I won't be in much for the next two or three days (my internet has been having some issues), but after reading the Example Sectionectomy page, here's my take on it's (we should keep the page for archival reasons, if nothing else, but I propose modifying it for ATT use and putting it in the All The Tropes namespace as a policy page) guidelines in regards to ATT
1. Prune the examples section. Useful if many of the examples are of poor quality.
If many examples just don't fit or are grossly off topic, fine, but I'd rather focus on improving them.
2. Kill It With Fire. Delete the entire article as having poor focus.
This is retarded. With the exception of vandal crap, spam, or troll nonsense, I'm against this.
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.)
Fairly reasonable guideline IMO.
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."
Never was entirely sanguine on this this, felt it was applied unfairly to many pages, but in very limited cases may be justified.
5. Leave the trope where it is, but make the example section a separate page, sometimes on the Sugar Wiki or Darth Wiki.
Okay, this was just stupid.
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.
Okay, renaming tropes entirely (aside from fixing them for punctuation and style) is a topic that needs to be discussed on the talk pages and/or site forums, so this guideline isn't totally foolish.
7. Move examples to another wiki entirely.
This only applies to Fetish Fuel (has it's own wiki on Wikia) and Troper Tales (has one on Wikkii). We already decided we don't wish to retain this information, so as applied to ATT, we just remove any of this wherever we find it.
1. Prune the examples section. Useful if many of the examples are of poor quality.
If many examples just don't fit or are grossly off topic, fine, but I'd rather focus on improving them.
2. Kill It With Fire. Delete the entire article as having poor focus.
This is retarded. With the exception of vandal crap, spam, or troll nonsense, I'm against this.
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.)
Fairly reasonable guideline IMO.
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."
Never was entirely sanguine on this this, felt it was applied unfairly to many pages, but in very limited cases may be justified.
5. Leave the trope where it is, but make the example section a separate page, sometimes on the Sugar Wiki or Darth Wiki.
Okay, this was just stupid.
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.
Okay, renaming tropes entirely (aside from fixing them for punctuation and style) is a topic that needs to be discussed on the talk pages and/or site forums, so this guideline isn't totally foolish.
7. Move examples to another wiki entirely.
This only applies to Fetish Fuel (has it's own wiki on Wikia) and Troper Tales (has one on Wikkii). We already decided we don't wish to retain this information, so as applied to ATT, we just remove any of this wherever we find it.