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You've made a work page (or a trope page; it doesn't make a difference), found a list of trope examples for it and added it to an index, and are now hoping for [[Administrivia/TVTropesGlossary Wiki Magic]] to grow it further.

However, there is a problem. There are no entries on other pages pointing to your page. Without them, there are no links and thus no ways for people to find your page, which will cause it to stagnate in obscurity.

To fix this issue, you'll need to create some links. The simplest way of doing so is by copying the examples from your page to the pages on the tropes or works they are about, and rewriting them a bit so that they fit the new location (e.g. replacing the wick to the trope with a wick to the work). Also, if your work or trope references other works or tropes in the description, the pages for these should reference your page as well. These practices are collectively known as "Crosswicking".

Always make sure that the example is [[Administrivia/WhatGoesWhereOnTheWiki in the right place]], [[Administrivia/SquarePegRoundTrope fits the trope definition given]], and has been checked for other example-writing issues and discontinued tropes before copying. If, while crosswicking, you hit a locked page that allows examples, don't worry -- we have a topic for requesting edits [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=gsjp7dldjh2dwdelcha2hu17 here]]. There is also a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800 topic]] for asking assistance if you don't have the time to crosswick a page, as well as a page for Administrivia/PagesNeedingAnEntryPimp, many of which need their examples crosswicked.

Finally, note that this also applies when you are ''removing'' an example -- if an example doesn't belong on a given work or trope page, it doesn't belong on the corresponding trope/work page either.

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