All The Tropes:Wick

The number of pages which internally link to a page, as seen on What links here. These are the lifeblood of our trope articles—they place an article within the Troper hivemind's awareness, channeling the Wiki Magic its way.

The term is not a back-formation from "wiki," like it might seem; it's named for TVT member Morgan Wick, who made lists of inbound links before their wiki software automated the process.

There seems to be a magic minimum number of inbound links that determines an article's survival. More links are perfectly fine, so long as they are not forced.

If you feel like doing a good deed, check out the automated list of lonely pages or the manual list of pages with twelve or fewer wicks to see if there's some constructive linking you can do.

Note: These refer to links within the site, not externally.

The Scale of trope health is outlined below: (1 IL = 1 Wick)