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There's no built-in hard-and-fast rule, but the real question should be is the page ready.
I just took a peek at it and I don't think it's ready, mostly due to lack of examples.
It's also been launched for 9 days and, as you said, has not been crosswicked at all (7 wicks right now, five of them indices, one of them a self-reference, and one of them Condensing Vapor Queen, a Sub-Trope(?) with no examples, no indices, and only one wick—from Vapor Queen).
So we actually have a twofer here: gwennie-chan launched two tropes that weren't ready, and has failed to follow-up and finish the launching process.
I would PM them but I would also do your best to be polite and respectful. Not that it wouldn't be totally understandable to get frustrated, but at this point I'm kind of expecting them to continue being a pain, so as long as you're super polite and respectful, they'll have no one to blame but themselves if they do cross the line. Don't give them an excuse to get snippy.
EDIT: I dropped them into the YKTTW Crash Thread. Vapor Queen is at least questionable, but Condensing Vapor Queen has no business existing in its current state.
Edited by SolipSchismVapor Queen looks like a practically identical trope to Broken Bird. Are there enough differences to justify two separate tropes?
Not to mention Condensing Vapor Queen is even more identical to Defrosting Ice Queen.
Edited by Elmo3000Admittedly a Broken Bird is supposed to have fairly fortress-like coping mechanisms while the Vapor Queen is supposed to be over-sensitive, which is an interesting difference, but I just couldn't see it a recurring character archetype. Apparently it's common in anime?
Agree on Condensing vs. Defrosting — they're both so obviously about a withdrawn character getting more human that even if you could easily distinguish a Vapor Queen from an Ice Queen you still probably wouldn't need Condensing in addition to Defrosting.
So — should I submit these to the Cut List myself? Or just assume some fastidious launch-reviewer will? I think she might've even cut them herself at my urging last time, IIRC...
ETA: Just saw Condensing Vapor Queen pop up in YKTTW again, so, yay?
Edited by calmestofdovesWe're talking them over in the YKTTW Crash Rescue Thread. I don't really expect much, though. I wouldn't have a problem with it, but you should pop over there so no one throws a fit about cutting pages unilaterally.
Vapor Queen sponsor here. You're free to unlaunch it if you want. I'm just aggravated by all this. The little help I had disappeared and I did my best to progress before anything else.
"'Shame?' I left that in my dad's balls." -Chihiro-sensei (The Pet Girl Of Sakurasou)We'll see what the current YKTTW conversation will bring, I think.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Is there any sort of penalty for launching a YKTTW without adequate hats? It's Vapor Queen, which has been discussed here before for having an incredibly dense description and no examples. The description is now slightly less dense and there are a handful of examples, but the only wicks are indexes and overall I can't really say that its brief stint in YKTTW polished it much. Admittedly I personally promised the sponsor that I would give their YKTTW a more conclusive concrit session than I did, but it was published before I could get around to it!
I'd just go ahead and message the sponsor myself, but it would be the second time I've done it — the first time was to tell them to make a YKTTW instead of just launching a page — and I would kind of like some official guidance on this before telling them again that the page should be taken down and banished back to YKTTW, especially as they, y'know, tried to give YKTTW a shot and apparently just didn't really enjoy the introduction of a review board into what is ostensibly a freely-editable wiki.
Please advise.
Edited by calmestofdoves