 AM and I have a cold.

Edit: Got N through S. I added a commented-out notice to the top of the page a bit ago.

Edit: Done with the page, barring anything I might have missed.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 22nd 2020 at 3:59:33 AM

Anyone here familiar with As You Wish, Prince? Not only the main work page, but also the Chatacters and YMMV pages need help.

Ewwwww, Kirby: Right Back at Ya! has a whole bunch of ZC Es on its page.

I think part of the problem is that the series isn't easily available to watch anywhere, so there isn't a bunch of motivation to fix it. Regardless, I might have to watch the series again sometime...

The Nightmare People. Just... The Nightmare People. Even some of the examples that attempt to provide context fail to do so.

I'm going to try my hand at this one. If anyone familiar with the book wants to take care of the failed attempts at context, be my guest.

ETA: Got most of it, but I feel a little iffy on commenting out things like the context given for The Hunter Becomes the Hunted. Might have to sit on this one for a while.

Edited by CustardAndPie on Jan 22nd 2020 at 8:56:40 AM

I took another pass through the page; a lot of the ones still left had "context" along the lines of "[character] is this" or "happens after [unrelated thing]," which is not actually context.

Rule of thumb, if you deleted the trope name before the colon, could you guess what trope the example text was for? If not, it's probably a ZCE.

Coolio, I just try not to go overboard whenever I edit a page.

Re: Wacky Guy

TRS thread has opened!

Manga.The Cherry Project is the land of "character-name" and "trope-name" ZCEs. Don't have time right now to comment it all out- anyone else willing?

Done. Good God that page is a travesty.

Good work! I'd say some of the examples you spared are still ZCEs, so I went and cleaned those out.

Thanks! Again, I try not to go overboard so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some I managed to miss.

Yeah, sometimes I'm a little strict, though my rule of thumb is that if I, as someone who doesn't know the work, can't properly understand how the trope manifests in the work, it's not enough context.

ComicStrip.Marmaduke may need a look. Had to add context to an entry so it can stick around. Otherwise, it'd be prime for the chopping block.

Adding Black Bead Eyes to the pile of art-style tropes with a lot of ZCEs. Planning to clean it up tonight, if nobody else feels like doing it first.

I feel like mentioning that a moderator said that Black Bead Eyes (and Hair Decorations) are both People Sit on Chairs here, so I don't know if that should impact ZCE cleanup.

Superandom has loads of Weblinks Are Not Examples-flavored ZC Es.

ArchEnemy/ComicBooks is filled with Zero Context Examples. The overwhelming majority of entries just list two characters and leave it at that, without explaining why a character qualifies as another's Arch-Enemy.

Being an old article, Jade Empire is filled with zero context examples. I will hide the examples I can, which is a shame as this game is one of my favorites.

Edited by Tomodachi on Jan 26th 2020 at 9:21:20 AM

Just commented out a bunch of Zero Context Examples in The Sneaky Guy. I probably left a few, either missing them from sheer numbers of obvious examples or being more generous than I probably should be.

Had some free time, so I trawled at random and cleaned up:

• Claudine
• The Passionate Friends
• Saint Seiya: Episode.G
• Reidaro

Dorkly Originals has a chunk of no context examples. I'd go through them myself, but the page is so long my tablet would take ages to actually mark out everything.