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I thought we stopped doing scales.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
They're definitely discouraged, since they tend to encourage ZC Es.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Usually, scales are indexes. They should not be treated as tropes.
I apologize for any inconvenience my crosswicking may have had. At the time of its launch, the YKTTW for the scale had eight hats and zero discards, so I figured it would be acceptable. I've ceased crosswicking and would like to ask if it would be advisable for me to start deleting the ones I've added.
This is covered in Type Labels Are Not Examples.
As a related issue, never use a sliding scale or sorting algorithm article as a trope example. Instead, use one of the tropes that it references for positions on the scale.
^^ Read the tropes on the scale and see if one of them fits the example. If it does, use it. If you can't find anything that fits, then delete it -or you can take it to Trope Finder.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Would it be best if the Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness links were moved to a work's YMMV page?
I don't really understand scales, but I know that it is not YMMV. That is for subjective tropes. A scale is really far away from a subjective trope.
The "scale" pages are basically a remnant from the wild and lawless days of old, when anybody could just launch any page they felt like (like one-sentence joke pages, etc.)
I notice that after Mohs Scale Of Violence Hardness was recently launched, The Hestinator has been going around crosswicking it in the trope example lists of the works it mentions.
Normally I would say that crosswicking a trope after launching it is laudable behaviour, but is a Mohs Scale a trope? Should a work's trope example list include items saying "This work scores a 5 on the Mohs Scale of Whatever"?