Thread:Forum:Wiki Talk/YMMV integration/reply (3)

I'm going to copypaste this from Forum:My idea, because I think it's relevant to this discussion:

I've long thought that YMMV pages were kind of a ghetto, and Trivia is as well. Trivia itself has plenty of Audience Reactions, just disguised as more objective things, like Acclaimed Flop and Hitless Hit Album. They can be objectively quantified, but they're still about the audience. Mid-Development Genre Shift seems to be about the writing process interacting with the results of the show, which means it really is about storytelling.

YMMV itself has weird tropes in it like Stuck in Their Shadow which is not really up for that much debate -- all the examples are In-Universe even. Or Death of the Author, which is more about the fact that differing interpretations exist rather than being subject to interpretation itself. And honestly, one of the main examples given for YMMV trope, Complete Monster, I actually feel is an objective trope, insofar as it's a character type that the author intentionally makes.

@QuestionableSanity: Is it even possible to remove the author's environment from his writing?

Anyway, I'm weakly for merging both, unless someone can come up with a reasonable 1-2 sentence description of what belongs in YMMV and Trivia. And what "Trivia" even means on a site that's more or less dedicated to trivia.