Net Gun: Some of the examples are "Alice uses one" or "Alice uses one to capture Bob" with no mention of nets or guns.Magical Land: Many of the examples are just "X" or "X has Y." ignoring mentioning how the examples qualify.Little Black Dress: Many of the examples have been commented out due to no context.Law of Inverse Fertility: In the Film section, 4-5 different movies are listed in one bullet with no context except "The whole point of the movie".The Lad-ette: Real life examples have no context.Many examples just include the song title, or some variation on " has nothing to do with the plot." Irrelevant Act Opener: Examples should explain what the plot is and what the song is about, to show the irrelevance.Hot Gypsy Woman: Some examples simply say that a character is Romani and attractive with no mention of how their sexuality relates to their ethnicity.Hime Cut: Many of the examples have been commented out due to no context.However, many of the examples simply state that a certain character or characters walk on two legs, without any explanation of the significance of this within the work. Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: The trope is about anthropomorphic characters within particular works walking on either four or two legs and how walking on two legs is generally a shorthand for more human-like characters.Fiction 500: Various examples don't have context, or simply compares them to other characters without any in-universe context for them to apply.Fake-Out Opening: Explain the plot and tone of the work, and what the beginning sets it up as.Evil Overlooker: Some examples have been commented out due to no context.Edutainment Show: Needs more explanations are to what the shows are about, who they're aimed at, and what topics they specifically teach.Eat My Dust: Some examples are "Character says this" without saying what "this" is.Dope Slap: Too many examples are "character does this" or "character gets this" or "X does this to Y" without saying what "this" is.Deranged Animation: Most examples simply say that the work uses the style without saying how that is, at most saying that the work looks like it was made under the influence.Concept Art Gallery: Needs to explain where the gallery is, how pieces are unlocked, and what it shows.Cheerful Child: Many of the examples have been commented out due to no context.Big Good: Similar problem with the previous trope.Big Bad: Most of the examples list the name of the Big Bad, or, in character pages, simply state that the character is "the main antagonist of the series" (often with that exact wording), but without bothering to explain what the character is doing to cause the conflict.Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Most of the examples have been commented out, to the point where some folders are simply empty.Bag of Kidnapping: Some of the examples are "X captured Y" with no mention of bags.In general, please remember to delete items from these lists as you complete them or find they are completed.įeel like helping the site but don't feel like addressing ZCEs? Check out Pages Needing Wiki Magic for other things that could use a hug. Once you've corrected the problems (or if you find a description that Magic seems to have already repaired), please remove the link from this list and remove the link to here from that page, if present. If you must do this, move it to the "Commented Out" folder when you're done so someone else can give it the attention it deserves. Because this method succeeds more in brushing the problem under the rug than actually solving it, please consider methods 1-3 before resorting to this. Please note that this makes it so the text following it is only visible in the Edit screen, invisible on the main page of the trope or work. "Comment out" the ZCEs by entering the Edit screen and placing the %% markup in front of them in place of the bullet (*).Take it to the Fixing Zero Context Examples project thread.Place it below to enlist assistance in giving them context.If you are familiar with the work and have the time, you can just give them context yourself.If you find a page with unexplained ZCEs, you can do the following: These are the pages so polluted by ZCEs, they need some big-time Wiki Magic Love. The kind where there are so many of them, you could put a lot of advertising at the bottom of each page that has them. There are Zero-Context Examples (ZCEs), and then there are these.
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