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From What Goes Where On The Wiki:
"Darth Wiki and/or have the Flame Bait banner. They should have no examples at all outside their definition pages." So no, please don't use DMOS anywhere outside those specific DMOS pages.
I doubt we have a good alternative for that example. We're not a work-knocking wiki by design. Also, he appears to be knocking the sub-genre via some value judgments, something we tend to avoid in the main wiki, even by proxy. Certainly bundling valve judgments up into a Audience Reaction "trope" has a poor track record in providing useful material for the wiki. I'd suggest describing his take on that sub-genre in the main text in neutral terms and leaving it at that.
Edited by Camacan
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to list it under Take That! on the YMMV page?
Take That! is not YMMV
So I have a question that I probably should have asked a long time ago.
tl;dr is it possible for the few tropes that were banished to Darth Wiki to be in-universe and linked on a trope page?
(long version)
I launched a trope page about a non-fiction book about professional wrestling called Ring Of Hell, and on the original version of the page, one of the tropes listed was Dethroning Moment Of Suck. This was of course before DMOS was banished to Darth Wiki and made no link.
But the reason DMOS was listed on the page is because the author of the book invoked the trope himself, and came very close to calling it out by name. He claimed that "tribute shows" for deceased wrestlers were inherently phony, inherently sleazy, and "possibly the most sickening aspect" of a wrestler's death...
I thought that "possibly the most sickening aspect" line as written by the author himself was enough to make it an in-universe example of DMOS and readded it to the page - linking directly to the Darth Wiki version of it after the main wiki redirect was deleted.
So I guess I'm asking "What do?" Is this legitimate or not, and if not is there a different trope that could be used in place of DMOS?