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There is an active crowner for Small Taxonomy Pools and Stock Dinosaurs at the Trope Repair Shop. Click here if you want to join the discussion.
Edit: The crowner now covers Stock Dinosaurs in addition to Small Taxonomy Pools. Check out the new options if you can.
Edited by GastonRabbitopenwhich forum?
I don't know which forum this would go on, but I found Small Taxonomy Pools through wiki walking and it mentions Linnaean taxonomy as the status for categorizing species. I wanted to start a forum to discuss modifying the description of the page, since the Linnaean system has been put out of use by professional taxonomists for quite some time now, being superseded by Cladistics. TLDR main reasons being the Linnaean system cannot have families within families, it predates the discovery of evolution, had birds separate from reptiles, sharks and lampreys listed as amphibians, etc.
openNo title
What to do with Small Taxonomy Pools? It lists entirely general examples, rather than specific examples. It's listed on Sorting Algorithm of Tropes, but unlike most sliding scales, there are no tropes that it explains the relations of.
The tropes in the latest crowner are:
All Women Love Shoes, Black Widow, The Bluebeard, Dead Guy Junior, Discriminate and Switch, Driven to Villainy, G-Rated Drug, Guns in Church, Hollywood Drowning, If Jesus, Then Aliens, The Illuminati, Improbable Taxonomy Skills, In Touch with His Feminine Side, The Jinx, Microwave the Dog, Mindlink Mates, Mirror Self, Not Using the "Z" Word, The Ophelia, Prefers Going Barefoot (formerly Does Not Like Shoes), Red Is Violent, Smoking Is Cool, Smoking Is Not Cool, Vanity Is Feminine, and We Hardly Knew Ye.
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