All The Tropes:Works Page Guidelines: Difference between revisions

* Make sure the work does not already have a page under a different name. Books can get renamed when reissued; television programs can change their titles over the years (check out ''[[The Hogan Family]]'' for a good example); [[Market-Based Title]]s and [[Syndication Title]]s can be very different from the original. It's not inconceivable that the title you know a work under may not be the original name it had - especially if the work was originally released in a language other than English.

** Speaking of languages other than English: We are an English-language wiki; please use the English-language name for a non-English work when an official title exists. (For example, use "[[A Certain Magical Index]]", not the original "とある魔術の禁書目録", the romanized "Toaru Majutsu no Indekkusu", or the hybrid "To Aru Majutsu no Index". It took us from 2018 to 2020 (not working only on the cleanup) to clean up after somebody decided to change that one without asking first.) If the people who read All The Tropes are a typical cross-section of the English-speaking world, then the wiki's audience who only speak English is much larger than the audience who are willing to learn the original names of non-English works.

** When naming a work page, if the considerations above do not have you doing otherwise, the name Wikipedia uses for the work is almost always good (although see "Namespaces and Media-type Suffixes", below). For one thing, it makes the "Wikipedia" button that appears at the top of the page work perfectly. If you're not using the Wikipedia page name for some reason, add it to the page template markup using the "wppage" parameter (which would look like <code><nowiki>{{work|wppage=Wikipedia name here}}</nowiki></code>). That way you get to use your name, and still have the Wikipedia button work.