Talk:The Archive of Bellicose Lexicon Entities

Even as humorous alignments? Is this worth keeping, if this and its sub-entities don't really reflect ATT culture?

I kept it because is was one of the more mission relevant Just For Fun pages, and while the "groups" may not formally exist, they do identify several generic troping wiki philosophies that could apply to us or TV Tropes, or any other wiki dealing with tropes.

Fair enough.

Eight years later and this is a useless fossil. Tagged for deletion.

Well, I won't contest it if you want to watch it die.

Let's compare the entries to ATT policy, shall we?

• CHOPSTICKS: the Conserving Helpful Otaku-Produced Superior Titles, Increasing Common Knowledge Society: Foreign-language terms as titles can enhance pages.
  • Directly contradicts All The Tropes:What Do I Call This Entry?

• Cool Unearthed Pictures Society (CUPS): the Cool Unearthed Pictures Society: Trope titles are less important than the images.
  • Directly contradicts All The Tropes:What Do I Call This Entry?

• FORKS: the Friends Of Really Kool Sobriquet: Trope names should be as witty as possible, whether or not they make any obvious sense.
  • Directly contradicts All The Tropes:Clear, Concise, Witty – "clear" comes before "witty" on ATT.

• HOTSAUCE: the Hotblooded Others Taking a Stand And Ushering in Chaos and Entropy: Tropes need to liberated from PLATTER rule by becoming more wild.
  • Directly contradicts All The Tropes:What Do I Call This Entry?

• KNIVES: the Kalculated Naming Indifference Violent Enforcement Section: The entire debate of trope titles is pointless.
  • Directly contradicts All The Tropes:What Do I Call This Entry? and All The Tropes:Clear, Concise, Witty

• NAPKINS: the Negative Space Kult of Ireland and Northern Scandinavia: Images on trope pages should be avoided as much as possible.
  • Would make All The Tropes:How to Pick A Good Image moot.

• PEPPER: People Ensuring Pages Populated by English Reliably: Non-English titles are almost always a bad idea except when absolutely necessary.
  • Implied by All The Tropes:Clear, Concise, Witty, but exceptions exist where the foreign-language term is known in English (for example, "Sobriquet" or "Shogun")

• PLATTER: People Letting All Trope Titles Exist Relishably: Trope names should be funny, but should also make sense.
  • All The Tropes:Clear, Concise, Witty puts these the other way around.

• SALT: Supporters of Additional Likenesses in Text: Examples are like salt; every article should have more of them (unless specifically forbidden from having any).
  • Implied but not actually stated by both All The Tropes:No Trope Is Too Common and All The Tropes:Too Rare to Trope

• SPOON: Society to Prevent Overly Original Names: Trope names should be as clear as possible, whether or not they are humorous. (Someone who follows this philosophy would never use the acronym, because it is not as clear as possible. As far as they're concerned, there is no SPOON.)
  • Yes, this is what All The Tropes:Clear, Concise, Witty already says.

• TONGS: Tropers Opposed to Negligent and Gratuitous Spoilers: Spoiler taggings should be kept to a minimum.
  • Directly contradicts All The Tropes:Handling Spoilers

• WHISK: Wonderful Humans' Insight Secures Koolness: People should always talk to the other groups before changing names of tropes. Hopefully compromises will be made.
  • If we haven't written this down somewhere, we really should.

So, yeah, no real need to keep this list, except for adding the last point to a relevant existing policy page if we haven't already.

Regarding that last, it is written down: All The Tropes:How to Get a Page Name Changed includes

First, start a thread on the talk page of the page you want to rename or in the ATT forums, in which you propose the name change and lay out the reasons why you think it's both appropriate and necessary. You are responsible for contacting as many users as possible and asking them to weigh in on your proposal. Not all users pay attention to the forums or even talk pages, so you can't rely on anyone just stumbling over your thread and offering their opinion. Convince the other users of the wiki you're right.

Besides, since only admins can implement a name change, no user can unilaterally rename a trope.