Repurpose so it's not a stock phrase.: This Is Wrong On So Many Levels

Yes, there is a possibility this could get cut outright, but I want to make sure there isn't a legitimate trope in here first.

The trope, aside from the phrase, seems to be something so wrong, that someone is at loss to really describe it properly, so uses some way to do it.

I know that's not much, but that's what this discussion is for.

How does it differ from Sick and Wrong again?

Well that trope was redefined after this launched. As it is right now, I think we can merge.

Anyone else have some input?

Agree with the sentiment that "something so disturbing that characters fail to describe it" is a trope, but perhaps we could have a crowner.

And I just remembered a lot of the examples aren't really about something "sick". There's a Family Guy example where Peter gives a sentences loaded with inaccuracies, and Lois is just at a loss to list them all.

I was thinking we could define it to something like 20% More Awesome. As in that's about making up percentages over numbers you can't track, while this could be about being unable to describe how something is wrong, so we just make up numbers or layers.

Might need a rename though.

I was under the impression that the point of this trope/phrase/whatever was that the thing that is wrong is wrong in multiple ways.

Though right now all it really is is "people say something is wrong in multiple ways". Which is better than most Stock Phrase pages, but still not trope-y enough, is it?

Yeah, that's why we're looking for another definition.

Too Wrong To Properly Describe?

Too Wrong To Succinctly Describe would perhaps be more letter accurate. As I'd interpret it, something being "wrong on so many levels" wouldn't so much suggest that something is so wrong that it's indescribably so but, rather, something so wrong that there are so many (mostly obvious) reasons to reach that conclusion that it isn't even worth taking the time to explain any of them.

This original namespace, though, I don't think it's really good for anything, unless there's a work by that name or something. Even if it doesn't quite strike anyone as an egregious "dialogue title", it's still a complete sentence that's so vague as to what "this" is that the namespace couldn't possibly accurately describe any objective occurrence that isn't a Stock Phrase*

edited 15th Mar '12 12:38:02 PM by SeanMurrayI

Making it about levels seems to make it needlessly narrow.

And what namespace?

What I meant was that there's no point in having a page with the name This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!, or, to put it another way, that the url link https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main.ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels should not be used for anything (let alone be repurposed).

If you mean cut the old name after a rename, that can be up for a crowner. But "namespace" refers to the "word/" format, not an actual page title.

edited 15th Mar '12 1:43:27 PM by DragonQuestZ

Clocking due to lack of activity.

What options should be put on the page action crowner?

Redirect or repurpose + rename. No cutting - too many inbounds.

"redirect" to what?

OK, I meant merge with ... Sick and Wrong?

As I stated in post #6, it's actually distinct from that.

Locking.