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Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-12-01 23:18:17

Yeah it's like a soft vandalism.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Speedchesser Since: Feb, 2012
2022-12-02 00:29:20

Agreed. It's excessive, and it's not even representative enough to be Self-Demonstrating. All the comics linked on the page just use C normally, and the Blatant Lies entry actually replaces the Cs in a comic quote with Ks.

EDIT: Revised significantly after more research.

Edited by Speedchesser
megagutsman (Seven Years' War)
2022-12-02 00:29:31

I went to check out of curiousity so I discovered that the oldest edit I could find (from December 30th 2011, done by Angeldeb 82) already shows that the "C -> K" joke already existed back then and that the "joke" had already been in effect from even earlier.

BoltDMC Since: May, 2020
2022-12-02 03:49:08

It’s especially problematic given that the trope names used were potholed to include the “humorous” misspelling. My understanding is that this is a real no-no.

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2022-12-02 04:53:12

Outside of properly-namespaced self-demonstrating pages, yes, it is against the rules.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Kuruni (Long Runner)
2022-12-02 06:06:10

I changed all altered tropes in tropes list, citing Sinkhole.

Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-12-02 17:32:14

Cloned the current to SelfDemonstrating.Krazy Kat just in case and have reverted the k letters except for quotes for ComicStrip.Krazy Kat. Anything missed?

This is even a more apparent issue when it changes the quotes.

Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
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