Example Sectionectomy

Both a Wiki Tropes, and a TV Tropes guideline.

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Sometimes, the example section of a page gets bloated. When this has happened in the past we have used seven options:

1. Prune the examples section. Useful if many of the examples are of poor quality.
2. Kill It with Fire. Delete the entire article as having poor focus.
3. Create a set of subpages for it. Useful if the page is sufficiently popular, and also sufficiently objective, that deletion is undesirable. (The results may possibly be put under Sugar Wiki or Darth Wiki if not objective, and sufficiently popular and straightforward (e.g., Crowning Moment of Awesome, So Bad Its Horrible.)
4. Give it an Example Sectionectomy, for which this trope is named. Leaves only the definition, and some scar tissue saying "No examples please. This only defines the term."
5. Leave the trope where it is, but make the example section a separate page, sometimes on the Sugar Wiki or Darth Wiki.
6. Rename a trope. Sometimes it's the title which can cause the whole mess. See Everything You Wanted to Know About Changing Names for more detail on that front.
7. Move examples to another wiki entirely.

Examples of type 2:

• Members of the Permanent Red Link Club (aside from This Troper).

Examples of type 3:

• Any page that was on Multipage Tropes back when we listed those.
• Fridge Logic → now largely located in the Just Bugs Me namespace → Now combined with other Fridge thoughts in its own section

Examples of type 4:

• Accidental Nightmare Fuel
• Album Filler
• Award Snub
• Base Breaker
• Baka
• The Bechdel Test
• Black Hole Sue
• Canon Defilement
• Canon Sue
• Character Development
• Epic Riff
• Favorite Trope
• The Firefly Effect
• Gorn
• Hype Backlash
• Like You Would Really Do It
• Lolicon
• Mistakenly Banned
• Original Character
• Orwellian Editor - also permalocked
• Panty Shot
• Pet Peeve Trope
• Shipping
• Shock Site
• Shotacon
• So Okay It's Average
• Trope Enjoyment Loophole
• Unpleasable Fanbase
• The Untwist
• Video Game Movies Suck
• Waggle
• What the Hell Casting Agency
• Writer Cop Out

Example of Type 5:

• Narm → Narm Which was later moved back to Narm (the examples are still within the Darth Wiki).

Examples of type 6:

• Boring Invincible Hero → Invincible Hero
• You Fail X Forever Pages → Artistic License - X (I.E. You Fail Biology Forever → Artistic License Biology)

Examples of type 7:

• Fetish Fuel
• Troper Tales

Examples of Types 1

Type 1 (and to a lesser extent, 2) are virtually unlistable. Due to the way the Wiki works, they are easily lost in the mists of Wikihistory.

Mixed examples:

• Mary Sue received somewhat of a 2/4 hybrid, with the article being (almost?) completely re-written and losing all the examples. Though now it seems the new page is a stitched-up combo of the two versions a-la Frankenstein's monster... We're not sure what to call it.
• You Fail Logic Forever initially had a spin-off page (Insane Troll Logic) for listing non-specific examples as the page had become rather bloated, and a release valve for non-specific examples was thought desirable (type 5). And then the original page was reorganized so that all the fallacies contained therein were spun off into their own pages (type 3), while the original spin-off had developed through a sort of reverse Trope Decay into a full trope in its own right.

Non-TV Tropes examples:

• Wikipedia's "in popular culture" sections have more than a whiff of this.