History Administrivia / Sinkhole

These are when potholes are chained with sinkhole characteristics. There's only one sentence, but many pages linked to. Instead of proper structuring, careless editors divide the sentence into multiple parts and link adjacent parts to separate articles. That way we'll get a mess that turns nearly the entire sentence blue like this:

These are when pot holes are chained with sinkhole characteristics. There's only one sentence, but many pages linked to. Instead of proper structuring, careless editors divide the sentence to equal parts and link each part to the articles. That way we'll get a mess that turns nearly the entire sentence blue like this:

'''Misleading links:''' Consider Creator/MarkHamill, who both portrayed Luke Skywalker in ''Franchise/StarWars'' and voiced ComicBook/TheJoker in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse.

'''Chained sinkholes:''' These are when pot holes are chained with sinkhole characteristics. There's only one sentence, but many pages linked to. Instead of proper structuring, careless editors divide the sentence to equal parts and link each part to the articles. That way we'll get a mess that turns nearly the entire sentence blue like this:

'''Covert opinions:''' Too many times sinkholes are used to bury a [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]] in an example or description. These are bad. If you see one of these, remove the unnecessary links and/or restructure the necessary ones.

'''Administrivia/AllBlueEntry attempts:''' This is an attempt to create an Administrivia/AllBlueEntry under the pretense that it's witty or novel. This is not the case. Gratuitous sinkholes should be removed from such examples.

'''Linking a common phrase to a trope of the same name:''' For example, linking a statement that someone "got better" in some way, shape or form to the trope IGotBetter. That is part of why the trope was renamed to UnexplainedRecovery and why Administrivia/NoNewStockPhrases are allowed.

'''Changing the display text of a trope in a list:''' This is used to make a trope specific to a situation, e.g. changing SealedEvilInACan to [[SealedEvilInACan Frozen Evil in a Lake]]. However, doing this messes up alphabetization (does that example go under S or F?), makes it harder to find tropes, causes confusion over what the trope's actual name is, and encourages Administrivia/{{Zero Context Example}}s and Administrivia/SquarePegRoundTrope. Just list the trope under its normal title and then expand on it properly.

'''Trope potholes in page quotes:''' Quotes do not have potholes in their original medium, and extraneous bluelinks above the trope description just distract the reader. If potholes are not necessary to understand the quote, then they are redundant. If potholes give context that is needed to understand the quote, then the quote does not truly illustrate the trope. Page quotes thus should not have any trope potholes in them, although it is okay to pothole to a work or genre which is referenced directly.

'''Joke Fulfillment Links:''' Please consider that for tropers or readers who have been frequenting the wiki for even a few days, there is nothing remotely original or new about potholing understatements to {{Understatement}}, stealth puns to StealthPun, running gags to RunningGag, overused running gags to OverusedRunningGag, and so on. It has been done to death. It has become repetitive and predictable, and repetitiveness and predictability kill humour. In other words, don't require a link jump to make the joke work. It doesn't. Ever.

'''Hiding work names in the examples on trope pages''': Potholing the name of a character, location, or creator to the work's page, which specifies the work's actual name. This is both a misuse of potholes and a form of FanMyopia. Always clearly state the source, preferably at the start of an entry.

'''Reaction potholes''': Some moments in a work may elicit strong emotional reactions from you. Many of these reactions have tropes for when they happen in fiction. However, potholing to a trope that represents how you personally reacted to a scene, such as potholing to OhCrap for a scary scene, or to FlatWhat for a confusing one, is not relevant to most readers and should be avoided.

'''Administrivia/LinkingToAnArticleWithinTheArticle''': An article should never be linked to within itself. It's easy to see if it's in Administrivia/{{Wiki Word}}s, but sometimes people pothole the article within it, causing the reader to look at the link to avoid going to that same page. Related, do not pothole any lines in the page to a redirect of that page, since it has the same end result.

'''Administrivia/LinkingToAnArticleWithinTheArticle''': An article should never be linked to within itself. It's easy to see if it's in {{Wiki Word}}s, but sometimes people pothole the article within it, causing the reader to look at the link to avoid going to that same page. Related, do not pothole any lines in the page to a redirect of that page, since it has the same end result.

->And then Alice proceeded to [[MamaBear violently gut the]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes fish monster]] [[BloodIsTheNewBlack with a giant]] [[KnifeNut kitchen knife]].

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