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Line 41: * Related tropes. This is the infamous "compare and contrast". What tropes are similar enough to merit a cross-reference here? Is it the direct opposite of any other trope? Is there a [[Super-Trope]] to this trope, or does it serve as one to two or more [[Sub-Trope]]s? * Categories. It's mentioned above and below, but it bears mentioning here, too: We want to see more than just "Trope" and the trope's name as categories. No trope exists in complete isolation -- what categories (things like "Pregnancy Tropes" and "Comedy Tropes") does your trope belong to? (If you're a TV Tropes Refugee, what we implement here as categories is what TVT calls "indexes". One big way they're different is that we put the category on the page, not the page on the index.) * Proper English grammar and usage: It doesn't matter if you hit all the other points above right on the head, if the trope candidate reads like it was written by ChatGPT, Google Translate or a dyslexic ten-year-old (or ~~both~~any/all of them working together), ''it will '''not''' get launched''. And although wiki admins have been known to step in and do their best to translate trope candidates from whatever they were written in to proper English, it is ''not'' their responsibility to do so -- it is that of the user(s) who want to see the trope candidate go live. If the description is so badly written a reader can't figure out what it means, and/or the examples are so garbled their relevance to the trope cannot even be guessed at, the article has ''failed'' at what it is supposed to do, which is ''communicate clearly and succinctly'' a pattern in storytelling. == A Few More Bits of Advice ==