All The Tropes:Works Page Guidelines: Difference between revisions

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=== Minimum Requirements ===
 
Yeah, that's asking a lot. But it's for a good reason and a good cause. And to be honest, we'll be okay with a work page that doesn't hit all the points above. But there's a level beneath which a page is unacceptable and is likely to get rejected in Moderation or deleted by a staff member. There's no hard-and-fast rule on this, but if your page is lacking most or all of the necessary markup, doesn't have tropes, doesn't have much in the way of a description of the work and/or completely ignores our [[All The Tropes:Style Guide|Style Guide]], you can be pretty confident it's not going to last long. Basically, the more it looks like it was dumped into the wiki by a [[Drive-By Updater]] who didn't care about our look-and-feel or our mission of communicating clearly and well, the more likely it is to be deleted.
 
You are always free to try again, of course. But if you don't take the time to understand ''why'' it was deleted and correct for that, don't expect the second try to last any longer than the first.