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Libraryseraph (Five Year Plan)
12th Sep, 2020 03:13:53 PM

I'd get more input, but I've seen a lot of forum-speak pages what are no on page examples so I'd personally say Lurker should be kept with examples cut.

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WaterBlap Since: May, 2014
12th Sep, 2020 04:35:44 PM

Yeah, one of those examples is a ZCE. I'd say just officially make this a definition-only page.

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jjjj2 Since: Jul, 2015
12th Sep, 2020 05:03:32 PM

They both seem somewhat ZCE to me. The first one just says the character was the first lurker, and the second one says the characters have lurker based powers, with out elaborating on either.

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ImmiThrax Since: Apr, 2020
12th Sep, 2020 05:29:57 PM

Also in favor of making definition-only.

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MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
12th Sep, 2020 05:32:27 PM

Definition-only? I vote aye. "Aye," vote I.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
12th Sep, 2020 05:37:24 PM

Aye, I also vote "Aye", I do.

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miraculous (Apprentice)
12th Sep, 2020 05:58:11 PM

Definition only seems good.

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Lermis Since: Nov, 2018
12th Sep, 2020 11:23:48 PM

Same. And by the looks of it, the page was supposed to be "definition only" to begin with.

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rjd1922 Since: May, 2013
12th Sep, 2020 11:35:15 PM

It's mostly just there for definition, so it shouldn't be cut for lacking examples, but I don't see anything wrong with the page having examples. Why does it have to be all or nothing?

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
13th Sep, 2020 01:11:23 AM

This isn't TRS folks, and no, you don't cut example sections willy nilly. Definition-Only Pages is currently in TRS because it appears to have received a bunch of inapplicable entries, so one shouldn't treat it as gospel yet.

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