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Some pages, by their nature, do not have sections -- either they are tropes specific to a particular medium, or they are medium-specific subpages of example-overloaded tropes. In these cases, add your example to the bottom of the page. (Yes, we know that many of these are alphabetized; they came that way from TV Tropes. However, we feel that ease of finding new entries outweighs the aesthetic value of an alphabetized page.)
Make sure your example is properly marked up -- the work name should be a link and emphasized as is proper for the kind of work it is (see the other sections on this page for what you need to do if you don't already know). ''Do'' make sure you're linking to the right page, not a redirect, a disambiguation page, or a page for a different version of the work (or a different work entirely that has the same name). ''Don't'' bury the link to the work in a pothole on a character name or phrase that will not be obvious to the casual reader or viewer who might not know the work, or which will fall out of common knowledge in five or ten years.<ref>The wiki's content is old enough that this is a ''constant'' problem -- few people these days remember the main character or key catch phrase of the hot new show of 2005, for example.</ref>
For more information on how to write a good example, see [[All The Tropes:How to Write An Example|How to Write An Example]].
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