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An in-wiki admonition that speaks against explaining why an entry is wrong or incomplete instead of just fixing it.
A common offender is the [[Justifying Edit]] ("Well to be fair, the show was right to use that [[Trope]] because..."), but there's plenty of variety, from [[But Wait! There's More!|"Not to mention that..." tangents]] through [[Thread Mode|"However" clauses which make the page seem like it's arguing with itself]] all the way to [[Conversation in the Main Page|paragraphs on end of aimless chatter]].
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Why do these pop up? Perhaps the troper who wrote the entry was being overly polite and didn't want to hurt the feelings of whatever troper wrote the original article by deleting their example and writing in the corrected version instead. Or they wanted to show up the previous troper, keeping the incorrect version alongside the "correct" version. Or maybe they were under the mistaken impression that main article space doubles as a forum, a blog or a soapbox, and that we ''encourage'' that sort of thing.
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If it's to correct a misconception or to add more information, it can be integrated into the existing entry. If a response can be reasonably removed, it should.
No one is going to complain about the vast majority of the changes you want to make to a page. Don't feel any compunctions about adding or deleting entries if you think that your impressions are accurate or defendable. That said, don't let your bias get the better of you and completely wipe out whatever you disagree with. If there's more than one way to look at things, [[Righting Great Wrongs|they should all get their say]].
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