Well, part of that is because artistic license was changed into what it is now simply because tropers did not like the tone of the "you fail forever" index, even though a few of them already had "more respective" counterparts.
But yes, merge them. Preferably Art Major Biology should be the name the combined page takes because it was that way first.
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackYeah, merge.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Merge under Artistic License – Biology. We're trying to get the various "..is crying", "Fail X Forever" and other such pages consolidated as "Artistic License - X" and get them cleaned up. In this case there was You Fail Biology Forever as a complaining and snarking page, and Art Major Biology as a "wrong.. but it's really cool" page.
Merge them, but can we try to find some trope here, rather than giving them the name Errors.Biology?
You are allowed to YKTTW new tropes. That said, the purpose of these pages is to list errors, so that people who find a convention in there have examples and material to fill YKTTWs with.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWhy would we have a page called Errors Biology? We decided awhile ago that we aren't really about complaining about "mistakes".
The Artistic License family of tropes already does a fairly good job a categorizing unrealistic things used for the sake of storytelling. I see no reason why these two pages would not
Also, just to plug the project, we have another thread
going to fix any lingering problems with the descriptions of these tropes. The only reason I'm doing a thread here is because page mergers is usually a TRS job instead of a Projects job.
Of the two, Art Major Biology is the more established name and IMO it just sounds better (Artistic License X has just never rolled off the tongue for me, I'd prefer Aristic License In X or Artistic X License).
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.It seems to be made up by this site.
The title sounds like biological knowledge an art major would have, which in a way indicates the trope. But Artistic License is the accepted neutral snowclone family to make it not look like a complaining page.
Would be better if they didn't have titles like Art Major Biology too, probably limit the moaning to a quiet grumbling in the corner.
edited 22nd Oct '13 12:04:46 PM by treelo
Besides, Artistic License – Biology is the larger and more referenced trope here anyway.
Yeah, there's going to need to be a much better reason to merge under Art Major Biology than "it's the older page."
Art Major Biology: 147 wicks, no redirects, 487 inbounds.
Artistic License – Biology: 1394 wicks, 619 wicks on three redirects, 3016 inbounds.
edited 22nd Oct '13 4:20:07 PM by Madrugada
These are the reasons I see for merging into Artistic License – Biology:
- Artistic License is a preexisting term
- Artistic License - X is the accepted, neutral snowclone for the subject
- Artistic License – Biology is the larger trope
edited 22nd Oct '13 6:33:19 PM by MikuruFan
The physics equivalent, Art Major Physics, already redirects to Artistic License – Physics. It would make sense to keep things consistent one way or another.
^^^ Okay, I guess my complaint then is I just don't like the aesthetic of a hyphen being used as a separator; I would rather see it as e.g. Artistic License (Physics) than Artistic License – Physics.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.Merge under Artistic License – Biology. Ditto any remaining Art Major X trope names.
Trust me, I'm an engineer!

Art Major Biology is pretty much a duplicate of Artistic License – Biology. Both are about creators taking liberties with biology for the sake of storytelling.
I think the two pages should be merged under Artistic License – Biology.