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Oberoniss (Veteran)
2016-01-13 22:04:35

How popular is the work itself? If you can find an active or semi-active thread in the Tv Tropes fora, someone there might be able to expand the examples.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
2016-01-14 01:38:22

ZCEs that are commented out don't violate Example Indentation because they don't exist visibly on the page itself.

If they're ever de-commented and re-added then the example would have to be changed to the correct Example Indentation.

Edited by Arivne
GnomeTitan Since: Aug, 2013
2016-01-14 02:31:37

I agree with Arivne that the last way (comment out Example 1 and Example 2, move Example 3 back up to the one-bullet level) is the right way to do it. Sure, it's a bit more work and it introduces the potential for mistakes when somebody uncomments and fleshes out Example 1, but the important thing is how the page looks to the reader.

Edited by GnomeTitan
rodneyAnonymous Since: Aug, 2010
2016-01-14 12:30:38

You described the second thing as "also incorrect". No, it is fine.

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Gideoncrawle Since: Dec, 2012
2016-01-14 17:43:42

Actually, I described the second option as being incorrect "for anything I know to the contrary", i.e. "as far as I know". That's as may be, it is in fact what I was inclined to go with, but I hadn't encountered that situation before in my cleanup work.

@ Oberoniss: The work in question is a fanfic. I think. (It's possible I misremembered where I saw the example noted above.) I don't remember the title offhand, because I've been doing a lot of cleanup in the Total Drama fanfic section, and I've edited a lot of pages. Most of them haven't had recent updates, so I'm not really sanguine about being able to find anyone who can add context to a specific ZCE.

Edited by Gideoncrawle Bigotry in the name of inclusion is still bigotry.
Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2016-01-15 22:04:56

I asked a similar question some time back. In summary, the answer was that Example Indentation applies to the examples visible to the reader, not the commented out ones. If a commented out example is filled out afterwards, then the indentation should be changed accordingly.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
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