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* [[Schmuck Bait]]: [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Don't stuff up beans up your nose|Defied]].
* [[Serious Business]]: The major two factions on Wikipedia are the Inclusionists and the Deletionists, as mentioned in the introduction. Deletionism was, for some time, the primary school of thought of Wikipedia--even against the wishes of its founders. Just look at the [[Internet Backdraft|flame war]] that kicked up when Jimbo Wales [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-webscout30sep30,0,2828599.story tried to start an article about a South African restaurant], only to have it deleted almost immediately. In addition, reading discussion pages on ''any'' topic is likely to result in a lot of [[Serious Business]].
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Played straight in some more technical articles and inverted in Simple English Wikipedia.
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: One of the major underlying causes for conflict between Inclusionists and Deletionists, as well as systemic bias (see [[We All Live in America]] below and [[Serious Business]] above). If a Deletionist hasn't heard of something, it's ''obviously'' non-notable.
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* [[All The Tropes:Strong Language Usage Rules|Strong Language Usage Rules]]: Similar, minus funny being acceptable. And [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Manual of style|much more detailed]].
* [[There Is No Such Thing as Notability]]: ''Utterly'' inverted — at least [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:General notability guideline|in principle]], because [[wikipedia:Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability|enforcement varies]].
* [[Thread Mode]]: The bullet points version is averted hard in articles, but played straight on talk pages and deletion process pages. The inline version, not so much.
* [[Trope Codifier]]: The MediaWiki software developed for Wikipedia and the style conventions set there have set audience expectations for reference wikis.
* [[Troll]]: Some people put either totally irrelevant things on the page (sometimes [[Jerkass|wiping the whole page in the process]]) or mess it up by doing the summary wrong.
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