Topic on Forum:Trope Talk

One candidate rejected as a duplicate, one rejected outright, one accepted after getting more examples, one accepted with a different name.

• Trope Workshop:Afterlife Search And Rescue
• Trope Workshop:Anonymous Gladiator.
• Trope Workshop:Binary Characterization Assumption
• Trope Workshop:Trimurti Trio

While I have in the past few months rescued, revised and launched a large number of tropes, I have neither the interest nor the knowledge to whip these into shape. They have sprawled near-dead in the Workshop for months or years, and there always seems to be someone who's willing to tell someone else how to fix them, but can't be bothered to do it themselves. Well, I can't be the one doing all the work. If no one rescues and launches these tropes by the end of the weekend, I am killing them.

hands LT the shotgun to take them behind the shed if he wants to

It looks to me like the only thing keeping "Binary Characterization Assumption" from launching is a lack of examples - and I don't see Irresponsible Captain Tylor listed there yet. I think I can find enough examples to launch that one.

EDIT: Two anime examples and one Real Life example added to "Binary Characterization Assumption", doubling the number of examples we had. Page launched.

Fantastic, @Robkelk! Thank you!

OK, so I really like Trope Workshop:Trimurti Trio. I learned about a new concept from the page, which is always cool. It's got a great writeup, which clearly defines the trope.

But darned if I can't think of any examples. Or any examples that don't work better as a Power Trio. Maybe if I was familiar with media from the subcontinent, but I'm drawing a blank, and that always makes me wonder if it's not a trope.

Okay, then... I'll hold off on nuking this one until we can come up with a good idea what to do about it.

Afterlife Search And Rescue is an obvious duplicate that needs to be merged with redirect, per talk page.

Anonymous Gladiator kind of has a potential, but it needs better description, better name AND examples, so...

Trimurti Trio is passable, but needs a better name.

A merge I can handle.

And yeah, Anonymous Gladiator. (yes, complete with inexplicable period at the end of the name) has some potential, but someone needs to do something with it. I've been watching it for months now and nobody seems to care to do anything. That's why I started this thread -- it's one thing to do a drive-by posting and say a candidate can be punched up, but it's another thing entirely to actually do it. If no one's going to do anything, then there's no point in keeping it in the workshop.

Trimurti Trio, due to Labster's comments about it, I'll back off from. I'll do the merger on Afterlife. But if no one claims Gladiator by the time I get home from work tonight -- that's approximately 6 PM Eastern Standard Time in the US -- it will get deleted. I'm tired of endless advice and comments but no action.

Okay, the merger on Orphean Rescue has been done, and I'm about to delete the Gladiator.