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That sounds very reasonable and all, but I seriously have yet to see a sentence using \
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That sounds very reasonable and all, but I seriously have yet to see a sentence using \\\"this troper\\\" which \\\'\\\'couldn\\\'t\\\'\\\' be improved by removing it. Except for the ones that belong on TroperTales anyway.

I don\\\'t know, maybe they\\\'re out there somewhere, but until I\\\'m convinced of their existence you\\\'re going to have difficulty making me believe we need a policy to protect them.

(The invocation of scientific journals seems off-point to me. The problem with ThisTroper isn\\\'t one of formality; it\\\'s one of scope. Journal articles are to some degree about their authors--or at least they\\\'re about something their authors have been doing. Wiki pages aren\\\'t, and can\\\'t be.)
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That sounds very reasonable and all, but I seriously have yet to see a sentence using \
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That sounds very reasonable and all, but I seriously have yet to see a sentence using \\\"this troper\\\" which \\\'\\\'couldn\\\'t\\\'\\\' be improved by removing it. Except for the ones that belong on TroperTales anyway.

I don\\\'t know, maybe they\\\'re out there somewhere, but until I\\\'m convinced of their existence you\\\'re going to have difficulty making me believe they need a policy to protect them.

(The invocation of scientific journals seems off-point to me. The problem with ThisTroper isn\\\'t one of formality; it\\\'s one of scope. Journal articles are to some degree about their authors--or at least they\\\'re about something their authors have been doing. Wiki pages aren\\\'t, and can\\\'t be.)
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