All The Tropes:How to Write An Example: Difference between revisions

* '''[[Weblinks Are Not Examples|Don't rely on YouTube or other URL links:]]''' Don't put in an example that consists of "watch this [[YouTube]] video/read this strip of the comic/look at this other site to understand what the heck I'm talking about!" The entire example will become worthless if (and in many cases, ''when'') the offsite link changes or is deleted. Videos in particular are often taken down for copyright reasons or just aren't available worldwide. Webcomics and Web Originals change hosting sites or strip/episode numbering formats. Also, try not to link to videos/forums/etc. that can only be viewed by members or subsets thereof.

** URL link pages should make things absolutely clear what information you are searching for. A 10 page review of an episode is not helpful for a single trope. If you can't link more precisely than the whole review, add more information about where the relevant part is; something like "about halfway down page three" will do.

* '''Don't Speculate, Don't Prognosticate:''' You may have a good reason for assuming the trope will be used in a show eventually, but if you haven't '''seen''' the trope in the work, [[Shaped Like Itself|you haven't seen the trope used in the work]], whether it's because the creators haven't put it in yet, because [[Averted Trope|they're not going to put it in]], or because you haven't actually seen the work in question. If and when you actually see the trope used add it -- but not before. By the same token, don't say "used in pretty much every [genre] work," particularly if you haven't seen literally all of them and can confirm that it's in them.