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Amonimus (Sergeant)
2025-10-01 21:58:21

You can just ask ~Wojnicz directly, who should be using edit reasons anyway.

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Riolugirl (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2025-10-02 02:29:06

It might be an attempt to follow the advice on Weblinks Are Not Examples, but that's primarily for when video links are used as a substitute for adequate context.

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Wojnicz Since: Jul, 2019
2025-10-02 07:49:33

> that's primarily for when video links are used as a substitute for adequate context

In some cases, this was the very reason I removed links, the other being the fact that there are already links to the team's channels on the show's main page, making most of the links redundant, and they weren't used consistently anyway. The ones I haven't deleted are mainly for videos from other channels than theirs.

Edited by Wojnicz
Chabal2 Since: Jan, 2010
2025-10-02 08:30:43

Several had timestamps though, those were useful for specific moments in long videos.

Ngamer01 Since: Oct, 2010
2025-10-02 10:58:40

^ You may want to give Weblinks Are Not Examples a read.

The idea is every example needs to give context without requiring people to go to another website for context. Granted Wojnicz should have listed proper editing reasons and could have considered commenting out zero-context examples instead of just purging things outright.

ZCEs including those from weblinks can always be commented out so that another troper can provide the proper context if they come across the item to comment it back into an example list.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2025-10-02 11:04:43

I mean, looking at the deletions, I'm not sure I'd call most of them ZCE? Linking to the video isn't inherently a weblinks violation.

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Chabal2 Since: Jan, 2010
2025-10-02 22:20:10

Hence my question, do we revert the non-ZC Es so they have the link?

BlueGuy (Ten years in the joint)
2025-10-03 11:10:54

^ I'd say yes. If the links supplement the context provided (as Weblinks Are Not Examples states), then there's no problem.

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