Topic on Forum:Trope Talk

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I hate to be that guy who wants to ruin all of the history of TV Tropes and All The Tropes but... sigh.

Power Trio is currently a list all of the tropes of three characters. According to Renamed Tropes/F to K]:

Freudian Trio was originally "Power Trio", which is now a Super-Trope encompassing all Ensembles with 3 persons.

So what does the rest of the world think a power trio is? A rock band with bass, guitar, and drums. There's pages of this on Google, and then there's the trope sites with a different definition. I'm not afraid of a different definition for troping wikis. The problem is that the "real" definition of power trio is also within our scope. And in fact the Rock Trio page states that its real name is "taken".

So I'm going to propose a somewhat sweeping change:

Bot-edit the 1369 links currently pointing at Power Trio to Freudian Trio.
Move the current content of Category:Power Trio to uh, let's say Category Trio Tropes and recategorize members appropriately.
Move Rock Trio to Power Trio, and bot-edit its links too.

I think bot edits will be OK here because its the same part of speech and takes the same articles. I will see if I can write a bot to alphabetize it appropriately; User:Dai-Guard is almost back in commission.

TL;DR Having tropish English names different from vernacular English keeps the autistic people communicating effectively with neurotypicals, so let's rename Power Trio.