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StFan Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Aug 1st 2017 at 2:07:48 AM

This was discussed shortly on Ask The Tropers, but without reaching a conclusion, so I guess it needs a dedicated thread.

The page 45 Master Characters was previously treated a pseudo-trope, "Master Characters". It has since been moved to Literature/ since it's after all a book. However, it is lacking tropes, making it a stub.

The subpages, similarly, have been put to Literature/, but they have still redirects that are listed as tropes on some page, thus having a few wick, under Master Character Heroes, Master Character Heroines and Master Support Characters.

They also have hyphenated titles, which means they need to be moved anyway, but that’s not the most important point. The question is, what to do with the whole thing? Is it more of a Useful Notes? Should it be cut entirely?

While we're at it, there's the exact same problem with The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes & Heroines. It has two subpages, also hyphenated, both with wicks through the redirects Romance Genre Heroes and Romance Genre Heroines.

I'm all for de-wicking the lots of them, but we must decide what to do with the content. I would gladly gather each treatise on the same page if not too big, but I'm not sure the Literature/ namespace would still fit (hence why I suggest Useful Notes).

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#2: Aug 2nd 2017 at 3:20:57 AM

These tropology pages have always been a bit of an issue. They aren't proper work pages but they have a distinct relevance that sets them apart from regular Useful Notes pages - which are really "Real Life factoids" rather than tropology.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
StFan Since: Jan, 2001
#3: Aug 2nd 2017 at 7:18:13 AM

Yes, that's the whole point: we don't know what to do with them.

Is it safe, at least, to start the de-wicking when they're treated as tropes?

AmourMitts Since: Jan, 2016
#4: Sep 7th 2017 at 12:40:07 AM

[tdown] I'm against making this a Useful Note on this one...

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)
#5: Oct 8th 2017 at 8:15:45 AM

Well, this needs to reach a conclusion for Administrivia.Wick Namespace Migration to complete, but that's far in the future, given that I have about a little less than 15000 Main redirects to look though...

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#6: Jan 7th 2018 at 10:57:03 AM

Locking per New Year Purge.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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