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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2020-06-17 16:29:56

I'm fairly positive it is, but if it's not it's heavily encouraged and is often the only way to get a page to experience some wiki-magic. It's more important with new tropes, but it's also very important for work pages.

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MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
2020-06-17 16:36:19

I've seen people get suspended for not cross-wicking, so yes, it's gotta be mandatory.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2020-06-17 16:39:52

The problem is that it's hard to enforce. You either need to be checking all the new pages every day to make sure everyone is crosswicking or you have to try and play catch up; either way it's not like indentation or grammar where you can just skim someone's edits to see if the problem exists or not.

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BlackMage43 Since: Jun, 2014
2020-06-17 17:29:41

Do we have some kind of list or tool to find pages that have few or no wicks? That could be useful. When using the search function, I often find pages in decent condition that were never properly crosslinked or indexed.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
2020-06-17 17:50:10

It's required enough that Cross Wicking is an Administrivia page and we have a notifier specifically for it, if nothing else. So definitely send the notifier to whoever created the page and/or has been its most frequent editors.

2020-06-17 18:53:08

^^ Not exactly what you're talking about, but we do have a thread for pages that need crosswicking.

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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2020-06-17 18:54:31

There's also Pages Needing Wicks and Needs Wiki Magic Love. (Edit: Why are those in Main/?)

Anyway, I once had the wonderful idea to just go on a crosswicking spree for random work pages, but I never got around to it...

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BKelly95 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2020-06-17 20:09:19

I recently rewatched Curfew and decided to add some more trope examples to the show's page. I later decided to cross-wick the examples because I thought I should. When I did that, I thought it was only appropriate to insert more context on the trope pages than the work page because I thought that a casual reader could infer more context from the other examples on the work page. Does anyone else feel that way?

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2020-06-17 20:10:26

^ Definitely a good idea. While I generally think all examples should stand on their own regardless of what page they're on, adding new context can be really helpful.

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StFan Since: Jan, 2001
2020-06-18 03:28:15

Yes, a quick additional context, if it helps understand the example better, is fine on a trope page but less necessary on the work page.

Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2020-06-18 12:40:40

Yeah, the work page itself gives context for certain things, such as the premise. So details pertaining to that sort of stuff may be redundant in work page examples, but necessary in trope page examples.

mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
2020-06-18 12:52:15

Agreed. I'm usually more detailed on trope pages than on work pages for that reason. If an example on a work page refers to a character, their role in the story is probably explained at the top of the page (and explaining said role in every single trope example on the page that applies to that character will make it unbearably repetitive), but on a trope page, it's prudent to explain the role the character plays in the story if it's relevant to how the trope applies to them. (Which is one drawback to potential automatic cross-wicking systems, even if they would solve the problem of low levels of cross-wicking.)

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2020-06-18 12:55:18

That said, I'm one of the people who put as much context as possible no matter where the example is being posted so it's not a big a deal for me, but yeah.

Point is, Crosswicking is always encouraged even if not explicitly enforced- and it should be done in such a way that it doesn't leave people confused.

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MyFinalEdits (Spin-off Series)
2020-06-19 11:16:33

Crosswicking is, at the very least, helpful for the purpose of integrating a new work page or trope into the rest of the wiki. It also opens up the possibility that anyone learns about that page and shows some Wiki Love to it (I'm speaking per my experience here).

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