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Immediately after the trope link is a colon (":"). Don't forget it, or you may get a little note from a mod or another user who's had to go in and add them to your work. Don't use dashes or long dashes or anything else here. And it, too, gets followed by a space -- that's a general punctuation rule, not just for readability here.
Finally, the explanation of how the trope applies to the work. This is ''mandatory''. [[Zero Context Example]]s are subject to deletion. Work pages with nothing but Zero Context Examples are themselves subject to deletion if no one chooses to rescue them.<ref>Assuming we have time. Usually they just get tagged with {{tl|trope list needs context}}, which puts them onto [[:Category:Trope list needs context|this "cleanup" list]].</ref> One of the most valid criticisms of troping is that what we do is nothing but mindless cataloguing. If you don't explain how the trope functions (and why) in this work, then you're confirming that criticism. Put thought into writing a description that not only explains where in a work the trope is found, but how it works as a part of the story, and what makes it important.
Finally, your trope should be inserted in proper alphabetical order. Most of the time this should be obvious if you're a frequent user of the Latin alphabet, but there are edge situations and unclear cases. If you need help, see "Alphabetization", below, or our page [[All The Tropes:How to Alphabetize Things|How to Alphabetize Things]].
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Sometimes you might think it's necessary (or more attractive) to use a pothole with a work name. For instance, the ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' novels are all described on subpages under [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]], like ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish]]''; potholing that link to ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish|So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish]]'' just looks better. Go ahead and do that. Just be careful not to misspell or otherwise mangle the work name in the pothole. And once more, if you're not sure how to code a pothole, the markup is <code><nowiki>[[link|pothole text]]</nowiki></code> -- the link, a vertical bar, and then the text you want to have go to that link.
While you can pothole a plural version of a page name, you don't need to. Both <code><nowiki>[[Gasshole|Gassholes]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[Gasshole]]s</nowiki></code> create the link [[Gasshole]]s, and the shorter version is easier to read in the source editor.
Again, [[Pothole]]s are good, while [[sinkhole]]s are bad. Potholes and Sinkholes where different parts of ''the same word'' link to different pages are horrid - there's no way for a casual reader to know (or even suspect) that there's more than one link in the word. Unless you happen to take advantage of the wiki's color-coded internal links, but then it looks [[It Gets Worse|rid]][[From Bad to Worse|icul]][[It Got Worse|ous.]] It's also an [http://blogaccessibility.com/sin-2-of-inaccessible-blogs-using-consecutive-one-worded-links/ accessibility sin].
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