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This Troper is not allowed anywhere, ever, under any circumstances.
Using first person on WMG and Headscratchers pages is a bit more up in the air. I personally think it works fine, but I know at least one mod has said we shouldn't.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I didn't realized that just because it was red-linked, This Troper was actually a banned phrase. Things are changing, and I didn't even know it.
Anyway, I suppose if I absolutely cannot find another way to word it, I'll just use first-person. If someone edits and finds a way to re-word it without that, they're welcome to do so.
"The three rules of the librarians of time and space: silence; books must be returned on time; no interfering with the nature of causality."Headscratchers just works much more smoothly as basically a poor-man's forum, though. "No first person" is designed for the parts that are explicitly not supposed to have any discussion.
I'd really like a mod's opinion here, even if that opinion is just "Make a wiki talk thread."
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Don't use first person in wiki articles, including WMG and Headscratchers. That's pretty much it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I do a fair amount of clean up on the crowning pages. A quick tip on how to avoid first person in some common cases:
I think that [theory] = It appears that [theory] I thought that X was [the funniest/the scariest/etc] = X was very funny/scary/etc.
In my experience, if you can't make a change like those above, it's really a troper tale masquerading as an example.
^^^ That's why I was talking about Headscratchers, not WMG.
^^ I disagree on the point about Headscratchers, but this isn't the place to discuss it, and we have more important things to worry about right now, with all the hottip, ZCE, natter, and other cleanup. Someone will revive that "should we get rid of headscratchers in favor of a forum" thread at some point, and we can talk it over then.
^ An excellent point, but the OP was asking about Headscratchers and WMG, not the moments.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Ideally, yes. In practice, it's going to be a bit tricky, but feel free to tackle it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Just remember to fix it, not delete it outright (I think someone doing the latter is what brought this up).
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.That sort of thing can almost certainly be removed, as can anything replying to it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Eh, most of the ones I see are just a casual bit of first person; "As I recall..." and so on. But yeah, rants can be deleted as complaining, never mind if they're first person or not.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.

I have a general question about WMG and Headscratchers pages.
I realize that the use of "I" or "This Troper" is discouraged in main pages and examples, but can we use them in sub pages like the examples above? They're about our personal guesses and questions. There are times I just can't word a theory or burning question without putting myself in there.