Scandalgate (which is closer to how its spelled in the medias)?
edited 18th Oct '10 9:38:21 AM by Ghilz
I thought this was strategy-game related. Looks like I lose another round of Guess That Trope....
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.^^^ Depends on who's reporting it, I guess. When Fox News recently reported on Sarah Palin getting booed by an audience member on Dancing With The Stars recently, they called it "Boo-Gate" with the hyphen (and that's the most recent instance of the "-gate" suffix that I can recall).
Whichever one we want to go with, we can always just make the other a redirect.
edited 18th Oct '10 9:45:04 AM by SeanMurrayI
True, but going to the original, it's Watergate, not Water-Gate. And since it's the most famous one and Trope Namer...
"Watergate" was just the name of the hotel that was at the source of the scandal. It's not really even an example of the trope, which is about taking the "-gate" suffix from that name and pinning it onto anything deemed scandalous in the media in reference to Nixon's scandals. The trope is a Stock Shout Out, essentially.
Examples do exist without the hyphen though; I'd only push for including the hyphen to emphasize how the trope is about adding "-gate" at the end of whatever the subject of a news piece is about, but Scandalgate would probably be more efficient to type in the end.
edited 18th Oct '10 11:59:15 AM by SeanMurrayI
Gate construction sounds like it's about creating gates. I'll vote for Scandalgate. Or Scandal Gate for the sake of Wiki Words...
Scandalgate is good. "Watergate" is infamous more for the scandal that erupted, than the location where it took place.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.Scandalgate and Scandal Gate both resolve to the same page, so it doesn't matter how you launch it. Nthing this change.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Scandal-Gate isn't a ptitle either...
edited 19th Oct '10 12:22:46 AM by Yamikuronue
BTW, I'm a chick.^Scandal-Gate is not a ptitle but would likely require a non-punctuated redirect all the same.
edited 19th Oct '10 10:02:20 AM by SeanMurrayI
My god, I thought this was going to be a real time strategy game trope about constructing buildings and actual gate.
Scandalgate, two thumbs way up. In print and in newspapers, I've never seen the hyphen so I'm assuming its naturally rarer and its probably because it isn't a suffix it's a portmanteau. I think that everyone would type just Scandal Gate anyways.
edited 19th Oct '10 11:03:54 AM by SomeSortOfTroper
Bumping this.
Scandalgate seems to be pretty popular. Do we just want to go ahead and push that one forward?
edited 2nd Nov '10 9:35:50 PM by SeanMurrayI
Not complete yet. The wicks to fix are are here:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Main/GateConstruction
I'd even advise changing all the wicks for a trope before moving the page. It's less disruptive and avoids a false sense of completion. There seems to be this odd idea that moving a page to a new name equals a rename. If only it was that easy! We are fortunate here: only 22 wicks.
edited 2nd Nov '10 10:46:38 PM by Camacan
^Don't worry; I was already in the middle of doing that.
By the time you posted "only 22 wicks" I had already gone through at least 5 other pages. Anyway, it's all done now. Gate Construction is still being tallied as a wick on a redirect to Harsher in Hindsight for some reason though.
edited 2nd Nov '10 11:12:12 PM by SeanMurrayI

For something that's a very widespread term in all media, this one sure doesn't have much of an indicative name, and judging by the number of wicks and outside referrals, it can probably benefit from a new, more straightforward name.
I'd, at least, suggest Scandal-Gate as a redirect.