Duplicate examples cleanup

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#1: May 12th 2021 at 8:58:41 AM

Often, I see duplicate examples for a given trope on the same page.

For example, the Live-Action TV section of Springtime for Hitler have this:

* When Russian model Vladislav Ivanov was invited onto Produce Camp 2021, a Chinese reality show in which contestants vie to become members of a new boy band, he initially accepted but quickly changed his mind. Unable to withdraw without breaching his contract, he instead conspired to get eliminated as quickly as possible, performing all his songs in Russian with as little skill and energy as possible and urging viewers not to vote for him. Many viewers ended up drawn to his deadpan, anti-celebrity persona, while others thought it would be funny to reject his pleas and force him to stay in the competition, and so he kept getting voted through. By the time he got his wish and was eliminated from the show, Ivanov had made it all the way to the final and become a worldwide viral sensation.

Vladislav Ivanov aka Lelush is a Russian model who served as a translator for the Chinese singing talent show Produce Camp 2021, and after the producers of the show noticed his good looks he was signed up as a contestant. Lelush quickly regretted the decision, finding the weekly training sessions and isolation to be grueling, but cannot leave the show without breaking his contract. So he deliberately performed badly in hopes of being voted off the show. But instead, fans found his grumpy, defeatist attitude to be endearing and managed to vote him to stay until the final episode.

Here's one from Overly Narrow Superlative:

From the Advertising folder:

* Movies can be even worse about this, since there's rarely more than four or five major films competing in theaters at any given time, and they'll usually be varied in genre (since otherwise, they'd eat each other's business). Most of the time, a major studio movie can run with "#1 [genre] movie" because it's the only one in theaters that week, or at least the only one that opened then, when any rivals were on their last legs. And when even that fails, while they can't specify time, they can specify whether it's the #1 movie in America (and therefore only in America) or the world (and therefore not America).

From the Advertising — Films folder:

Done all the time unironically in film advertising the week after a film opens at the box office. Film ads that week will try to claim their picture was "the #1 film in America!" Anytime that isn't actually true, the ad will narrow the superlative down by genre, like "the #1 comedy in America!," "the # 1 thriller in America!," etc. This is especially egregious when it's a time of year where it has little competition.

How would I go about merging those examples in Springtime for Hitler and Overly Narrow Superlative?

Edited by Nen_desharu on May 13th 2021 at 1:14:11 PM

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#2: May 13th 2021 at 10:14:38 PM

Added another set of duplicate examples, this time from Overly Narrow Superlative

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#3: May 27th 2021 at 7:40:44 AM

EDIT: Whoops, there isn't already something for this. Carry on.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on May 27th 2021 at 10:41:22 AM

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#4: May 27th 2021 at 8:37:57 AM

Just now I've noticed that, at Forum Speak, the "Doublepost" folder is in there twice, but I'm not sure if it's self-demonstrating or a genuine error.

Edited by WackyPancake on May 27th 2021 at 5:38:14 PM

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#5: May 27th 2021 at 11:47:29 AM

I am fairly certain it is self-demonstrating.

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#6: May 27th 2021 at 8:58:05 PM

For the first post of this thread, I am unsure how should I go about combining the duplicate examples.

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#7: Aug 18th 2021 at 3:25:52 PM

Requesting a lock on this as this cleanup now exists. (A duplicate cleanup, how ironic.)

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Aug 18th 2021 at 6:26:26 AM

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