Mission
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
I didn't know there was such a list. Sounds like a similar issue to what we often get in the Appearance Tropes.
With Sai Guy, I did try to keep any examples that noted anything significant beyond "character has sais". Whether it's their trademark weapon across multiple versions of a series (Elektra, Raphael, Mileena) or had something particular about them (weapon made if a particular material [Supergirl] or specific to certain game class or mechanics).
Edited by sgamer82 on May 13th 2020 at 11:27:26 AM
The trademark weapon reason is covered by Weapon Of Choice, which I think Sai Guy is a sub-trope of so that is probably the intention of the trope.
I have posted a small proposal as to what to do with Sai Guy and some other weapon tropes in the Weapons Clean-Up thread
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Edited by SebastianGray on May 13th 2020 at 7:32:33 PM
Bands on the Run has only two examples that aren't ZCE's, and none of the YMMV reactions have enough context.
YMMV.Clare Mc Nally is just two ZCEs. Commenting them out would leave the page blank, so should I just Cut List it?
Yes. (Purple Prose isn't even YMMV...)
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.There's this edit on Hot Witch:
- The Owl House- With her thick, gray mane,Eda is a rare combination of this and Witch Classic. Same goes for her evil, yet younger-looking sister.
It's a classic case of ZCE with wrong example indentation (two examples squeezed in one) in my book. I commented it out and sent the troper notifiers, but she (I assume the troper's a she) undid my edit. I tried sending another note, but haven't hear back yet and she hasn't been editing since.
Can someone please edit the page and comment it out again? I think technically my another reverse wouldn't be considered edit-warring on my part because it would be an edit aiming to fix the page and implement our policies, but still it would look better if someone else did it.
I'm not sure, but I think asking someone to do that specific edit on your behalf still counts as edit warring. I don't want to be suspended, and I don't want to see you suspended either. According to this wiki's rule, the other troper started the edit war when (s)he(?) undid your edit, but continuing would get all participants suspended. I would advise taking this specific issue to Ask The Tropers, and if that doesn't work, private-message a moderator and ask them to talk to the other party.
Edited by Miss_Desperado on May 15th 2020 at 8:05:48 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.Actually, it's not technically an edit war if one troper is just making objective policy fixes. In this case, hiding ZCEs counts more as just cleaning up than partaking in an edit war.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallTrue, but in this case...
There's no wiggle room. It's just objectively a ZCE.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallSo just noting that a character has Blush Stickers enough context for that trope or do expect more for visual effect tropes?
Edited by MacronNotes on May 16th 2020 at 4:12:07 AM
Macron's notesI have no idea what to do about Virtually Reality.
EDIT: For context, every single example just states the trope and nothing else. It’s jarring, even compared to other ZCE-infested pages.
Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on May 17th 2020 at 10:16:39 AM
Sigh...
Months ago I posted on ATT about a troper named Ryan911 who created a page for Literature.Darkness Falls. I cleaned it up and PM'd them about what the issues were. They reverted my work. I reported them, someone else reverted it back so I wouldn't be edit warring.
I just learned they went back afterwards and reverted it all again.
Edited by WarJay77 on May 18th 2020 at 4:50:16 AM
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallOver half the examples on Splintered Series are Zero-Context Examples.
The examples on Ghostopolis are almost entirely ZCEs. The subpages are bad as well.
Edited by jandn2014 on May 18th 2020 at 1:37:53 PM
Does the context from the first bullet excuse the lacking context for the subullets? On Recurring Fanon Character:
- Very common in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. A lot of these originate from the Ask a Pony blogs or from fan videos, or just from recurring use from talented artists or significant works within the fandom, but they prove popular enough that everyone starts using them. The problem is that there's just so many of them that a comprehensive list would be impossible, but notable ones include (but are not limited to):
- Button Mash's mother Cream Heart from Button's Adventures is so popular and recognized among the fanbase that she's used as the tag icon for "original character
" on Derpibooru.
- Littlepip from Fallout: Equestria.
- Flufflepuff from Ask Fluffle Puff.
- Apogee and her family from "Delta Vee's Junkyard".
- Button Mash's mother Cream Heart from Button's Adventures is so popular and recognized among the fanbase that she's used as the tag icon for "original character
Almost every example on Past In The Rear View Mirror is just "this happens" or similar.
Edited by WarJay77 on May 22nd 2020 at 12:17:21 PM
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
I think the wiki's Early-Installment Weirdness is the reason for that page's ZCE issue.
I got a rock for Halloween.I hate to bring this to your attention (locked pages are a pain in the ass), but The 120 Days of Sodom has a ZCE problem.
As does Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
Haven't consumed the works, don't plan on it, so could someone please help me?
Edited by SkyCat32 on May 24th 2020 at 2:13:00 PM

Here's the note on Sai Guy in Tropes Needing TRS.
"Based on the laconic, it seems to think that using sais as weapons is trope-worthy. To its credit, it points out how much artistic license is used in Sai-Wielding, but presumably there is a trope which covers artistic license as it applies to melée combat."
That's what makes it so hard to add context to that trope.
Edited by SkyCat32 on May 13th 2020 at 11:40:23 AM