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It's absolutely not okay to have more than one trope per bullet. That's called Trope Slashing, and, well:
So yeah, they need to both have their own entries.
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Oh thanks. Since I found them to be unhelpful at best but couldn't find the administrivia article that talked about it
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^ It's under How to Write an Example. Making a separate page might be useful, though...
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
With Slashed tropes, I usually give both of them entries that immediately say "Occurs in tandem with [other trope]".
Edited by Malady Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Unless you add other context, though, ^ is an issue in itself. Per Zero-Context Example: "Examples should not point to other examples for context. They should stand on their own."
Not to mention that trope pages can get edited all the time and the trope that one entry is pointing to might get cut, changed, or taken off the page if someone realizes it doesn't actually fit, and the reader ends up getting confused wondering what other context they've just missed out on. Imo it's just as bad an idea.
"See [other trope]" is Word Cruft and should be avoided as well, even if the example otherwise has context.
- Positional comparatives: "Similarly," "Like the example above," "Unlike the previous example," "Speaking of [X]," "See [other trope]," etc. Tropes may be renamed; articles may be folderized or resorted; additional examples may be added between two adjacent ones; examples may be deleted. Even worse is when this type of referencing is used in place of a proper description. Avoid examples that reference other examples. If you're comparing two examples within a particular trope, consider rewriting them as a single example, or just don't compare them in the first place.
Is it okay to have overlapping tropes share the same entry like
Trope / Trope: blah blah...
Or should they each have an entry?