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"This title is a pun on Doorstep Baby, and is not to be confused using a baby as a doorstop. For that, you're looking for Hilariously Abusive Childhood or Human Doorstop."
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI interpreted the title as the baby is left in front of the door of a house like a doorstop. Anyway, I believe changing a trope's name requires evidence that it's being misused a lot, which I'm unsure that Doorstop Baby fits.
SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMYTo be honest, I'm so used to seeing this I never noticed the "pun". Putting that in quotes because... it's not a pun. It's just using a different word.
But yeah, a change can only be made if there's evidence of misuse and there really isn't.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I mean, yeah I don't have strong feelings one way or another but my point was simply that it's not a typo; it's how the trope name is meant to be spelled. Whether that's good or not is a different question.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI always interpreted it as, since the recipient likely wasn't looking out for the baby they didn't know was there, that they might accidentally hit the baby, almost as a variant of Crash-Into Hello.
I suspect it was created during the days when it seemed like people went for punny trope names as a default, even if there was perfectly good pre-existing term. (For example, I'm not entirely sure why the "New York in fiction" trope is called Big Applesauce rather than just The Big Apple.)
But yeah. Pun (whether a good one or not), not typo.
i literally had never even noticed it was not using the standard name. And DoorstEp Baby is a redirect anyway... though apperently other people were confused about it?
i dont seea need to rename tho if we did, it would be the easier rename ever, no realphabetizing, even
Edited by Tremmor19^ same, no idea what the pun even is. Should have just been Doorstep Baby but, alas. Old tropes, what can you do.
I'm not seeing a pun here. If using "Doorstop" in place of "Doorstep" is just straight up wrong, that's an argument to be made for changing the title. E.g. "Reprisal" was incorrectly used for "reprise" and was fixed in TRS.
^ The issue is that this spelling is intentional, not a typo.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall^ It's "Doorstep Baby" (baby left on doorstep), but with "doorstop" (object used to prevent door from closing) replacing "doorstep" and both words sound kinda similar and are one character off from each other. I do think the pun isn't necessary (Doorstep Baby would work just fine).
Edited by Excessive-Menace SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMYI've been reading it as Doorstep Baby for ages. It has 91 wicks under that name as well. I guess some people just think "doorstop" means "doorstep" (cuz it's where you'd stop by the door, I guess). If we do want to fix the name for clarity, at least it'd be a very easy wick change.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.This probably should be at Trope Talk or even TRS if something should be done about the name.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupAs far as I remember, this wiki's trope name policy is Clear, Concise, Witty in descending importance. In this case the attempted (and quite botched) wittiness overrides the clarity.
Taking it to this Trope Talk thread
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When I came across the Doorstop Baby trope I thought it's about severe mistreatment of infants by Abusive Parents who have no qualms about using their baby as a doorstop.
Then I found out the trope is about something completely different and the title is a typo - should be DoorstEp Baby instead.
The page has over 800 wicks, which means it will be a pain to correct the title.
What to do?