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number9robotic (Experienced Trainee)
2025-01-25 11:53:02

Cut it, yeah. Like, Donald Trump having a page is substantially different because he's neither a creator nor a work himself, but a person who is regularly referenced in a ton of fiction, warranting his Useful Notes page. Documenting a let's player (usually non-tropeable) is a nonstarter.

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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2025-01-25 11:53:10

Yes, we should.

(Also, Trump having a page is not a "can of worms", it's Useful Notes and not a "trope page" and he's a figure that's showing up a lot in media)

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UFOYeah Since: Mar, 2022
2025-01-25 11:56:00

^ Sorry, I didn't mean that the way it sounded. I've reworded my original post, cutlisted the pages (citing this thread), and made a request for both Dark Syde Phil and The King Of Hate to be added to the PRLC, given that the former page was essentially a replacement for the latter, despite them both being about the same person.

Edited by UFOYeah
punkcrow Since: Dec, 2020
2025-01-25 16:58:31

I'd say cut as well, especially as a lot of the tropes on the page are troping him as a person (including calling him a Fat Slob, Ungrateful Bastard, Asshole Victim, etc) and there's even a Timeline page about his personal life, which seems... questionable.

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rasterax Since: Sep, 2023
2025-01-25 17:26:40

There's an Animal Motif entry that compares the guy to a pig and a cockroach and his wife to a horse. On the discussion page, the writer says they did their best to try to maintain neutrality.

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UFOYeah Since: Mar, 2022
2025-01-25 17:42:47

I've PM'd the page creator to tell them that the original page got deleted for a reason, as well as sending notifiers to all of the tropers who edited the page (thankfully, there were only three of them).

Rabbitearsblog Since: Jan, 2014
2025-01-25 18:21:41

I agree that it should be cut. The page seems to be bashing him more rather than providing tropes to his work.

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MewLettuceRush (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2025-01-25 19:03:43

I mean since last time it got so out of control there even was a SBIH page for him,yeah.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2025-01-25 19:04:42

I only go through the A's and every entry is either troping the guy, bashing him, misusing tropes, or all three.

I doubt there's anything worth saving.

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UFOYeah Since: Mar, 2022
2025-01-25 23:48:37

The page has been cut, just waiting on the question of whether or not the page will be added to the PRLC.

shunk Since: Jul, 2009
2025-01-26 06:14:52

I had kept to editing it for as long as it was up even though I was the person who initially expressed issue with keeping it up at all because of how divisive he is. Even using as neutral language as possible, his behavior is entirely too controversial and his body of work is ultimately insignificant to anyone outside of people mocking him.

Keep it as PRLC. He, along with other divisive creators, really can't be discussed at all without talking about myriad controversies.

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