Talk:Answers to The Name of God

Smith Will Suffice and Answers to The Name of God are two versions of the same trope. We need to choose one name and merge them.

-- Looney Toons, admin

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I like "Answers to The Name of God", but that might be because I'm a fan of Yes, Minister (which used the phrase near-verbatim at least once).

EDIT: And "Smith Will Suffice" sounds like something a Man in Black would say.

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I like "Smith Will Suffice" better.

As I have no preference (yet), it looks like we're in for a wait until we get a consensus...

I like the former option, but if anyone wants the latter, I'll go with consensus.

And since we have yet to see a consensus, expanding the ping circle:

@HLIAA14YOG @Bauerbach @HelljmprRookie @Kuma @Tad Cipher @Dominicmgm @The23rdCamper @Just a 1itt1e bit further @TheEric132 @Xemylixa @Blakegripling ph

"Answers to The Name of God" seems fitting.

I didn't knew about the first one. I like that movie but that quote isn't exactly what I think when I think of Reloaded.

But it's for the best if we use the second. Smith Will Suffice seems too much niche to me. I never watched a full episode of "Yes Minister" but "Answers to the Name of God" describes perfectly and in a short way what the trope is about.

Recapping the votes after five days.

Smith Will Suffice: HeneryVII, GethN7

Answers to The Name of God: Robkelk, Blakegripling ph, HLIAA14YOG

No vote: Looney Toons

No consensus yet.

I'll toss my hat in the ring for the second one if we need a consensus.

After thinking about it for a few days now, I am inclined to join with those voting for "Answers to the Name of God".

Which, I belatedly realize, makes for our "three votes more than for the other option" definition of consensus. I'll try to take care of the merger sometime today.

And done. That took less time than I expected.

And interestingly, the duplication between pages wasn't something that happened here -- both pages came over from TVT at the fork. And checking there and finding a relevant thread, it looks like maybe Labster's scrapebot actually caught things right in the middle of a rename -- which, it being TVT and thus running on a wiki built out of stone knives and bearskins, was (and remains) a long and involved manual process, giving it time to find links to intact copies of both pages.