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themayorofsimpleton Now a lurker. Thanks for everything. | he/him from Elsewhere (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Abstaining
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#1: Mar 22nd 2021 at 4:17:44 PM

Dummied Out is currently listed in the Main namespace as a trope. This is despite the fact that Dummied Out concerns a concept that seems to be more of a Trivia item, that being content not accessible in a video game by any means other than hacking.

As was pointed out by War Jay 77 in this ATT, tropes have to be things that "affect the narrative and are put there with creative intent." Since Dummied Out concerns things that do not affect the narrative or gameplay of a game and are not put in with creative intent, it seems to fit more as a Trivia item, much like the similar trope What Could Have Been already is. And while a wick check apparently wasn't a requirement for this issue, it should be noted that 293 of the 2875 current wicks for Dummied Out are currently in the Trivia namespace, so clearly many tropers already think this is a Trivia trope.

I propose a full move of this trope to Trivia to solve the problems that have been outlined.

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#2: May 1st 2021 at 7:55:28 AM

Opening.

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#4: May 1st 2021 at 8:05:23 AM

I've been in favor of moving it to Trivia for ages.

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#5: May 1st 2021 at 8:14:51 AM

Sure, move to Trivia.

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#6: May 1st 2021 at 8:15:36 AM

[tup] Move to Trivia.

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#8: May 1st 2021 at 8:35:48 AM

I concur that this is Trivia.

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#10: May 1st 2021 at 8:57:35 AM

[tup]Move to Trivia.

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#11: May 1st 2021 at 11:14:18 AM

What wingedcatgirl said applies to me, as I've also been in favor of moving this to Trivia for quite a while.

Edit: Tweaked the wording for clarity's sake.

Edited by GastonRabbit on May 1st 2021 at 8:44:57 AM

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#13: May 1st 2021 at 6:20:40 PM

[tup]Move to Trivia

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#14: May 2nd 2021 at 6:25:27 PM

I think everyone so far wants to move this to Trivia. Any disagreements?

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#15: May 2nd 2021 at 6:58:06 PM

Another hat for Trivia.

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#16: May 2nd 2021 at 7:34:38 PM

[tup]Move to Trivia

Kirby is awesome.
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#17: May 2nd 2021 at 7:37:37 PM

Tally me up as another vote for Trivia.

Edited by Playing_with_boy on May 2nd 2021 at 7:37:48 AM

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#19: May 3rd 2021 at 5:45:48 AM

We've got plenty of consensus so far, but as usual, the Three-Day Rule applies, so we still have to wait a bit longer.

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#20: May 4th 2021 at 3:06:33 PM

...I think it's been three days. Do we have consensus yet?

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#21: May 4th 2021 at 3:51:09 PM

I think we've had consensus since the second the thread was opened. For that matter, I also vote to move it to Trivia.

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#22: May 5th 2021 at 8:06:39 PM

Yep, time to call. To Trivia!

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#23: May 5th 2021 at 10:04:42 PM

I took care of the Animal Crossing: New Horizons wicks since there was some confusion over that one last year.

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#24: May 5th 2021 at 10:06:34 PM

As for other wicks, here's a link to the list. We just need to move any applicable wicks from work pages and character sheets.

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#25: May 5th 2021 at 10:13:25 PM

I checked and 943 out of 2918 wicks are in the VideoGame/ namespace, which I'm assuming is the main namespace to look at (if there are any wicks for non-software works, they're probably in-universe examples, meaning they probably just need to be tagged as in-universe).

Edit: Plus 302 wicks are already in the Trivia/ namespace, so some of the work is already taken care of.

Edited by GastonRabbit on May 5th 2021 at 12:21:47 PM

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