All The Tropes:Creator Page Guidelines: Difference between revisions

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Creator pages are created with the [[MediaWiki:Creators|Creators Page template]]. This template automatically lays out the proper structure for a creator page, and assigns it to the [[:Category:Creator|Creator]] category. We also have several other templates -- such as <code>{{tl|actorroles}}</code>, <code>{{tl|discography}}</code>, and <code>{{tl|creatortropes}}</code> -- especially designed for use on Creator pages.
 
Note that not all pages about people will fall into this category. Some, such as [[The Presidents of the United States of America (politics)|The Presidents of the United States of America]], are [[Useful Notes]] and/or [[Historical Domain Character]]s.<ref>Unless, like [[Ronald Reagan]], they were both creators and politicians... and sometimes not even then.</ref> '''Unlike [[TV Tropes]], though, we count performers of ''all'' stripes -- including [[Musicians|musicians, bands,]] and [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestlers]] -- as Creators.''' Please note that justeven becausethough we include professional wrestlers, professional athletes of other kinds are also''not'' counted as creators; they are not. Professional athletes who are ''only'' athletes, who have not also made efforts in a creative field such as acting or writing, are outside the wiki's scope. We are not All The Sports. Being able to hit a baseball, bowl a wicked googly, or make a goal does not make a person a "creator".
 
And it should go without saying, but do ''not'' create pages for fictitious or bogus creators. Doing so will get you permanently banned.