Orphaned/Sandbox/Cross Wicking

Crosswicking is the process of ensuring that every example can be found. In most cases, this is done by copying a similar version of the text from the trope page to the work page, or vice-versa, with minor modifications to help with people not knowing the work on the trope page. To ensure there's no confusion, here's some commonly asked questions about crosswicking habits and the answers.

When should I cross wick?

 * Unless a trope page gives specific orders not to, such as the Flame Bait pages, there should be a similar entry on both a work and trope page detailing how the trope is used.

What about potholes in cross wicks, what should I do with them?

 * Do not pothole YMMV tropes on the main work/trope page. That's trying to bypass the YMMV rules and can result in an edit suspension.


 * At no point should you ever, ever, hide the name of the work. Putting it under the name of a character is hiding it. No one should have to mouse over or click something to know what work is being discussed. Putting it dead last in a long paragraph is hiding it. The reader should know what work is being discussed as early as possible.


 * Most of the time, the example on the trope page could use a pothole for characters to their archetypes so that somebody unfamiliar with the work can still understand what's going on. This is not necessary on the work page for the most part, as much of the tropes are already listed and don't need the duplicated potholes throughout every example. For instance "Some Work Name: Charlie punched Victor across the room in the finale." would be a great example on Punched Across the Room, but the potholes don't add anything to the Some Work Name page since we already knew all of that from the description.

What if there's no work page?

 * Link unmade (redlinked) pages. If nobody has made Some Work Page yet, this provides an incentive to do so, and has the added benefit of providing some links as soon as it does get made. Make sure to use the proper Namespace.


 * Make the work page please, they're free after all. We can never have enough work pages.

What if it's not a real work, like it's a fanfic or something?

 * Fan Works are real works and you should crosswick them. All works that can be found are real works. All of them. Every last one. The only real exception are Unpublished Works which belong over in Darth Wiki. If it's somewhere you can find it on the internet or in a forgotten film reel, it doesn't count as unpublished though. The Other Wiki is the one with notability and reference standards, TV Tropes practices No Such Thing As Notability.


 * Just for Fun pages for made up works, like The Ugly Barnacle, should not be linked however.