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Help talk:Tropes and Genres
I think this help page should address the difference between Fanlore page naming conventions and TV Tropes page naming conventions. If there's no fannish term for the trope you want to write about, the page should at least mention that there's no agreed-upon term for it and the Fanlore page is named for convenience purposes only. I've mentioned this problem on a few talk pages (Talk:Villain Is Right, Talk:Complementary Ships). My impression was that it used to be understood that Fanlore should not follow TV Tropes' convention of inventing trope names, but I can't find it written down anywhere. Fanlore is documenting fandom history and culture, and page name conventions have been discussed at least in the case of shipping, where the consensus has always been that the page name should reflect the name commonly used within the fandom itself.--aethel (talk) 18:06, 2 March 2024 (UTC)