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Consensus is that using the gendered redirect is fine. I would revert to the gendered redirect and link either here or to the discussion page in the edit reason.
Got it, thanks.
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Good to know for my case, too. When I leaned not to pothole the trope name, I thought redirects were no exceptions either.
As I mentioned the last time this came up, I personally don't think redirects and potholes should be treated differently in trope lists, but it seems I'm in the minority on that. At the very least, redirects that only affect gender usually don't mess up the alphabetization, so that's something, I guess.
Out of the three examples, one of them is actually a Recap subpage, not a Characters subpage. I feel that means the gendered character exception should not apply and only the proper trope name (or US/Commonwealth alternative spelling) should be used, not an opposite gender alternative.
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^ That seems arbitrary, though. Why shouldn't it be used there?
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Because it isn't a subpage/folder about a specific character. Episodes don't have genders.
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^ But it's a character trope about the character featured. Just because it isn't on a character's page doesn't mean the trope is no longer about the character.
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^ Agreed with WarJay. The trope refers to the character, not the episode. "Episodes don't have genders" is a flawed argument.
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^It's not just flawed, it's absurd. Just because the example is on a recap page doesn't turn the old woman into an old man.
Just because you used a gendered term for the trope title doesn't make the trope about gender. The list of tropes are from the episode, not one character.
Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
About gender? No. About a character? Yes.
The trope being on the episode page instead of the character page doesn't magically make it a non-character trope.
You're being pretty unreasonable here, Crazy. Whether or not someone wants to use a gendered redirect on a recap page is not a big deal; it certainly isn't something to get upset over.
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Hello. There seems to be a problem regarding the Calling the Old Man Out redirect for the female version, Calling the Old Woman Out. Past discussions have determined that redirects can be used for the appropriate gender. However, a relatively new troper, Ariachus, has been changing the redirects in the actual trope name listings regardless of which gender (while I agree with the pothole redirects). Here are a
few
examples
.
While I’ve opened up a discussion about it
to avoid an Edit War, what’s the best option to proceed in this case? Thanks.
Edited by gjjones