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First, there's an asterisk. This creates the bullet point that sets the new trope off from its neighbors. It's followed by a space to improve the readability of the page source.
Second, the trope name, surrounded by double square brackets. The brackets turn the name into a link as noted elsewhere. If when you save the page this is a [[Red Link]], you've done something wrong -- either you've used a trope that doesn't exist on this site<ref>Not uncommon when the editor is a recent refugee from [[TV Tropes]]</ref>, you misspelled something, or you got the capitalization wrong. We have a hints system that pops up a progressive list of possible links for you in the upper right corner of the edit window; make use of that to avoid problems. It's also a good idea to make sure the link you're using is the actual name of the trope you want,<ref>Which is another thing that sometimes trips up recent refugees from TV Tropes. For example, our page about [[sobriquet]]s is called "Sobriquet", not "Red Baron". Our page Red Baron is about the [[Red Baron]].</ref> and not a redirect, a disambiguation page, or a work. (We have more than a few works whose titles ''sound'' like trope names; every once in a while a mod has to remove a trope entry that points to one of them.)
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.
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