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If it's really badly lacking in examples, it can go back through YKTTW again (or for the first time, for some tropes). You need a TRS thread for that.
Other than that, Entry Pimp it, make sure it's crosswicked on other pages (especially related tropes), and add it to Tropes Needing Examples.
Which trope is it?
Edited by ccoa Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Bargain with Heaven. It's apparently older than Deal with the Devil so it hasn't been through YKTTW.
For now, I think I'll just try to see if can't up with some examples myself, and crosswick it with related tropes.
I swear to God there used to be a really witty sig here.
Wow, that's really sparse. I can't see how it will ever thrive with so few examples. I'd personally recommend a trip through YKTTW to garner more.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
I've added one example that was missing. It's not much, but...
To repeat one piece of very good advice: do the crosswicking that it's missing, especially the crosswicking from Works pages. It has 15 Works wicks, but only six examples. Use the "Related to" page to find the Works pages it's on, and add those as examples on the trope page. Then make sure that each of the examples on the trope page is also on the appropriate Works page.
Edited by Madrugada ...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Didn't really know where to ask, but if one stumbles on a page that seems like a legitimate trope, but needs examples badly, is there anything to do but add whatever examples one can think of, add the trope to Tropes Needing Examples and hope for Wiki Magic?
Edited by Godnat