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A general policy against exception-only tropes would be new information to me.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
It is a bad idea to have a trope where examples only consist in exceptions. Such a trope may work when it's limited to discussed, conversed examples similar to how Most Common Superpower is set up, but aversions don't work.
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Shouldn't they be put through TRS or have a clean-up thread then? There are still several exceptions-only tropes.
^^Does this mean that we shouldn't have articles on omnipresent tropes at all? Because those are in effect exceptions-only since examples of omnipresent tropes are not considered noteworthy?
I remember in 2016 I drafted Theres No Such Thing As Gay Children as a counterpart to Nobody Over 50 Is Gay. shimaspawn mentioned that exceptions-only tropes don't work and the draft was nuked. Is anything being done about exceptions-only tropes then? Are they still allowed? The current tropes haven't gone through clean-ups.