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supergod Since: Jun, 2012
2016-05-07 09:43:51

I'll admit that I'm against those pages in general except for certain fourth wall breaking characters like Deadpool, but even if that wasn't the case, I'd say no to Cap at least, since he doesn't really have any unique speech patterns and such like the Self-Demonstrating page recommends. I'm not familiar with Toph.

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Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2016-05-07 09:45:58

The only self demonstrating pages allowed are those for characters with a distinctive "voice", such as Jiker and Deadpool" where it isn't just a retread of the character page in first person. A sub point is that they have a reasonably varied vocabulary; that came up after someone made a bunch of pages for non-Meowth Pokemon.

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Karxrida Since: May, 2012
2016-05-07 10:43:26

No. We need to be deleting SD pages, not making more.

Irene (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2016-05-07 17:40:05

What we need to do is make better criteria and put them through YKTTW, as well as putting others through rescue threads. Some may be delete-worthy simply because the character has no real voice, but there's not as much needed to be deleted anymore. Most of them just need work.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2016-05-08 21:42:05

Being huge fans of both those characters, hell no.

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PDL (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2016-05-09 07:31:01

I'd rather have no self demonstrating pages at all.

war877 Since: Dec, 2015
2016-05-09 08:09:23

You'd think no one here likes SD pages at all. I just want to say, either way, Captain America has a boring voice on paper. Reading it would be uninteresting. Toph's voice might be interesting. Although it is not the most wild voice in existence.

Is it really so uncommon for a person to find self demonstrating pages entertaining?

valozzy Since: Feb, 2013
2016-05-09 08:11:06

I should note that this thread exists for self-demo character pages, and we were starting to lean to forcing the entire SD namepage to go through YKTTW to prevent bad character pages from getting launched.

MegaMarioMan (Ten years in the joint)
2016-05-09 08:36:29

^^ It's not a problem to find Self-Demonstrating pages entertaining, but it is to make crappy Self-Demonstrating pages. Hence why Bowser's was cut and replaced with a third-person perspective page.

Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2016-05-11 06:44:37

@war: You missed the Pokemon SD pages, the Hulk (ALL CAPS), and I am Groot, all a while back. Bad SD pages are something we really want to avoid. They look bad and are really annoying.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2016-05-11 08:06:52

Then you've got the SD pages bleeding into other pages. If Deadpool gets an entry on another work, the page is going to be SD, at least at first. It's super annoying, and makes entries on character sheets borderline unreadable.

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Someoneman Since: Nov, 2011
2016-05-11 08:46:31

The entire joke of Deadpool is that he is aware of the fourth wall and is always breaking it, so it would make sense for him to also be breaking the fourth wall on his TV Tropes page. Characters who aren't known for their fourth wall-breaking shouldn't have SD pages.

TheNerfGuy Since: Mar, 2011
2016-05-11 08:57:29

Maybe it'll be best if we completely ax SD pages altogether and lock the namespace? If we discuss that, then we should take it to the forums.

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