All The Tropes:About

All The Tropes is a wiki where we discuss the trends and patterns in all forms of media, that we call Tropes. We're a place to hang out and chat about the television shows you love, a place to discover new movies to watch, and a place to offer literary criticism and analysis of pop culture. And we're happy that you want to be a part of our community.

If you're looking for the help section, it's over at Help:Editing.

New User Guides

• New User Introduction - for complete newbies
• So You're a TV Tropes Refugee - for people coming over from TV Tropes
• Tropers for Creation - for Wikipedians visiting this new realm
• Wikizen Introduction - for people coming from any other wiki

About Us

• Contact us - Give us feedback about the site
• All The Tropes:Community Portal - Where you can find stuff that needs done.
• Goals
• History - How we got started
• The Contributors
• Troper IRC Channel - One of the many ways to communicate with staff and other tropers.
• Who we are - The staff of the site, unpaid as we are, and wiki philosophy
  • What we aren't - What All The Tropes is not.

Sitewide Policies

• Terms of Service -- What you agree to by editing this site.
• General disclaimer -- What you agree to by just using the site.
• Policy for Wiki Staff -- Rules aren't just for editors.
  • How We Do Bans Around Here -- And there are rules for how to enforce the rules, too.
• Privacy Policy -- Rules that govern our use of your personal information. Available on the Miraheze Meta wiki, our site overlords.
• All The Tropes:Bots: Policy on Bot accounts and their usage.
• Copyright Details - our Creative Commons license, and a FAQ on what is allowable here on ATT.
  • Content Dumps - our policy on mirroring our content on other sites or for personal use.
• FAQ for Creators -- Creators of works have a special relationship with their work
• Language policy: Default language for submitting examples and for reading All The Tropes and its affiliates.
• Forum Policy - Policy for using our on wiki forum.
• How to Get a Rule Changed - How to move for a change to a wiki rule or policy.
• More stuff we need to move/import/rework from TVT administrivia

The Troper's Code

• The Troper's Code
  • Literary Criticism
  • Be Creative
  • There is No One True Way
  • Troping is Fun

Subsection policies

• ATT Glossary - Terms commonly bandied about on All The Tropes.
• ATT Namespaces - A guide to namespaces on All The Tropes.
• ATT SocialProfile Rules - Rules for using our SocialProfile enabled features.
• Loaded Trope Words - Words that have special connotations when used in trope titles.
• Trope Workshop Guidelines -- how to use the Trope Workshop (i.e. YKTTW) namespace to make new trope pages.
• What Page Types Mean - Short overview of page types.

Editing Policies and Style Guide

• Brevity Is Wit
• Content Guidelines
• Creator Page Guidelines
• Edit Reasons and Why You Should Use Them
• External Links Guide
• Flame Bait
• How to Pick A Good Image
  • All The Tropes:Uploading and Adding an Image to a Page
• No Lewdness, No Prudishness
• How to Write An Example
  • Examples Need Context
  • Repair, Don't Respond
• Strong Language Usage Rules
• Style Guide -- which does not actually have the weight of policy, but is listed here for convenience. Suggested writing tips; our house style.
• Works Page Guidelines

Other Stuff

• Works that need pages
• ATT:TODO -- our todo list