Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Trope Talk/We should rename "Jossed" to something more intuitive./reply (2)

I think that regardless of what the actual trope ends up being, "jossed" or "Jossed" as a verb in text could be simply translated as "obsoleted", possibly with a pothole to the actual trope if we're dealing with a link.

I think the whole thing should be doable with regular expressions. if it's a simple link with a * in front of it, change it into a link to the new trope the usual way. Otherwise change the text to "obsoleted", preserving whether the word was a link and capitalizing if it's the beginning of a sentence. "Jossed" shouldn't be a substring in anything, but we need to take the context into account anyway, so surprise finds of characters called Jossedia or something shouldn't be a problem if we do it right. It can get a little bit complex with all the cases that need to be taken into account but shouldn't be particularly difficult.

I would write some examples of how to do that, but I can't find how you turned off formatting on this wiki again...

Or maybe Jossed could be Authorially Obsoleted. I'm not sure how great a name that is, but it works as a verb and should be simple to replace.