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TheGeekArtist08 Since: Feb, 2020
2020-08-31 21:34:33

I'll help remove that.

artsy geek | any pronouns | "well, if you're hearing this, then chances are you've made a very poor career choice."
2020-08-31 21:42:19

Much appreciated! 👍

...Though, I think you overcorrected. The problem part of the example was the stuff that talked about Bosewick as a person, the rest of the example — which exclusively referred to the characters he played — was fine.

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XFllo Since: Aug, 2012
2020-08-31 21:48:26

[up] I don't think so. It was basically a ZCE about a bunch of characters the actor portrayed. I agree with the removal.

2020-08-31 21:51:57

Oh, yeah... I was focused on the "troping real person" part, so I didn't even notice it was a "This totally happened, trust me" type of ZCE. Nevermind, then!

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AnoBakaDesu Since: Oct, 2013
2020-09-01 15:05:16

The thing that always bothers me with the Edit War guidelines is that it has to be the same person doing the addition/deletion twice for it to count, so you can have different tropers re-adding the same entry and they'll get away scot-free.

Edited by AnoBakaDesu "They played us like a DAMN FIDDLE!" — Kazuhira Miller, Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain
AegisP Since: Oct, 2014
2020-09-01 16:15:09

Ummmmm...that means they wont get suspended. Not that its kosher or that they will get away with it. If you see it happen, call the tropers here.

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Zuxtron (On A Trope Odyssey)
2020-09-01 16:17:02

Well, it's best to give the benefit of the doubt. It would be unfair to force everyone to read through a page's entire edit history to make sure their example hasn't already been added and removed by other people in the past.

Though, if it's clear that the person is aware of the edit war going on, that should be punishable.

DL32918623 Since: Jan, 2020
2020-09-04 15:02:20

I’m the person who added the Determinator article to Chadwick Boseman’s late as in real life and in his works he represents this trope and as a matter of respect for his achievement, I don’t think it’s fair to delete it when you have other articles about people’s tropes in real life.

2020-09-04 15:05:31

Those shouldn't be there, period. If you see them, delete them.

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Arctimon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2020-09-04 15:21:09

Yeah, just because you see it on other pages doesn't mean that they should be there.

Boseman is not a character, so we don't trope him. His works? Fair game. Him? Nope.

Serac (Troper Knight)
2020-09-04 21:49:32

If other creator pages are troping the real person, that just means that they've flown under the radar. Cleaning them up is a work in progress.

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