Misused: Not So Different

If that's the case, I'd just cut it.

Anyway, how about we also add Commonality Connection to the disambig? It shows up a lot as well.

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Should Mirror Character, Mirroring Factions, and Evil Counterpart be added as well? The latter is a very closely related trope.

I rewrote the example to focus on the parts that are relevant to "Not So Different" Remark.

So here's what I think we have for the disambig:

• Commonality Connection
• Foil
• Evil Counterpart
• Mirror Character
• Mirroring Factions
• "Not So Different" Remark

Edited by WarJay77 on Aug 19th 2021 at 5:36:42 AM

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Add The Horseshoe Effect, maybe? That pops up a fair amount, too. But otherwise that looks good for the disambig.

Anyway, we're at 11090 now. Still working through Character/.

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How are we handling wicks on Fanfic Recs pages if the trope is listed under "Tropes include:"? Do we remove them as there's not enough context to judge?

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I'd say yeah. We should clean up under an "assume misuse if insufficient/no context given", and it's better to be absent than wrong.

That's what I've been doing.

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Gotcha. That namespace is done.

Edited by Berrenta on Aug 22nd 2021 at 8:20:40 AM

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10987

I will admit that I've only tackled the easy ones - those that could be removed or renamed to "Not So Different" Remark, hope that's alright.

Question: Is there any special rule regarding removing wicks from WMG pages?

Alright, thank you

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Aug 23rd 2021 at 8:07:40 PM

Creepypasta cleanup got two major pages for JTK and Slender

Nope, treat it like any normal trope page.

Disambig draft ahoy:

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"Not So Different" no longer exists as a page on this wiki. Instead, you may be looking for one of these pages:

• Commonality Connection: Two characters form a bond due to having something in common.
• Foil: A character who highlights another character's trait(s), usually by contrast.
• Evil Counterpart: A character who has similarities to a good or not as evil character, but is evil(er).
• The Horseshoe Effect: People on differing extremes are indistinguishable in behavior.
• Mirror Character: A character who significantly reflects another's traits.
• Mirroring Factions: Two organizations are much more similar than they first appear.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Two characters or groups of characters at odds realize they have a little more in common than they really want to admit.

If a direct wick has led you here, please correct the link so that it points to the corresponding article.

Edited by WarJay77 on Aug 24th 2021 at 3:40:26 PM

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We didn't take the "usually" out of the Foil laconic when we updated the description, did we. I'll go run that through the laconic thread.

Yeah, I just copy and pasted what was there.

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Bump. Can I go ahead and make the swap? Any alterations can be done in post.

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I say do it.

Made the swap. Afterwards I realized:

• We still have videos under the trope
• We never cut the sandbox

Also, now I can finally see how many wicks "Not So Different" Remark has. It's at 2207.

Edited by WarJay77 on Aug 26th 2021 at 3:54:11 PM

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I was just wondering why the title Not So Different can't be used as an Index. Something like These Tropes Are Not So Different, or something like that. Basically, a title for a family of tropes centered around similarities and differences. Unless there's an index about that and I don't realize it.

Well, besides the ones on the index and their subtropes (which, in the case of foil, are already indexed), what would the index consist of?

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Mirror Character also contains an index. I think between the two, most everything that would be associated are there.

That conversion actually lets me access the video examples, so which video should be moved where?

Already moved Savages to Mirroring Factions.

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“More like me than you know” seems like a solid case for "Not So Different" Remark.

Seconding on that.

Creepypasta cleanup got two major pages for JTK and Slender

Okay, that one's moved.

Edit: Same for the Indiana Jones one.

Edit 2: Sent another video to Commonality Connection.

Edited by Berrenta on Aug 27th 2021 at 4:03:06 AM

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