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[[File:Lumpers and splitters.png|frame|link=xkcd|Lumping and splitting lumpers and splitters. (Image by Randall Munroe)]] |
[[File:Lumpers and splitters.png|frame|link=xkcd|Lumping and splitting lumpers and splitters. (Image by Randall Munroe)]] |
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{{quote|''"It is good to have hair-splitters and lumpers."|[http://books.google.com/books?id{{=}}gHYTAAAAYAAJ&pg{{=}}PA105 Charles Darwin]''}} |
{{quote|''"It is good to have hair-splitters and lumpers."''|[http://books.google.com/books?id{{=}}gHYTAAAAYAAJ&pg{{=}}PA105 Charles Darwin]''}} |
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When faced with five subtly different things, would you rather see one page with a general description of all five, or five pages precisely describing one entry each? If the first, you're a Lumper. If the second, you're a Splitter. |
When faced with five subtly different things, would you rather see one page with a general description of all five, or five pages precisely describing one entry each? If the first, you're a Lumper. If the second, you're a Splitter. |
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The way [[Troper]]s handle this deep philosophical divide is for splitters to write finely-distinct entries and for lumpers to write overview entries that list the "splits". We call those lumper pieces "indexes" or [[Super-Trope|Super Tropes]] (and, on All The Tropes, prefer to put them into Categories), and each of the splits is a [[Sub-Trope]]. |
The way [[Troper]]s handle this deep philosophical divide is for splitters to write finely-distinct entries and for lumpers to write overview entries that list the "splits". We call those lumper pieces "indexes" or [[Super-Trope|Super Tropes]] (and, on All The Tropes, prefer to put them into Categories), and each of the splits is a [[Sub-Trope]]. |
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[[The Other Wiki]] would not appreciate this. We must never tell them. [[The Other Wiki]] calls these "[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mergism mergist]" and "[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Separatism separatist]" Which, you will note, is a split. |
[[The Other Wiki]] would not appreciate this. ''We must never tell them.'' [[The Other Wiki]] calls these "[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mergism mergist]" and "[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Separatism separatist]" Which, you will note, is a split. |
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