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== Things to Avoid ==
* '''Avoid Irrelevant Potholing and References:''' We know [[Jewel Staite]] was in ''[[Firefly]]'', so why does nearly every ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' example featuring her character have a [[Pothole]] to an unrelated show? A [[Pothole]] can be very much like its real world version, an annoying bump in the road. It should be used to help the flow of the information without flooding the reader with [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary|wiki injokes and terminology]] (like so). Around here, we have come to refer to the "bad" sort as [[Sinkhole]]s.
** '''Refrain From Internal "Witty" Potholes:''' Although as a wiki we are subject to our own use of the tropes we talk about, this wiki should not be self-referential. The writing about the tropes should be about the trope or the media, not about our own use of a trope in writing about them. Too often, a trope becomes a place for editors to comment on their own writing and isn't actually a use of the trope. For example - [[Berserk Button]]: [[Understatement|He got a little angry]] at the crack about his mom. - is using [[Understatement]] improperly, as it wasn't actually used in the trope. While - [[Berserk Button]]: "He was a little angry." "[[Understatement|A LITTLE!?]]" - is demonstrating how [[Understatement]] was utilized.
* '''Don't Use Footnotes For Context or Justification:''' We're not Wikipedia. We don't make a claim in the main text and footnote to an external link as validation. If you can't summarize the point that external page is supposed to make for you, don't add the example.
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