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If your trope title completely relies on the idea that "surely, ''everyone'' read that other page- I just have to make a pun with it", you should scrap it in favor of something clearer. Always assume that yours will be the first page on the Wiki that someone reads. Given that obscure cultural references are frowned upon, obscure in-jokes originating from the wiki are probably not that much of a good idea either. Here are some examples of it not working:
* [[Shipping]] → [[Going Down with the Ship]]
* [[Shipping]] → [[Going Down with the Ship]] <br /><br />In this case, the latter example was eventually completely renamed to [[Dying Declaration of Love]]. It was an easy pun on the whole [[Shipping]] terminology, but it is very easy to confuse for the thing where an ''actual'' captain goes down with an ''actual'' ship. (And in fact, that is exactly what you'll find at [[Going Down with the Ship]], now.)▼
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* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]] → [[Hypocritical Humour|Everything's Worse With Snowclones]]<br /><br />The "Everything's X with Y" tropes are about shoehorning things into a work to get a certain emotional response, so "Everything's Worse With Snowclones" seems to be about using snowclones to evoke fear or apprehension. It isn't. Thankfully, this is just one administrivia page, so make sure not to repeat our mistake. ▼
* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]] → [[Hypocritical Humour|Everything's Worse With Snowclones]]
=== Commonly Problematic Snowclones ===▼
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As you may have noticed, we have some titles that people very ''frequently'' try to make snowclones of, almost enough for the practice to become a [[Discredited Trope]] in and of itself. Be careful with these!
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* X Effect: When it's not about status, sound or special effects, it is often hard to search for the trope when X is a work or a character. It can also be that there are many traits that the X has which do not fit the trope. Several formerly X Effect tropes have already been [[Renamed Tropes|renamed]].
Despite all common sense, there are some naming patterns that just work. We're not sure why. We're not sure how, but experience in the TRS and in the wild on the wiki just proves that against all common sense, they're better than the alternative.
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