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Permanent Red Link Club is only for tropes that keep getting used even when the only use is of the "mis-" variety (see If You Know What I Mean for one of the more obnoxious offenders). "Expecting a Trope" doesn't seem to qualify, judging from the edit history.
As for the lock, regular Cut List victims are automagically locked when deleted to prevent someone from recreating the cut page (which did occasionally happen before the lock system was implemented last year [IIRC on the timing]).
Edited by Nohbody All your safe space are belong to Trump
While meandering around the site I found something called Perhaps You Were Expecting A Trope that appears to have once been an entry, deleted and locked, but never added to the Permanent Red Link Club. Just posting this in case someone's interested in remedying that.
(I found the redlink on Report Siht)