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Well, coming and explaining was good. Next time, do ask here first.
Basically, we avoid Trope Namers nowadays — they're problematic for various reasons. Redirects are also less than optimal since they muck up keeping track of how many wicks a page has.
Now, cut pages are normally locked, so I'm a bit curious how you were able to recreate it — normally, you shouldn't even have been able to commit this error.
Edited by DracMonsterFast Eddie recently reformatted the cutlist so cut pages aren't autolocked. Apparently it was causing more problems than it solved.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Ah.
Well Mc Jeff, going forward, don't recreate something that was removed until you find out whether it's kosher. It probably wasn't.
Normally I wouldn't, but since I couldn't find any discussion and I was under the impression that things got discussed before they were deleted... like I said, I just usually steer far away from anything related to deletion. Too many bad wikipedia memories.
Incidentally I'm familiar with the frowning upon Trope Namers - I've been around long enough to remember trope names like The Kimberly and Xanatos Gilligan - but like I said, this is one of those that's sort of an exception because of the extremely narrow reason for usage and lack of problems with doing so.
Edited by McJeff Russell... likes to hurt people... for PEACE.Well, for one thing, the fact that it takes two (a cutmaster and someone who is cutlisting the page) to get something cut is a discussion of some sort. For the record, I support the cut as it's just a meaningless character name.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

I did something that was... probably wrong, but I don't think it really was. Either way, probably best to post here and explain myself.
There's a trope called Breakup Breakout.
It had a redirect called The Jannetty, which was deleted today.
I recreated it - I was reading the site, saw it redlinked, checked the forums for discussion, found none, assumed it had been deleted via oversight of some sort, and then after recreating it thought to check the cutlist (which I rarely go near), where I saw that it had been cutlisted by a guy whose reason was "Unused. had a couple wicks but they suggested misuse."
There was no misuse, however - at least not what I think of as misuse. It was helping rather than causing a problem, so even if it was technically against some rule or other, its presence was helping the wiki rather than harming it, and I'll explain why.
The Jannetty was named after Marty Jannetty, a guy who was on the bad end of a Breakup Breakout situation. Since being created a few years ago (and as I mentioned, never causing any problems nor any misuse), it has been used exclusively on Professional Wrestling character pages to refer to wrestlers who did not go on to success following a breakup. It redirected to Breakup Breakout because Breakup Breakout described the symptom adequately.
In other words, it was beneficial, caused no problems, and shouldn't have been deleted.
That being said if there's consensus it shouldn't exist, it's not my wiki. I recreated it without prior discussion because I thought it had been deleted in error, not because I don't know how to behave on TV Tropes.