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Nuke 'em, and cite Examples Are Not General in your edit reasons. Commenting is for non-general ZCEs (when a specific work is mentioned on a trope page, or when a specific trope is mentioned on a work page, but when context is lacking either way).
At best, broad statements about work types (advertising, in this case) are Analysis page material.
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Personally, I try to incorporate general examples into the description if it's relevant. If a trope is often used in a certain way, it can be worth mentioning it somewhere on the page.
I agree about incorporating them into the description. It's pretty much what they are.
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I feel like Real Life sections are full of general examples. That's not to say pages like ValuesDissonance.Anime And Manga suffer from this, too.
I'm interested in expanding Examples Are Not General to its own page, personally.
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Incorporating them into the description could work, too. Mainly, the example section is where they don't belong.
As for expanding Examples Are Not General into its own page, that's pretty much what happened with the Don't Speculate, Don't Prognosticate section of How to Write an Example, except that the separate page is called Speculative Troping instead.
That said, mod approval would be needed for a new Administrivia page, and Septimus said in a recent ATT thread
that he thinks there are already too many Administrivia/policy pages.
I'll go chainsaw them then, thanks ya'll.
As for adding them into the description, might as well add a few relevant lines.
Edit: Actually, it's already mentioned in the description, so I did my part.
Edited by WarJay77 Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Should we just comment-out general examples, or should we apply a chainsaw? I want to clean up Motor Mouth (the main page, not ready to tackle the subpages), but then I came across this. In addition to violating indentation rules (which I'm not entirely sure how to fix) it's also general.
Commenting it out for now, I'll nuke it if that's the better option.
Edit: There's also... this... from the same page. Not general so much as... not explaining where these examples come from.
- Other webcomics:
OWOWOWOKAYIDIDN'TMEANITIDIDN'TEVENWANNADOITTHEYMADEMEDOITASABETOWOWSTOPOW!
LookIgotmyswordfixedanditissocoolandsharpenedandIlikehowthelightgetsallshinyatthetipandIcango"skaaaaaa"and-"wooosh"and...
GeelookatthetimeIcantbelievehowlateitisIdontthinktheresanypointinlookingforanymorestuffgottagonowbye!
Edited by WarJay77