All The Tropes:Works Page Guidelines: Difference between revisions

Work pages are created with the [[MediaWiki:Works|Works template]]. This template automatically lays out the proper structure for a work page and assigns it to both the Works category and its own category. The easiest way to start a page with the Works template is to use the [[All The Tropes:ATT Page Creator|Page Creator]] (which can be found in the "Troping Utilities" section of the menu which appears along the left edge of every page). Simply go to that page, enter the name of the work in the bottommost field (where it says "Enter new work name") and press the "Create Works Page" button.

 

 

Below are a few guidelines for creating a new works page on All The Tropes. Unlike tropes, there is no vetting or refinement process involved – if you want to create a page for a work, go right ahead! [[Works Pages Are a Free Launch]].

* After the description comes the list of tropes. This starts with the {{tl|tropelist}} template. Tropes then are listed, one to a line, starting with an asterisk to tell the wiki to insert a bullet point, with square brackets around the trope name to code the link. Tropes are listed in alphabetical order, ignoring "a", "an", "the" and punctuation. If you're using the source editor, it should look something like this:

 

... and so on.}}

 

:If you're using the Visual Editor, well... we suggest you don't. It's pretty, but it's hard to work with and does stupid stuff to the page code behind the scenes.

 

 

* Add a category for the decade that the work was created - or, if it's Literature or Theatre that dates from before the 20th century, the appropriate century. [[:Category:Media by decade]] lists the categories that we have (if you don't see one that you need for a particular work, [[All The Tropes:Contact us|ask us to create it]]). If more than one category by decade applies, add them all. (For example, ''[[Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms]]'' gets both "Films of the 2010s" and "Anime of the 2010s", and ''[[60 Minutes]]'' gets all of the "Live-Action TV of the..." categories from the 1960s to today.)

 

* If you copy a work's description from Wikipedia or another source that has a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (which is just fine; we use the same license here), don't try to pass it off as your own work. It's okay to say "I got the description from Wikipedia" in the edit summary instead of on the work page, but if you don't give credit at all, we could get into some legal trouble.

 

* Don't cram multiple versions of a work into a single page. If you're creating a page for a novel which also spawned a film, a miniseries and a Saturday morning cartoon, each version of the work gets its own page; stuffing them all together just makes a mess, especially if there was considerable [[Adaptation Decay]] involved.

 

* Don't create a work page for an incomplete work of your own to use as a notepad or development space. That's what your Sandbox is for.

 

* Don't create a work page that consists of one sentence of description and one trope. And ''definitely'' don't create a work page that consists of a single trope and nothing else! (Don't laugh, we've found pages like that which had remained untouched since we forked from TVT.) If you like a work enough to create a page for it, put a little effort in.

 

* '''Do not link to TV Tropes in order to include a trope we don't have documented here.''' If the trope is ''so'' important that you just ''must'' have it in the work page, propose it in the [[:Category:Trope Workshop|Trope Workshop]] and then add it to the page when it passes muster. We ''do not'' link to TV Tropes for any reason — some of the staff there still go into fits of frothing apoplexy at the mere thought of our existence, and we don't want to stress the poor dears any further than they already are.

 

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