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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]].
[[All The Tropes:Example Indentation in Trope Lists|The second/third bullet point is oft-misused]] to reply to an example; sentences that obviously got tacked onto a paragraph as a response are also commonplace and may be even more disruptive. The tone may be polite, passive-aggressive or sarcastic, but the result is the same: Concise examples turn into [[Wall of Text|walls of text]], the wiki loses its consistent voice and [[All The Tropes:Signal to Noise Train Wreck|the interesting parts get drowned out in all the noise]].
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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