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Two caveats: first, I'm only familiar with Canadian copyright law and am not an expert in it; second, free legal advice is worth what one pays for it.

It looks to me that we're venturing into the area of "derivative works" here, in much the same way that a translation of a work into another language is a derivative work. I think there's nothing wrong per se with derivative works (I write fanfic), but copyright law disagrees with me.

It's been a while since I've gone and looked at what license if any TVTropes content is available under. Might we possibly be allowed to create a derivative work from one or more of their pages?

EDIT: "TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License." It doesn't have the ND clause... but it does have NC and SA. Considering the often-acrimonious relationship between TVT and ATT, I'd suggest erring on the side of caution and deleting - even a re-write could be seen as a derivative now. If we want the tropes, come up with new names for them and write the pages from scratch.