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* We no longer name tropes after '''a line of dialogue or a Stock Phrase'''. It risks editors wikilinking the ''phrase'' every time that particular combination of words occurs, whether the underlying ''trope'' actually applies in that context or not.
* '''"Trope" used as a [[Metasyntactic Variable|placeholder word]]''' (e.g. "[[More Tropes Than God|More [Tropes] Than God]]", "[[Gonna Need More Trope|Gonna Need More [Trope] ]]") is now deprecated, as it misuses the word "trope".
* '''Acronym or initialism''' trope names. We generally prefer the title spelled out unless it has profanity (for example: the [[BFG]] trope, or Big [[Bowdlerisation|<s>Fucking</s> Freaking]] Gun). Initialisms tend to be turned into disambiguation pages around here (for example: [[BFG]]).
* If a trope was '''launched prematurely''' from the [[Trope Workshop]] before consensus was reached about a title and a description, it <s>should probably</s> ''will'' get sent right back.
=== What to do if you think a rename is called for. ===
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First of all: As long as there is no consensus to rename, you should leave the name be. Consensus does not mean a simple majority. While there's no hard-and-fast rule for what constitutes consensus, for renames we generally look for at least a 2:1 ratio in favor -- that is, twice as many people think it should be changed as think it shouldn't.
=== Yay, my change was approved. Who makes it? ===
One of the admins will perform the actual rename, as well as any other related changes that are required (such as updating the corresponding category). Users do ''not'' have access to the wiki's Move function, as it has been abused in the past by both vandals and users who felt they knew better than anyone else and refused to listen to consensus.
=== Oh, and one more thing... ===
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