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Sorry, you\'re right. I think I was so frustrated from cleaning \'This Troper\' Natter out of pages that I wasn\'t really willing to listen to what you have to say. I misunderstood you; you\'re saying that examples of acceptable potholes would be like \
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Sorry, you\\\'re right. I think I was so frustrated from cleaning \\\'This Troper\\\' Natter out of pages that I wasn\\\'t really willing to listen to what you have to say. I misunderstood you; you\\\'re saying that examples of acceptable potholes would be like \\\"[[@/KrisMahai This troper]] feels that...\\\", right? I don\\\'t have a problem with that as long as it stays on Troper Tales/Wild Mass Guessing/Just Bugs Me/Sugar Wiki pages.
However, I\\\'m still of the opinion that in no case is ThisTroper acceptable on the Main wiki. You say that it could be used for idiomatic expressions and subjective tropes, but idiomatic expressions are generally {{Natter}} and subjective tropes can easily be explained without referring to yourself in any way, as in \\\"In some parts of the fandom [example]\\\". \\\"This Troper thinks that [example]\\\" is unnecessary, irritating, and gives the impression that said troper is the only one who thinks that. Additionally, making it appear as if said troper is not the only one that thinks that involves rewriting the sentence and removing ThisTroper, or adding Natter with something like \\\"ThisTroper thinks so too!\\\"
You say this seems Wikipedia-style to you, and as the Main Page says, we\\\'re not Wikipedia. We \\\'\\\'are\\\'\\\', however, a wiki. Wikis are \\\'\\\'meant\\\'\\\' to look like they\\\'re written by one person, so \\\'This troper\\\', \\\'I\\\', and \\\'Actually\\\' are \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' disapproved of.
Now, about orange-linking This Troper. I personally believe it should stay red-linked. The general consensus across the wiki is that ThisTroper is something we\\\'re trying to \\\'\\\'stamp out.\\\'\\\' Anything else will inevitably encourage it.
And technically, the site only has a few actual \\\'\\\'rules.\\\'\\\' Everything else is guidelines to prevent other tropers from having to clean up after bad editors afterward.
However, I\\\'m still of the opinion that in no case is ThisTroper acceptable on the Main wiki. You say that it could be used for idiomatic expressions and subjective tropes, but idiomatic expressions are generally {{Natter}} and subjective tropes can easily be explained without referring to yourself in any way, as in \\\"In some parts of the fandom [example]\\\". \\\"This Troper thinks that [example]\\\" is unnecessary, irritating, and gives the impression that said troper is the only one who thinks that. Additionally, making it appear as if said troper is not the only one that thinks that involves rewriting the sentence and removing ThisTroper, or adding Natter with something like \\\"ThisTroper thinks so too!\\\"
You say this seems Wikipedia-style to you, and as the Main Page says, we\\\'re not Wikipedia. We \\\'\\\'are\\\'\\\', however, a wiki. Wikis are \\\'\\\'meant\\\'\\\' to look like they\\\'re written by one person, so \\\'This troper\\\', \\\'I\\\', and \\\'Actually\\\' are \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' disapproved of.
Now, about orange-linking This Troper. I personally believe it should stay red-linked. The general consensus across the wiki is that ThisTroper is something we\\\'re trying to \\\'\\\'stamp out.\\\'\\\' Anything else will inevitably encourage it.
And technically, the site only has a few actual \\\'\\\'rules.\\\'\\\' Everything else is guidelines to prevent other tropers from having to clean up after bad editors afterward.
