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Regardless, you don't get to unilaterally decide to change the media categories. If you feel strongly enough about this, you are free to make a proposal to the wiki user base in the forums, and campaign among the users to convince them. If you can generate a consensus that the media types need to be changed, we will change them. |
Regardless, you don't get to unilaterally decide to change the media categories. If you feel strongly enough about this, you are free to make a proposal to the wiki user base in the forums, and campaign among the users to convince them. If you can generate a consensus that the media types need to be changed, we will allow you to change them. But changing them on one page and basically defending it by saying "they're stupid" isn't going to cut it. |
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Also, understand that if you succeed, you're volunteering to make all the necessary edits -- or lead a team to make those edits -- on all 30,000 or so trope pages. Which not only means renaming the sections, but reordering the sections to put them in proper alphabetical order by their new names. If you insist on the change but back off on the work when you get it, it's not going win you any friends. |
Also, understand that if you succeed, you're volunteering to make all the necessary edits -- or lead a team to make those edits -- on all 30,000 or so trope pages. Which not only means renaming the sections, but reordering the sections to put them in proper alphabetical order by their new names. If you insist on the change but back off on the work when you get it, it's not going win you any friends. |
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