Why are You Fail Indexs Forever "not tropes" but the other DNDtR are?

(other Did Not Do The Research flavors)

Topic. What makes the You Fail Indexes Forever stuff "not tropes" anymore than the other, non SPOO Ned, articles about lack of research.

edited 30th Sep '10 1:13:56 PM by deuxhero

Did Not Do Research the what now?

You Fail Indexes Forever and the stuff under it has this message at the top

"Please note: This is not a trope. It's a fan-speak phrase and a complaint about the writing, not a storytelling trope. Please don't list it on a work's page as a trope. Examples can go here. "

Did Not Do The Research and other pages under the index don't.

I think it just means that it's supposed to be an index rather than an actual trope.

I would certainly think that indexes are not tropes.

You Fail Indexes Forever is a trope index, not a trope itself, there's no reason to list it. The You Fail X Forever family are all Did Not Do Research tropes, so you're supposed to list the specific trope or subtrope rather than the index.

edited 30th Sep '10 1:36:28 PM by Deboss

Thought I was pretty clear in my question, but I'll restate it.

Everything under the index You Fail Indexes Forever is counted as a "non trope", see these two

• You Fail Astronomy Forever
• You Fail Engineering Forever

While nothing else I have seen under Did Not Do The Research (A superindex to YFIF) has such a marking.

Technically it's an audience reaction trope.

I don't see how they are how the audience reacts because of a naming pattern.

How is say, an author giving a character a score above 200 on an IQ test more of a reaction than an author having first aid done inaccurately.

We don't want them in the works articles because they are extremely likely to just be pedantry and not in the least bit interesting. People who are interested in reading pedantry can read all about it on the article's page.

edited 30th Sep '10 3:01:08 PM by FastEddie

I suppose you can argue that research errors go under It Just Bugs Me!, but if that's the case, I'd argue that all research errors should go there.