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Some of the example-less pages are No On-Page Examples, which means it's OK to list examples from them in work pages. A page that is Definition-Only isn't meant to be wicked anywhere no matter what (this is different from Flame Bait because those allow examples on-page but nowhere else.
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Definition-Only pages can be wicked, they just can't have examples (you can still reference them and use potholes).
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So, someone in the TRS advocating for a trope to be an example-less super-trope is the same as wanting to turn it into not on-page, right?
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The supertrope aspect is the key word here. Supertropes have a different role than normal def-only / NOPE pages, since they're still technically normal tropes that are just covered thoroughly by subtropes. It's pretty rare.
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Technically speaking, if you find a def-only listed on a tropes list, you can just remove it. But if you find a super trope, then you need to replace it with an appropriate subtrope.
Edited by Kuruni
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.
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A definition-only page is something that has been judged too common or too policy-breaking (amongst other reasons) to be either listed as an example or have examples listed. Yet, its definition has been deemed as within the scope of the wiki.
An example-less Super-Trope, as far as I've gathered, is a Super-Trope to so many sub-tropes that finding examples not included by the latter is nigh impossible. I've seen this as both an unintended result of new tropes coming in and a legitimate proposal in TRS.
Now, this seems separate enough on paper (after all, def-only page not necessarily has sub-tropes) but, in reality, how is it different when a troper in the TRS suggests either? A super-trope with no examples is technically allowed to have off-page examples, I guess, but then what makes it different than a no on-page examples page?
Another doubt I have is what's the point of making a trope example-less?
Edited by Asterlix