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BlackMage43 Since: Jun, 2014
2019-12-30 02:00:47

The other subpages don't have much more. There are actually many tropes that have these types of unnecessary subpages, for example MagicPants.Advertising has a single example.

I suspect at some point someone decided to separate every trope with the subpages as a rule, no matter how many examples it had. But then stopped (or were stopped?) and no one bothered to undo it.

Edited by BlackMage43
WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2019-12-30 02:02:42

^ The other subpages actually seem much longer though, but maybe that's just by comparison...

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StFan Since: Jan, 2001
2019-12-30 02:23:09

I've never hesitated, when a subpage has too few examples, to bring it back to the main article under the "Other Examples" header.

Splitting a trope into subpage is only done for the folders that are way too long. The other folders should be ignored. Too bad not everybody seems to have gotten the memo.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2019-12-30 11:36:41

Alright, I'll merge the section back over with a link to this thread.

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