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BoltDMC Since: May, 2020
#1: Aug 28th 2023 at 12:20:29 AM

Couldn’t find a thread about this, and am hoping this is the correct place to post this question.

Are blue link potholes allowed in indented quotes under trope entries on works pages? Examples can be found on this page under the Did They or Didn't They? and Dramatic Irony entries. Despite the fact that one encounters this a lot, I was under the impression they’re not allowed — though I can’t find an Administrivia page entry to that effect.

I asked this over at an ATT thread:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=126478&type=att

and got a reply saying it is allowed, though I’m not sure if they’re correct.

Many thanks.

MorganWick (Elder Troper)
#2: Aug 28th 2023 at 12:53:43 AM

As mentioned on ATT, they're not allowed in page top quotes, which are considered more important as they're supposed to help illustrate the trope so shouldn't have anything too distracting in them. From Administrivia.Sinkhole:

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.
I can see how you might interpret or misremember this to mean that potholes aren't allowed in any quote, but that's not what it's saying.

BoltDMC Since: May, 2020
#3: Aug 28th 2023 at 1:54:51 AM

Thanks.

It might be a good thing to have it explicitly stated somewhere that it’s okay to have blue links in quotes under trope entries. Unless I’m misreading, the quote listed above doesn’t address this one way or the other. Am thinking it would help eliminate confusion on this subject.

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