Rename the trope to Backwards Compatibility. Maybe even move to Useful Notes.
Rock'n'roll never dies!I'm neutral on the Useful Notes idea for now, but it should be moved to Backwards Compatibility in some namespace.
2025: the year it all ends?Rename to Backwards Compatibility.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanBackward Compatiblity (with no S) should be a redirect, since that's what Wikipedia's article
calls it. Also, upward compatibility is a synonym of forward compatibility, so both terms should be redirects.
Edit: Also, I think Useful Notes would be the best place for this.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 16th 2021 at 10:55:50 AM
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Plus I think it's technically just a Commonwealth / American thing.
I think we have clear consensus on the page going to Namespace.Backwards Compatibility (plus redirects), but I'm not quite happy with the consensus on which namespace is appropriate. Will a single-prop suffice for everyone, or is there some other option that might compete with that?
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
It would be for whether it's moved to Useful Notes or if it stays in Main.
UsefulNotes.Backwards Compatibility it is. Calling.
I think I got everything. I posted a notice on the old discussion page, wicks have been moved over (aside from the one on Pages Needing Wicks, since it's no longer needed), and I indexed it on the Useful Notes page.
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Crown Description:
The TRS has decided to rename Sideways Compatibility to Backwards Compatibility. Now the question remains: Which namespace should it go in? Vote UP for UN. Vote DOWN for Main.

I'm not sure if this "misuse" per se, so I'm keeping it as just "needs help". I feel like the Sideways Compatibility trope has been poorly named, which only feels more glaring considering the lack of a Backwards Compatibility page, which this page appeared to be launched to serve as a supertrope to. I understand that that the name was an attempt to be more encompassing than "backwards compatibility" in terms of describing interoperability, but:
I feel like the odd name is also the reason why it isn't heavily wiked to. Only four pages other than the "Needs Wicks" page currently link back to it, and two of those pages are come across as misuse.
I'd argue the entries on Dendy and Video Game Culture are the only proper use of the trope as is. It's just a bad alternate name for something that already has a far more widely used term in "backwards compatibility". Or even "interoperability" if you want the trope name to be more inclusive for "forwards compatibility", but considering the small number of gaming devices that offer that — I can only think of the Game Boy, Neo Geo Pocket, and Wonder Swan, which all offer it to limited degrees — I don't think the broader name is all that needed.
Finally, the trope description also feels contradictory, as it states itself to be about hardware compatibility (console within a console), before going on to list peripherals, virtualization, and emulation as examples of the trope as well.
I think this is a good page with fantastically detailed examples, but one in need of a rename and maybe an improved description to better reflect its subject matter.
Edited by RacattackForce on Dec 24th 2020 at 4:11:10 AM