#2: Sep 4th 2014 at 12:11:57 AM
>1500 wicks, >2,700 inbounds. Nothing's happening with this one; it's their entries on the work pages that need to be fixed, not the trope. That said, I've cutlisted the Ginger Or Mary Ann redirect.
Declining to open.
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This trope's name is not only non-indicative to anyone who doesn't read or know much about Archie Comics, but it also leads to constant "X is the Betty, Y is the Veronica," or "the Betty to so-and-so's Veronica" on other pages. Those of us who aren't as familiar with the characters from Archie Comics now have to go look at the trope's page to understand which is which, and what means what. The name should stand on its own, or at least not refer to specific characters from work not everyone is necessarily familiar with (like how Tomboy and Girly Girl works, or something to that effect).
I checked the following fifty wicks:
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Bates Motel Captain N: The Game Master Chicago Clone High Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z Derailing Love Interests Disclosure Doctor Who S33 E2 "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" Dragon Quest V Easy Virtue Far from the Madding Crowd Five Little Pigs Gareda Grand Theft Auto IV - Other Characters Guilty Crown Heroes Want Redheads Hollywood Dateless If a Man Answers Kamenrider Kiva Leatherheads Lie to Me Madan no Ou to Vanadis Muggle and Magical Love Triangle My Boyfriend Is A Vampire Percy Jackson and the Olympians Pokémon and Digimon RP Project X Red String Reimei no Arcana Rise of Legends Rugrats in Paris Shakugan No Shana Sleeping with the Boss Star Driver Strawberry Shortcake The Black Dahlia The Bold and the Beautiful The Divison Trilogy The Forest of Hands and Teeth The Gallagher Girls The Graduate The Kane Chronicles The Land of Laughs The Legend of Korra - New Team Avatar The Pornomancer Trials of the God-Harem King Ultimate Spider-Man (Un)Fortunate Me Vocaloid Otaku Freeform Roleplay
Of those, I found that only one explained the relationships of the characters involved in concrete terms without referencing Archie aside from the trope title, five more used the names of the Archie characters as shorthand, while also going into detail about the characters they were actually discussing, one was a "see also" wick, and the rest either didn't explain at all or used the Archie characters' names as the entire explanation.
That's 86% of the wicks I checked being more or less useless on their own, and only 2% being completely independent of pre-existing familiarity with Archie or the terms of the trope, 10% being somewhere in the middle, and the remaining 2% not being an example, but just a redirect.
I checked more, but I only included the ones the random number generator told me to, so they don't count in my statistics besides confirmation that the forty-three "offending" pages here are definitely not the only pages to do so.
edited 2nd Aug '14 7:26:00 PM by DoctorDetective