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bwburke94 (Y2: Electric Boogaloo)
2019-09-15 18:24:44

Using another trivia entry as a HITG replacement is cuttable on sight.

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mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
2019-09-15 20:04:52

I've cleaned up a few examples of misuse, but have also uncovered another issue: the same troper who added the misuse of He Also Did has also added numerous entries under Retroactive Recognition for writers and directors, when the trope page suggests it's for actors rather than writers or directors. Should these be zapped as well?

(In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't yet sent a PM to the troper in question; "We are not IMDb" might be the most pithy subject line at this point.)

AmourMitts Since: Jan, 2016
2019-09-16 00:52:41

Looks like it's becoming more Just for Fun than Trivia.

nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010
2019-09-16 00:57:59

What the hell was it with Hey It's That Guy (and its brethren) that makes people so determined to shoehorn in a replacement somehow??

Edited by nrjxll
GnomeTitan Since: Aug, 2013
2019-09-16 03:14:44

I think it’s some sort of a desire to turn this wiki into IMDB but more. Some people just can’t seem to rest until they’ve dumped every bit if information they have here, and if they can find a place to shoehorn in that information, they will.

Edited by GnomeTitan
mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
2019-09-16 12:10:42

Something like that, probably. I'd imagine that also explains the borderline encyclopaedic entries for Relationship Voice Actor referenced in another ATT thread.

I've trimmed a few dozen instances of misuse at this point (mostly for Western Animation where the He Also Did entries simply name other animated series on which the writers, animators, or voice actors have worked); I am starting to wonder if this might require a short-term cleanup thread. (And a PM to the most frequent offenders on the misuse front; turns out there's more than one.)

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2019-09-17 04:50:55

Weirdly, there's absolutely a place on this wiki for those lists; Creator pages! Why don't these tropers add the information there?

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
SamCurt Since: Jan, 2001
2019-09-17 05:10:35

^ Adding work lists is easy, writing the creator information (and finding a picture of less cumbersome license) is a far more difficult thing to do. Also, I think some editors have the impulse to write something while on a trope page, but can't carry it on launching a page.

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crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2019-09-17 06:44:05

That only applies to Creator pages that don't yet exist. We sometimes have longer lists of works in some of these random tropes than we do on the Creator page itself, which is why I said add the information, not create the page.

Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
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