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SolipSchism Since: Jun, 2014
2015-06-24 08:41:24

Pretty much what it sounds like; it's a variant of the page that demonstrates itself. And yeah, I agree that that page could use a clean-up. It's not "0/10-would-not-read" awful, but it's pretty bad.

A SD page is allowed to sacrifice some Clear for the sake of Witty, as long as it's still comprehensible, and I'd say that page fits the bill. (For an example, see the relatively-recently-fixed-up Literature.Gadsby, which was self-demonstrating until we transplanted it to SelfDemonstrating.Gadsby. The book is notable for never using the letter "E", so the page was written with the same restriction; it was awkward, but readable, so we kept it as an SD page when we fixed up the Literature page.)

The short version:

  1. Copy the contents of Main.Sound Effect Bleep over to SelfDemonstrating.Sound Effect Bleep, thus creating the SD page
  2. Clean up Main.Sound Effect Bleep
  3. Profit (wicks don't need to be changed, since they should wick to the Main page, which will now be non-SD)

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