Topic on User talk:Mrkelangelo

You took a work subpage title that uses a term the way the term is used in the work, and changed it to use a different term because that's what TV Tropes does.

All The Tropes is as much a reference site as it is a troping site, and using terms that aren't in the source makes this site less useful as a reference.

Also, "that's what TV Tropes does" is never a valid excuse to do the same thing here. The other admins could tell you horror stories about how TV Tropes did things before this wiki was founded. I was never on TVT, but I've literally spent years cleaning up some of the messes that they decided to make, and I'm nowhere near finished yet. Please don't do something just to copy somebody else.

Seconded. While it's not official policy, the admins are inclined to view an edit reason of "because TV Tropes does it this way" as equivalent to "I decided to be a Wiki Vandal today". If we're doing something differently from TVT, it's because we've got a damned good reason to.

With all due respect, you are mistaken; I changed the subpage title because it was the same as on TV Tropes, not because I wanted to copy TV Tropes. Sorry for the misunderstanding, but we actually share the same line of thinking.

To boot, the word "torchbearer" isn't used in the manga at all, and is purely used by TV Tropes' version of the page. That's why I changed it.

I see that Wikipedia uses the term "Torch bearer".

At this point, I'm going to have to ask for a page scan showing the term used by the professionally-released media.