What is the protocol when you're not sure if something is a trope?

When something seems like a trope, but you don't have enough information to be sure, is it appropriate to list it as an example? I'm watching season 3 of True Blood, and the character Summer seems to me like a Stepford Smiler. I want to add it as an example, but it's possible she's just The Pollyanna because we don't actually know that it's just an act. But the character is so over the top and her behaviour seems so forced, like she is trying so hard to play that part that I'm just waiting for The Reveal where we find out she was gang raped when she was 5 or something.

So is it appropriate to include these maybes as examples?

edited 6th Oct '10 11:38:31 PM by lala

You can put them on the page as an example, but be prepared for it to be removed, and better still be prepared to remove it yourself if someone else adds a justifying edit.

The best way to handle it, though, is to put it on the discussion page for the trope and ask "is this a valid example?" If you get replies saying "looks like one to me!" you can add it to the page. If you get replies saying "I don't think so, there's this and this..." don't add it to the page. If no one responds, go ahead and add it, as in the first paragraph.

edited 6th Oct '10 11:53:22 PM by Madrugada