Spud and I've discussed this particular trope quite a bit over time, mostly because, as he's explained above, it's not exactly clear. Frankly, despite having watched Big O before getting into TV Tropes, I wouldn't have gotten the reference. Certainly, the number of people who would know immediately what was being referenced is a lot smaller than the initial trope namers would think.
There's a few cases where trope names were changed just because unless you were into a given fandom, the name made no sense. Takahashi Couple becoming Belligerent Sexual Tension is a big example, and the various -dere tropes were quite literally in another language unless you were an anime fan. TVTropes taught me the terms, but that doesn't mean it was any less opaque.
I suppose it really depends on what kind of crowd you're going for. If this is just going to be a Tropeflower for itinerant Pilgrims fleeing King Edward's tyrannical trope-censorship in the New World of Tropes, then keeping the old, more idiosyncratic names is fine. But if you want to draw in newbies and folks that haven't done this before, more inclusive methods will definitely help. This doesn't mean killing the old trope titles. One of the things I really liked about TV Tropes' system was the fact you could have multiple URL titles go to the same page. A lot of variations on one Trope can link to the main page, and a simple "This trope is also occasionally referred to as a 'Takahashi Couple', due to said prolific manga writer's tendency to make nearly all romantic couples in her works according to this archetype" both acknowledges the original (and explains it for anyone who runs into an older edit that has the original term) while still not making the base article particularly obfuscating to non-longstanding tropers.
Which is the superior option really depends on the wiki's basic policy and aims, however.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
There's a few cases where trope names were changed just because unless you were into a given fandom, the name made no sense. Takahashi Couple becoming Belligerent Sexual Tension is a big example, and the various -dere tropes were quite literally in another language unless you were an anime fan. TVTropes taught me the terms, but that doesn't mean it was any less opaque.
I suppose it really depends on what kind of crowd you're going for. If this is just going to be a Tropeflower for itinerant Pilgrims fleeing King Edward's tyrannical trope-censorship in the New World of Tropes, then keeping the old, more idiosyncratic names is fine. But if you want to draw in newbies and folks that haven't done this before, more inclusive methods will definitely help. This doesn't mean killing the old trope titles. One of the things I really liked about TV Tropes' system was the fact you could have multiple URL titles go to the same page. A lot of variations on one Trope can link to the main page, and a simple "This trope is also occasionally referred to as a 'Takahashi Couple', due to said prolific manga writer's tendency to make nearly all romantic couples in her works according to this archetype" both acknowledges the original (and explains it for anyone who runs into an older edit that has the original term) while still not making the base article particularly obfuscating to non-longstanding tropers.
Which is the superior option really depends on the wiki's basic policy and aims, however.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."