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Earlier drafts essentially falls under What Could Have Been, which is trivia. It can be mentioned in the trivia subpage, but doesn't really fit on the main page.
I'm not sure I understand the example.
Are they using contemporary guns five centuries in the future? If so, then it's still A.K.A.-47, albeit a potentially justified examples.
But if they're spaceguns that happen to be similar to modern ones then it doesn't.
EDIT: Wait, are these even guns? The only one I recognize is Merkava, which is a tank. Which would certainly be shoehorning. Bland-Name Product could still apply.
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@Larkmarn: The original draft was basically set in a version of modern Earth, using modern day hardware. The final version is set on another planet five centuries in the future, and while the equipment is modeled after modern RL equipment they're not just renamed versions of the same hardware, as none of those designs (let alone the physical material) were transported to the planet.
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It is really kind of pointless to trope works that are in draft stages as if they are permanent. I realize that the Internet means that everyone can bear witness to your fumblings and revisions, but that doesn't mean that such things count as "released" until the work is officially done. Some works are never officially done, and that's fine, but are we now to stamp all our examples with which revision of an in-progress work they pertain to? That way lies madness.
If/when a work reaches a finished, released stage, all the obsolete and speculative trope examples should be removed or updated. If it is absolutely imperative to our souls that we preserve that material, What Could Have Been is an acceptable repository, but keep it concise.
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Getting back to the A.K.A.-47 issue, given the above it still doesn't sound like that entry is using the trope correct, but since it's already been removed and added back once, further would be getting into a full-blown Edit War. That would be bad.
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Moved the entry to discussion.
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Do earlier drafts of works that are changed significantly when they are finalized matter for trope entries?
I'm asking because in Carrera's Legions I removed the entry for AKA47 as not being the trope, guns renamed for trademark reasons, but simply using different names for equipment that's pretty much modern day (or even recent past) equipment IN THE FUTURE!.
enderheisenberg, who added the AKA-47 entry in the first place, re-added it after my removal (Edit War in and of itself), and added the line "These were direct conversions from early drafits where the story takes part on earth." That doesn't seem like it actually makes the entry an example, but there's enough uncertainty on my part that I thought I'd ask before taking any action.