All The Tropes:Wick

The number of pages which internally link to a page, as seen on its "related to..." button. 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 troper User:Morgan Wick, who made lists of inbound links before the 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. Go below the threshold, however, and the article withers, lost thousands of edits below Recent Changes's surface, only to see the light of day in redundant YKTTW queries.

If you feel like doing a good deed, check out the 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 S-Scale of trope health is outlined below: (1 IL = 1 Wick)