Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Split into Subtropes
, started by Routerie on Feb 22nd 2012 at 9:05:40 PM
scourge of broken links.
while intresting I didn't feel these were actual zombies. As usual when I trim what I see as cruft, I leave it in the discussion page in case someone wants to put it back.
- In India the tens of thousands of normally functioning individuals have been declared dead by government officials so that others might be able to appropriate their land and property. The problem is so widespread that a pressure group called Mritak Sangh or Association of Dead People has been formed to advocate on their behalf. Some have even tried running for elected office despite the notable handicap of being dead. Another tactic is provoking the police to arrest them, so they will need to explain how someone dead can be arrested.
- The reverse has happened so frequently in Japan, it's generated a term of its own. "Kodokushi", which means "lonely death". It refers to people who have died alone, and as their deaths have gone undocumented, they aren't registered as dead for a long time, sometimes by as long as a decade or more. With the growing elderly population and an epidemic of social isolation, it's become a serious social problem. It's estimated that as many as 32,000 people might have died "lonely deaths" in 2009 alone.
Type S: Species. This category would be for zombies that are an altogether different species from humans, such as the Cenobites from "Hellraiser".
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Erhm....
So it seems the article was rewritten to remove all references to the lettered types.
I don't know why, but what this results in is that the whole wiki is full of references to, for instance, 'Type R' and 'Type F' zombies. But there's no explanation anymore of what each type means.
Nor do I know what each type meant, so I can't personally fix it.
Aaaaaand... This was of course not a reply to the above. Oops.
Edited by Robrecht Angry gets shit done.
The type referred to the first letter of the term. Voodoo zombies are type V and type F is flesh eating for example...and really, removing that was questionable. Then again, maybe that never would have made it into the final version if they had waited until the thing had five hats until launching.
Still, you would think someone would make sure to do a corresponding cleanup before changing what was a mostly harmless part of the trope page anyway.
That's why he wants you to have the money. Not so you can buy 14 Cadillacs but so you can help build up the wastes
And it seems the wiki still hasn't been fully cleaned up, and some of the types don't match trope names (type R is Revenant Zombie, but type P can be either Plague Zombie or Parasite Zombie, and there's no indicator of what type M and type O were).
Edited by OmegaMetroid Thus speaks the Omega Metroid! ...Or something like that.
Not calling our zombies zombies is a huge trope, while Night of the Living Dead zombies don't count, in our modern age everyone knows what a zombie is so referring to them as walkers etc. especially without ever saying the Z word, especially in a depiction that otherwise strives for believability/realism, is a very unrealistic elephant in the room trope and a half.
So do we make it here or as it's own trope linked here?